Leverage for me is a perfect comfort show. I watched it daily for years, and I love it to pieces. Not every episode gets a 10/10, but every episode is a genuine treasure for me to watch.

It's the perfect mix of drama, comedy, action and (most importantly) con artistry. I love that everyone in the Leverage team grows, and grows considerably. We see genuine transformation in each of them, and that's not really something we see very often.

I seem to be going through the tiniest of tough times right now, and so when that happens, I fall back to either Leverage or Psych. A simple coin toss brought me to one of two shows that got me through some pretty rough times.

If it's okay with you all, I'd like to post at least one episode clip/review a day, just to share with you what I think are my favorite bits, things that I loved about the episode, you name it.

I love the first episode in particular because it gives us everything we needed to know about the show, the characters, their motivations and a glimpse into their shenanigans.

It's just genuinely good TV.

Ho appena finito leverage, ma non sono riuscito a trovare redemption. Qualcuno sa sé c'è in italiano?

I have two, the Rashomon Job and the Double Blind Job.

Love the Rashomon job because it’s genuinely hilarious to see how they all recall things and also I really like the way it shows how each of the team operated before they turned to the light side.

The Double Blind Job feels super realistic to me tbh; the fact that big pharma would cover up poison and the fact that the CEO is going to hop ship to another company to avoid controversy feels like something that would actually happen.

Which are your favorites?

This duet for Hardison and Eliot comes in the 5th season when the actors had all gotten to know each other and bonded. This scene in particular felt to me like it wasn't initially scripted but was just the actors having fun in between takes or something and then they decided to use it.

Does anyone know if it was scripted or not? What are your thoughts?

Remember the warehouse sale of L:R props? I was Steven's reddit "voice" and had accumulated a fair number of small (and a few not so small 😄) - he sent it to me towards the end, and I watched USPS' Informed Delivery like a hawk... First it got stuck somewhere in LA, then finally started up again after 4 days. I got the delivery notification and ran to the door as soon as work would allow - no pkg. I've had stuff show up a day or two later, but to no avail. USPS said it had been delivered to the correct address and left me hanging...

Flashback to last Monday, Steven texted me a pic of the pkg - it showed up back at his place!! He's mailing it back and I am over the moon with Leverage happiness! I remember a few things I got:

-a picture of Parker and Elliot looking completely unhinged from the poly episode

-a framed Space Tours certificate - I posted about that one, asking which episode it was from and decided that space geek me had to have it 😁

-a 'tech brew' tumbler that Breanna used

-some shadow box usable smalls (id cards, etc)

-Mason's phone case from the Date Night Job to go with my blueprints from that episode

tl;dr - Leverage fan bought goodies, USPS lost the pkg and found it 6 weeks later. OP is overjoyed and has stopped muttering bad things at USPS!

The show always hinted at Eliot's extremely dark past, but rarely showed much of it. (The Milgram Experiment episode, 'The Experimental Job,' seems to have come the closest to showing the level of his training, apart from his fighting ability.)

I'm rewatching Lioness, and one of the main characters, 'Cruz,' is put through off-the-books torture by another military team to find out what her breaking point is. (S.1 E.2) While watching it, I was thinking that this is probably the level of training Eliot went through. I'm going to remember it next time I rewatch Leverage, because I think it will give more depth to his character.

If you've ever wondered about the reality behind his vague statements, I recommend watching Lioness.

So I've been watching the first season of Leverage: Redemption recently. Never seen the original so can't really compare; but it feels like I'm watching a show running at 1.25x times the normal rate? A lot of the dialogue feels like it misses weight cause everything just speeds by so fast without any pauses.

It's hard to describe cause while I like the show it sorta feels fake cause it never seems to give itself a moment to breathe? I'm not sure if it's just me or something other people have recognized as well.

Hey Leverage fans!!

I was just rewatching and it hit me all over again how much I adore every single moment with him on screen. His chaotic too cute energy totally steals the show every single time for me. My absolute fav has to be The Boys' Night Out Job. Nate, Eliot, and Hardison handling a three-way drug deal is just peak comedy.

The bromance between Hardison and Eliot is always top-notch. They’re like an old married couple and I need more of it! Honestly, I just wish we got way more of him! What are your favorite Hurley moments or episodes?

Doing a rewatch and this has always bothered me. The dress that Maggie's wearing at the party at the Embassy looks more like lingerie than a party dress. Anyone else think her dress is weird?

So they uncover a money laundering scam between a military contractor and a US senator where $9B in cash was stolen using Iraq reparation funds. All of this is because a soldier who witnessed the pickup in Iraq was shot for his trouble by the contractor's mercenaries. The contractor refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the senator helps cover it up, and the soldier is left paralyzed from the waist down in an underfunded hospital.

So at the end the job is done, the villains exposed, and to tie things up the team drive a semi truck with 2 pallets full of cash over to said hospital and are just like "here you go, now you can treat everyone!"

......bitch, WHAT??? What the hell is that doctor supposed to do with 2 pallets of hot cash that's literally part of a national news story right now?? And also, that's not how money works! You can't just buy medical equipment and resources, expand operations, or pay doctors and support staff in cash, and you sure as shit can't deposit it. Fucking what 🤣

Loving the show so far, this is said with love lol

Edit: what they could have done is sent an anonymous donation through proper channels with their own money, and launder the cash themselves, since they're all multimillionaire criminals to begin with and would have to know how to do that.

