The Magnus Protocol 2 – Making Adjustments
Added 2024-01-16 17:00:12 +0000 UTCCAT3RBC1567-23092022-18012024
Transformation (full) -/- dysmorphic [video call]
Incident Elements:
- Body modification
- Dysmorphia/Dysphoria
- Addiction/Mania
- Self-harm
- Therapy
- Burnout
- Needles (tattoo)
- Discussion of: Suicide/Self-Harm
Transcripts: https://shorturl.at/gzF15
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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Directed by Alexander J Newall
Written by Alexander J Newall
Script Editing by Jonathan Sims
Executive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. Hamilton
Associate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan Nice
Produced by April Sumner
Featuring (in order of appearance)
Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer
Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard
Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid
Kate Sketchley as Daria
Jenny Haufek as Therapist
Dialogue Editor – Lowri Ann Davies
Sound Designer – Tessa Vroom
Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella
Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson)
Art by April Sumner
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Comments
I put this on for a weekend deep-clean but instead I’m taking notes with one hand clapped over my mouth
Clara
2025-04-19 19:23:53 +0000 UTCRelistening for the 3rd time. Sam says "Alice, phone!" and in that moment my goddamn phone vibrates. Yeah, I jumped. Might have gasped. I was not really scared. I'm not hiding in the bathroom right now or anything.
Grace 'Gengar' Soria
2024-07-15 16:21:01 +0000 UTCRelistening to help pass the time and I realized I had missed the "I would've used turpentine" comment. HOW DID I MISS THAT. I laughed so hard I startled my cats.
Grace 'Gengar' Soria
2024-04-10 16:37:00 +0000 UTCThe statement was heartbreaking! Just. With a painting, once you are done you can't go back and mess with it like that or you are going to slowly ruin it. And it is so much worse when Daria does it to her actual body. Very well done
Alexandra DeCarlo
2024-02-02 02:12:07 +0000 UTCSo my production is this group was the gang who was listening all along
mariah Gibson
2024-01-22 06:07:40 +0000 UTCFrothing at the mouth I feel complete again it's back it's back 'the feeling' is back!!!!
Jo Millett
2024-01-19 18:55:24 +0000 UTCI need more! This is so good and personally think that this is scarier than tma like I actually got shivers listening to this. Keep it up!
DamianJ
2024-01-19 01:19:01 +0000 UTCOooft, personally I like her but I do think she’s gonna be or already is somewhat connected to the spiral or stranger
DamianJ
2024-01-19 01:15:40 +0000 UTCI'm definitely having nightmares tonight😭 Glad that tma is back in action!
Max
2024-01-18 23:34:23 +0000 UTCaw i love alice! she’s serving 💅
Kathryn Mac
2024-01-18 22:38:39 +0000 UTCAlice is a really infuriating and mean character I’m thinking she’s gonna get Sasha’d
Kstein19
2024-01-18 21:20:19 +0000 UTCI'm already catagorizing! This is so good and I want to know what happened to the Institute!
Heather MacKenzie
2024-01-18 19:45:20 +0000 UTCgave me the goosebumps! absolutely delighted to be back for the ride and get my skin crawling again
Alphie
2024-01-18 19:14:14 +0000 UTCI'm already itching for episode 3. This is so good!
Ian
2024-01-18 17:27:41 +0000 UTCLoving getting to hear this but kinda sad it’s episode by episode cause I need more
mariah Gibson
2024-01-18 16:50:10 +0000 UTCI have conspiracies already, I'm going to end up with a red string wall here in a day or two
BookDove7776
2024-01-18 06:15:20 +0000 UTCNo, I more of meant, Dr Frankenstein was the only character who could truly be described as monstrous.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-01-18 05:54:11 +0000 UTCMaybe, but a lot of people call Frankensteins monster just Frankenstein
Brooke Kressin
2024-01-18 01:31:58 +0000 UTC"assuming you mean the Doctor, not the Monster" -- wasn't like, the whole point the doctor WAS the monster?
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-01-18 00:53:55 +0000 UTCHe would probably absolutely hate this but between MAG 170, 186, and the writing in this, Alex has become my comfort "character". Why is this both unsettling AND comforting?
FyreFlye23
2024-01-17 16:45:28 +0000 UTCHi there, the transcript is attached as a downloadable PDF at the bottom of this post. The link in the shownotes will update with transcripts once the episodes go out publicly.
