03-25-2026, 07:15 AM
The Librarians is pretty dumb, it's from the people who did Leverage and is basically the same thing but magic. Christian Kane sort of plays the same character. It's just kind of less interesting and the characters are more annoying. It was still fine enough to have on while working I guess, there's a few good episodes though. With Noah Wyle, Rebecca Romijn and John Larroquette it has way bigger "names" that most basic cable shows before the recent streaming era. John Larroquette is the best one easily, but it is kind of funny when his stuntman is in a scene because he's clearly 50+ pounds less. The "movies" are TV movies, so only 90 minutes and only one seems to have any actual location shooting, so they're more like a first season of two-parters. They're not really essential to the show other than to see that Noah Wyle can actually play the character in a non-annoying way.
Con Man is way better than I expected. The premise is obvious, it's Curb more or less but with two guys from Firefly. And while it totally is this it's funnier than I expected, it's got some good and dumb jokes. I got more interested in Nathan Fillion's character than Alan Tudyk's, but he's largely absent except by phone in the first season. It probably helps that most of its episodes are less than 15 minutes so it doesn't stay beyond its welcome. Many of those episodes combine in sets of two or three, so there's really "half" the episodes by a normal show length. Also, it's got better CGI for the faux-show scenes than all of The Librarians and many other legit shows do.
Con Man is way better than I expected. The premise is obvious, it's Curb more or less but with two guys from Firefly. And while it totally is this it's funnier than I expected, it's got some good and dumb jokes. I got more interested in Nathan Fillion's character than Alan Tudyk's, but he's largely absent except by phone in the first season. It probably helps that most of its episodes are less than 15 minutes so it doesn't stay beyond its welcome. Many of those episodes combine in sets of two or three, so there's really "half" the episodes by a normal show length. Also, it's got better CGI for the faux-show scenes than all of The Librarians and many other legit shows do.