If you’re not watching Leverage, TNT’s weekly caper adventure, then you’re missing out on the most fun you’ll ever have that won’t make you feel guilty for it later.
Owing more tips of the hat to movies like Ocean’s 11 or the Sting than it does any television shows in recent memory, Leverage pulls off the ultimate con: making you forget you’re rooting for a group of criminals.
Take this week’s installment: a television journalist (the always lovely Beth Broderick, doing a fantastically subtle send up of Nancy Grace) sells fear to her viewers, not caring how many “little people” she hurts in her quest for ratings. Her latest victim, an innocent bus driver accused of killing two little girls. After a suicide attempt, his daughter seeks compensation. But she isn’t interested in money. She wants the woman who ruined her father’s reputation to be ruined in return.
The Leverage crew immediately got to work – all quick jokes and earnest intentions – with an unusual twist: tonight, our resident grifter, Sophie, has traded places with our mastermind, Nate. This simple twist allowed the show to poke fun at its own convention by using the other team members to compare the difference in Nate and Sophie’s leadership styles. (Sophie, we learn, is a lot more dramatic during the briefings.) That the team will bring down their foe is a foregone conclusion. It isn’t the result Leverage gets, but the charming journey each episode takes the team on that proves to be the core power of the show.
Leverage is supposed to be a drama, and while it definitely possesses heavy dramatic chops, as well as intriguing action, it’s also funnier than half the so-called comedies on the air.
Watch full episodes of Leverage online at TNT.
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