Great episode. Loved seeing Quentin and Julia mend fences. It says a lot that a friendship that was established in the pilot and then left behind carries that kind of emotional weight for me.

Thanks for sharing. All pulled from Donna Haraway's writings. Interesting.

I haven't read the books, so that's pure speculation on my part. But the Greek and Roman mythologies are full of gods having their way with mortals. That's why I'd steer clear of deities if I were Julia.

More Katie Findlay in my television life is always a good thing.

It's been clear since his chat with Eliza/adult Jane Chatwin in the pilot that he doesn't know what to do to help. It seems to be one of the themes of this show, that the relatively new adults face adult authority figures who don't have all of the answers anymore.

She's the co-showrunner with John McNamara, who co-created the shortlived cult favorite "Profit" on Fox in the mid-nineties.

What this show demonstrates to me is how little the original broadcast matters in the overall life of a show these days. When "The Magicians" gets to Netflix or Amazon Prime, and then Blu-Ray/DVD, it's almost certainly going to be uncensored. So I guess the writers made the decision not to compromise their dialog just…

So if I'm a television writer, the lesson I take away from this review is that if I need to introduce a one-and-done character who has to die by the end of the episode, I'd better make the character a white, heterosexual cisgendered male or I'm going to be penalized for it.

I'm still waiting for a scene where Monty's up on the execution block, and his mom has to decide between her love for her son and her loyalty to her chancellor.

As soon as they gave Monroe a first name, I knew she was a goner. It's a shame too; I've been a fan of Katie Stewart's since she played Meg in "A Wrinkle in Time".

So is the little girl from the Polish hospital Jamie's daughter or Ariel's daughter? The age puts her conception right about when Layla disappeared from Jamie's life and Hawkwind reappeared in Ariel's life. Given the unique circumstances, a DNA test wouldn't help much since the two candidates are genetically…

Especially when his American accent isn't the best.

I thought this was one of the best episodes of the season. All of the storylines worked for me, for the first time in a long time. The fact that Will Patton wasn't mentioned once in this entire review borders on dereliction of duty. He was an absolute gem, and a hell of a consolation prize since more Carrie Preston…

In the previous episode, Cary had said they needed junior associates, Alicia said something to the effect of "You want me to come back as an associate?" to which he replied something to the effect of "Of course not" and that he was talking about Lucca.

They hired Alicia as a junior partner, and Lucca as a junior associate.

There are some audio dropouts for profanity, but not nearly to the degree implied by the UK posters, so my guess is that they're also using alternate FCC-allowed takes for some of the dialogue. At the end of the second episode, when Leanne comments about how their roadtrip will be "just like Driving Miss Daisy, only…

I was struck, watching this episode, both by how few laughs it contained and how little that mattered to me. The revelation that the little Jane Doe in the Polish hospital was Jamie's daughter wowed me — especially when it became significantly more likely that she actually is the Second Coming. The quiet moments with…

The first season finale is one of my favorite season finales ever, a powerhouse of cathartic release. This second season finale didn't quite reach those heights, but I still think B- is way too low of a score.

As much good stuff as there was in this, I was a little bit turned off by the increasingly mechanical nature of Moffat's puzzle-box episodes.

To my mind, the fact that he DIDN'T call Scott is a sign of the cracks that are already forming inside the pack.