Without magicians, The Magicians can't really function as a story, can it?
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That's another good pun, but we're interviewing magicians... Magicians are a good idea.
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Syfy's Magicians is a sweeter, less self-hating piece of work than Grossman's Magicians is.
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There are lounge singers and magicians and comics and singing comic magicians, like the last bastion of vaudeville.
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The Magicians: Season 2 The Magicians is basically Harry Potter, but set in America and centered on a group of grown-ass adults.
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You just have to see through the stuff that's written for magicians, but magicians are nothing more than guys that make VR without glasses.
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That said, there are plenty of differences between The Magicians the book series and The Magicians the TV series, which formally premieres on Monday at 28 p.m.
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" The joint ethics statement of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians forbids both "willful exposure" of magic methods and "unauthorized use of another's creation.
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The concept of the end of the world comes up frequently on The Magicians, Syfy's gloriously wild fantasy TV series about depressed 20something magicians, based on Lev Grossman's best-selling book trilogy.
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The Magicians, in both book and TV show form, has meant so much to me in the decade since I read Lev Grossman's 2009 novel, the first installment of the author's Magicians trilogy.
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Try as he might, he hasn't done much for magicians.
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Season 4 of The Magicians premieres on January 23rd, 2019.
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THAT IS A HARD ONE TO DO. THEY ARE MAGICIANS.
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It's also funny how many of them look like magicians.
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Since then, I've seen The Magicians remixed in different ways.
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The Magicians airs Wednesdays on Syfy at 9 pm Eastern.
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The creepiest part of TikTok is the subculture of magicians.
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December 16 "The Danish Girl" and "The Magicians," Season 4.
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The Magicians airs Mondays on Syfy at 9 pm Eastern.
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The Magicians airs Wednesdays at 9 pm Eastern on Syfy.
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But neither Alice nor Julia is The Magicians' main character.
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"Magicians were on duty," he said of the methods employed. 5.
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Unlike many magicians, Kucherov has no problem with revealing his secrets.
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The first season of The Magicians is available for digital download.
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The Magicians returns for its fourth season on January 23rd, 2019.
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Louis De Belle photographed magicians' gimmicks for his series Disappearing Objects.
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We are magicians, able to fight invisible wars on foreign shores.
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Magicians use this to distract you from their sleight of hand.
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This week, The Magicians TV show finally made the subtext text.
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But for some magicians, those attitudes are in constant, productive tension.
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Syfy's Magicians, though, decides early on not to bury the lede.
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Then I actually throw knives — you know, like the old magicians.
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And The Magicians doesn't have anything even like a template yet.
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I'm guessing The Magicians' budget is not $15 million an episode?
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Good D.J.s are extraordinary artists, and great D.J.s are transcendent magicians.
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And the second season of Syfy's "The Magicians" streams on Netflix.
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Hale Appleman as Eliot, embracing Summer Bishil as Margo in The Magicians.
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The first two seasons of The Magicians are available over on Netflix.
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Chelsea can't stop playing Overwatch and also recommends finishing The Magicians series.
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But regardless of what happens next, The Magicians has accomplished something big.
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Scouts in continental Europe and South America routinely look for scrawny magicians.
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In short, The Magicians is about accepting that you're not the hero.
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Why do stand-up comics cede this market to clowns and magicians?
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Y'all are fairy godmothers, and magicians, and sculptors, sometimes even our therapists.
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One of our magicians [from Now You See Me 2] is amazing.
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The magicians' most amazing magic is in avoiding interest from the paparazzi.
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Street performers — magicians, dancers, and comedians — can be found throughout the city.
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Beauvais' recent television roles include Grimm, The Magicians, Power, and Freeform's Siren.
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Even the best are served reminders that they are mortals, not magicians.
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The younger magicians hogging the limelight aren't immune from having their tricks exposed.
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Candis Cayne as the Fairy Queen and Bishil as Margo in The Magicians.
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Y'all are fairy godmothers and magicians and sculptors and sometimes, even our therapists.
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A magician never reveals how he does his tricks, but artists aren't magicians.
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The Magicians season 3 begins on Syfy on January 10th at 9PM ET.
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These magicians say that you can attain anything after simply using their books.
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Great musicians have certainly performed under the influence before; why not great magicians?
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It's Quentin's other darkest fear — suicidal ideation — that The Magicians is clumsier about.
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The earlier magicians, she said, didn't need to hide behind toys and gimmicks.
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Syfy's The Magicians has always been far from the straightest show in television.
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All magicians feeling down about their magic skills should visit this baboon. Why?
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"The Magician's Land," the final book in the "Magicians" series by Lev Grossman.
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Few fantasy series of the past 10 years have achieved the reach of Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy of novels, which began with The Magicians in 2009, continued with The Magician King in 2011, and concluded with The Magician's Land in 2014.
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Something similar has happened on one of TV's other terrific adaptations, Syfy's The Magicians.
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There will be scavenger hunts with cool prizes, magicians and games, and yes… cocktails.
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Unlike Hogwarts, the Magicians' magic school — Brakebills — serves grad school students instead of children.
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The Magicians, on the other hand, very much lives in a socially conscious 2018.
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Appleman as Eliot and Bishil as Margo singing "One Day More" in The Magicians.
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The Magicians has reveled in that from day one — and from the ground up.
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I'm sure the greater D.C. area does not lack for magicians and fire dancers.
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Angel was named Magician of the Century by the International Magicians Society in 2010.
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One of the best parts of The Magicians is its large cast of misfits.
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Each of those magicians took that vision and put it into their own domain.
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Instead, Syfy's The Magicians devoted an entire season three episode to Quentin and Eliot.
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Programming from UCP includes Mr. Robot, Suits, The Magicians, The Royals and Difficult People.
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Where to watch: Season three of The Magicians arrives on Netflix later this month.
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These weren't conjurers who worked for tourists, but the magicians who performed for locals.
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He learned his trade from magicians including Bob Elliott, who also mentored David Copperfield.
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Six magicians take turns in entertaining visitors in a small theater within the museum.
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Or is it contemporary real-life magicians David Copperfield, Criss Angel, or David Blaine?
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When you were researching for this role, did you track down any female magicians?
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The reason for this is simple: The Magicians never really bothered with straight adaptation.
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We're not magicians, and behind the artist is a lot of insecurity and frustration.
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It's the same trick that more recent fantasy books like The Magicians use to ground their magic in something ordinary and everyday — it's just that Harry Potter's British boarding school story is more old-fashioned and mannered than The Magicians' American college story.
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The Targaryens became patrons of the Alchemists' Guild, the order of magicians who created wildfire.
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Ancient secrets China's emperors have employed magicians since at least the Han Dynasty (221-206BC).
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Even some traditional magicians have decided to embrace the opportunities that the internet can bring.
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"But in China, too many magicians just want to imitate and make a quick buck."
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The town was and is a beacon to magicians, circus performers and other assorted weirdos.
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The circus is actually a stage for two rival magicians' protégés to battle each other.
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His real name is Angus, and he is the mascot of The Magicians' production office.
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Other TV credits include arcs on Last Resort, Star-Crossed, The Magicians, Sirens, and Underground.
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That show, about a multigenerational family of magicians, will be directed by Marc Bruni ("Beautiful").
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It's kind of all in there to us, and we're all practicing magicians and Satanists.
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A supergroup of magicians performs an illusion where they make the VIP spectator bleachers disappear.
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If you liked The Magicians, there's a lot more of that in The Bright Sword.
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They're the stars of this 107th annual event, presented by the Society of American Magicians.
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Every psychic phenomenon our staff looked at was quickly discredited, or duplicated easily by magicians.
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You are in no way discouraged from watching the magicians at work behind the scenes.
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"Place to find a pen and teller" does not involve the magicians Penn and Teller.
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Queens, Knights, Fools, Priestesses, Magicians, and a whole host of arcane paraphernalia populate these worlds.
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When it comes to source material, The Magicians has the opposite problem of The Expanse.
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Or what about The Magicians, in which supernatural abilities are regularly part of flirting and sex?
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The Magicians, for its part, has been following in those same footsteps since its first season.
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How to watch it: The Magicians is available for digital purchase, or on Syfy's streaming platforms.
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There's a certain didacticism to "The Magicians," a common feature of the young-adult fantasy genre.
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This show, developed by Magnets, a collective of local magicians, brings wizardry to the dinner table.
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Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians trilogy: Le Guin was a toweringly important figure for me.
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The channel's series Killjoys, Dark Matter, and The Magicians feature actors of color in prominent roles.
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Now you look at it and the entire vision has been achieved by all these magicians.
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When magicians skillfully trick audiences by way of masterful dexterity, it's called a sleight of hand.
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That's about the time when I discovered inspiring stories of magicians who overcame various health obstacles.
