Colonel Eve Baird of the NATO Anti-Terrorist Unit finds herself disabling an armed nuclear bomb with the help of an eccentric stranger who refers to himself as "The Librarian" and who seems far more concerned with the dusty sarcophagus next to the bomb and what it might do if not disarmed.
A short time later Colonel Baird finds herself drafted to be the Librarian's new Guardian, an appointment the Librarian himself does not appreciate. He's not going to be able to do much about it, though, because someone is murdering potential Librarians, and he and the Colonel need to save the last three who remain: a brilliant synesthete mathematician, an oil rig worker who is also an expert in art history, and a tech genius super-thief. Together, this team will have to protect the world from all the supernatural threats that it does not know exist.
Based on some cheesy TV movies from the early 2000s, this is a light and family-friendly show about saving the world from supernatural things and people. Basically, it's a lot like Warehouse 13, but not as good. This is not the fault of the cast, who are likeable and do their best with the material: it's just that the scripts are so determinedly light that there is rarely any sense of tension or excitement, even at times when the world is allegedly about to end in some horrible way. It's all a bit too cozy and twee, in my opinion.
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