SYFY releases 'Live from Fillory, With Fen!' web series in lead up to Season 5 of 'The Magicians'
Reporting live from your favorite fantasy Narnian knock-off realm, it's 'Live From Fillory, With Fen!'
Leading up to its Season 5 release, 'The Magicians' has been releasing short webisodes hosted by Fen (Brittany Curran) in her very own Earth-like talk show on SYFY's YouTube channel. The series also features the rest of 'The Magicians' cast — whether they want to be there or not.
Fen's journeys between Earth and Fillory have left her with a fascination with Earth's pop culture, and she's starting Fillory's very first talk show.
Surprisingly enough, Fillory gets interdimensional coverage, with signal strength up to three bars, which isn't bad for a fantasy kingdom that's still very much stuck in the middle ages. Dressed in a queen's finest, Fen has each episode released so far featuring a different member of the 'The Magicians' cast.
So far, we've seen Fen with Penny-23 (Arjun Gupta), her husband Elliot (Hale Appleman) and Dean Fogg (Rick Worthy), all of whom have varying levels of enthusiasm for their appearance. Not that it matters to Fen, as her exclamatory enthusiasm is more than enough to make up for anyone who's not in the mood — as Elliot no doubt knows full well.
The episodes are short and silly, but they do give us glimpses into what state of mind the characters are in going into Season 5.
Penny-23 is experiencing glitches in his traveling, as the surcharge of magic brought about in Season 4 is messing with both cast spells and, apparently, inherent abilities. Elliot is still processing his grief for Quentin's (Jason Ralph) passing — unfortunately, his "process" tends to involve copious amounts of alcohol. Dean Fogg seems to be doing relatively well, however, with his polite acquiescence to the show's conceit as Fen tries to Marie Kondo the royal bedchamber.
The episodes have been released daily, so stay tuned for more appearances from Fen(!) and the rest of the cast.
The season premiere for 'The Magicians' airs January 15 on SYFY.
