I watched the 4 series of The Magicians on Amazon Prime recently. (There's a fifth final series on the way.)
I almost didn't continue after the
rape of one of the characters. I know that including stuff that happens in real life in fiction can be a good thing in making it relatable etc, but
I'd rather rape not be included, especially not so explicitly, although it could have been a lot worse.There was a lot of other good stuff though so I persevered, and I'm glad I did. It's quite an odd-ball fantasy series, extremely quirky, sometimes a bit silly, but I enjoyed it a lot. It plays with certain fantasy tropes and does other things with them. The characters are mostly all very three dimensional. It's sometimes a bit vulgar and nasty for the sake of it, but it can be quite sweet and poignant too.
It can go to a very dark place, but can be very funny as well. And they occasionally break into song too, which you might hate. I find it amusing and audacious , partly due to the embarrassment factor.
I'm slightly embarrassed to say, that an occurrence in the last episode of series 4 brought a tear to my eye.It's not perfect at all but I enjoyed it a lot. I found this far preferable to that other 'young wizards at college series' on Netflix, The Order (although kudos for making a gang of werewolves protagonists in that one). I don't dislike the Order, but it just feels a bit shallow compared to the Magicians. The tone is very different despite them playing with the same toys, although both can be funny.
Currently watching Doom Patrol on Starz.* My feelings have been a bit mixed on this: it goes to a pretty crazy place - occasionally too nuts for my liking, but overall, I like it so far. There's too much swearing though.
As way of example of the crazy stuff:
the main professor character and the entire town get swallowed up by a strange extradimensional vortex thing created by the main villain Mr. Nobody. (This was preceded by a donkey farting a message in green smoke.) Crazy Jane followed the professor into the vortex to save him.
Later on she was puked up by the donkey.
Oh and what's with the preaching cricket character? It's like Jiminy crossed dimensions and went crazy.
*I'm dropping Disney+ for this. Now that the Star Wars stuff has finished (and the fact I've seen most of the Marvel stuff already) it doestnt seem worth keeping. When they have series 2 of the Mandalorian and that new Red Witch and robot bloke** series I'll likely resubscribe, but I think I'll be wasting my money keeping it permanently.
**And after thing that, his name pops into my head 'Vision'. I'm gonna leave it as it amuses me.