The Magicians Review: Do You Like Teeth? (Season 3 Episode 6)

Quentin almost hits a breaking point, Penny is giving up, and Margo is still fighting off her underage husband on The Magicians Season 3 Episode 6, “Do You Like Teeth?”

My heart takes a beating from Quentin’s storyline on “Do You Like Teeth?” Quentin has gone through so much, especially at this very moment with all the memories of his past life coming back clear as day to him.

Quentin’s mental state is hanging on by a thread, which is why it’s so hard to have to watch this depression monster sit and take constant jabs at him over and over and over again. Having someone right there beside you at all times, always letting you know how worthless you are, and bringing up past failures would make anyone lose their mind.

Quentin gets lucky that Benedict is there to save him before he can jump off the ship, but Benedict ends up losing his own life only trying to help Quentin out. Poppy’s first impression is almost forcing Quentin to suicide, killing Benedict, and stealing the key from Quentin.

It’s safe to say I’m not a fan.

If Poppy knew what the key did she should have been right there next to Quentin while he had to face the depression monster. He tells her straight up that he is not in the right frame of mind to be dealing with something like that and instead she leaves him by himself.

Poppy only cares for herself, and it’s evident with her carefree attitude towards anyone but herself. I don’t completely trust her story about how she got off her last boat. I can see the key leading half the ship to suicide, but there’s no way she could survive on a rowboat in the middle of the ocean for three weeks with no other interaction besides the depression monster.

Her knowledge of dragons could come in handy to Quentin, but I think that he needs to take everything she says with a grain of salt. He knows nothing about this woman other than she tried to run off, got Benedict killed, and put himself at risk as well.

The only thing making me believe Poppy’s story is her Brakebills jacket and the fact that she knows Josh. Even then, I’m still on the fence because this is uncharted territory for Fillory. Nobody knows anything about the area that they’re in.

My first thought about Poppy was that she could be an actual dragon with how much she knows, and she was gone when Benedict killed himself, but I don’t think that’s the case. Why else would she be pushing Quentin to go to the underworld to get back the key?

The fairies plan has been brought out in the light, finally! It seems as if the Fairy Queen is destroying the ecosystem for Fillory so she can grow an army of fairies, but why? If the Fairy Queen needed more troops for her army couldn’t she just grow them in the fairy realm?

I think that there’s something fishy about the Fairy Queen growing an army. I mean, it’s not like she needs one. She’s taken over anything she’s wanted without an army so far because she has the power to do so. Either she’s afraid of something, and that’s why she needs the army, or she’s preparing for something huge.

As for Margo and Eliot, thank god Eliot helped Margo convince Fomar that he did have sex with Margo. There’s no way in hell Margo should have to sleep with that 15yo psychopath. Honestly, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

Fomar’s mother, The Stone Queen, is a little psychotic as well; locking Margo in the dungeon with him for three days to try and force them to have sex. I don’t trust her, at all. I think that she only mentioned her fight against the Fairy Queen to try and out Margo. And, if you’re looking to gain someone’s trust you don’t lock them in a dungeon.

Julia giving Alice her magic is a catastrophic choice in judgment. Alice’s problem is that she thinks that her god-given talent is to be able to do any kind of magic that she wants. She can’t seem to comprehend that she isn’t that strong and constantly straining yourself when doing magic isn’t safe. She needs to learn her own limits.

Alice has had magic back for all of five minutes, and she’s already trying to make Penny a brand new body. Alice, sweetie, get it together.

Alice may have been a phenomenal magician when there was magic in the world, and everything wasn’t flipped upside down, but honey, now it’s time to start practicing again. She can’t expect to be at the same level after all of this time.

Other Thoughts:

• Why in the world is Julia still having visions of Reynard if she gave her magic to Alice?
• I don’t want Penny to leave, but I can understand where he’s coming from. The only person who makes him feel like someone genuinely cares is locked up in a hospital, and he has no way to contact her.
• Eliot said that Quentin could do the thing he’s been waiting his whole life to do, with no other mentions whatsoever. What could he have been talking about?

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The Magicians airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Syfy.

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