The Magicians Is Becoming the Most Sexually Aware Show on TV

The Magicians Is Becoming the Most Sexually Aware Show on TV

The Magicians is a show that's full of contradictions. At times it's refreshing and brilliant, but then it's so silly I can't believe an adult wrote the story. (At one point, there's an actual forest of dick rocks.) But if there's one thing it's good at, it's having a smart, thoughtful, and thoroughly progressive portrayal of sex...

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I think pretty much everything this article says I agree with. How they've handled Julia's rape is pretty remarkable, even just in that it hasn't gone away. She wasn't suddenly over it. She's been continuously angry and motivated toward revenge in a way that feels empowering. There's only one route to justice for her, and she has to make it happen.

Her greatest ally in this is another woman who we didn't quite trust before, but because she's stood by Julia, she's earned trust now.

It seems to be that this is now a woman's story in the way that Jessica Jones was also a woman's story.