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The advent of television made it easier than ever for people to worship individual famous magicians.
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But I never get that treatment from professional male magicians, they all have been really helpful.
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Of course, if your fridge really is completely empty, we can't help you (we're not magicians).
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Other subjects included street magicians, griots and the radical group Move's standoff with authorities in Philadelphia.
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Did The Magicians need to pause its entire season to pull off an elaborate magical heist?
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The magicians in this alternate history of Regency-era England practice theoretical magic, not real magic.
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The Magicians is exactly the sort of show that requires its engaged fanbase to stay alive.
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I have a feeling that one of the questions that's going to arise is, 'Do you feel that the male magicians treat you differently?' and what I have to say to that is, professionally — I feel that I've always been treated respectfully by professional male magicians.
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I walk around for a few hours stopping to watch the various musicians, magicians, and dancers perform.
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Good, because the tropes The Magicians are working with—obvious and otherwise—are half of the point.
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If you tune in to The Magicians and it's not doing something you like, wait a minute.
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These magicians then clean down the whole dairy, herd the animals back up, then milk them again.
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You could just see different parts of the vision all populating in different places with different magicians.
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We almost felt sorry for him then, and we replied, apologetically, that we only support feminist magicians.
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Here, the unreachable magicians of the stage are brought up close and personal for all to see.
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Nowadays, however, some older magicians say social media threatens to "expose" magic like the Masked Magician did.
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I was in Sin City for Magic Live, the largest convention for magicians in the United States.
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But how did I, the random journalist who stumbled upon this world, come to understand magicians' secrets?
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And it's still fantasy, filtered through a lens very much like the one that made The Magicians.
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By episode four, The Magicians had found its groove: Each hour would introduce a new magical problem.
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Will that be enough to elevate The Magicians from cult favorite to household name in season two?
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But at the same time... what, the overstuffed Magicians pilot didn't have enough characters to introduce already?
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The clientele of Tannen's are professional and amateur magicians, as well as "avid hobbyists," Mr. Blumenthal said.
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You might want to try the Society of Young Magicians and, over the summer, Tannen's Magic Camp.
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A big barrier to entry for many would-be Magicians fans is the character of Quentin Coldwater.
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They're master magicians at knowing where exactly to hit the note, and how to play it beautifully.
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Older dancers are like magicians of stagecraft: What do they show, and what do they leave behind?
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Sure, The Magicians has three full seasons under its belt, while Legion is only beginning its second.
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This rollicking, irreverent tale of knights, troubadours and magicians proves Peirce is a middle-schooler at heart.
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It stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as 19th-century magicians whose friendship devolves into raging rivalry.
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It is Guardiola and Mourinho, too, two magicians who have not been able to cast their spells.
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The Magicians' season four finale was controversial — to put it mildly — among the show's passionate cult fanbase.
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Self-described Chaos Magicians invoked Pepe in rituals they promised would elevate Trump in the 2016 election.
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So we're very clear, we have to tell the companies that we work with, we aren't magicians.
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Like so many of my fellow Black-girl magicians, I grew up having a complicated relationship with beauty.
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I watch a few episodes of The Magicians while working on a cross-stitch project for a friend.
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Comedians, magicians or whoever, they trust coming on the show because they're not going to get ripped apart.
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In the world of The Magicians, it's not enough to wave a wand and wish your issues away.
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When you were coming up with Fillory for the Magicians books, it's Narnia, but it's also not Narnia.
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It didn't work, he slowly became embittered, and then his life intersected with those of The Magicians' characters.
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So in season three, The Magicians will almost certainly deal with the characters trying to regain magical power.
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These days, you've got Britney Spears, Celine Dion, and an endless crew of corny magicians running the Strip.
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The Magicians has only been airing since 2015, but Quentin-Eliot is a ship with a long legacy.
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I would say that I do very much think of The Magicians as a remixing kind of book.
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That's how the actor eventually transcended complaints about The Magicians having an insufferable white guy at its center.
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The series also stars Jake Johnson (New Girl), Michael Ealy (Being Mary Jane), and Camryn Manheim (The Magicians).
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Magicians tend to specialize in either close-up tricks or large-venue shows, but Mr. Thompson knew both.
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On The Magicians, a lesbian character of color was introduced, only to die just a couple scenes later.
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In The Magicians' universe, ghosts are stuck in time loops, while Penny still had autonomy (more or less).
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Meanwhile, it's The Magicians that gives me the most hope for where the network is heading in 2017.
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The X-Men, Harry Potter, and the show's fellow Syfy series The Magicians have all explored that territory.
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That's why Taylor's whole speech (and the name of the episode) had been about magicians and sleights of hands.
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The Marvelous Miss Maisel star and Magicians actor Jason Ralph recently confirmed the long rumored fact about their relationship.
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"Griot is named after the magicians in the courts of West African kings," Himes said in a 1972 interview.
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Morgenstern's 2011 novel, "The Night Circus," was a runaway hit, and told the love story of two competing magicians.
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The trailer gives the first look at the supporting cast of the film, too, a contingent of American magicians.
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You is co-created by Sera Gamble, who is also behind Syfy's The Magicians, and Riverdale producer Greg Berlanti.
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Then, he mentioned that the bill's passage would help magicians obtain federal arts grants, which would be pretty significant.
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Cannes Audience Award–winning filmmaker Khyentse Norbu wrote and directed the movies Vara, Travellers and Magicians, and The Cup.
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The Magicians — Syfy's TV show adaptation of the novels by Lev Grossman — is coming back for a fourth season.
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Maeve portrays Julia Wicker on The Magicians, a role she has held since the series began in May 2015.
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Ralph, who stars in Syfy's The Magicians, also boasts a recurring role on the most recent season of Younger.
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Syfy's The Magicians fills a void in the TV landscape that's stood empty for a very, very long time.
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Before the show, members of the Society of Young Magicians, ages 7 to 17, will entertain in the lobby.
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I also call other magicians, such as Blake Vogt and Jonathan Bayme, to see what they are working on.
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The unconventional choice of display strategy underlines the ways in which comedians, magicians, and artists deal in similar currencies.
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Here's the side of magic not often seen on the screen, told straight from the muse-worthy magicians themselves.
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But if you asked me what TV show I'm most excited by, I would say The Magicians almost immediately.
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" Alex Stone is the author of "Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks and the Hidden Powers of the Mind.
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However, readers who just want to see a powerful woman own a society of snooty magicians will love it.
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The Magicians will eventually run out of steam, I suppose, because viewers inevitably get wise to a series' tricks.
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She's like one of those elite magicians who can make a playing card pierce the rind of a watermelon.
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The entrance hallway to the Hall of Magic isn't a setting from 'The Magicians'...it just looks really cool.
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There were dancers and charmers, magicians and tree goddesses, and D.J.s at the decks long into the witching hours.
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"The Magicians," with its undercurrents of Harry Potter and Narnia, returns for a second season of increasingly violent sorcery.
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He later performed as Ken Silvers and for many years was a member of the Society of American Magicians.
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Mr. DelGaudio may be an outlier among high-profile magicians in his extreme reluctance to put his work onscreen.
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That leaves The Magicians feeling much more like the early going of something like Lost or even Mad Men.
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There are a lot of fantasy shows on TV these days, led by Game of Thrones, and while HBO's epic of drama and dragons hogs the spotlight, Syfy's The Magicians has quietly become one of the most consistently entertaining shows on TV. The Magicians returns for its third season on Wednesday, January 10th.
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"The Magicians" — the first novel in Lev Grossman's fantasy trilogy, and the foundation for the Syfy spinoff starting Monday, Jan.
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This mystical incantation is probably familiar to you as something magicians say on stage when pulling rabbits out of hats.
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According to Li, trading secrets for clicks -- and thus profit -- has become an increasingly common practice among young Chinese magicians.
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Your own spearman will come into contract with a lot of other characters, including archers, javelin throwers, swordsmen, and magicians.
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Magicians, psychics, and mystics have long employed tricks of the senses to leave us amazed and curious of the unknown.
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How magicians would use the act of debunking fraudulent spiritualists as a platform for promoting their own brands of entertainment.
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Anyone who distrusts magicians will be vindicated by the shot of one pulling a skinned bunny out of his hat.
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They want magicians who can shake the money tree rather than economists who point out that money trees don't exist.
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In the meantime, if you're not watching The Magicians, the first two seasons are available now on Netflix to stream.
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You've probably seen magicians pull playing cards from thin air, make silk handkerchiefs change colors, or cause cigarettes to vanish.
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"Kindt and her team are like magicians of reconsolidation," said Karim Nader, who now runs a laboratory at McGill University.
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In nearly every episode of The Magicians' second season, I found myself thinking the show's writers would fuck everything up.
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We're told hotel owner Steve Wynn couldn't make it -- but sent one of his favorite magicians to entertain the guys.
