Noah Wyle returns to ‘Librarian’ role in new TNT series
By Sara Stewart for the New York Post..
Noah Wyle has more fun than he ever did as an “ER” doc playing the rumpled eccentric at the heart of this likable, if mild-mannered, new TNT series.
He’s The Librarian, and in the first of many nods to the fantasy genre, he explains “there’s only ever one, and when he dies another one takes his place.” (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans will nod knowingly.) Of course, the series title might argue otherwise, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Score another one for nerd culture with the librarian-as-swashbuckling hero: Wyle channels a little Indiana Jones here, a little Doctor Who there as he embarks on quests to save the world armed only with smarts and a kickass reference collection. He’s actually been playing this role since 2004, when he starred in the first of a three-movie “Librarian” series on TNT. His Flynn Carsen is a little brusque, very excitable and prone to bookish witticisms such as “They’re like adjectives: They travel in pairs.”