What SyFy’s ‘The Magicians’ Reveals About The #MeToo Movement

Alex Mell-Taylor
18 min readJul 10, 2019

The good, the bad, and the downright fantastical.

Billed initially as Harry Potter for grownups, Syfy’s The Magicians didn’t start as a “woke” show. It began as a voyeuristic fantasy for the straight, nerdy, white male. The show promised to push the envelope by deconstructing traditional fantasy tropes without really changing the underlying power structures…

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