Foamy jars of centaur sperm!
But the show adapted from Lev Grossman’s books has conjured more darkness than its glib tone can handle.
She then betrayed her friends and aligned with their mass-murdering enemy, the Beast, a.k.a.
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Martin Chatwin (Charles Mesure), also a victim of rape, to hunt her attacker.
Oz this is not.
Both arcs emphasize the show’s penchant for comedy, a choice that diminishes the stakes and evil.
Martin loses his menace; Julia’s trauma becomes trivialized.
The pileup of ridiculousness blunts the emotional impact of a key tragedy.
Still, the well is tainted; the magic, gone for me.
