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THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Recap: (S01E06) And the House of Cards
The steepest learning curve for the intrepid heroes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter has been learning to gel as a team. Lysa's (Olivia Morris) science-bound brain butts up against Connor's (Bluey Robinson) supernatural lore. Charlie's (Jessica Green) mission to protect Vikram (Callum McGowan) conflicts with his fast-and-loose approach to safety. In Season 1 Episode 6, 'And the House of Cards,' Vikram finds himself left out when the rest of the team is abducted. Suddenly, he realizes that he cares what happens to them. It's quite the emotional breakthrough. RELATED: Catch up with our recap of the previous episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter , 'And the Memory Crystal' Meanwhile, the others must puzzle out their strange and cryptic new circumstances: a house they can't escape, full of characters who don't make sense, and a dangerous artifact gone missing. It's a supernatural murder mystery party to which no one accepted an invitation. Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the House of Cards' An explosion in the woods. The team stumbles out, coughing and spluttering. Lysa insists she could've set up a controlled detonation that wouldn't have required blowing up the entire rock formation. Vikram explains that her way would've taken too long. Lysa argues he destroyed all the information the formation held about the geology of the region. Charlie adds that he nearly blew his face off in the process. Connor's holding the artifact they retrieved. Vikram identifies it as the Dagger of Seraphim, fashioned from the ashes of a fallen star by the Devil, which 'can kill what does not live.' He tells Connor to let him carry it. Connor refuses, reminding Vikram that they're a team even though Vikram doesn't trust them. He relinquishes it, but Vikram repents and gives it back just before they return to the Annex through the magic door. Vikram is the last to walk through, noting the magic flickers slightly before he does. RELATED: Olivia Morris Shares How The Librarians: The Next Chapter Hooked Her From Page One Connor, Charlie, and Lysa emerge from the magic door into the foyer of a large house. The magic door disappears, leaving them confused and Vikram-less. Meanwhile, Vikram arrives in the Annex alone. Initially, he thinks they're pranking him, but realizes soon that something is wrong. In the mysterious house, Lysa tries to figure things out logically, while Connor concludes this is a test. Charlie's got a bad feeling about this. They walk into a cocktail party full of strangely dressed guests. Everyone turns to look at them when they enter, then resumes their mingling. There's a violent rainstorm outside. The team spreads out to look for clues. A Cast of Characters A sultry woman in a flashy dress talks with Connor, commenting that the storm knocked out the phone lines and that the roads are blocked off for miles. A smarmy man in a striped suit introduces himself to an older lady as the actor, Chauncy Cooper (Dominik Čičak), and offers an autograph. Phillip (Aleksa Ilić) and Vera (Annamaria Serda), newlyweds, walk by cooing affection at each other. Lysa and Charlie agree that the party is strange. The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic Connor approaches the woman in the dress and introduces himself. She is Yvette Laslo (Milena Radulović), a singer. A bell rings. The butler announces that Madam Visconti (Sam Bell) will begin her tarot reading shortly. Lysa pulls Connor away from Yvette. Charlie comments that the Dagger of Seraphim needs to be stored safely in the Library as soon as possible. She rifles through Connor's bag, finding cheesepuffs and a mystery novel, The Bollingsworth Affair , with the dagger. RELATED: On Location: The Belgrade Fortress on The Librarians: The Next Chapter Connor sees a magician performing tricks and walks over. The magician calls himself The Mysterious Mortadella (Stefan Bundalo), impressing Connor with a few tricks. A girl wearing a tiara, standing next to a nun in a habit, throws a tantrum. Chauncy Cooper tells them the girl is Princess Lucille (Una Škerović). He hints that her parents met with a tragic end. The nun is Sister Anabelle (Ana Mandić), Lucille's new nanny. The bell rings again, and the butler invites the guests into the next room. Magic Door Issues At the Annex, Vikram tries to activate the magic door. It doesn't work. His concern about the Dagger of Seraphim and the team grows. RELATED: It's Horses versus Magic Doors in The Librarians: The Next Chapter Episode 6 Sneak Peek Madam Visconti In the house, the team watches as the guests mill about the table. The butler insists Chauncy move seats, away from the one next to Vera. Lucille screams at a loud clap of thunder, and Connor steps over to comfort her by making her laugh. She hugs him. The bell rings, everyone