The Librarians - Review

The Librarians

Plot summary:

During one of her missions, Colonel Eve Baird of the NATO counter-terrorism unit encounters a mysterious man with a particular skill-set in uncovering ancient magical artifacts, who calls himself The Librarian. Following this, Baird receives a letter to her home inviting her to an interview to The Metropolitan Public Library. There, she meets a woman named Charlene, who explains to her that she has been selected to be The Guardian of The Librarian; Flynn Carsen; and then introduces her to The Library: a separate pocket dimension anchored to their reality, existing specifically to store magical artifacts and information on them in order to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. And upon coming across a villainous plot orchestrated by The Serpent Brotherhood – a group whose goal is to restore magic into the world and breed chaos – Carsen and Baird are forced to seek and recruit three other talented individuals who are being targeted by The Serpent Brotherhood, and together, stand against them.

Review:

Considering the main cast, there’s a bunch of different characters who bring in different aspects to the story – all of them, interesting. There’s Flynn Carsen(Noah Wyle): the ingenious, yet stubborn Librarian, Eve Baird(Rebecca Romjin): the trained soldier – cool-headed and tactical to solve any problem they face, Jacob Stone(Christian Kane): The highly intelligent individual, specifically knowledgeable in history, art, and literature, who gave up a life he could have had of fame for taking care of the family business, Cassandra Cillian(Lindy Booth): the brilliant synesthete, who’s also dying due to a tumor in her head, Ezekiel Jones(John Kim): the witty, yet shifty individual who thieves valuable items, and Jenkins(John Larroquette); the old caretaker of the interface to The Library who prefers to be left alone to do his research without going out on adventures.

The actors and actresses bring in some brilliant performances, both, individually, and as a team, with their different aspects, to make this series fun and interesting to watch. The dialogues are pretty good, and bring in some good laughs. The action is slow-paced, and not what you’d expect from soldiers, ninjas, or trained assassins, although those are the type of characters that pop-up in the story – all the more to add for the comedy. The injection of magical stories into history and the bringing-to-life of fairy tales and myths are quite interesting, and are presented well. Anyone who loves those subjects or genres would definitely find this interesting, as did I. The CGI could use a little bit more work at certain instances, but this is a pretty entertaining series to catch.

Catch the trailer here:
The Librarians Trailer | TNT series (HD)