Syfy, a channel not exactly renowned for its prestige dramas, must be feeling pretty confident in what showrunners John McNamara and Sera Gamble have come up with if they’re happily presenting a full episode to the world more than a month before the show’s official January 25 premiere. The series—which follows a young student (Jason Ralph) who learns that the magic he read about as a child is not only real, but that he is fluent in it—has the potential to lift Syfy into a higher echelon of critical respect if done right.