finds a seat, and Madam Visconti gathers her cards. Connor admires the tarot cards, commenting that they look like the Sforza Tarot Deck. Madam Visconti draws and lays down The Fool, The Magician, and The High Priestess. The lights go out for a second. When they come back on, Chauncy is dead at the table, bleeding from a stab wound in his chest. Charlie examines it and realizes it looks like it was caused by the Dagger of Seraphim. Connor discovers the dagger is no longer in his bag. The Game Is Afoot Charlie announces that the murder weapon must be found and that they plan to question everyone. When asked why they should listen to her, Connor introduces her as Chief Inspector Poppy Bollingsworth of Scotland Yard, inspired by his novel. The guests buy the story. In the Annex, Vikram finds the Magic Door Instruction Manual. It's inscrutable. He rants at the door a bit more. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming Each member of the team questions some of the guests. Connor gets Mortadella, Vera, and Phillip. Lysa interrogates Yvette. After learning the priest has taken a vow of silence, Charlie sits down with Sister Anabelle, discovering that the nun doesn't know her biblical verses very well. Just as Anabelle is about to tell her about Lucille's parents, the clock chimes nine, and Anabelle jumps up to leave, insisting that she must see to Lucille. The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic Making Progress At the Annex, the pendulum becomes agitated. Vikram takes it off its hook, and it activates the magic door for him, then drags him through. RELATED: 5 Great Books About Libraries and Librarians In the house, the team meets to debrief. Connor still thinks it's a test, but Lysa and Charlie suspect the door was hacked by a powerful magician so they could steal the Dagger. They split up to look for The Mysterious Mortadella. The pendulum brings Vikram through a stone archway. It leads him up a flight of garden steps to a large mansion. In the house's foyer, the team reunites. None of them could find the magician. A scream rings out from the study. All the guests are gathered, shocked to find the magician dead on the ground, stabbed. Charlie directs everyone to return to their rooms and lock the doors. Once they're gone, Charlie, Lysa, and Connor inspect the room. Lysa notices dirt on the ground from a potted plant that was knocked over when Mortadella fell. It's been disrupted in a way that indicates a secret door. Secrets Opening the door, they follow a passageway in the walls, finding a jewel from the dagger's hilt. The passageway leads to another hidden door in the tarot room. Lysa recalls that Sister Anabelle stood right by this door with Lucille after Chauncy's murder. They decide to question her again. RELATED: TV Review: Resident Alien Season 4 The pendulum drags Vikram into the house, but it is a dusty and abandoned version. It leads him through the rooms until they end up in the tarot room where Madam Visconti sits at the table, waiting. Vikram demands to know who she is and where his team is. Silently, she taps a torn tarot card at the top of the deck, The Wheel of Fortune. He refuses to play cards with her, promising to tear the house apart to find his colleagues. She draws The Hermit, stating she sees a wise man of books, not of this world, out of time. The next cards are The World and The Temperance. Vikram concludes she must speak through the cards. She nods. He sits down and asks for a reading. Revelation In the house, the team can't find Sister Anabelle. When they return to the foyer, the chandelier falls, narrowly missing them. Suddenly, Lucille is there, screaming in fear. She says she was looking for Sister Anabelle. Connor asks if she saw the dagger. Lucille shakes her head and runs off. Charlie strongly suggests they leave, but Connor insists they stay to protect the guests and prove that Vikrim needs his team. When they try to open the house's doors and break the windows, they can't. Lightning reveals a cloaked, faceless figure waiting outside. Connor asks who that is. Madam Visconti appears behind them, telling them that the figure outside is Death and they cannot leave. She leads them to the tarot room. When she tells them she is a servant to the cards, Lysa sits down and asks for a reading. RELATED: TV Review: Leverage: Redemption Season 3 In both planes of existence, Madam Visconti reveals the same cards to Vikram and Lysa. First, the Eight of Swords. 'No cage can contain it. No shackles can constrain it. Not on this earth, anyway,' she says. Then, The Justice. 