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Two Malaysian magicians managed to break the Guinness World Record for the most number of outfit changes in a minute.
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In that way, what I'm doing is related to what's inside these magazines, what the magicians are trying to create.
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Years later, he described the experience as a "brutal education," and he self-published a business manual for aspiring magicians.
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Meanwhile, it also worked with SyFy's "The Magicians" for a short story contest to write material inspired by the show.
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Instead, the episode establishes his legacy as a series of questions The Magicians' other characters will never get to resolve.
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"Jar of Fools" was both of the '90s and timeless, a slim fable of magicians on the lam in Seattle.
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Where Legion's plotting is ultimately pretty simple, The Magicians keeps twisting itself into curlicues, tighter and tighter with every season.
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She has also appeared in Grimm, The Magicians and Power, as well as in films such as Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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The groom, 29, is a television writer in Los Angeles currently working on "The Magicians," a Netflix/Syfy fantasy series.
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The store will be staffed with product demonstrators, magicians, and costumed actors as well as sales clerks, the Journal reported.
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Both Tupac and Hussle were transformed in death from hood griots to ghetto saints, from verbal magicians to generational martyrs.
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Whether …Read more Read10 Iconic TV Vampires, From Angel to The X-FilesWe are very excited to see awkward vampires take NYC on What We Do in the Shadows, which debuts…Read more ReadThe Magicians&apos Summer Bishil Talks About Singing Through the Pain in That Pitch-Perfect EpisodeSyfy's The Magicians continues to surprise me.
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So if new blockchain brands want us to flock toward rather than flee from them, they'll at least need to sound like they were created not by programmers, engineers or dark magicians but, instead, by word magicians who know how to make names sound like gateways to heaven rather than the gates of hell.
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He began self-studying tricks in 2008, relying entirely on videos and English-language teaching materials posted online by US magicians.
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There's no written policy on flaming wallets — the same kind that magicians usually use for tricks — so this guy slipped through.
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She stayed on the bus, spent the weekend with friends and attended a Society of Young Magicians meeting in the city.
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I'm a huge fan of Lev Grossman's Magicians novels, which are the basis for the Syfy show by the same name.
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The Magicians is set in a world where magic is real, and it's taught at the Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy.
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Allyson (Alyson Michalka) starts producing a reality show about kid magicians, which is how she meets the talented Danny (Johnny Pacar).
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Among Syfy's many, many offerings this year was a preview of The Magicians season four, which will premiere on January 23rd.
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TRUMP: THEY TAKE ARE MONEY OUT AND WE OWE THEM MONEY ON TOP OF IT. SO, I CALL THEM GREAT MAGICIANS.
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For The Magicians, showrunner Sera Gamble used the JUUL to illustrate the absurdity of one of her characters: Penny (Arjun Gupta).
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How is there supposed to be a show called The Magicians if none of the main crew have access to magic?
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Like magicians, they can swap out one whole object for another, remove something, or rotate an entire (virtual) world around us.
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And now I'm going to bestow onto you some of what I've learned during my journey alongside the world's best magicians.
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But The Magicians excels because it never forgets that high dramatic stakes only work when they're rooted in believable emotional stakes.
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"He used to practice in swimming pools and rivers," Sumit Kharbanda, president of the Indian Brotherhood of Magicians, told The Guardian.
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When the ride opened, this special effect confounded all who saw it—even magicians, who should have known better, were fooled.
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"The Side Effect" isn't preachy about this, because it's too busy focusing on its tiny romps with The Magicians' supporting players.
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The book's high society magicians belong to houses, like private clubs, whose open secret is that their power comes from exploitation.
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But contrary to what was mentioned, magicians and their conventions are also very welcoming and encouraging to amateurs and professionals alike.
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Several magicians died attempting the bullet catch, which involved "catching" a bullet fired by a gun, sometimes with the magician's teeth.
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This annual event, presented by the Society of American Magicians, will showcase more than a half-dozen acts with impressive pedigrees.
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Annual soirees for 200 to 250 people included a Victorian cotillion and a Mexican fiesta, and sometimes featured magicians and mimes.
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They fit in better with the formal dress code at their next destination — the Magic Castle, a private club for magicians.
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Computer magicians with a better grasp of Fortran than English aren't the end-all-be-all-of elite hacking, he told me.
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Which makes it all the more impressive that The Magicians inspires the feeling that it's doing it all for the first time.
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It goes well with part of what makes The Magicians so fun to watch: It actually does feel like anything could happen.
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She's not a fan of magicians (her estranged twin sister works at the school), but she has to pay the bills somehow.
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Some of the most-followed pros in the game should really be called magicians, because their artistry seems borderline magical at times.
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Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker In Borderlines, Mishell Baker introduced the Arcadia Project, an underground group of magicians operating in Los Angeles.
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Some have performed abroad, as well as domestically; some are full-time magicians while others have separate careers; some are also actors.
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Compared to the other show that John and I produce, Aquarius, the post-production lead time is far, far longer for Magicians.
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In both TV and book form, The Magicians uses magic to symbolize everything from mental illness to addiction to white male privilege.
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I also share lots of visual art and lots of contemporary art pieces from some of my favorite magicians, witches, and authors.
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Though magicians can perform tricks with sleight of hand, many also rely on a vast array of secret tools and modified props.
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Magicians in Milan let De Belle borrow their gimmicks to photograph them on the condition that he not reveal how they work.
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This week on Syfy's The Magicians, a long-established subtext, a subtext that has arguably been building since 1945, finally became text.
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The first Masked Magician special drew 24.2 million viewers, but some magicians were less than thrilled about it; the Masked Magician, a.k.a.
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Val Valentino, was sued by several magicians for harming their livelihood, and became persona non grata in the tight-knit magic community.
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In contrast to many characters on so many other shows, Ralph is The Magicians' only regular character who's straight, white, and male.
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I think that magicians need to be able to believe in what they're doing in order to make people believe it too.
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Your queries can be quite detailed as well: "Alexa, ask Syfy what happened on the latest episode of The Magicians" for example.
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A private dinner for 6.53 studio executives and agency chiefs was planned, with performances from acrobats, magicians and a Chinese pop star.
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Rmax: When Houdini was famous, there was a couple other magicians who were dueling at the time, one of whom was Dante.
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Despite some occasional clumsiness, The Magicians has so far been careful to exercise caution, and I hope they continue to do so.
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Watching Keegan-Michael Key, 44, and Jordan Peele, 36, act feels a little like watching a pair of stage magicians at work.
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That same evening, the makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury and a team of magicians will be at Bloomingdale's 2265th Street at 21970 p.m.
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We love (don't miss this feature): Seeing the magicians and entertainers do their thing in the hotel's lobby and on the BoardWalk.
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Today, he pulls a puzzle out of his hat that will both delight and amaze you, to use the parlance of magicians.
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"I have long thought that drag queens need to be the performers at children's parties, rather than magicians or clowns," she said.
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The Magicians also aired an unexpectedly poignant musical episode set in a desert, something no other show on this list can boast.
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Here's a for-instance: The season four finale of The Magicians made a huge, bold storytelling choice, killing off the show's protagonist.
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Up with shows like The Magicians, where every episode makes you feel like a brand new TV series is unfolding around you.
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Watching The Magicians' second season could feel a little like watching a group of people realizing they could do anything they wanted.
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And the Practice Room implores guests do some Magicians-style magic by gesturing with their hands to activate various effects around the room.
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The event, sponsored by Bonpoint, hosted numerous families enjoying live animal shows, a petting zoo, a DJ, magicians, face painters and balloon artists.
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"The Magicians," a better-than-average Syfy series based on novels by Lev Grossman, definitely bears the mark of the Harry Potter template.
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How much in the way of post-production and visual effects work does The Magicians employ compared to other shows you've worked on?
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Cole presents a world where the brutal Order exists to stamp out magic wherever it appears, killing magicians who open portals to hell.
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Dark magicians, meanwhile, might be killing wondrous creatures to fuel their powers, but some are ditzy enough to narrowly miss walking into trees.
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In the likes of winger Tobin Heath and young attackers Mallory Pugh and Crystal Dunn, it contains ball magicians of heretofore unknown skill.
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At the end of The Magicians' first season, its central characters did battle with a highly skilled, highly malevolent being called The Beast.
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The DIY YouTube food magicians over at Hellthy Junk Food are well known for creating ridiculous or oversized versions of fast food creations.
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Syfy's "The Magicians" took a scissors to the narrative of Lev Grossman's fantasy novels, becoming nimble and funny in a screen-friendly way.
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It sounds a bit like a Harry Potter but for adults, with the magicians blending in among normal people with boring everyday jobs.
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Buffy struck this balance beautifully in a way that many of its imitators struggled to replicate, but that The Magicians seems to understand.
