The Magicians producers were prepared for Syfy's cancelation after five seasons

Entertainment Weekly

The April 1 Season 5 finale was written as if it could be a series finale. "We knew it was a possibility," co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers tells EW. He says fellow co-showrunner Sera Gamble "and I wrote the finale, and we tried to craft a finale that was both open to possible futures but also closed off some story lines. We tried very much to wrap up some character stuff while keeping some plot stuff going just so that the show could be satisfying both ways. I think we ended up doing a pretty good job of coming up with a thing that will feel both final and hopefully looking toward the future when people finally get a chance to see it."