'Centuries ago, they constructed this place to confine it, disguised in plain sight.' Finally, The Devil. A Thing Is a Thing Vikram recalls that centuries ago, the Sforza family imprisoned the Devil. Simultaneously, Connor comes to the same conclusion, realizing the house is the Sforza manor, interpreting the revealed cards to mean that the Sforzas captured an aspect of the Devil in the 15th Century and trapped him in the house, guarded by three keepers. Visconti draws the same three cards as earlier that night — The Fool, The Magician, and The High Priestess. Those are the keepers. The Fool and The Magician disappear from their cards. Lysa concludes the Devil used the dagger to kill two of his three keepers already, Chauncy and Mortadella. Vikram realizes that if the last keeper, the High Priestess, dies, the Devil can escape. He asks how he gets into the prison. Visconti warns that he should worry more about getting out. She lays out the Death card. She warns him that if he enters the prison, Death will come for him. He shrugs. 'It's never stopped me before.' Holding the pendulum out, he tells it to take him to his friends. The pendulum drops to the table, pointing to the deck. RELATED: Read our Leverage: Redemption recaps In the house, Connor realizes they're inside the Sforza deck. Every guest is one of the Major Arcana. Because the High Priestess is often depicted wearing a diadem, they believe Princess Lucille is the last keeper, and Sister Anabelle must be the Devil. They go looking but can't find them until Lucille screams again. They run out to the foyer and find her struggling with Sister Anabelle. Charlie tells the nun to get away from Lucille. Anabelle turns to explain, then gasps and falls, the dagger buried in her back. Lucille transforms into the Devil, and her bracelets fall off. Devilishly Adorable She walks towards the trio. Exposition time: Her fear of the storm was fake, but effectively drew Connor to her for a hug when she stole the dagger. Using the dagger, she killed her keepers, the tarot cards, entities who weren't actually alive. A long time ago, the Devil set alarms when she hid the dagger. Blowing up the cave set them all off. She rerouted the magic door to bring them to her. The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic All she needs now is for the team to provide an exit. Just as Charlie vows they'll never help her escape, Vikram arrives via magic door. Once he gets the lay of the land, he offers the door to the Devil, but makes meaningful eye contact with Connor, who surreptitiously scoots closer to the dagger. The Devil becomes suspicious. Connor throws the dagger to Vikram, who stabs himself with it. When Vikram hits the ground, the front doors open, and Death enters. RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter Connor pulls Charlie away from Vikram's body, reminding her that tarot cards have multiple interpretations. Death grabs the dagger. The Devil screams. She changes back to Princess Lucille, complete with leather bracelets. The team disappears. In the parlour, the cocktail party begins from the beginning. Sister Anabelle tells Lucille the tarot reading is about to begin. Lucille is silently furious. Reset Back in the non-tarot world, the team lies unconscious on the floor of the tarot room, cards falling around them. Charlie sits up and wakes Vikram. They are all relieved when he opens his eyes. Madam Visconti sits nearby. Lysa reasons that the key to the manor is sacrifice. When a real person dies, Death can enter and reset the Devil's prison. Lysa gathers the cards and returns them to Visconti. She hands the deck to Vikram to store in the Library, then disappears. Back in the Annex, Vikram lets Connor store the deck and dagger. He clears the air with the team as well. Lysa shows him that Madam Visconti was a 15th-century Librarian who agreed to stay within the deck forever as part of the Sforza enchantment to watch over the Devil. New episodes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter air on TNT on Mondays at 9 pm ET. New TV Shows This Week (June 22 – 28) Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
18-06-2025
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It's Horses Versus Magic Doors in THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Episode 6 Sneak Peek
The trouble with being trapped in a time bubble for 200 years is that the learning curve on new technology is steep. Add to the mix the fact that on The Librarians: The Next Chapter , Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan) prefers to use magic anyway, and things get frustrating pretty fast. RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter In this sneak peek clip of next week's episode, 'And the House of Cards,' Vikram berates and scolds the Annex's portal technology, which, ironically, is a 'magic' door. We learn that he is desperate to retrieve the Dagger of Seraphim, an artifact too dangerous to be out in the open. Also, he and the rest of the team have been separated. Image Credit: Courtesy of TNT The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the House of Cards' Being a man out of his time and context must stick in Vikram's craw mightily. The entire foundation of his personality is that he knows stuff. And what he doesn't know, he makes very confident guesses about. Adjusting to working with a team is new, too. It probably helps that Lysa (Olivia Morris) looks so much like Anya. Connor's (Bluey Robinson) total adoration doesn't hurt either. The clip provides a glimpse at how much he's come to care for his team. He's genuinely worried. We have no idea how they were separated or why he returned to the Annex, but they didn't. What the Dagger of Seraphim does is also a mystery. If the magic door glitched, that's concerning. Were the other team members targeted? Or is Vikram being isolated for a reason? And if the Dagger is the artifact of the week, how does a House of Cards factor in? So many questions. