"The Librarians" Recap: "And the Happily Ever Afters"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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I have to admit, I was a little concerned with the ending of last week's episode of The Librarians. After all, we were mere moments removed from hearing about how Prospero was launching some kind of epic plan and it seemed extremely strange for the hyper intelligent, never miss a thing detail wise Jenkins to just go about his business like nothing happened and forget about the Librarians when the earthquake hitting the annex suddenly stopped. Leaving all of us wondering exactly what the heck was going on.

Well it didn't take long to get our answers this week and to top it off, Flynn Carsen returned, heading back to the Annex after getting his hands on the final missing artifact before discovering something was quite amiss...none of his friends were anywhere to be found and Jenkins didn't remember any of them whatsoever. It leads to the Library sending out a clue to a missing Totem Pole in Cicily, Washington, and Flynn makes his way to the town to discover how it relates to his missing Librarians and thankfully, it doesn't take him long to find out that the entire team has ended up here.

However, they are vastly different people. Jake is suddenly a professor of 11 courses, Eve is the town Sheriff, Cassandra is a former astronaut and Ezekiel is an FBI Agent and they all work together to solve art crimes on a regular basis. Oh and to top it all off, Morarity just happens to the be mayor of this town and is happily in love with Eve. More or less the whole thing leaves Flynn confused because none of this adds up and he quickly figures out that the team is under some kind of spell, something that is confirmed when another surprise "person" pops up...the fairy Ariel. She is able to fill in the blanks for Flynn, letting him know that Prospero has put all of them under a powerful spell to give them one final happy ending in their lives before the old wizard brings forth the end of the world. 

The spell can be broken, provided the team willfully rejects their new stories, meaning Flynn has to work to sneak all of them back to the Annex to get them to see what their lives are really all about. The gambit works and Flynn is able to get them to recant and remember who they are after a little bit of work, but a greater problem awaits them...once the spells are broken, including the tiny one Flynn was put under, they discover they have been out of the game for the last three weeks, giving Prospero time enough to put his big plan together and we are treated to the scary sight of the Ley Lines, now supercharged, in the sky...ready to blow at any moment. 

Suffice it to say, that after a few weeks of some darker storylines than we are used to seeing on this show that this was one of the fun ones. I mean, you really can't go wrong with seeing Ezekiel go from the world's greatest thief to wearing a suit and tie and working with the FBI. It was just neat to get an idea of what each character desires if their lives had gone down another path, but it's a good thing they snapped out of it when they did because clearly Prospero's big time plan is ready to go and well...it doesn't look good at the moment and clearly the stage is set for the season two finale and one big time showdown with the old Wizard. I'm thoroughly enjoying the little cliffhangers the show has been dropping our way the last couple of weeks, and the wait for next Sunday, just became a little more difficult. Until then.

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