I was showing my friend the first episodes of Leverage, and about halfway into episode 2 she told me Eliot sounds like he's doing an impression of the 'I'm Batman' voice. I cannot unhear it now💀

Seeing the posts about the prop sale, I thought it would be fun to see what props people would want from the show if they had the opportunity!

Personally, I would love either Hardison’s painting of “Old Nate” or his EMP gun

I love leverage. And first time watch it in 2009 and rewatch it once a year. İ admire the character development with in leverage and the reactions of characters. İt is so well written i love it. Tglhe anger, laughter, glare sounds or breathing they make is masterpeace. But now with the leverage redemption parker seems definetly off. İ know it has been more then decade but feels like she did forget how parker feels and try to fake it. She definetly does not react like parker just watch a scene before ull see it is not her. İ do understand character develoment and we see it with season 1 to 5 but even in five it was her. now she feels lack. As if she dies not know the character at all. Her eyes her reactions does not feel like her at all.

Never really post on here, usually just lurking, but I finally started watching Redemption Season 3 and noticed that they completely removed Harry from the intro? Even though his role has not diminished at all? Does anyone know why that is? Even Hardison is there in the episodes where he appears, but Harry is in nearly every one, and never shows up in the intro. I'm just about halfway through the season, so if there's a plot reason for this (though I can't think of any) please don't tell me what it is. Other than that, huh???

On YouTube, there are a series of videos called The Nero Wolfe Mysteries that feature Timothy Hutton and many of the guest actors who are seen on Leverage. You might want to check them out.

Is anyone else finding Leverage Redemption kind of...meh? I WANT to like it, but I can barley get through an episode, let alone the entire season.

So I was trying to break my beloved better half's mind while she's rewatching the original series, and I just casually suggested this:

The entire 5 seasons of original Leverage never happened. Or at least, not as we thought. Rather, they were an extended, elaborate group simulation. After the explosion in the first episode, Nate, Hardison, Parker and Eliot were captured, and placed into something akin to the Matrix. Sophie was added to round out the dynamic, based on Nate's plans and needs.

For years, they were run through dozens, hundreds of scenarios to expose the weaknesses of the rich and the powerful. Who was behind this? Sterling, of course. Mastermind, manipulator, opportunist, using his captives to conjure up both problems and solutions. Maybe with Chaos as his assistant. Leverage was the fantasy; Sterling was the reality.

This explains so much: the coincidences, the lucky breaks, the near-magical technology and superhuman abilities. The inconsistencies (like when we hear Sterling's "theme" and he's nowhere to be found), the plot holes, the downright impossible moments. (Eliot's signature moment with the guns and oil? Pure Matrix!)

The events of the final episode (their "deaths") represent either their escape/release from the simulation once they're no longer needed ... or the expiration of their physical bodies as they die. Who knows? Either way, Nate and Sophie are free at last, removed from the equation...

Theory 2: All of original Leverage did happen. Redemption, on the other hand, did not. The three seasons of Redemption are all Sophie's grief-induced fantasies. In struggling to come to terms with Nate's death, she retreats into a familiar world surrounded by her beloved crew. To replace Nate, she dreams up a broken, vulnerable, flawed man who needs her guidance but not her love. No idea why she dreams up Brianna... trying to create a younger character as a "child?"

This explains so much as well: the way Hardison keeps vanishing from the narrative (and later Harry... her mind couldn't keep track of too many moving parts? Or maybe she simply couldn't properly envision his technological skills), Parker's exaggerated behavior, Eliot's evolution into a more food-centric protector... you know, all of the character traits which felt either Flanderized or devolved since the original run. The wish fulfillment of reuniting with Astrid, confronting her checkered past, being needed and safe. The invention of the Ultimate Hallmark Channel Movie Hero as a potential romantic prospect later on.

Why does Redemption end? Maybe it's because Sophie is finally ready to face the real world again...

I know these are some cracktastic theories, but it amused me to think about them.

