Rueben's Ramblings

The new Syfy drama The Magicians will air two back-to-back episode on January 25 at 9 PM.

The series centers on Quentin (Jason Ralph from Aquarius and Manhattan), a brilliant grad student chosen to attend Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his 20-something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real – and poses grave danger to humanity.

The cast includes Stella Maeve (Chicago P.D.), Arjun Gupta (How to Get Away With Murder), Olivia Taylor Dudley (Chernobyl Diaries), Hale Applebaum (Teeth) and Summer Bishil (The Last Airbender).

Here is a trailer for The Magicians: