{"id":81448,"date":"2015-10-30T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=81448"},"modified":"2015-10-30T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:24:32","slug":"librarians-season-2-is-a-much-better-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/librarians-season-2-is-a-much-better-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarians Season 2 \u201cIs a much better show\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

After five seasons on Falling Skies<\/strong><\/em>, Noah Wyle is putting his stamp on another genre franchise in Syfy\u2019s supernatural series, The Librarians<\/strong><\/em>. Wyle first played Flynn Carsen, guardian of a repository of magic artefacts hidden under New York\u2019s Metropolitan Public Library, in the 2004 TV movie The Librarian: Quest For The Spear<\/strong><\/em>. After two more movies and a six-year gap he signed on as a recurring cast member and executive producer of the spinoff series.<\/p>\n

The Librarians\u2019 first season earned accolades for its family-friendly mix of action and comedy. Yet, Wyle wasn\u2019t satisfied, and believes Season 2\u00a0is a big improvement. \u201cIf I\u2019m really honest, I look at that first season and I\u2019m happy with about 60% of it. Then there was about 40% that I really felt we needed to smooth out and find our tone and our pace. That 60% is probably now up to 90%. I think the second season is a much better show and a lot closer to the type of show we want to be making.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working with The Librarians<\/strong><\/em> co-producers Dean Devlin and John Rogers allows Wyle to be \u201cvery hands on\u201d with the development of the show. After helming an episode of Falling Skies<\/strong><\/em>, he\u2019s taken that a step further this season in the director\u2019s chair. \u201cIt was the first episode that we filmed even though it will be the fifth episode that we air so we were jumping right into the middle of our narrative and having to fill in the blanks of how we got to where we are,\u201d Wyle explains.<\/p>\n

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Wyle promises that exciting things are in store for Season 2 of The Librarians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Along with a team comprised of former candidates for his position and a counter-terrorism agent (played by Rebecca Romijn), Carsen spent Season One keeping the Library\u2019s relics safe from Matt Frewer\u2019s Serpent Brotherhood. The librarians will be weathering a different storm in Season 2, though, Wyle reveals. \u201cWithout giving too much away, Prospero, the wizard from Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest<\/strong><\/em>, is brought to life and he raises a fictional army of some of the worst villains from the pages of literature to do battle against the librarians, which is a really fun conceit. So Flynn gets to tee off against Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein\u2019s monster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Working with a team will also continue to be challenging for Carsen, says Wyle. \u201cHis best friend is a sword and he\u2019s dealing with magic constantly so he lives between two worlds. He\u2019s got a sort of eccentricity and irreverence about him that makes him frustrating if you\u2019re his girlfriend and makes him really fun if you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of where conflict comes from though, The Librarians<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 second season will uphold the qualities that made Season 1\u00a0spellbinding, Wyle promises. \u201cWe try to infuse a little bit of real mythology and real history in every episode but I think the underlying ethos \u2013 that these characters are successful because of their intelligence and their resourcefulness \u2013 is ultimately positive. The fact that it\u2019s kind of irreverent and silly is what sets us apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Librarians<\/em> Season 2 will air from 2 November in the UK at 8pm on Syfy. For more news on the biggest TV shows, pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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