This was a doozy of an episode, wasn’t it? With “Divine Elimination,” The Magicians seemed to be attempting to pull off a difficult two-episodes-in-one. On one hand, they gave us typical “third episode of the season fare:” hijinks and a bit of violence in the form of a tangent plot (cursed thrones that turn Fillory’s rulers into backstabbing paranoid Nixon-esque monarchs). But this episode also acted as a delayed finale, giving us the climax that occurred at the end of Lev Grossman’s first novel and which I (and presumably many others) had expected at the end of season one.