After 1800 years, you’d think he’d have it all figured out.
He certainly thinks he does.
MERLYN’S MISTAKE
The limited series
Episode two
In which Magic Might Actually Happen
As Vivica runs inside to get her passport, huge-ass spiders descend toward her open window from the building’s rooftop.
Starting with the tonal magic of Merlyn’s tire iron-and-humming that puts the spiders to sleep intercut with the introduction of Smedley upstairs in the apartment this episode revolves around the existence of magic and what counts as ‘real’ magic.
Flashbacks include Merlyn’s advancement through Druidry and the first magics of language and rhythm, of leaf-libraries strung in the forests on yarn.
ENDS in the private plane, on the way to Heathrow, Frankie in the cockpit with Sofia, learning that she recently had Merlyn institutionalized for several months.
At the intersection of Roger Zelazny and Jim Butcher stands a small monument to individual agency, This magical, funny book that calls not for accountability but responsibility. As painful truths come to light, Merlyn’s conscience compels him to redress old wrongs only to realize that he has endangered all the people he loves. Still, despite machine gun fire, plane crashes and giant spiders, they will stand by him.. When he needs them, even his old Faerie ally Nimmue will be there to do her part. Still, if he can’t unravel the last riddles woven into the Arthurian Excalibur construct they may be too late to save themselves or the world.
“Brody’s writing is brilliant.”
Robin Williams
In the words of the wise, ancient magician himself, “If I see a way that I might save the world and I don’t at least try, then I’m sort of dick.”