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She's talking about the visual effects and production design on the terrific Syfy fantasy series The Magicians, for which she serves as showrunner.
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For most of its third season, The Magicians was on fire, bouncing from idea to idea with a reckless abandon that was infectious.
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And not just to comics but also to magicians, singers and people who were embarrassed on camera but managed to monetize their shame.
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It bills itself as the "most unusual private club in the world," and is a famous gathering spot for magicians and magic enthusiasts.
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To this day, mentioning The Magicians offhand on Twitter often invites discussion of just what happened in that finale, some of it angry.
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But it is free to enter and browse, and Mr. Lynch and other young magicians are on hand, showing tricks and dispensing tips.
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I could feel my shoulders notably relax when I began to realize the acts are all world-class magicians and nearly always flawless.
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Syfy's The Magicians tried to be both, often in the same line of dialogue, and the result was one of the decade's highlights.
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Instead, he has augmented his living over the years by consulting on movies and other magicians' acts and by performing at private functions.
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The Expanse, 12 Monkeys, The Magicians, and the Childhood's End miniseries were intricate serial narratives that signified a departure from Syfy's usual lineup.
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On The Magicians, Alice and Julia are so self-evidently better suited to heroism than Quentin is that even he can see it.
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The installation is a collaboration between dramatist and anthropologist Valentine Losseau, artists Prune Nourry and Takao Shiraishi, and magicians Raphaël Navarro and Étienne Saglio.
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And the series's emotional core about sad 20-something magicians trying to bring back the thing that makes them sad (magic) remains rock solid.
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The "magicians" of the country's Federal Security Service (FSB), a successor agency to the KGB, regularly made dirty samples disappear and clean ones appear.
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She and John McNamara created The Magicians for TV. They serve as executive producers, and have writing credits on all 16 episodes so far.
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Syfy renewed its urban fantasy show The Magicians for a fourth season in February, and announced that the next season would hit next January.
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Our No. 1 priority was to capture the spirit of the Magicians books, and to capture the essence of these characters that we loved.
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Unfortunately, we can't resolve your own procrastination (we're not magicians!), but we can remind you what a lot of other people are shopping for.
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When a heated competition outs Danny as a fake, she learns that he and his mentor Max (Frank Langella) are not magicians, but sorcerers.
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Syfy announced today that it has renewed the fantasy television show The Magicians for a fourth, 13-episode season, which will premiere in 2019.
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The Magicians actress, 29, is three months along with her and fellow actor Benjamin Wadsworth's first child, the engaged couple announced on Instagram Tuesday.
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A movie about magicians, filmmakers, and a mutual love for a well-performed sleight-of-hand, The Prestige is more enjoyable on repeated viewings.
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Just as uncertain magicians often fail to pull off their tricks, so central banks are finding their audiences in an ever-more sceptical mood.
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Banks, who hosted 22 seasons of America's Next Top Model before handing the reins to Rita Ora, is swapping models for magicians and musicians.
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The episode of the week for February 20183 through 23 is "Escape From the Happy Place," the fifth episode of The Magicians' seventh season.
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These villains represent the full embrace of pro wrestling's carnie tradition, men and women (but mostly men) portraying devil worshipers, living corpses, and magicians.
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Under deeper cover, it might also be a fantasy novel shaped by C. S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" or Lev Grossman's postmodern "Magicians" series.
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While technology is used to recreate the animals used in the show, the circus has non-automated clowns, acrobats, magicians and other usual acts.
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So maybe I'm cutting The Magicians too much slack, in a way that devastated fans of the Quentin and Eliot pairing would find unforgivable.
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The person I was when I read The Magicians in 2009, who identified so strongly with Quentin Coldwater, has mostly evolved into somebody else.
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Caplan told Refinery29 that while preparing for her role in the film, she tried to find female magicians to talk to with no avail.
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Or a lot of amateur magicians just want to show me one card trick after another so I'll be so impressed with their moves.
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""What I know from there is that a lot of times the magic community reaches out to female magicians, because there aren't that many.
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Vegas In The 90sLiving and working in Vegas gave Zurbano a unique perspective on other magicians that she carries with her to this day.
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I don't know if The Magicians had this in mind when it essentially loaded every major revelation of the first book into its pilot.
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I am not 100 percent sure I could tell you, with any clarity, the events of the plot in season three of The Magicians.
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"New office vibes," Gamble, who also created The Magicians, shared on Instagram, with a sign featuring an apparent new logo for You's third season.
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A technical operations officer, he specialized in creating counterfeit documents as well as counterfeit people, perfecting tricks used by Hollywood, con men and magicians.
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Here's the thing: Without spoiling what's coming, I can say that future episodes of The Magicians' third season continue this sort of wild experimentation.
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That show, too, was based on a novel, but not one as well-known as Grossman's Magicians series or the novels behind The Expanse.
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Based on Lev Grossman's fantasy trilogy, The Magicians follows Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) and his friends at Brakebills, a magical university in upstate New York.
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"When Copperfield or other great US magicians see a good trick, they don't try to copy it or try to uncover its secrets," says Tian.
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The Handmaid's Tale and The Magicians and other successful TV adaptations know this is the only way to survive in an increasingly crowded television landscape.
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The Magicians has always had a stellar cast of characters on its side — a group of friends brought together via Brakebills and overlapping heroes' journeys.
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An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard In an alternate New York City, magic reigns supreme, but it's managed by a cabal of ancient houses.
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UCP is a TV production company owned by NBCUniversal — it's produced shows including USA's Mr. Robot, SyFy's The Magicians and Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce.
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Magicians depend on misdirection to pull off their tricks; so does Google, and it has pulled off a trick that makes movie magic look trivial.
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Someone says they're obsessed with the TV version of Game of Thrones—or The Expanse, Altered Carbon, The Shannara Chronicles, The 100, The Magicians, whatever.
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By 10 years old, I was taking the bus to Manhattan's Port Authority, alone, and would sneak into Broadway shows and hang out with magicians.
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The episode of the week for April 16 through 22 is "We Have Brought You Little Cakes," the season two finale of Syfy's The Magicians.
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And I'm not even all that concerned that "angst-ridden magic school" is already the premise of Syfy's The Magicians, one of TV's best shows.
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While magicians like James Randi repeatedly demonstrated the ways in which Geller's supposed feats could be easily staged, he continued to dazzle his government handlers.
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The problem isn't that tutorials are being done, the problem is that a lot of magicians think that magic is theirs, that they own it.
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" That said, fans of his earlier novels will recognize Grossman in his work: "In some ways, it's very much in the style of The Magicians.
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But once the first episode was completed, essentially everyone on the show, even at the network executive level, quickly grasped what The Magicians should be.
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But The Magicians doesn't ignore that maybe the reason Quentin was so ready to sacrifice himself was that he harbored dark thoughts of self-destruction.
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And as a female magician, and I don't like to separate myself from the [male] magicians because they do work really, really hard, like women.
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The Magicians is episodic in nature, too, but Lev Grossman's books aren't episodic in a way that's as easily expressed via a TV season's format.
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Esmé Bianco (Ros) went from madam to magic — Bianco was an important part of the Syfy series "The Magicians," playing the grown-up Jane Chatwin.
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An aspiring writer, Kristen tells us how she was researching a novel about young magicians when she met Jenny in the Strand bookstore's occult section.
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The Magicians' story will wrap up in the finale, slated for April 1st, and with it goes one of TV's most underrated shows airing today.
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The Magicians' story will wrap up in the finale, slated for April 1st, and with it goes one of TV's most underrated shows airing today.
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The characters in both "You" and "The Magicians" make a lot of references to books and films and TV. What's your pop culture consumption like?
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Solo kathak artists can be like magicians: they explain what they're going to do, and then when they do it, you can hardly believe it.
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"Changing the channel" is The Magicians' default state, so grounding that frenetic energy in a feeling as palpable as grief just heightens the show's powers.
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For him, the show is a chance to be exposed to some of the world's greatest magicians and get an insight into their arcane techniques.
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He mixed with financiers, ambassadors, Freemasons, magicians and government ministers, in addition to an awful lot of gamblers, rakes, actors, dancers, courtesans and common prostitutes.
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Teams of "fire magicians", tasked with lobbing petrol bombs at police on the frontlines, practiced by throwing empty bottles into the university's drained swimming pool.
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"Dear magicians, if you were unable to turn the cold-hearted into warm-hearted, take to the streets with us on July 7," said one.
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Glenn S. Alai, manager of the magicians Penn & Teller, for whom Mr. Thompson worked as a consultant, said the cause was complications of respiratory failure.
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But by airing The Expanse and The Magicians so close together, Syfy is conducting an accidental clinic on the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
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There were a ton of shows—new and old—that similarly approached mental illness, including BoJack Horseman, Lady Dynamite, You're The Worst, and The Magicians.
