ok but if the magnus archives really WAS a workplace comedy, i bet they could’ve done something extremely funny with the whole elias/jonah twist. like they would’ve revealed it to the audience at season 1, and then seasons 2 to 4 would just be full of him getting into increasingly ironic situations.

i can just so vividly picture one of those scenes where someone casually mentions jonah magnus and elias, who just so happened to be walking by, accidentally responds to the name. or someone audibly wonders why all the former heads of institute all seem to have the same eye color, and elias is sweating nervously like “haha yeah what a weird coincidence” and then he looks at the camera like they do in the office or whatever.

i’m just saying. “my manager is secretly also the founder of this institute” sounds like a sitcom set-up.