The first-year students face something called "The Trials", a series of unconventional and emotional tests, which result in expulsion from Brakebills for those who fail.

The Magicians Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Unauthorized Magic
• s01e02 - The Source of Magic
• s01e03 - Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting
• s01e04 - The World in the Walls
• s01e05 - Mendings, Major and Minor
• s01e06 - Impractical Applications
• s01e07 - The Mayakovsky Circumstances
• s01e08 - The Strangled Heart
• s01e09 - The Writing Room
• s01e10 - Homecoming
• s01e11 - Remedial Battle Magic
• s01e12 - Thirty-Nine Graves
• s01e13 - Have You Brought Me Little Cakes

The Magicians Show Summary

Quentin Coldwater enrolls at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy to be trained as a magician, where he discovers that the magical world from his favorite childhood books is real and poses a danger to humanity. Meanwhile, the life of his childhood friend Julia is derailed when she is denied entry, and she searches for magic elsewhere.