The show pivots around Quentin Coldwater, a bright and broody man-child whose imagination has long been owned by a children’s fantasy: an obscure book series called Fillory and Further, about kids who commute between their war-torn here and an enchanted over-there via a grandfather clock. Quentin enrolls at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy to be trained as a magician, where he discovers that the magical world the book is real and poses a danger to humanity.
