I am really excited for Shadowhunters to be back. The episode after the hiatus was emotional as everyone was mourning Clary (Katherine McNamara), and the use of their memory flashes helped to convey that. Dominic Sherwood especially did a spectacular job in his mourning as Jace, so devastated that he doesn’t even get any hope from Luke (Isaiah Mustafa)’s suggestion that Clary may still be alive.

Obviously, it wasn’t a surprise that Clary was alive, nor that she was with Jonathan, but I did enjoy McNamara’s scenes with Luke Baines, especially the way she held her own. However, I’m not sure her plan to walk out into the middle of the snow in Siberia with assumedly no stele was a very smart one.

The scenes with Magnus (Harry Shum Jr.) and Alec (Matthew Daddario) were sweet, with Alec trying to convince Magnus that losing his magic wasn’t everything. Their interactions with Madzie (Ariana Williams) were also cute, especially Alec reading to her.

While I sometimes struggle with the show each week, this one was a pretty good episode, though a bit slow. Most of the scenes with Ezekiel, Carol, and Jerry were unnecessary, other than the stuff with the charter. They could have just made a comment that they got the bulb. However, I can’t say they weren’t enjoyable. I especially always love seeing Melissa McBride. Jerry of course was also a lot of fun like always, though I’m not sure it was worth risking their life twice for the bulb.

I also worry about Jerry. I love seeing him happy and with a family, but no one has died in a while, and a lot of times once people are settled it spells the end.

As for the storyline with Alpha, I have mixed feelings. Overall, it’s nice for once to see things go as planned for the group, but at the same time, not a whole lot actually happened. As Alpha said, “No conflict.” I am really enjoying Samantha Morton as Alpha though.

In the third season of The Magicians, magic is gone, and everyone is left powerless, except for Julia (Julia Maeve). After embarking on the quest for the seven keys, the students get what they need to restore magic to earth, but are stopped by Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley), who destroys the keys, not wanting magic to return. However, luckily, Julia is able to use her magic to stop Alice and remake the keys.

As they are about to restore magic once and for all, inserting their keys in the fountain, Gavin (Daniel Nemes), the traveling librarian from the Order, Irene McAllister (Jaime Ray Newman), and Dean Fogg (Rick Worthy) show up to stop them. Gavin attaches the siphon on the well spring to divert magic to the Library, so they can control who uses it. Fogg was involved in the deal with the Library and Irene to make it happen, in exchange for the lives of the students, and uses his potion to erase their memories and give them new magic-free identities as protection. However, Alice is not included, as she is arrested by the Library on backing out of her deal.

Today marks the US debut of the series A Discovery of Witches, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Deborah Harkness.

In a world where witches, vampires, and demons live secretly among humans, the series follows historian Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer), a witch who denies her magical heritage, refusing to use magic. However, not always in control, when she accidentally uses her magic to retrieve a manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library that has long been lost, her world is turned upside down. She is approached by vampire Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode), who has been looking for the book for over a century, as it may contain secrets to his heritage. He tells her that other creatures will be looking for it as well and she is not safe. Witches don’t trust vampires, but can she trust this intriguing man, and can he protect her from not only other creatures, but also others of her own kind and help her separate the truths from the lies?

Premiering tonight on FOX, is the new series, The Passage, adapted from the best-selling book trilogy by Justin Cronin. The series focuses on Project NOAH, a secret facility where scientists have discovered a virus in the Bolivian jungle that they think is a cure to all human diseases. At the facility they run experiments with the dangerous virus, however learn that it also has the ability to wipe out all of mankind.

The scientists enlist the help of Federal Agent Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) to bring in test subjects from prisons and other members of society that no one will miss.

Problems arise when the test subjects start changing, but time is running out when an outbreak of avian flu turns into an epidemic.

As the New Year begins, Team TARDIS discovers that something has been buried on earth since the ninth century, and it’s awake. The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) calls it the most “dangerous creature in the universe.” Can they stop it before it takes control of the whole planet?

Holiday episodes for the show are always special, and although this didn’t have quite the same holiday spirit, being for New Year’s Day rather than Christmas, the episode, written by Chris Chibnall, still had the same flair, as the new year brings back an old foe.

Team TARDIS arrives on a battlefield on the planet of Ranskoor Av Kolos after receiving nine separate distress calls from it. However it’s not going to be easy, as the only one around is a commander named Paltraki (Mark Addy) with no memory. What is wrong with the planet? What is the strange formation beyond the mist, and who are the Ux? The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her team must work together to try to answer these questions and rescue Paltraki’s crew while an even bigger threat looms.

The Doctor (Jodie Whitaker) and Team TARDIS arrive at the edge of a Norwegian fjord in the middle of nowhere when they spot a boarded-up cottage. Living there is a girl named Hanne (Ellie Wallwork), who is scared of the creature that lurks in the woods. Can they help her find her father before it’s too late?

Once again, Doctor Who brought another outstanding episode. It was a fun monster-of-the-week with the creepy yet quirky vibe that the show is always so great at. It was also quite emotional.

On the way to the Coronation of Elizabeth I, due to less than exact readings, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her friends end up in 17th century Lancashire, in Bilehurst Cragg, during a witch trial run by landowner Becka Savage (Siobhan Finnerman). When King James I (Alan Cumming) arrives, things only go from bad to worse. Are witches plaguing the land, or is it something much more sinister and dangerous?