The Magicians (Seasons 1–5)

The Magicians (2015) is Syfy's dark fantasy drama you can watch online on iFILM — five seasons adapted from Lev Grossman's bestselling trilogy about a secret graduate school of magic called Brakebills University. The tagline says it all: all magic comes at a cost.

Quentin Coldwater grew up convinced that Fillory, the magical land from his favourite childhood books, was fiction. Brakebills proves him wrong. Alongside classmates Alice Quinn (Olivia Taylor Dudley), Eliot Waugh (Hale Appleman), Margo Hanson (Summer Bishil), and Penny Adiyodi (Arjun Gupta), Quentin learns spells while Julia Wicker (Stella Maeve) chases her own path to magic outside the school's walls. Across 65 episodes the stakes keep climbing — and every season finale tears up the rulebook.

The show earns its cult following by treating magic as a force that amplifies human flaws rather than erasing them. It ran on Syfy from 2015 to 2020. Stream all seasons of The Magicians online on iFILM.