Rusty Quill
2024-01-17 10:51:48 +0000 UTCThe way my eyes went wide the moment it finally clicked that Gwen's last name was Bouchard. I don't understand how that didn't click until now.
Chanel Moss
2024-01-17 07:59:43 +0000 UTCMan the music is so cool. I'm so pumped for this series
indiabaycroft
2024-01-17 06:53:02 +0000 UTCSomething tells me this is not the last we'll be seeing of Daria. Especially since she got a taste of scaring someone else....I wonder if she'll ever make herself... perfect.
GloriousGe0rge
2024-01-17 06:34:24 +0000 UTCIt does seem that way, but I keep reminding myself and others of the lessons of TMA ep 183. The classification isn't concrete, nothing fits clean into a box and that's the point. The stranger, the flesh, categorizing them is helpful but trying to firmly define them is pointless. Really makes me wonder how the categorizing thing in protocol was made and why?
GloriousGe0rge
2024-01-17 06:31:49 +0000 UTCBut is it Firma?
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-17 05:38:51 +0000 UTCReally excellent. Structure-wise, I love how this episode continues to showcase the case vs statement differences. (And also the recording of something that isn’t supposed to be recorded.) I smiled that Alex wrote this one; I thought of the Bone Turner’s garden as Daria began to shift her face.
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-17 05:38:35 +0000 UTCLike because of the username
Zuree1
2024-01-17 04:58:59 +0000 UTCSo glad I get to experience this as it airs. Love you all and the work is STELLAR
Annie Brod
2024-01-17 04:12:15 +0000 UTCWas so surprised by the horror coming from the therapist. I love that we're two episodes in and TMA format is totally up-ended. So good!
Robert
2024-01-17 03:46:12 +0000 UTCPut. It. In. My. Veins.
Space Modulator
2024-01-17 02:51:03 +0000 UTCI love Alice ❤️ Careful, Sam. You know what they say about curiosity and cats 😬
Red
2024-01-17 01:09:09 +0000 UTCThe!!! Orchestration!!!! is SO GOOD. (I love everything about the episode, the acting, the statement, the sound design, but ugh the STRINGS)
Kristsune
2024-01-17 00:57:02 +0000 UTCSam’s getting too close already lol I love this so far
Connor M. Carnall
2024-01-17 00:11:26 +0000 UTCThis was me! I listened to one driving and one or two at bed and now .... I'm like everyone else just theorizing and waiting each week lol
Mice and Moonbeams
2024-01-16 23:33:21 +0000 UTCWow. That "statement" hit hard.
LainyJP
2024-01-16 23:14:31 +0000 UTCOooooh, a fun angle on the Flesh!
Valerie Kaplan
2024-01-16 22:49:51 +0000 UTCYeah, I’m thinking PRIMARILY the Flesh, given the body-focused impossibility of satisfaction, but with some Stranger flavor. (The housemate’s specific concern is a factor here, since it was about self-harm rather than “who are you and what have you done with Daria?”)
Valerie Kaplan
2024-01-16 22:47:17 +0000 UTCSorry for second comment but I have to say, my father (whom I never speak to) sent me a photo today of an apparently fresh tattoo of just dozens of… eyes? All up his arm. With no explanation, and it was VERY SURREAL GIVEN THE CONTENT OF THESE TWO STATEMENTS LMAO
Anthony
2024-01-16 22:25:45 +0000 UTCDamn i love alice. Already my fav by leaps and bounds
icarus
2024-01-16 22:01:43 +0000 UTCI ask with love: Did we misspell Jonny's name in the credits on purpose?
Lucy Pericles
2024-01-16 21:45:01 +0000 UTCSo in this universe the unfamiliarity of self and other of the Stranger merged with the body alteration of the Flesh.
Thorn
2024-01-16 21:41:27 +0000 UTCThat statement goes directly to my fav list
MarlaBothBothIsGood
2024-01-16 21:35:25 +0000 UTCThank you!
Xan
2024-01-16 21:28:20 +0000 UTCcheck the bottom of the patreon post, it’s there as an attachment! the sharepoint appears to be undergoing maintenance
Anthony
2024-01-16 21:26:07 +0000 UTCThey're on the kickstarter page so I'd imagine they'll be here soon. Edit: Ah I've just seen the link is to sharepoint. It was also where the KS early access epsiodes were hosted and went down due to load. Guess they'll upload them somewhere else.