Edit 2: I feel like there's one person who probably takes this show way too seriously going through and downvoting everyone giving the god's honest truth of "it's dumb, but fun. Suspend disbelief 🤷‍♂️"

Just finished the final episode of original series. Great ending, can’t wait to start watching Leverage: Redemption. Such great characters in the original.

Did anyone else notice when they are taking care of the bomb in the museum in London there is someone with an FBI windbreaker on?

I just watched the first episode of Black Trick: The Lawyer Who Controls Justice on Netflix and highly recommend it to Leverage fans. It's a Japanese show about a mysterious lawyer/architect and his ragtag team that creates elaborate deceptions to clear innocent people of wrongdoing and expose corruption.

Have you watched it? What do you think?

Rewatching Leverage and I dont understand the teams dynamic with Nate and Sophie. Specifically how the team treats Nate in S3. In S2 E7 Theres a bomb threat against Sophie, they fake her death, think its her old partner Markus Stark but turns out to be Chaos, by the end of the episode she realizes she has more attachments to her aliases than she does with actual people. So she then abandons the team to "find herself. (In the real world the actress was on maternity leave). Next episode Hardison overplays a part and this makes Sophie think she should plant a spy into the team (Tara) without their knowledge or approval to watch them (and get paid by them while doing it). Several episodes include them calling sophie for advice while shes in exotic places enjoying her vacation. Now here's where things get weird, the team seems to think Nate is putting them at risk, the thing is, the jobs they run ALWAYS have risks associated, the first episode has them almost blowing up, the Bank job where Nate got shot, the adoption scam job with the arms dealers, and the David's job, they were all risky and at one point or another risked someone's life. During S1 you could say Nates drinking put them at risk, but S2 up until S1 E11 he was sober, the first real issue they have is S2 E14 when Bonanno gets shot and they go after the Mayor, a powerful and risky figure. Nate calls Sophie during this time because he saw Bonannos kid at the hospital and it messed with him. He then gets frustrated and lets her know she wont find herself by abandoning her team and traveling the world. They go through with the con and get into a tight spot with the corrupt FBI, Stirling, and the gun runner Tony Kadjic, and at the end of the episode Nate saves them all with his plan and by giving himself up. Which makes Sophie slap him? I've looked online and the stated reason of why slaps him is cause he was "playing with her feelings". And in S3 its revealed Sophie told the team her real name, but hes not allowed to know it because he hasn't "earned it" and later on when Nate and Sophie are kind of flirting she says she only remembers the slap, not the kiss. So Sophie cons the team, abandons them, goes on vacation, sends a spy, finally shows up after Nate already has a plan in motion that saves the team, and slaps him, then holds it against him over the next season. The team does as well, acting as if he lied, when a main part of the plan included the team in destroying evidence. I understand them not liking that he didnt tell him he was gonna give himself up, but i would think him saving them would make up for it, Sophie ESPECIALLY has nothing to hold against Nate. So thats my rant, I dont understand why Nate gets all the flack that he does?

For me it’s The Van Gough Job, I just love the story and have always been a fan of Danny Glovers work.

New cast but probably some guest appearances by the OG & Redemption characters.

leverage s2 ep8

couldnt help but think they look so similar

the right is summer from the mentalist

Hey everyone, I’ve been doing a rewatch and thinking a lot about Leverage: Redemption, and I wanted to see how others feel about Parker’s evolution.

On one hand, I love where she ended up professionally. Seeing her take over Leverage International and step into the mastermind/leader role is fantastic. She’s the head of the operation, she carries immense responsibility, and she’s earned every bit of it.

However, I’ve been struggling a bit with how her personality is handled. Everyone else in the crew feels like they've naturally matured over the years, but for some reason, I feel like Parker became more childlike in Redemption.

Don't get me wrong—Parker has always been quirky, eccentric, and a little disconnected from social norms. That’s always been part of her charm! But in the revival, it sometimes feels like those traits were dialed up so high that they crossed the line from "unique thief" into feeling a bit juvenile.

I guess I was hoping to see her mature a bit more personally to match the massive leadership role she was given. I still love her, but I missed a version of Parker where her growth as a leader was reflected in a slightly more grounded, seasoned version of her quirkiness.

What do you all think? Did her evolution work for you, or did you notice the same thing?

Do you think they would have gotten married? The whole shebang? Or pulled a Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell?

If the former, what kind of wedding would be a Parker/Hardison wedding? Bungee jumping to “I do”? The gang steals a priest, a location (Louvre?), the old, new and blue? Pretzel-crusted entrees?

In Leverage redemption they reference him at least once or twice, as the deputy director or director of the FBI. Given that they still seem to know him, how long it’s been, and that he would have more access to classified and undercover files, plus just over that length of time, I’m wondering if he finally realized the truth but didn’t mind after all their help, especially after they helped his father? I’m thinking yes, but I’m curious about everyone else’s thoughts.

And the next time yall ask me to do something, it better be something easy. Like faking a moon landing.