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This season has centered on the young magicians as they live in Fillory and try to defeat a threat that could destroy the entire magical world.
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You write about how völkisch thinking, or traditional German myth and culture, drew from the Brothers Grimm, the idea of woods full of magicians and devils.
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"'I've seen female soldiers, leaders, magicians, priests, assassins, villains, monsters, with such rich and complicated characters that you just don't get that anywhere else," Logan says.
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MT: Happily, I'd already been in the habit of collecting stories about magicians, psychics, and scientists when Thames & Hudson initially approached me to write the book.
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In a strange way, through them, The Magicians sits right alongside Insecure, New Girl, and Girls — it's a sexy ensemble show about a twentysomething friend group.
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These scenes aren't just an aside, a whim to break through the mundanity for a single episode — though The Magicians is also very good at that.
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The comic, about five families of magicians who secretly protect the world from evil forces, is slated to arrive in comic book shops on June 13th.
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Regardless of the finale's outcome, Lim has plans to perform alongside The Illusionists, a group of magicians who also got their start on the reality competition.
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I was there to film a magic trick that I had invented, which would then be sold to other magicians through a prominent online retail outlet.
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Well, the kind of remixing I did, The Magicians, and the kind of remixing it's undergone on TV are not exactly the same kind of remixing.
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The story of two rival magicians at the height of the Napoleonic War is a wonderful adaptation and intense story of magic and power in England.
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The Magicians isn't as politically subversive as Buffy, to be sure, but it boasts socially conscious substance of its own, substance that informs everything it does.
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After all, if magicians from Earth have been traveling to this magical land for centuries, they'd have brought very different ideas of how things should look.
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"If you think about it, filmmaking really comes from the tradition of magicians," he said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher.
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The episode of the week for April 14 through 20 is "No Better to Be Safe Than Sorry," the season four finale of Syfy's The Magicians.
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Even better, The Magicians' dedication to making sure every hour stands alone as a single episode is a fun, deft way to adapt its source material.
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Another problem here is that by undermining its own reality this early in the game, The Magicians just might make us stop caring about it entirely.
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That makes sense when you think about the phrase "sleight of hand," which refers to magicians like our friend, David Kwong: The Across clues, of course.
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Before there was a script — or a commitment to fully produce the show — Ms. Landau held workshops, pairing traditional actors with clowns, acrobats, dancers and magicians.
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These magicians of past centuries were, to Ricky, at least as real and present as his friends, and much more so than anyone outside our number.
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Billed as "Moulin Rouge" meets "The Phantom of the Opera," this much-anticipated debut introduces an opulent world of competitive magicians engaged in a deadly game.
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Synopsis: After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
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It might take a little while to kick into gear, but The Magicians has always been a show that knows how to make a wait worthwhile.
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I found the final stretch of Magicians episodes in season four shattering for the way they told a story about trauma and friendship and self-sacrifice.
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The episode of the week for January 28 through February 3 is "Be the Penny," the fourth episode of the third season of Syfy's The Magicians.
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He's sort of a deity and it's sort of a charlatan and sort of a magician in the ways that real magicians are both magical and charlatans.
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A lot of the wild moments he described — knights, magicians, sentry droids, Mark Wahlberg dodging explosions — appear in this trailer, set to an almost laughably wrought score.
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When it comes to the shows that hog all the attention in our era of peak TV, The Magicians is nowhere near the top of the list.
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Which is not to say The Magicians shouldn't brag — if they want to spend all of Season 4 bragging about their magnificent ensemble, that would work too.
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In the late '70s there's a guy named Dakota Jackson — still a prominent furniture maker, you can go find him — who was from a family of magicians.
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The Magicians, as a show, is not a horror show per se, but I like to do the occasional episode that leans heavily on dark horror conventions.
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The show focuses on an intrepid batch of magicians as they study magic and deal with the many problems that being able to manipulate reality can cause.
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Gray's fellow SYTYCD alum Noelle Marsh served in the wedding party, while other celebrity attendees included The Magicians actress Brittany Curran and The Fosters actress Maia Mitchell.
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They discover that Fillory, the fantasy world of a popular children's book series, is real, and that life as magicians isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Cayne has also appeared on a number of other TV programs, including Dirty Sexy Money, Nip/Tuck, Elementary, and, recently, The Magicians, where she portrayed Fairy Queen.
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On The Magicians, DJ Hansel is a proto-douchebag, a cool kid who likely has a collection of scarves, all of which smell like cucumber JUUL smoke.
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Stella Maeve of The Magicians announced her engagement on Friday to Deadly Class' Benjamin Wadsworth, revealing on social media that the question was popped three weeks ago.
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The magicians allowed him to photograph the gimmicks in their private collections, though he had to promise not to reveal the secrets of how they actually work.
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This book excerpt, originally titled "How Your Brain Perceives Magicians Cutting Their Assistants in Half," has been removed at the request of the copyright owner MIT Press.
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It will follow a group of five families of magicians who protect the world from evil and monsters while the rest of the world (the Muggles?) sleep.
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UCP is part of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, which has produced shows such as Syfy's Defiance, The Magicians, and Killjoys, as well as USA's Mr. Robot and Colony.
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While The Magicians dealt with a group of characters just starting out in life, Grossman noted that he's playing with people at different points in their lives.
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I'd love to able to say it was a completely joyful and unproblematic process watching The Magicians be adapted — and it was joyful and exciting and thrilling.
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"Magicians were on duty," Dr. Rodchenkov said, suspecting that F.S.B. officers had studied the toothed metal rings that lock the bottle when the cap is twisted shut.
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Magicians practicing their art will include the elder statesman George Schindler, the young illusionist Matias Letelier and one that many children will recognize: Og the Caveman, a.k.a.
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Born with snow white hair and deep brown skin in the imaginary country of Orïsha, young diviners morph into mighty, magic-wielding maji, or magicians, at 13.
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Flipping through the posters, readers can see how themes were borrowed and repeated by the teams of artists working on these promotional posters, predominantly for American magicians.
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The Magicians, meanwhile, is willing to do just about anything to keep you watching, but it trusts that you'll become invested in its deep bench of characters.
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The family soon moved to Elizabeth, N.J. Ricky first performed magic in public at a magicians' association picnic in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, at the age of 4.
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Circus owners would "come from the United States and take their traveling acts all around the island with performers, magicians and also a small theater," he said.
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"It's traditional that season five is the apocalypse season," Magicians co-creator and executive producer Sera Gamble said at a press event the show held in December.
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For a show that plays as fast and loose with mortality as The Magicians, Quentin's death felt significant and weighty, like it really meant it this time.
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If you've seen or read The Magicians, you'll feel a thrill of excitement as you walk up to the black and gold doors of the William Vale.
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It should be said that both The Expanse and The Magicians are more episodic than a lot of TV shows, especially those on HBO or streaming services.
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La Sorda said that Ali told him that he had asked professional magicians in Las Vegas to teach him magic before, but no one took him seriously.
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Tian, and other traditional Chinese magicians, have condemned this practice, even forming an association, the League in Opposition to the Revealing of Magic Secrets, to combat this trend.
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They were just the sort of responses he wanted to "Magiciens de la Terre" ("Magicians of the Earth"), a groundbreaking show he put on in Paris in 1989.
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But in 2600 BCE, an Egyptian pharaoh used magic to build the pyramids, setting off a sort of magical arms race that resulted in even more powerful magicians.
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Many of the 32 gimmicks he spotlights belong to magicians in Italy who let him photograph them under the strict condition he not actually give away their tricks.
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Among witches and magicians, eclipses are inopportune times to cast magic since the two most important lights in our sky, the sun and the moon, are behaving unusually.
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Learn to Lucid Dream to Have Sex with Famous People That British Show Where Magicians Try to Fool Penn and TellerYou guys see Now You See Me 2?
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The cooking is from the team behind the excellent Luv2Eat Thai Bistro, so you know the food will be amazing—even if you find magicians hard to stomach.
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This is a common technique used by magicians as their body heat and the heat generated by friction warms and softens the metal, making it easier to bend.
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His approach to fiction seems to run in the family: he's the twin brother of Lev Grossman, whose The Magicians trilogy did something similar with the fantasy genre.
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Their encounter — and The Magicians' second episode, which also airs Monday — implies that the Dean will play a greater role on TV than he did in the books.
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The 26-year-old Canadian Mahdi Gilbert is limbed much as Buchinger and does exquisite card magic using techniques of his own invention that baffle even other magicians.
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Fortune estimated that Blaine was one of the world's highest-earning magicians in 2018, earning a total of $13.5 million, primarily from his sell-out North America tour.
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What's so different and interesting about a show like The Magicians, with its world steeped in magic and supernatural possibility, is that getting an abortion is still fraught.
