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Leverage - The best 2nd season show you're not watching.
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There's this show on TNT that just started its second season and it seems like no one else is watching it at all and I find that to be a real shame.
This show is Leverage.
Leverage is about a group of thieves and con artists led by one honest man who help get payback and such for helpless people who have been taken advantage of by other thieves and con artists.
Think The A Team meets Ocean's 11. It's got one Oscar winner and the rest of the cast are pretty much new names.
The team is led by Nathan Ford, played by Timothy Hutton.
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The Man with the Plan
Nathan is a dude who used to work for a giant insurance company, recovering stolen property and exposing frauds so his company didn't have to pay on a claim. But after he saved them literally millions upon millions of dollars in his career, they refused to pay on a claim of his own for a medical procedure that would have saved his son's life. Needless to say, he's kinda pissed about that.
Gina Bellman plays Sophie Devereaux.
The Grifter
Sophie is a con artist art thief who can pretend to be anyone at all when she's running scam. Otherwise, she moonlights as an actress and is really, really bad at it. There is some history between her and Nathan, which is slowly coming out through storyline.
Christian Kane is Elliot Spencer.
The Hitter
He's the team tough-guy. He beats the crap out of people and also can cook. He has an intimate knowledge of firearms, being able to identify one just from the sound of a gunshot, though he prefers not to use them. Dude kicks ass.
Beth Riesgraf is Parker.
The Theif
Parker is your good ol' fashioned cat burglar. She is quite good at sneaking in to places undetected, picking pockets, and setting bombs. However, she sucks at interacting with people. It's usually pretty funny when a job requires her to talk to someone because she comes across very blunt.
The final member is Alec Hardison, played by Aldis Hodge.
The Hacker
He's the team tech wiz, hacker, and all around nerd. He's not too bad at running a con and pretending to be other people as well. He gets all the background info on the targets, gets the blueprints and plays Horde on WoW.
From first appearance and description, it sounds fairly average and could be very corny. But I checked out the pilot and got hooked. All the actors do a great job and it always is fun to see the marks get their comeuppance. The characters have very different personalities, but they mesh well and it's fun to see them interact. And it seems they might even have some decent character development waiting in the wings.
The pilot of the show sets them all up for life when it comes to cash, so basically they stick together because they enjoy the thrill of using their criminal skills to help people.
I highly recommend it. I think you can watch full episodes at TNT.tv
This show is Leverage.
Leverage is about a group of thieves and con artists led by one honest man who help get payback and such for helpless people who have been taken advantage of by other thieves and con artists.
Think The A Team meets Ocean's 11. It's got one Oscar winner and the rest of the cast are pretty much new names.
The team is led by Nathan Ford, played by Timothy Hutton.
The Man with the Plan
Nathan is a dude who used to work for a giant insurance company, recovering stolen property and exposing frauds so his company didn't have to pay on a claim. But after he saved them literally millions upon millions of dollars in his career, they refused to pay on a claim of his own for a medical procedure that would have saved his son's life. Needless to say, he's kinda pissed about that.
Gina Bellman plays Sophie Devereaux.
The Grifter
Sophie is a con artist art thief who can pretend to be anyone at all when she's running scam. Otherwise, she moonlights as an actress and is really, really bad at it. There is some history between her and Nathan, which is slowly coming out through storyline.
Christian Kane is Elliot Spencer.
The Hitter
He's the team tough-guy. He beats the crap out of people and also can cook. He has an intimate knowledge of firearms, being able to identify one just from the sound of a gunshot, though he prefers not to use them. Dude kicks ass.
Beth Riesgraf is Parker.
The Theif
Parker is your good ol' fashioned cat burglar. She is quite good at sneaking in to places undetected, picking pockets, and setting bombs. However, she sucks at interacting with people. It's usually pretty funny when a job requires her to talk to someone because she comes across very blunt.
The final member is Alec Hardison, played by Aldis Hodge.
The Hacker
He's the team tech wiz, hacker, and all around nerd. He's not too bad at running a con and pretending to be other people as well. He gets all the background info on the targets, gets the blueprints and plays Horde on WoW.
From first appearance and description, it sounds fairly average and could be very corny. But I checked out the pilot and got hooked. All the actors do a great job and it always is fun to see the marks get their comeuppance. The characters have very different personalities, but they mesh well and it's fun to see them interact. And it seems they might even have some decent character development waiting in the wings.
The pilot of the show sets them all up for life when it comes to cash, so basically they stick together because they enjoy the thrill of using their criminal skills to help people.
I highly recommend it. I think you can watch full episodes at TNT.tv
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no-one would ever know because no-one's watching it!
We're still catching up on Burn Notice and Chuck
Then our backlog is huge
I watch them both. Leverage has got a different feel to it. And the characters are a lot of fun.
just felt you had to know
I could see that.
'cause every episode is basically him putting on an appropriate accent and shirt and going to town
I wouldn't say it's "hokey"
I mean, it's totally inconsequential, popcorn fluff. But it's very good at what it sets out to do, which is "Be a badass, breezy spy show."
yeah that's why i'm still minorly hooked
Hey, I know that guy, he was Jake in Supernatural.
spoilers, if you haven't seen the season 2 finale
Yeah and you should think about how to stop being such an embarrassment to your family.
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But soft-spoken tough guys gotta have long hair. It's a rule or something.
I think Hardison's my favorite.
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I mean, what better time for a show about stealing from the undeserving rich and giving to the poor? I'm waiting for the episode where they steal from Mernie Badoff.
The first ep of this new season was about bringing down a guy who was running a scam to personally gain from the bank bailouts.
The base was right across from where I have my internship
They took my parking spot.
The first ep of this new season was about bringing down a guy who was running a scam to personally gain from the bank bailouts.
That's it, I ain't watching this.
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If only the dumbass who made the OP said anything about watching it online in the post.
Dark Blue, the new show that premiered after Leverage last night, was decent too. It's about a team of undercover cops and is, well, darker than most cop shows. It's a Jerry Bruckheimer production with some of the producers/directors from CSI, so it'll probably be episodic with a different undercover job each week instead of a continuing storyline. I'd love to be wrong and have it turn into something like The Wire.
It's on TNT, and from Jerry Bruckheimer.
Why on earth would that combination lead you to believe it would delve as deep as The Wire?
But like you said, it's from Bruckheimer and is on TNT, so...
It's okay, he punches people.
Well, he used to play a lawyer on Angel so it's a step up for him, bad hair and all.
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I actually just recently started watching Angel from Netflix and I indeed did notice him in the first episode.
Jeri Ryan is guest starring for a few episodes, it seems.
I know, right
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