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I started watching Leverage on Saturday and y'all it is directly up my street. Fucking found family of losers where they each "work alone" but now are emotionally attached to at least one member of the family? Love it 100000/10
And I love that they just kinda keep forcing their way into Nate's life, because they know they all are happier when they are together.
Also I'm only on season 2 but we've currently had 3 cameos by star trek actors and I love it
something i love about sophie's character is that it must take so much effort and talent to be able to play one character that is playing another character. and not only to do it once, but several dozen times, excellently. it's clear that there's sophie underneath it all, but you can also see the love and care in all her "fake" characters as well. it's genuinely amazing and it creates so much depth in the show
Aldis Hodge photographed by Alexi Lubomirski for Man About Town (2020)
Shout-out to the Leverage costuming department for whatever's going on here
Aldis Hodge in a 2010 Taco Bell commercial
recently every time i read an Aldis Hodge interview and he's geeking out like 'i got married!!!!! i have a kid!!!!! i'm going to be in [insert title of next coolest project here]!!!!!' my thought process is just 1. congratulations, ofc you're geeking out (as you should) and 2. do you need a third
Hey Kaniac lovelies, your boy has made a CK movie/TV show master list for myself (and any of you, if you want it) of all the movies and tv shows he’s been in, that I can find, not including all of the ones I’ve already seen (Angel, Leverage, The Librarians, Almost Paradise and Leverage: Redemption). If there are any that you know of that aren’t already on here just let me know and I’ll add them. (Most of these came from my mutuals beautiful gif sets of him in all of his different roles, moots ily <333).
hot take: a lot of things wrong with redemption can be explained with the knowledge that a lot of the team (esp writers) were coming off fresh from the librärians, which is an entirely different genre than leverage. suspension of disbelief is necessary for the librärians because its inherently fantasy that felt geared for a slightly younger audience than we are used to for leverage (which further made that same humor being used for innuendo just weird because some more than others, these characters are implied to have sex or be intimate with others so it's just... discordant).
characters can be goofier in an already over the top setting when you got literal shakespearean prospero coming to life as your big bad greenscreening campy-bad-so-its-good magic for a season. action can be goofier. hijinks happen and characters are Big and Loud and Quirky, and we accept them as much as magic gone wrong or weird or different in fun chekov's Mother Goose Treaty of 1918 ways because all of those things were part of the fundamental worldbuilding of the librärians from day one.
there were some crossovered vibes from leverage to the librärians that i appreciated! but that was okay because it was a new-to-tv property with a mostly new cast. i personally felt the characters were more shallow than leverage but that's because i can connect between with quieter, more serious(ly positioned in a world) characters than the librärians, as lovely as they were for their genre.
but you can't move from the librärians to leverage with the same slippage. or, you can because they did, but they shouldn'tve. because now we don't have, for example, cassandra's brain misfiring for handwave plot reasons for a reason for a character acting bizarrely. magic became coincidences or (worse) incompetence. that's how we get parker fUCKING bumping into a button she didn't notice(?) or dropping a fUCKING balloon because she wanted to gloat(?) or reacting in hyper ways when she... wasn't like that before. or (and this is what got me to start tinhatting the librärians' role in redemption) eliot manages to miss a projectile (because of course he can!) but that somehow hits exactly a rope of the boat hanging over eliot exactly and that then swings down at the perfect angle to smash his shoulder because eliot (who we have been shown to move at metahuman speeds, even twelve years working on the team) didn't have time to either step away or at least mitigate damage.
red haze was a potion. reasons for things going down was given to luck instead of hyper-competence because it couldn't be blamed on magic tomfoolery. a man fuCKING literally puts a team of hired security to sleep because he was so boring.
leverage was always supposed to be a heist show where the magic came, not from a curse or a never ending stash of Convenient Plot Devices, but from the love built around found family. and that got lost so that's how we ended up with *handwaves* That.
(lucky bastards at least GOT a third season...*grumbles*)
Anyhow, did this last season and will try to do it again: weekly recaps from whatever cast and crew (can) share with us.
Starting with these:
And this concludes week 1!
“Parker cycles through every character in this episode. This episode’s the one where we show you she can inherit the mantle. She manipulates like Sophie, she masterminds like Nate, she does electronics like Hardison, and she takes advantage of her surroundings like Eliot.” - John Rogers, ‘The Broken Wing Job’ DVD Commentary
I don't like or even read college AUs, but I'm strongly considering writing a Leverage one built entirely around the joke of a campus dean with the last name "Devlin"
rewatching leverage after Y E A R S and holy shit i can't believe this fucking show got five years of runtime when it's this fucking *vicious* about corporations
Season 3 of Redemption is going to be amazing. You should see the absolute bangers John is posting on bluesky.
Casual reminder that the writers of Leverage toned their research down because real life was that bad.
