Successful apology tour, although she does get a bit of ‘Kady justice’ for her Into this mix comes Alice (Olivia Taylorĭudley), who certainly has bad blood with a lot of people and is on her vaguely On the other side of this, Kady (Jade Tailor)Īnd Pete (David Hall) are trying to find a solution that causes the leastĪmount of damage, and stop the extremists from succeeding. With a solution that will ostensibly help the hedge-witches survive. Implanting a ‘Khan style worm’ in their ears, that kills them if they try toĭevelopment, the Library, led by Everett (Brian Markinson) is trying to come up In theory, the central story this week concerns the rise ofĪ terrorist group known as ‘The Serpent’, which is attacking hedge-witches, and THE MAGICIANS - “The Serpent” Episode 409 - Pictured: Jade Tailor as Kady Orloff-Diaz - (Photo by: Dean Buscher/SYFY) Interestingly, the writers never shy away from remembering the various difficulties the characters have previously had with each other, so there is no whitewash in the interests of an easy life if anything, this approach enriches the dialogue and general plot. Instead, we have had a succession of characters coming to the forefront, and truly delivering. To a certain extent, when The Magicians first started it seemed focused on Quentin (Jason Ralph), but this season it feels like he is in a more reserved role, but no less effective.
One of the great things about this show is its strength in depth, and this is very much evident in this episode. There’s a lot of threads that seemed extremely disparate over the past few episodes, but now things seem to be gathering together, and the pieces falling into place. This season there have been many mysteries running throughout, and this week the curtain is slowly being pulled back to give us a glimpse of the truth behind it all. The following, as usual, contains SPOILERS! Things are beginning to heat up, and truths are being revealed, in episode 9 of season 4 of The Magicians: ‘The Serpent’.