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Artificial intelligence may not be magic, but Facebook does have one thing in common with magicians: the sleight of hand needed to divert the eyes of the audience.
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The episode of the week for February 7 through 13, 2016, is "The World in the Walls," the fourth episode of the first season of Syfy's The Magicians.
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As always, fast forward through the stilted intro and outro segments, but enjoy the genuinely good tricks and the warm camaraderie between the magicians and Penn and Teller.
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Where I think this is good for [The Magicians] is that throwing scope at a story problem is rarely the most satisfying way to get to a solution.
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It takes me back to a time when watching magicians pull coins out of ears made me feel as if the world was a wondrous and mysterious place.
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The Magicians has always cheekily leaned into the idea that heroes in fantasy stories too often look like Quentin — which is to say white, male, and conventionally attractive.
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In an age when showrunners increasingly seem scared of their audiences, The Magicians is daring its fans to bring their own sadness to its biggest apocalyptic story yet.
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The Magicians, once a fantasy trilogy that pillaged franchises like Harry Potter to middling effect, is now the queer, emotionally devastating heir to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's throne.
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In the first episode of Syfy's The Magicians, Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) walks into a shadowed corner of his city and ends up in a magical new world.
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I make my living as a magician and most of my closest friends are magicians (the pranksters in this story, Matthew Cooper and Vinny DePonto, are both professional mentalists).
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However, as day transforms into night, the atmosphere of the square is recalibrated to the tune of Chleuh dancing boys, storytellers, magicians, and peddlers of various wares and crafts.
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But "A Life in the Day" was indicative of what The Magicians does best: It uses its magical setting and all-star cast to mold itself into different forms.
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Syfy has begun to catch up with that wave, airing critically acclaimed series like The Expanse and The Magicians, and more traditional genre fare like Killjoys and Dark Matter.
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Though magicians have figured out how to film their own work, producers on other TV shows like Good Morning Britain often throw them under the bus, accidentally or otherwise.
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But it's the kooky "Mary Poppins" meets "Pirates of the Caribbean" vibe, a dreamscape of jugglers, artists, musicians and magicians, that makes them prick up their ears with delight.
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Magic spells are cast via tutting — a kind of finger dancing originally made popular by breakdancers, which different members of The Magicians' ensemble claim various levels of facility with.
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And it's thrilling to watch The Magicians, especially as season two gives the writers extra room to play, and see the series realizing just how good it can be.
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Quentin in the psych ward The Magicians' protagonist is angst incarnate, constantly suffering from a low-grade depression that's deeply intertwined with his yearning to live in a fantasy.
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This advanced level of truth-twisting is the particular speciality of the "meme magicians" who wield the alt-lite label like a shield, protecting their foothold within the mainstream.
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If you prefer applied philosophy, fear not: the magicians Harrison Kramer, Sam Gherman, and Rich Torres will be performing around the Grand Lobby between 8pm Saturday and 73am Sunday.
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"The other difficult part about the portrayal of women as magicians is that "no one's ever told the truth about being a magician in Las Vegas," she said. "Ever.
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In the covert Unseen World of Kat Howard's new novel, AN UNKINDNESS OF MAGICIANS (Saga, $25.99), readers can find an intriguing microcosm of New York's wealthy elite, plus magic.
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Instead of portraying refugees as one-dimensionally tragic, Imam's surreal black-and-white scenes, featuring men dressed as magicians and wrenches tied to balloons, dramatize their subjects' inner lives.
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The bust is on loan from the Society of American Magicians, which was founded in 1902 in a Manhattan magic shop and was led by Houdini for many years.
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The last season of The Magicians was a bit of a mess overall, but it concluded with an absolute stunner: the death of starring character Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph).
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The Magicians show is furthering this goal, painting the world around him in vibrant, gleefully vulgar shades, allowing each of its characters to have their day in the sun.
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Watching a season of The Magicians is like watching a series of barely controlled yet wholly sympathetic nuclear meltdowns that might end the world but are also incredibly moving.
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The production is spearheaded by House of Yes, an avant-garde performance venue in Brooklyn, and features everything from latex-clad dancers to high-flying aerialists to quirky magicians.
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Young audience members will go onstage — or maybe even above the stage — in this 108th annual celebration of the art of illusion, presented by the Society of American Magicians.
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Get ready for more magic on the Syfy Channel next year: the network announced today that it has renewed its fantasy show The Magicians for a third, 13-episode season.
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Vogue devoted an entire profile to Pol and her lavish parties, which often featured magicians, acrobats, and servers who would dance as they wove around the crowds with tea trays.
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Unlike the whitewashed worlds created by Rowling and C.S. Lewis, the characters in The Magicians are a diverse cast of actors portraying characters with a wide range of sexual preferences.
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Maisel star, 28, and the Magicians actor, 32, were married first surfaced in September 2018 after they were spotted wearing bands on their left ring fingers at the Emmy Awards.
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IS THE job of central bankers more like that of technicians, carefully turning knobs as they fine-tune the economy, or magicians, manipulating the audience into the suspension of disbelief?
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Speaking of Syfy series that come recommended from Andrew… Syfy put out a trailer this week for The Magicians' second season, and the production of it all looks surprisingly magical.
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Pete Sessions (R-Texas) introduced a resolution this week to advance efforts to grant magic an official art status that would make it easier for magicians to apply for grants.
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They each told us their unique stories of how they came to be magicians, what it's really like to be one in 2016, and why they love it so much.
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Zurbano travels frequently to perform in theaters around the world, so she's amassed a large network of fellow magicians, and can say that it is a very male-dominated business.
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The Magicians is available on Netflix — the first two seasons for now, with season three following later in 2018 — and will return to Syfy for season four in early 2019.
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The lighthearted tale also touches on deeper topics of gender nonconformity, as characters question why girls can't be knights or magicians, or why boys can't write books or tell stories.
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And when I asked Gamble if maybe it was intentional to line up the apocalypse with the grief The Magicians' characters feel over season four's big death, she simply grinned.
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In The Magicians' season four finale, the series killed Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), who had been its protagonist and the audience's window into the world of magic since its debut.
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The Magicians trilogy of books was, among other things, about a white male protagonist who believed he was the center of the story and painfully learning that he was not.
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Magic lurks in the blood of white-haired, brown-skinned teenagers who morph into mighty magicians at 13, but a nonmagical king has ordered the slaughter of all adult majis.
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Like the showrunners and writers on Syfy's other current (and excellent) book adaptation The Magicians, the show knows the book protagonist is a turd, and they've ameliorated the problem onscreen.
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With The Handmaid's Tale or The Magicians, though, those specific details from the source books and the worlds they inhabited were a big part of what made the books so beloved.
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Yet for now that means having a team of around 150 people, dubbed "magicians," who are essentially treated like virtual robot butlers by a clientele of mostly wealthy Bay Area types.
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And how psychologists sought to develop methods to scientifically explore illusions and deception — variously embracing and confronting spiritual mediums, and sometimes appealing to magicians' practical expertise to help drive their research.
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Mainstream conversations about fantasy TV are often limited to the wild success of Game of Thrones, and The Magicians is nestled into an underrated corner of TV on the Syfy network.
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With Sakti beginning to fade away, the pair must travel to England to seek help from the Sorceress Royal Prunella Wythe, who has set up an academy to train women magicians.
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This question is the core of The Magicians and its sequels: how would familiar fantasy tropes play out in a real world, with characters as flawed and human as we are?
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The books are fantastic, and each installment — The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magicians's Land — came with a beautiful map that detail some of the key locations in the story.
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The events of last season saw our heroes succeed in their quest to bring back magic (which, all things considered, is probably a good thing in a show called The Magicians).
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This type of magick is so popular—and believed in so strongly—that there are even magicians who oppose it as they believe it is tantamount to sexually assaulting a person.
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As someone who grew up with a deep appreciation for rocks, and later studied geology, seeing magicians deal with the Earth as a dynamic object is a real treat to behold.
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All the characters are older Grossman's The Magicians introduces Quentin Coldwater as a surly 210-year-old high school senior preparing for a college interview that goes very wrong very quickly.
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There are publications and objects items pertaining to Satan worshipers, flat-earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, Theosophists, spirit photographers and other imaginative and often fraudulent cosmologists, lunder glass on 35 tables.
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I'm a sucker for the Lev Grossman novel trilogy that inspired the show, but I was pleased and surprised by how organically and intriguingly The Magicians expanded on its source material.
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But on a show with an ensemble as far-flung (in terms of being spread across multiple magical realms) as The Magicians, a conduit character is necessary to knit things together.
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In subsequent episodes, however, the show settles down and starts to inhabit its world — one in which young magicians are trained at the mystically hidden Brakebills University — and develop its characters.