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming The modern world triggers Vikram regularly. Trying to neg the magic door by stating horses were a better mode of transportation is pretty classic Vikram. However, when yelling at the device and making grand gestures doesn't work, Vikram turns to the lesser of two evils and tries his cell phone. And even that doesn't help. It does, however, open up a line of thought about voicemail inboxes and chamber pots. The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 6, 'And the House of Cards,' airs on TNT on Monday, June 23 at 9 pm ET. Olivia Morris Shares How THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Hooked Her From Page One Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
11-06-2025
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Sneak A Peek at THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER "And the Memory Crystal"
Are you hooked on The Librarians: The Next Chapter yet? We're only four episodes into the inaugural season, and our rag-tag found family of magic herders has already redeemed a drekavac, defeated a witch, solved a ghost story, and brought Cupid out of retirement. Talk about keeping busy. Next up is 'And the Memory Crystal,' and we've got a sneak peek clip for you! RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter For those of you not yet on this supernatural party wagon, The Librarians: The Next Chapter is the sequel series to The Librarians series, which spun off from the three The Librarian films starring Noah Wyle. In The Librarians: The Next Chapter, Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), a Librarian from 1847, inadvertently releases magic across the European continent in 2025 when he attempts to return to his own time. Banded together with a historian, a scientist, and a Guardian, he has six months to fix it. Photograph by Aleksandar Letic The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the Memory Crystal' As teased by the TNT website, in the next adventure, ' the team goes to a college campus with a world-class observatory to discover who is using the Crystal of Dr. John Dee to steal people's memories, in order to own the future.' And — because who doesn't love a deep dive? — Here's the scoop on John Dee's Crystal: John Dee served as Queen Elizabeth I's court astronomer and alchemist. On his advice, England established colonies throughout the New World. He had one of the largest libraries in England (fittingly) and, like Connor (Bluey Robinson), left his comfortable court position to dig deeper into the occult and supernatural. He claimed the angel Uriel gave him his crystal in 1582 and used it for curing diseases, seeing the future, and spiritual communication. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming John Dee's story ends tragically, dying alone and impoverished, denied a return to court when James I succeeded Elizabeth I. His burial site is unknown. However, John Dee's Crystal currently resides in the Science Museum Group Collection in London. The Value of Memory In the sneak peek clip below, Vikram gets on a righteous soapbox about what he sees as the modern world's greatest failing — people's dependence on technology. Lysa (Olivia Morris) triggers the tirade by discounting the worth of memories. She postulates that they take up cognitive space in the brain that could be better utilized for something productive. Vikram scolds her, Connor, Charlie (Jessica Green), and all their contemporaries for giving away their humanity to the machines. 'No need to think, to know, to remember ANYTHING!' he chastises, shaking her cell phone at them. RELATED: Olivia Morris Shares How The Librarians: The Next Chapter Hooked Her From Page One He predicts technology will consume everything humankind has ever created. Eventually, it'll even take over human emotions. It's a grand, rousing speech, but it is immediately undercut by a passing student's description of his memory loss. The condition is spreading, and that can't be good. The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 5, 'And the Memory Crystal,' airs on TNT on Monday, June 16 at 9 pm ET . On Location: The Belgrade Fortress on TNT's THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
27-05-2025
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THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Recap: (S01E02) And the Dance of Doom!
