Leverage

Leverage: Redemption – The One Man’s Trash Job

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The One Man’s Trash Job
  • IMDb: link

The team targets a plastic exporter (Joshua Bitton) who has been dumping waste in local waters and threatening local fishermen who attempt to bring his crimes to light. Rather than targeting his wrongdoing, or attempt to bring it to light, the script gets a bit overly-complicated and takes a hard right turn after the discovery that our baddie of the week is also smuggling high-end antiquities. (Why not just make him a smuggler to begin with rather than adding the dumping storyline which feels like a tacked on feel-good bookend to the story which is, at best, only marginally connected?)

…

Leverage: Redemption – The One Man’s Trash JobRead More »

Leverage: Redemption – The One Man’s Trash Job Read More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Debutante Job

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Debutante Job
  • IMDb: link

Leverage: Redemption returns for a Second Season with an episode that returns Hardison (Aldis Hodge) to the team, offering some friction between the Leverage hackers, and pulling Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle) back into a con involving the corrupt president of a foreign country (Dikran Tulaine) in London to squash a journalist’s story about his black market thieving and introduce his reluctant daughter (Iliana Raykovski) into high society.

…

Leverage: Redemption – The Debutante JobRead More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Debutante Job Read More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Muddy Waters Job / The Harry Wilson Job

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Muddy Waters Job / The Harry Wilson Job
  • wiki: link
  • wiki: link

The final two episodes of the returning and rebranded Leverage: Redemption play on themes introduced over the course of the year including the return of RIZ Security and the redemption of Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle). Harry plays a role in both the final two episodes of the season as his daughter gets him involved in the investigation of an oil company run by his ex-wife’s current husband (John Hans Tester). Ending in pyric victory for the team as RIZ destroys all evidence of wrongdoing takes us into the season finale with Harry working undercover with RIZ with the help of an old friend (Aldis Hodge) while the rest of the team begin to question his loyalty.

…

Leverage: Redemption – The Muddy Waters Job / The Harry Wilson JobRead More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Muddy Waters Job / The Harry Wilson Job Read More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Great Train Job

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Great Train Job
  • wiki: link

Leverage targets a green energy CEO (Jon Fletcher) on the verge of selling a battery powerful enough to power a small electric airplane. The problem is, the battery doesn’t work. And to keep the secret, the con man has buried the evidence on farmland that has seeped into his neighbor’s property, destroying their crops. As an attempt to scare the off, and prevent the couple from doing soil tests which might reveal the truth, the CEO calls on a local hate group to forcibly remove them.

…

Leverage: Redemption – The Great Train JobRead More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Great Train Job Read More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Hurricane Job

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Hurricane Job
  • wiki: link

Stranded at an island inn during storm, which has been taken over by a group of dirty cops searching for a cell phone, Eliot (Christian Kane) and Parker (Beth Riesgraf) need to work with Maria (Andrea Navedo) to uncover the truth of what the cops are really after, find it first, and save the hotel employees. Cut off from any support, in the middle of a hurricane, it doesn’t take the trio long to find a rhythm (and even soften Parker’s stance on Eliot’s new girlfriend) during scenes of characters getting rained on non-stop whenever one steps outside of the inn. Sophie (Gina Bellman) and Harry (Noah Wyle) provide back-up via a ham radio, with the later also making a save at a local hospital with a few nods to Wyle’s previous role on ER.

…

Leverage: Redemption – The Hurricane JobRead More »

Leverage: Redemption – The Hurricane Job Read More »