The Magicians, S5E08- Garden Variety Homicide

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 6:15 p.m.

Thank you very much to Mathy for commissioning this episode!
Alright so I was a little bit unhappy with the last episode, but I think that unhappiness has grown into full-blown concern about the final season at this point.
I don't understand what the writers are doing with the Dark King at all. I do not understand why I'm supposed to feel sorry for him, or why anyone else does. I do not understand why nobody is asking questions about him and who he is, who the Takers are and where they come from, what happens to the people they take, literally ANYTHING. Our whole crew is out here planning an assassination with NO FUCKING INFORMATION and I just can't get on board with the story because I'm so distracted by the fact that they don't even seem interested in the reasons why!
Ugh. That's all just ugh.