Teams of highly intelligent, strong-willed members rarely gel quickly and without conflict. In The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 2, 'And the Dance of Doom!' Vikram (Callum McGowan) must learn to lead when he's used to operating on his own. Not only that, but he must lead science-minded Lysa (Oliva Morris) and the occult-excitable Connor (Bluey Robinson), who are diametrically opposed in world views. RELATED: Catch up with our recap of the series premiere of The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the Deadly Drekavac' Add to the mix Mrs. Astolat (Caroline Loncq), the castle's acerbic gift shop attendant, who is more than she appeared to be in the premiere episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Oh, and Charlie (Jessica Green) has layers. Like a parfait. Watch for it. The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the Dance of Doom!' A troupe of ballerinas performs in a park. The central dancer loses control of her feet/shoes and dances out into traffic, where she's hit by a truck. Lying unconscious, her feet continue to try to dance. In the Annex, Lysa and Connor disagree on how Atlas handles the weight of the world. Mrs. Astolat appears suddenly, just in time to save Lysa from being sucked into a Chinese Gourd Vessel. Connor's cell phone sparks when he tries to take a photo of a Library book. Mrs. Astolat hands his phone back to him and reminds him that modern tech won't record on Library grounds. Charlie is training on a wooden man dummy when Mrs. Astolat stops to give her some pointers. After demonstrating how to lock your wrists, she asks Charlie to bring her charges to the main room. Mrs. Astolat When they gather, the three wonder who she is and how she knows about the Annex. Vikram (Callum McGowan) joins them and introduces Mrs. Astolat as the Annex's Caretaker. They knew each other before he got caught in the time bubble in 1847, making Mrs. Astolat an immortal being. The Library directed her to wait at Belgrade Castle in case Vikram or the Annex returned. RELATED: Revival : The Dead Have Rejoined the Living in Official Trailer Despite Vikram's protests, she insists on helping now that he is back. She unrolls a map of Belgrade that tracks the spread of the magic Vikram let loose when he reactivated the well. Using a pendulum suspended over the map, they track the occurrence of magical events. When it indicates something happened at Republic Square, Connor discovers the ballerina's story on social media. Charlie, Connor, and Lysa insist on joining Vikram when he goes to see the dancer. Mrs. Astolat declines to join them. Irritated, Vikram leads the team on their mission. Dying to Dance At the hospital, Lysa and Connor speak with the comatose dancer's mother (Danina Moguel). They learn the dancer had just gotten her first solo in the National Ballet Company. Lysa notes that the dancer's dark hair now has a streak of white. RELATED: Revival : Check Out 9 First-Look Photos From Melanie Scrofano-Led Series When they head back to meet Charlie and Vikram, they're squabbling. They share that the victim was a principal dancer at the National Ballet Company. At the National Theatre, they find the company in a frenzy preparing for a technical rehearsal. The choreographer, Yelena Tarkoff (Isidora Simionović), tells them to leave. Charlie tells her they're insurance investigators. Lysa backs her up, insinuating that exposure to a toxin caused the ballerina to dance into traffic. On the stage, the conductor and director, Dame Anna (Arielle Dombasle), argue over the tempo of the finale. The conductor insists that allegro is too fast. Dame Anna states emphatically that allegro moderato renders the music unrecognizable. Charlie comments that Dame Anna is a well-known dancer in her own right. No one had an extension like hers. Charlie's Secret Love Connor realizes that Charlie's knowledge of the people in the ballet world comes from a history with the discipline. She admits she's trained in ballet but dismisses it as just one of many forms of strength training she undertakes. After Dame Anna makes a public announcement on the record with an art critic (Tanasije Ćakić) in the audience that the show will go on and the finale will be played allegro. Vikram and Charlie approach Dame Anna. Lysa goes to question Yelena. Connor takes on the conductor. RELATED: Read our Doctor Who recaps Yelena tells Lysa that the show is only going forward because Dame Anna refuses to let go of her final production by cancelling it. In Dame Anna's office, Vikram and Charlie learn Dame Anna believes the show is cursed. Connor's conversation with the conductor, Gustav (Slobodan Beštić), reveals his deep frustration with Dame Anna and her micromanaging ways. As they are staging Giselle, he feels that everyone knows the music, so she should back off. Dame Anna tells Vikram and Charlie that the problems the show has run into feel personal. She holds up a book and says that it contains her entire career of work and is filled with examples of people doubting