The best thing about librarians is it presents you with a cast of characters who are allowed to be constantly deeply and aggressively enthusiastic about their fields which are never what you think they are. The sickly one who looks like a kindergarten teacher looooves to solve quantum physics in her head!! Not to show off but because it’s fun!! The guy who’s always grinning and full of himself spied on MI6 and will make you sit and watch every horror movie known to man and everything he knows comes out of the Inquisitor. And he solves stuff before people because he knows that stuff. The southern brawling cowboy won’t hit anyone UNLESS they have a really stupid opinion about 16th century architecture. His eyes light up when he’s talking about symbolism and he gushes about 15th century Spanish love poetry. The beautiful lady will disarm nuclear threats with gusto, because it’s an Art.
Say what you will about redemption but the character premises for the two new leads absolutely slap. "Hardison's 20 year old hacker little sister who grew up with the highlight reel of leverage decides to join and learns the gritty details that were left out of storytime" and "guy who would probably be a mark under different circumstances decides to Do Better and get kidnapped into the team about it" are both objectively funky ideas.
the 10 lil grifters job episode of leverage is so fun. we get to see our team attend a costume party. sophie calls her seasoned criminal coworkers "whiny babies". the whole time everyone is only like 80% sure that nate didn’t commit first degree murder behind their backs. parker offhandedly mentions that she robbed imelda marcos, and she clearly has no idea who that is. hardison has been inviting himself to the oscars for years. there’s a huge amount of references to mystery novels, movies and tv shows, not to mention all the fictional detectives you can spot in the background. timothy hutton is playing nate playing ellery queen, a detective character who was played by timothy hutton’s late father, jim hutton. we get to see all of the team use their skills in very different ways: you can’t hack a house that was built well over a century ago, so hardison has to adapt; eliot has to beat people up subtly and in public; parker’s spidey senses (aka extremely good spatial awareness) allow her to discover secret passages; sophie gets to do the amateur acting gig she’s always wanted; nate has to figure out how a crime was done rather than how to do a crime. at one point, parker gets offered a threesome. truly one of the episodes of all time.
Dean Devlin: Could not be more proud of my new Librarians! The universe of the Librarians is expanding in a spectacular way! #TheLibrarians #TheLibrariansTNC The CW
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