Best friends Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) and Julia Wicker (Stella Maeve) are fans of the fantasy series, Fillory and Further. Quentin is even treated for believing Fillory to be a real place. He is set to interview for Yale grad school. Instead, he is invited to attend the Brakebills University in upstate New York by Dean Fogg. It's a school for magicians and Fillory is real. On the other hand, Julia is rejected. She avoids the memory wipe and seeks magic through other means. Alice Quinn (Olivia Taylor Dudley), Penny Adiyodi (Arjun Gupta), Eliot Waugh (Hale Appleman), Kady Orloff-Diaz (Jade Tailor), and Margo Hanson (Summer Bishil) are some of Quentin's classmates. Alice comes from uncaring magician parents and becomes Quentin's love interest.
This is a bit sexy, sometimes brutal, plenty of sarcasm, and a little uneven overall. These are young, hot people with magical powers. There are some imaginative story elements. It's uneven in that the characters and story can meander in conflicted emotions. Fillory is a funny weird place. At a certain point, the show meanders a bit too much and it loses its anchor. Quentin is gone for the last season.
This is a bit sexy, sometimes brutal, plenty of sarcasm, and a little uneven overall. These are young, hot people with magical powers. There are some imaginative story elements. It's uneven in that the characters and story can meander in conflicted emotions. Fillory is a funny weird place. At a certain point, the show meanders a bit too much and it loses its anchor. Quentin is gone for the last season.