her. Her retirement dance production, Giselle , a ballet she's danced herself many times in her youth, will be a triumph for the final page of the book. The Real Power in the Theatre Gustav tells Connor that Dame Anna might think she has the power. However, he believes the real power lies in the conductor's baton. In controlling the music, the baton controls every aspect of the show. RELATED: Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week: Leverage: Redemption 's Parker Lysa learns that although Yelena wants the artistic director position, she doesn't believe she'll get it. As Yelena is packing her shoulder bag, Lysa notes several bottles of pills inside. Yelena insists that dancers get hurt all the time. Backstage, Lysa and Connor argue over whether the prima ballerina's situation was caused by Gustav's baton or Yelena's drugs. On the stage, Yelena calls for Natalia (Mina Nenadović), the understudy. Lysa and Connor continue to debate. Charlie proposes that the understudy had the most to gain from the prima ballerina being sidelined. They all turn to observe Natalia. Lysa admits she's good. Charlie judges that she's better than good. Natalia's extension is exceptional. As Natalia begins to spin, her shoes start to smoke. Charlie grabs her and strips off the shoes, throwing them to the side. Vikram covers them with his coat. When he lifts it, the shoes begin to dance on their own. It Was Never Going to Be Fair At the Annex, the team discovers the rosin on Natalia's shoes has magical traces in it. Charlie realizes the rosin box must be the source of the magic affecting the show. She heads out to get the rosin box. Mrs. Astolat helps them narrow their search for the rosin's source. By transferring some of the rosin to the pendulum, they track its source to the Old Forest. Lysa and Connor continue to argue over whether it's science or magic. Mrs. Astolat wants a word with Vikram and sends the other two on ahead together. Neither Lysa nor Connor is enthused about the plan. RELATED: A Leverage: Redemption Primer: Get Ready to Steal Season 3 At the theatre, Charlie finds and obtains the rosin box. She hides when she hears Yelena's voice. Yelena and Gustav come in, looking for Natalia. Yelena tells Gustav she can't let the show happen. Back at the Annex, Mrs. Astolat reminds Vikram that he can't go back in time. She warns him that his reputation as a rogue Librarian is well-earned, but he cannot travel back to 1847. He points out that he could, that he left people behind. She argues that Anya had a good life even without him. He says that it isn't fair and leaves. She mutters that it was never going to be fair. Charlie finds Natalia crying on the interior steps of the theater. They share their personal insecurities about failure. Charlie tells Natalia she used to love dancing as a child, but once she started training for her job, she had to let it go. She gives Natalia a pep talk and then asks about Yelena. She shares that she heard Yelena say she wouldn't let the show go on. The Dance Tree As they walk through the Old Forest, Lysa and Connor bicker about his acceptance of magic's existence. Vikram pops up, startling them both. He notices a nearby tree and says that's what they're looking for. RELATED: TV Review: Leverage: Redemption Season 3 He tells them it's a Dance Tree. Connor explains that in ancient times, people would gather around and dance in homage, pouring their vitality into the tree. Walking around it, Lysa discovers the tree has been tapped dry. She realizes that the tree's sap was used as the dance company's rosin — rosin being a solid form of tree resin. (LOL to Connor and Vikram's exchange about 'the reason for the resin in the rosin' here.) Vikram talks through the use of the Dance Tree's power to drain away the vitality of the dancers. This explains the white in the prima ballerina's hair. He comes to the conclusion they're dealing with a witch. This terrifies him. Fractious Back at the Annex, Vikram insists on confronting the witch on his own because Lysa and Connor's constant conflicts will fuel the witch's power. He directs them to research and figure out what kind of witch it is. At the theater, Charlie's looking for Yelena. When she asks a group of dancers, they stare at her in silence. She moves on, and they follow, eyes whitened over. RELATED: Read our Leverage: Redemption recaps Vikram tells Dame Anna about the witch. He asks who in the company has been with her for over a decade. She mentions Yelena and Gustav, then goes to find her records. While she's gone, Vikram picks up her journal and comments that it's a good thing the performance is midday, when most witches are less powerful. Charlie finds Yelena in the studio, drained to a husk of a body. The dancers who followed Charlie attack her and carry her out of the building. In the Annex, under the time crunch of the performance at noon, Connor recalls a mention of Lady Midday, aka The Noon Witch. She would drain her victim's life force by forcing them to dance. Every 70 years, on the Summer Solstice, she