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The Magicians: The Grandfather Paradox

Season 1, Ep. 355
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🌀 A son saves his father… only to discover his father is also his great-grandfather.

When Lance Alexander Senior’s quest to clear his father’s name takes him deep into the tunnels of time, he stumbles onto a rescue that rewrites his own family tree. His father, Blake Alexander—the King of Death—has no memory of who he is. In saving him, Lance creates a fixed point in history that forges an impossible truth: Blake will live out his life as Frederick Alexander, Lance’s own great-grandfather.

As Tempus the Timekeeper pulls strings from the shadows, the Alexanders are forced to face the ultimate question—how do you live with a paradox when the paradox is you?

Expect tangled timelines, gallows humour, and a touch of temporal theatre as this loop closes in on itself.

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