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Gary Keith and Ron aren't magicians, but perhaps they do represent an alternate strategy for attacking baseball's existential crisis: fix the game itself, yes, but fix the conversation around it too.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%Synopsis: Two magicians — Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Bale) — try and one-up each other to extreme lengths to secure their legacy as legendary showmen.
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Their latest venture has been devised with the American magicians and comedians Penn & Teller, who don't appear onstage but are credited as co-writers of this magic show gone manically awry.
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One of these also covers a little spot big enough for a bunny in a magic trick, although magicians still manage to get away without mechanical aids like this (I think!).
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Despite its dour start, The Magicians is a joy to watch moment to moment, and the canvas feels wide open in a way it hasn't since the show's stellar third season.
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The Hall of Magic features 10 rooms of immersive exhibitions to simulate the world of The Magicians, and Mashable got an exclusive sneak peek at the construction of this epic exhibition.
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Whatever the truth about what happened the night Mr. Meade visited Mr. DelGaudio's show, word that other magicians may have surreptitiously filmed him drew a strong response from some fellow performers.
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"'Will, the Witch and the Watch' told a story through magic and provided the inspiration for stage magicians to develop routines in a much more sophisticated and polished way," Peden said.
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Except "Be the Penny" goes one step further, by pushing the typical Magicians episode to center stage while simultaneously constructing a meta-narrative about Penny trying to save his own skin.
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As a show, The Magicians is still relatively young, and there's plenty of room for it to grow, both in Grossman's source material and the new storylines the creative team is adding.
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You see that today with all the magicians — Megan, and Tony — and just that desire to pass the knowledge on and use these lessons to solve some of the really big problems.
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The people behind the mask may seem like heroes or magicians to those of us looking up from the operating table—but they are still fallible, and messy, and above all, human.
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It's about a man named Kaiman who lives in a shitty world plagued with magicians from another world who come there to use regular humans as practice specimens for their sinister magic.
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In this sense, the still-mysterious inner workings of technology can serve as a platform for artists and magicians such as Joshua Madara, whose mystical works merge occultism with the digital world.
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The book stars runaway street magician Carter who, along with a group of fellow magicians, is tasked with stopping the greedy B.B. Bosso from wreaking havoc on a sleepy New England town.
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"Magicians were on duty," he said, claiming that he had seen locked bottles disappear through the hole in the wall and return about an hour later, unlocked and with their caps intact.
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They're a little surprised to encounter me, if I'm in a place with a lot of magicians they think I'm someone's girlfriend or wife — they can't figure out what I'm doing there.
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Eddie Pepitone has been disgusted with everything longer than you have: Bed Bath & Beyond, the NSA, magicians, upscale grilled cheese, Parks and Recreation, and Wolf Blitzer are just some of his triggers.
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It was startling to hear a computer scientist on the leading edge of A.I. research compare his work to a medieval practice performed by men who were as much magicians as scientists.
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The show is more spooky than scary, with a dash of "The Magicians" and a more grown-up version of "Indian in the Cupboard" thrown in, and the 10 episodes fly by.
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Carole Segal/Syfy At first glance Syfy's new show The Magicians, which can be described as "Harry Potter goes to college," might seem like just another story about young heroes with supernatural powers.
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If anybody is interested in magic, he's written this incredible exploration of a couple hundred years in magical history, but he also looks at the rivalries and the relationships between magicians over time.
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Fantasy lovers are getting Immortals — a Netflix Original vampire show that could help out anyone missing Vampire Diaries or True Blood — and The Order, which explores a war between werewolves and dark magicians.
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From left: Stella Maeve as Julia, Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice, Appleman as Eliot, Bishil as Margo, Jason Ralph as Quentin, and Arjun Gupta as Penny in a promotional shot for The Magicians.
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In children's hospitals, wandering minstrels, magicians, super heroes and clowns turn out to be volunteers or therapists or doctors like Hunter "Patch" Adams, played by Robin Williams in a semi-biographical 1998 film.
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Lim, who is the reigning world FISM champion for close-up magic, also has plans to perform alongside The Illusionists, a group of magicians who also got their start on the reality competition.
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" These deaths have included lesbian and bi-sexual female characters from NBC's "Chicago Fire," CW's "Supernatural," AMC's "The Walking Dead," Netflix's "Orange is the New Black," Syfy's "The Magicians" and CW's "The 100.
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The Magicians is based on Lev Grossman's bestselling trilogy of novels, which follow aspiring magician Quentin Coldwater and his friends as they attend a magical academy called Brakebills, hidden in upstate New York.
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Others take on genre themes more broadly, like Lev Grossman's nuanced fantasy series The Magicians, or his twin brother Austin Grossman's books about superheroes and gaming, Soon I Will Be Invincible and You.
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Throughout her journey, which included several stressful subway transfers, Red must dodge off pizza-hungry rats, street magicians trying to get her to participate and pro-whale activists shoving clipboards in her face.
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All of this brings us to The Magicians' season finale, in which the characters gather in Fillory to depose Ember and return its power to the people (or talking animals, as it were).
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But where Buffy's themes of coming-of-age were closely tied to its adolescent characters, The Magicians' characters are twentysomethings — and thus closer to their "finished" forms, even if they're still growing up.
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Death by Magic: NETFLIX ORIGINAL British magician Drummond Money-Coutts, or DMC for short, is on a mission to uncover the stories of magicians who died performing the most dangerous stunts ever attempted.
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Only occasionally does the possibility of sex or romance between Quentin and Eliot emerge into text in The Magicians novels, and when it does, it is nearly always inflected with deep self-loathing.
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For most televised magic, that difficulty is offset by a substantial amount of behind-the-scenes work done by consultants—magicians or magic-inclined people who act as, essentially, producers on live shows.
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Recent series like The Magicians and The Expanse have pushed the network in the direction of making consistently solid programming, while shows like 12 Monkeys and Van Helsing have kept genre fans happy.
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Laid out under glass on 19803 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat-earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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Laid out under glass on 22011 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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Laid out under glass on 35 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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Laid out under glass on 35 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat-earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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This free program from the local Assembly of the Society of American Magicians will honor the history of magic in the city and the area's contributions to this alluring side of show business.
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I do not have an answer to that question [of why there are so few female magicians] and believe me I've tried to answer it before and then—I've never found any discouragement.
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Instead of merely being the next chapter in a popular TV series loosely based on Lev Grossman's Magicians trilogy, Season 5 had to justify its existence beyond the end of Quentin Coldwater's story.
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The Magicians may start as another cliche tale about a white guy who finds out he's special, but it evolves into something much more, tackling topics like depression, sexual violence, and queer identity.
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The folks behind Veronica Mars came off as blinkered and callous with their show's big death, and they had far less of a justification for that big death than the Magicians producers did.
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"Once you come out, you know that anything can happen, especially when you are on the frontline, even real bullets," said Chen, a 21-year-old student and one of the "fire magicians".
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Johnny Thompson, who was revered among magicians not only for his own deft performances but also as a teacher, advice-giver and historian of the field, died on March 9 in Las Vegas.
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But where The Magicians usually puts that problem front and center, The Expanse is far more interested in building out its larger mysteries, which culminate in the final three episodes of the season.
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It's the simulated violence, where we collectively sneak up to the line of the real, secure in the knowledge that it's all under control, with pulled punches and magicians' hands softening the headbutts.
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And if magicians' assistants throughout history have been able to contort themselves into boxes to make the magic happen, why couldn't Swift do it to make the magic that is her own life happen?
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Mostly, though, I loved how The Magicians wasn't afraid to be episodic, with each episode telling its own tiny story about 20-somethings dealing with a world of magic and danger in equal measure.
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Bright Ruin by Vic James In the first two installments of Vic James' Dark Gifts trilogy, Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, magicians rule over Great Britain, and under their rule, a nascent rebellion formed.
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When the second season of The Magicians began, I compared the series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer in its ability to deftly mix entertaining fantasy TV with weightier themes, via the use of metaphors.
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Plotwise, The Magicians leans in on stuff being bonkers — Alice's imprisonment in the library sets her up to meet Santa Claus and hide a cockroach in her mouth for an uncomfortably long time; Not!
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Created by magicians Penn and Teller for their unreleased 1995 video game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, the minigame has players drive a bus in real time from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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In season two, The Magicians is darker, deeper, and just plain better than it was in season one, and it makes a claim for being one of the most unexpectedly great shows on television.
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But the season also delves into his tumultuous relationship with Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley), the woman he romanced for much of The Magicians' first season before the two broke up in emotionally devastating fashion.
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The Magicians' fourth season depicted Quentin as someone barely keeping his head above water, having to pal around with a monster, powerless as his friends tried in vain to find some other way forward.
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In this context, we can understand the various tricks that magicians performed on women's bodies as expressions of a generalized anxiety over women's increasing emancipation and as part of a backlash that promoted domesticity.
