Written by Nadia Dardon
The cast from Syfy’s The Magicians attended San Diego Comic-Con to talk all things season four!
San Diego Comic-Con has come around again once more and the fantasy TV series The Magicians has delivered multiple surprises for what is to come. The main cast of the series was present for the panel, including Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Hale Appleman, Olivia Taylor Dudley, and Summer Bishil, along with the series creators, Sera Gamble and John McNamara. They were joined by Felicia Day, who played Poppy in the last season, and she was the moderator of the panel. All of them brought the news of what to expect for the future of the series.
First of all, The Magicians will return for its fourth season in 2019! After the epic finale of the third season, we were left with multiple questions. The cast is currently filming the episodes, which will be released early 2019. At the beginning of the SDCC panel, they showed a recap of everything that happened in the last season, and then the cast continued to share some of their experiences while filming some of those episodes.
Hale Appleman surprised us all especially during the panel as he was very involved in his character, responding to the questions not as an actor but as Eliot. Upon his acting, a fan asked him how it felt to play Eliot’s sexuality. Hale answered “There weren’t characters like Eliot when I was a kid. There should be more queer characters in television so sexuality is not a topic of conversation. There should be more queer characters, period.” The audience burst into applause at his response.
Olivia Taylor Dudley confessed she would like to see Quentin and Alice back together. However, it seems that in the new season Olivia will be reconnecting with the Alice of season one. Though Olivia said she had a fun time playing Alice Niffin.
The creator Sara Gamble commented how hard it was to write the plot for the upcoming episodes. “At the season finale of a TV series…you just mess up as much as you want with all the characters. That way you keep the audience alert and you invite them to guess what is happening next. That’s why getting writer’s block while writing the script is not a bad thing. Actually, it is very good because it means the public also has no idea.”
The Magicians are known for having one musical episode each season. Even though they did not confirm if there will be one in the fourth season, they did mentioned artists like Britney Spears, Madonna, Prince, or Taylor Swift would be good options.
The fourth season of The Magicians will come in 2019 and it will have 13 new episodes. Although we still don’t have a trailer, the cast delivered a video in the form of a fake documentary where the actors seem to be affected with memory loss from their characters. Without a doubt, it is a very fun video to watch, in the true style of The Magicians!