would dance, and the adulation would restore her youth. Lysa discovers the solstice is that day and realizes the witch will be the dancer. The Noon Witch Looking through her journal, Vikram discovers that Dame Anna, in her youth, looked exactly like Natalia. He confronts Dame Anna, and she laughs, wondering how it took him so long to figure it out. Revealing several magical artifacts, he claims that she won't be able to pierce his defenses with her spells. She whips out a taser and zaps him unconscious. RELATED: Read our The Lazarus Project recaps Mrs. Astolat activates the magic door to send Lysa and Connor to the theater. Unfortunately, it's so close to the start of the show, the witch's magic is causing blowback, and it blocks them from traveling through the door. Mrs. Astolat also says the extra magic in the air due to the well's leak will allow the witch to drain all her audience's vitality, killing them. Connor grabs Mrs. Astolat's BMX bike and heads out. Lysa follows, asking where she's going to sit. The Show Goes On. Sort Of. The show begins. Natalia/Dame Anna/Lady Midday makes her entrance. All the other dancers' eyes white over as they prepare to dance. Charlie gets thrown out the back door just as Lysa and Connor arrive riding the BMX. They fill her in on the Noon Witch's plan. Charlie tells them about Yelena and figures out the witch is Natalia. RELATED: 5 Great Books About Libraries and Librarians Somehow, they get inside. Charlie takes the place of a company dancer and blends in. Connor and Lysa sneak backstage and decide to stop the show using the set controls. Upstairs, Vikram wakes up. On stage, set pieces and sandbags start falling. Charlie tries to get to Natalia, but the zombified dancers get in her way. As the finale approaches its climax, Connor cuts the lights, but the dancers continue, their shoes glowing with magical rosin. The audience sits, transfixed. Charlie barges through, knocking down the ensemble dancers and spinning Natalia to the ground. The audience, led by the Art Critic, rises to their feet to applaud. Too Late Natalia tells Charlie she's too late. She takes her bows, gloating that she'll live forever on the vitality she gathers here. Down in the orchestra pit, Gustav sits, tied up and gagged. Vikram taps the baton on the conductor's music stand. He reminds Natalia that the baton is the most powerful thing in the theater. By slowing the finale to allegro moderato , the applause began too late to complete her spell. Natalia sinks to her knees, transforms into Dame Anna, and dissolves into ancient dust. The audience applauds again. The team takes a bow. RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter At the Annex, Charlie lets Vikram know the prima ballerina woke up and should make a full recovery. Unfortunately, Yelena couldn't be saved. The other dancers can't remember anything that happened. Vikram says that's the human mind protecting itself. Walking into the main room, they find Lysa and Connor arguing. They tell him they regret not being more effective at the theater. Vikram says they distracted Natalia so well, she never noticed him slowing the tempo. Therefore, they were extremely effective. He congratulates them on their teamwork. Mrs. Astolat arrives in a beekeeper's suit. She tells the team that she's accumulated a lot of vacation time and plans on taking it now. Starting June 2, new episodes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter drop on Mondays at 9 pm ET on TNT. Everything Coming to Netflix in June 2025 Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
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27-05-2025
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On Location: The Belgrade Fortress on TNT's THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER
Welcome to On Location , a weekly feature spotlighting landmarks and establishments seen on screen that viewers can visit IRL. Whether you're seeking a fun selfie, breathtaking vistas, or maybe a show-accurate treat, follow along for some bucket list destinations. RELATED: Pull up a seat and relax with our previous On Location article on The Watershed Grill on Netflix's Virgin River The Librarians: The Next Chapter premiered on May 25 on TNT. This sequel series to the original The Librarians series takes place in Belgrade, Serbia, and — joy of joys — it was filmed ENTIRELY on location. Central to the series is protagonist Vikram Chamberlain's (Callum McGowan) Annex. Housed in the 'Belgrade Castle,' which team member, Lysa Pascal (Olivia Morris), inherits in the premiere episode, the impressive structure is, in reality, the Military Museum entrance of the Belgrade Fortress. Image Courtesy of TNT The Belgrade Fortress on The Librarians: The Next Chapter Fans of The Librarians know that a Librarian's Annex is their access point to the Main Library, an extra-dimensional repository of infinite resources. In The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 1, 'And the Deadly Drekavac,' Vikram unleashes the magic of the Belgrade Castle's