HENRY ALONSO MYERS | The only thing that is really different about what we did this year was, usually, at the end of every season, we flip the table over and pick up the pieces in the beginning of the next season.
#The magicians land discussion series#
This is just the first time we’ve done that, and it turned out to be the series finale. So, really, what we did was write the most complete version.
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And we tended towards scenes that would feel like they were series finale scenes, knowing that we would cut some of it in post if we were going to go on. We’d hoped it might not be, but we knew there was a good chance it was, so we wrote an episode we felt could function both ways. We knew that this might be our last episode. SERA GAMBLE | We knew we were on the bubble. What was your approach to it? And what did you know about the show’s future at that point? TVLINE | I want to rewind to when you were first crafting the finale. “That’s how I know it’s our story,” Alice added, as Margo gleefully pressed the button on the globe and… cut to black!īelow, co-showrunners Sera Gamble, John McNamara and Henry Alonso Myers talk about the characters’ fates, what they would have changed about the finale if the series had been renewed and what they wanted to explore in a hypothetical Season 6.
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But the others found comfort in that idea. “You guys know our lives are about to get even weirder in some insane way that we can’t possibly predict,” Margo mused. Then, in the final scene, new High King Margo prepared to release Fillory’s residents from the globe housing them.