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The episodes of the week for April 1 through 7 are "Chapter 9," the second season premiere of FX's Legion, and "Will You Play With Me?" the third season finale of Syfy's The Magicians.
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Still, as far as technique, the most explosive work is currently going on in an atelier in Italy, where the magicians at Fendi are rendering materials of all kind unidentifiable to the naked eye.
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So killing off Quentin also functions as a kind of meta-commentary on The Magicians' earnest attempts to transcend both its genre and its source material, in which Quentin remains alive through the end.
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Mr. Brown belongs to the contemporary of school of mentalists and magicians (including Penn and Teller and the great Ricky Jay, who died last year) who practice what might be called half-full disclosure.
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Maddon is well known for his irreverent style; he has brought magicians and zoo animals into the clubhouse, de-emphasizes the busywork of batting practice and peppers his news conferences with pop-culture references.
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Playing in a backfield known as the Mad Magicians for its deceptive ball handling, he starred for Michigan's 1947 team, which went 9-0, then routed Southern California, 49-0, in the Rose Bowl.
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The Magic Castle is a legendary private restaurant and performance nightclub ... and has become a favorite for magicians while they're in L.A. As of now, cops are investigating the death as a possible suicide.
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Mr. Jillette is among the most famous magicians working today, but when his 13-year-old daughter recently decided she wanted to learn magic, it was Mr. Thompson she asked to give her lessons.
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But in those tales (see: Sherlock or Syfy's The Magicians), you often get the tidy reassurance that goodness is on the horizon, if you just try hard enough or learn to trust other people.
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And so is Syfy's The Magicians, which is pulling together a third season that might be as big a step up over its second season as the second season already was over the first.
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"They suck the blood out of us and we owe them money," Trump told CNBC in a September interview, in which he added that the Chinese were "great magicians" who had stolen U.S. intellectual property.
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Jay Electronica's highly anticipated, long-gestating trilogy (which may never see the light of day) is supposed to be based on The Prestige, Christopher Nolan's film about warring magicians, one of whom fakes his death.
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But if we're judging on ambition and inventiveness, The Magicians is one of the most notable shows on television — and its third season, which wraps up this week, proved that point over and over again.
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Then, inspired by The Goldfinch we talk about our favorite non-YA coming of age stories including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The Magicians by Lev Grossman and The First Bad Man by Miranda July.
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That's the premise of multiple series in TV's fantasy-friendly "Game of Thrones" age: MTV's elves-in-tight-pants hoot, "The Shannara Chronicles," and Syfy's coming-of-mage story, "The Magicians," debuting later this month.
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If you don't like The Handmaid's Tale, you can check out multiple adaptations of terrific sci-fi and fantasy novels on multiple other networks (American Gods, The Magicians, and The Expanse, to name just three).
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There's a big heist at the center of the film, but it's also filled with plenty of magic tricks, and Chu said the team worked with magicians to build the props and train the actors.
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When I got my very first two author copies of The Magicians, hot off the presses, I packed one carefully away, and I signed and inscribed the other one and mailed it to Le Guin.
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The formula for success is varied: Some sell products in a way similar to traditional TV shopping channels, while others showcase their talent (or lack thereof) by singing, dancing, performing magicians' tricks or acrobatic feats.
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Las Vegas magicians played by Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg and Lizzy Caplan try to steal a tech doodad that can control all the world's computers in "Now You See Me 2," opening today.
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This is a novel that sits comfortably alongside other great genre books such as Lev Grossman's The Magicians, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, and especially Michael Chabon's fantastic novel The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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Syfy's fantasy show The Magicians kicks off its second season tonight, but for the next few days, New York City residents also have a chance to explore a real-world installation tied to the show.
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I think The Magicians benefits from the fact that we frequently run out of money because we have to ask ourselves hard questions about, what is really going on between these two characters right now?
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And even more like that earlier series, it uses fantastical tropes (in this case, a bunch of young magicians trying to find their place in the world) to tell a vital story about growing up.
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" Peden explained it was "one of the most popular magic acts presented by the magicians Maskelyne and Cooke at London's Egyptian Hall, and was presented as a magical playlet that ran for about 30 minutes.
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But I'm not playing a video game or wearing a VR headset: I'm in the Hall of Magic, part of the promotional campaign for Syfy's The Magicians, which returns for its second season on January 25th.
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Anyone from photographers and DJs to magicians and clowns — along with the legions of part-time handymen and women out there — can get insured for at least $1 million for just $5 per-hour, per-job.
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The Queen of Crows by Myke Cole Myke Cole's The Armored Saint is one of my favorite books this year: it's set in an fantastical world where magicians are hunted by a fascist and tyrannical order.
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I watch as Jax falls in love at a young age, only to have that love ripped from him by the heartless High Council of Magicians, who rule a large portion of the Kingdom of Solace.
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Artists and magicians have a few things in common—they put on shows, they rarely reveal their secrets, and they both can engage in stupefying transfigurations, taking one thing and turning it into something completely different.
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Even the Chatwins, the British family that stars in Quentin's beloved Fillory and Further series — The Magicians' answer to the Chronicles of Narnia — have been shifted from chipper British schoolchildren to slightly more dour British teenagers.
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Read these stories next:Mara Wilson Opens Up About Her Sexuality & Kinsey Scale ScoreThat One Time Nick Jonas Got Tied To A Bed3 Female Magicians Tell Us What It's Like To Be A Woman In That World
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It should come as no surprise that Gamble is so skillful at handling millennial fears given her work as a showrunner for "The Magicians," a dark, grown-up show about students at a university of magic.
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If even the PR magicians at Apple have decided to just move on with their business and have given up all their alluring presentations and rollouts in favor of text in a document, you can too.
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Quentin Coldwater's mortal sacrifice in the Season 4 finale of The Magicians was a plot twist few fans expected and even fewer liked, which put Season 5 of the Syfy fantasy show at a distinct disadvantage.
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The Magicians books used Quentin's personal development as the backbone of its story, building on what he learned (and didn't learn) to create a structure that informed the books' themes of fulfillment, choice, adulthood, and loss.
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There are still plenty of episodes left in the season to see where our titular magicians may go, but so far Season 5 is unimpressive, repetitive, and leaves the question of Quentin up in the air.
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In true Magicians fashion, the season will feature multiple apocalyptic scenarios, which could feel over the top but for the fact that in reality, the 24-hour news cycle achieves roughly the same effect every day.
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Most shows with this structure eventually leave it behind in later seasons, once the world is established, but for now, The Magicians is using it to create a sense of immediacy that The Expanse can lack.
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The Magicians, for all its fantastical trappings, is primarily a story about a collection of characters who find themselves in the middle of a larger story but are always more worried about their own personal failings.
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For Spectacle of Illusion, the focus is on how scientists have attempted to study extraordinary phenomena, and how they've interacted and been influenced by the work of people who practice illusions, such as magicians and fraudulent mystics.
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West may even be thinking this is his magic trick to pull off, since one of his collaborators has been tweeting about The Prestige, a 2006 movie about two magicians looking to perform the ultimate magic trick.
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The show is currently airing its third season, and so far that season is on track to be as big a step up over The Magicians' second season as the second season already was over the first.
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There are bawdy, Carry-On-esque gags, and as it's Drake's actual home, there's a distinct family feeling to it, especially among the staff and table magicians who've been hand picked and molded over years of service.
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Rating Given that The Magicians is about kids who go to a magic school named Brakebills and end up ruling a magical kingdom named Fillory on another plane of existence, the show's dramatic stakes are always high.
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The issues in my collection range from 1981-97 and they all include drawings for how to do magic tricks and fancier stage-show tricks, a short story section, obituaries for magicians and ads at the end.
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"They're going to discover how much their own imagination can add," said Peter Glassman, the founder and owner of Books of Wonder in Manhattan, which will have live owls, jugglers and magicians at its midnight release party.
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"I don't believe in reincarnation, but if I did he is Rudolf Nureyev," Maor said, referring to the ballet great once described as juggling "his weight on his feet the way magicians juggle objects with their hands".
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The roster of magicians change from night to night and week to week, but you might catch Matthew Holtzclaw's superb sleight-of-hand, which includes a graceful variation on Chambers's beer trick, with lit cigarettes conjured, too.
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But because TV works the way it does, The Magicians can't wait until its second season to make use of its female lead, Julia (Stella Maeve), even though book two is where she becomes a real force.
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But there are so, so many serialized dramas that made major leaps in quality in their fourth episodes — including everything from The Wire to Syfy's recent The Magicians — that I keep the "episode four" rule in place.
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In a following illustration, two would-be magicians are startled from their own exhumation by a rooster-headed demon that is urinating on their lantern, and grasping one hapless human by the hair for a likely dismembering.
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