Jeff Schaffer served as an executive producer on Seinfeld and The League. He is the showrunner on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and the FX comedy Dave.
The Magicians streams on Netflix.
I guess the easiest would be “Harry Potter on acid.” The show is about a bunch of students at a school, Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy, and they’re all learning that magic exists in this world and in other worlds. But they’re also learning about themselves, about their powers, and about what it’s like to be an adult, all at the same time. It jumps between pop culture inside jokes and action sequences and rabbit messengers and musical numbers, with this casual proficiency that’s just really fun to watch.
