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The Magicians is facing “the literal end of the actual world” in the first full trailer for Season 5, which will premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 10/9c on Syfy, it was announced on Monday.

Following Quentin’s heroic sacrifice last season, his friends are struggling with not only the loss of Q, but also an overabundance of magic. But castings and enchantments going wonky are just the start of the gang’s problems. “In freeing magic, the balance tipped the other way and there’s too damn much of it, and as the excess builds, an apocalypse looms,” the official synopsis reads.

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