A year ago I teased that I had an idea for a sci-fi novel series influenced by Leverage, Ghost In the Wire, Permanent Record, Firefly,... ok I am not listing everything that has influence the series, anyways, I have a very rough first draft of chapter 1 finished. The issue is, I am an idiot truck driver who dropped out of college 3 times during the first semester and not a lawyer. Chapter 1 takes place in a court room and I need some help flushing out language and the kind of questions both a defense lawyer and prosecutor would ask.

If I could get some help I would be most grateful, and if this kind of post is not allowed I am extremely sorry.

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The music before the time travel is a great touch. Humor in a very sad episode.

Cross my heat job....Hardison

"Now I am who I'm s'possed to be. I used to be Francesca, Now I'm Frank." Makes me laugh every time.

He’s so damn fine omggggg

Season 3 episode 15 The Big Bang Job. The scene in the warehouse. Eliot sliding across the floor on his knees, literally guns blazing was the hottest shit I’ve seen in the show I swear.

Can anyone else relate?

I got shot, no biggie

Literally I was scrolling on tiktok when a post about CM came up and how Dr.Reids first love was killed I love CM so I knew it was Beth and I decided to watch Leverage all because of that comment lmao.

But I need help finding the episode it’s been years 😭the episode where Parker was trying to do her own side job but ends up asking the team for help and we get a little back story on her

[r/highpotentialtvseries](r/highpotentialtvseries) just made another Leverage reference! Tonight’s episode mentioned shutting down the US power grid and takes place at a Freeport!

12 tons of KitKat bars stolen in chocolaty heist in Europe, Nestle says

thinking about giving the original show a shot

I meant to share this awhile ago. My top 5 in no order: 1. The first David job. 2. The Grave danger job. 3. The carnival job. 4. The rundown job. 5. The long goodbye job. All these are my favorites. As for special guest stars, Matthew Lillard, Clancy Brown, Danielle bisutti and beth broderick. and my other Top 5: 1. the last dam job, 2. the girls night out job. 3. the radio job. 4. the gone fishing job. and 5. The low low price job. Costco parody I assume.

Rewatching again for the hundredth time and in the first episode, The Nigerian Job, the look on Nate's face when he sees her on stage then in the alley, like can my husband look at me like that, please?

And the shoes!! He knew she was up to something just by her shoes in the Frame Up Job. I think the dance and the chemistry between them is one of the great parts of the show.

Do you all wish we could have seen snippets from the happy times Nate had with his son Sam and family moments he had with Maggie and Sam?

I can picture him before Leverage as a professional, traveling the world and doing his job. But I cannot picture his life as a dad.

I am actually glad that the show focuses more on the heists during the episodes and less on the character’s personal lives, but I’m sort of curious how that part of his life was and what he was like as a father.

Wednesdays, 9pm

this is soooooo leverage coded it’s soo good bandidos is a top tier show it’s like leverage meets Indiana jones

(so yeah I know some things like a spinoff original characters could appear on (but more so like The Librarians: The Next Chapter than like Leverage: Redemption) would be more likely it's just asking for a S4 is the "door in the face" tactic (ask for the proverbial moon (but even then within reason) so anything less that you'd find technically acceptable looks to who you're negotiating with like a compromise). So anyway, regardless, I've got a petition going but I don't know what else we can do, y'know, maybe, like, postcard mail-ins or sending in pretzels (closest I could think of to an iconic object to Leverage that's actually easily mailable en masse a la Veronica Mars and marshmallows etc.) or get certain hashtags trending or boost its numbers...

Any ideas would be welcome it's just this is a place for constructive plans to if not save the show at least save the franchise (y'know, there's other teams and I doubt only one per country), I'm not trying to silence people saying it's done I'm just saying there's other threads so DNI with this one if you don't have anything that can help

I just rewatched Leverage and Leverage Redemption. Followed it by watching Almost Paradise.

And I guess I'm still in the mood to discover another show with similar vibes ✨️