Ben Pike
2024-01-16 21:17:13 +0000 UTCoh sweet sammy boy, yknow what they say curiosity killed the cat... tho it's true ending is but satisfaction brought it back so let's hope he's lucky. XD
Cas D
2024-01-16 21:16:27 +0000 UTCI was lucky enough to get into MA after it finished so I went through a few episodes a day in the mornings during work prep, but god damn, this waiting for new episodes is gonna kill me. I’m loving this!
Eternal Miasma
2024-01-16 21:14:10 +0000 UTCLooks empty to me
Bruna G
2024-01-16 20:57:29 +0000 UTCOmg Jenny??? Fully love that I have to relisten to every statement cause I wasn’t paying attention because Alex’s [redacted] voice showed up and now Jenny Haufek made my brain fry just by existing
Restlesschild
2024-01-16 20:36:26 +0000 UTCDo transcripts for ep 1 & 2 exist yet?
Xan
2024-01-16 20:15:40 +0000 UTCMy jaw is on the floor
FyreFlye23
2024-01-16 19:48:07 +0000 UTCThe theme music literally gives me shivers, 10/10
Emily Bauer
2024-01-16 19:32:59 +0000 UTCHoly. Shit. This is incredible!!!!
Diana Zandate
2024-01-16 19:32:44 +0000 UTCholy cow that case !! i love when horror and social media intertwine- also gwen my beloved, queen of my heart
cloudkissed
2024-01-16 19:29:05 +0000 UTCJenny!!!! Oh this was good!!
biwonderland98
2024-01-16 19:24:05 +0000 UTCTHIS WAS BRILLIANT.
Jonny G
2024-01-16 19:13:32 +0000 UTCUgh this was SO good!!!!! Amazing showstopping incredible etc.
Emily Palomo
2024-01-16 19:03:06 +0000 UTCOhhh this one was proper icky in such a good way!
Mice and Moonbeams
2024-01-16 18:57:50 +0000 UTCEeeeeeee! + That was viscerally unpleasant, loved it! + Love the characters!! really love the gwen+sam and gwen+alice interactions in this ep!! + more librarian crying(/laughing). i WONDERED what DPHW stood for
sAZAndorable
2024-01-16 17:55:48 +0000 UTCFlesh painter. What a return to creepiness
Nairis Santini
2024-01-16 17:40:40 +0000 UTCI'm so excited!
S. A. O'Brien
2024-01-16 17:40:35 +0000 UTCLETS GOOO
Fernie
2024-01-16 17:36:59 +0000 UTCoh myy goddd i loved this one so much im gonna be thinking about this ep for a while
jox lvndrcrow
2024-01-16 17:35:57 +0000 UTCmagnus has always had such incredible pacing it’s good to see the new series will be more of the same
Anthony
2024-01-16 17:32:46 +0000 UTCthe tonal shift at the end of the episode… chills😨 also WOW the case this ep was… so heavy. i’m gonna NEED a week to digest this. guh……… ace work again to everyone
Anthony
2024-01-16 17:31:41 +0000 UTCwhat a fucking BANGER of a second episode. hit the ground running and didn't stop. as soon as it got to that part i was like WOAAAH WOAHH WAIT A SECOND... SO GOOOOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!
Willow Edwards
2024-01-16 17:31:03 +0000 UTCAmazing first 2 episodes, Magnus is back!!
Ross B
2024-01-16 17:30:22 +0000 UTCOMFG yes you're so right
Autumn kieran sprount
2024-01-16 17:30:19 +0000 UTCOh yeah!!
AlicenWrites
2024-01-16 17:29:37 +0000 UTCOkay having finished the episode I must just say it made me Squirm and not even in the Worms way. Absolutely incredible.
Aryn Jae
2024-01-16 17:28:49 +0000 UTCThe perfect way to wait for a momster of the week game. Thank you this is epic!!!
Astra
2024-01-16 17:10:44 +0000 UTCWooo
Fer is against the homophobic vase
2024-01-16 17:05:43 +0000 UTCYESSS
esmeeeeeeee
2024-01-16 17:04:41 +0000 UTCyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Evelyn Manuel
2024-01-16 17:00:42 +0000 UTC