well to revive his Annex. This kicks off a whole host of challenges as the magic floods the city and the surrounding area. The premiere also boasts guest star Christian Kane reprising his The Librarians character, Jacob Stone, who probably regrets rescuing Vikram from the time bubble he activated in 1847. He spends a lot of time in said well, trying to seal off the magical stream. RELATED: Catch up with our recap of the premiere episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter , 'And the Deadly Drekavac' While most of the interiors were shot in a Serbian studio, there is one spectacular shot of The Belgrade Fortress's actual 'Roman well'. (Fun fact: not actually Roman, nor was it dug for water.) In the series premiere, Vikram gazes down into it from the viewing platform before running down into the (studio-based) well's bottom to dig out the magic. As one does. Image Courtesy of TNT Visiting the Belgrade Fortress The Belgrade Fortress is the oldest section of Belgrade's urban core. It consists of the old citadel and the Kalemegdan Park. The old citadel itself is divided into Upper and Lower Town. The history of the fortress is the history of Belgrade itself. This goes back to the 3rd Century BCE when the settlement was a Celtic fortification, Singadunum. Most of the Belgrade Fortress attractions are in the Upper Town. Here, you can find the aforementioned Roman Well, the Military Bunker, the Casemats (a display of medieval torture devices), and the Sahat Kapia Gallery. From April 1 to September 30, doors are open from 11 am to 7 pm with admission costs ranging from free (Gallery) to 400 RSD (approximately 4 USD). In the winter months, hours change to 10 am to 5 pm. RELATED: On Location: Cantacuzino Castle in Netflix's Wednesday Belgrade is a modern city that uses technology and commerce to further its historical and cultural depth. If you're not quite ready to hop into a plane for a visit, there's an online virtual tour. All the information you could want about the audio guide is available here. Souvenirs are available at three conveniently located shops throughout the fortress. The largest selection appears to be in the Gallery – Souvenir Shop in Inner Stambol Gate at the Upper Town. Image Credit: Belgrade Fortress Something For Everyone The Belgrade Fortress is truly an all-encompassing space. For children, there are two outdoor playgrounds, the Belgrade Zoo (known as The White Zoo and Garden of Good Hope), and a Dino Park. Additionally, there are two sets of basketball courts and one tennis court. Five diverse dining options are available within the fortress. The Mali Kalemegdan restaurant serves traditional Serbian dishes, while the Bitef Art Cafe offers bites to enjoy while taking in a wide variety of live music performances. Go clubbing at The Boho Bar, indulge in fine dining at The Kalemegdan Terrace, or kick back and relax at the Caffe Pobednik. RELATED: On Location: The Phoenicia Diner of Apple TV's Severance The fortress rings out with music for much of the summer months. The flat grounds below the fortress is a popular concert venue, having showcased A-list performers such as Amy Winehouse, Whitesnake, and Iron Maiden in the past. Morrissey and Billy Idol are on the schedule for the summer of 2025. The basketball courts also double as concert spaces, and the Barutana space near the bottom of the fortress often hosts electronic dance music performances. Image Credit: Big Cloudt Annex Access ≠ Roman Well For a photo op, fans of The Librarians: The Next Chapter will want to head to the Military Museum in the southwestern area of Upper Town. Adult admission tickets cost 350 RSD. However, be warned, the 'Roman Well' is not located through this entrance. You'll find that about a ten-minute walk away. The Military Museum does boast a collection of over 3000 items of historical military significance. The artifacts date from ancient times, as well as more modern eras. Keen-eyed viewers will spot their outside displays (tanks, cannons, etc.) in the background as Vikram and his team rush about on various missions. RELATED: On Location: The Marine Building on the CW's Family Law Everything about filming The Librarians: The Next Chapter on location at The Belgrade Fortress reflects the message of the series. It's very meta that the fictional Library would house an Annex in a real-life space of history and culture. As described on the Belgrade Fortress website: 'Together, the Belgrade Fortress and Kalemegdan Park represent a cultural monument of exceptional importance, a venue for numerous sports, cultural and artistic events, a place of entertainment and recreation for all generations of Belgraders and the increasingly numerous visitors to the city.' The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's series premiere event concludes May 26 on TNT after NBA playoff coverage. Starting June 6, new episodes will air Mondays at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET. New TV Shows This Week (May 25 – 31) Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
