The Librarians - '...and the Tears of a Clown' and '...and the Trial of the Triangle'

"I don't have to work with you clowns."

Here comes the circus(1)!

Jenkins is 'enjoying' this particular circus, because he received a call from Eve telling him on no account to try to rescue team Library from the circus. Fortunately, he is able to avoid the marauding clowns and weirdly monotonous staff of the fair and rescue his colleagues, who have been transformed into sideshow freaks. A bit of investigation reveals that the head of the circus is a magician (played by Sean Astin) who is searching for the lost love of his youth (played by Felicia Day) and intends to use magic to ensure that she loves him forever; because that's not creepy.

MVL of the week: Jenkins gets a strong showing, but I'm giving this week as a tie to Cassandra and Ezekiel, the former for her enthusiastic skill at circus costuming, and the latter for his showmanship and sleight of hand.

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore..."

'...and the Trial of the Triangle' see the return of Flynn, only to face a stern intervention from Eve and the other Librarians, who feel that he is distancing them from his battle against the rising ultimate evil. They're right, of course, and as the team set off to seek the Eye of Ra in the Bermuda Triangle, his refusal to include them threatens the mission of the Library itself.

The show has a bit of fun this episode, with the other actors playing the figures in a phantasmal otherworld of literary figures, riddles and self-discovery. It's interesting less because it picks out any unsuspected flaws in Flynn's character, and more because it so baldly faces the ones that have always been apparent (especially in the almost ludicrously heightened version of the character that appears in the series.)

MVL of the week: This one, in fairness, belongs to Flynn; rules bedamned.

(1) Or, you know, the Devil.