You know, in all the posts I've seen about how great Leverage is (which are the posts that got me to watch the show!) there's one part of it that doesn't really come up. They take down the bad guys, and that's really cool, and the characters are incredible, and that's also really cool.
What gets me the most though? Is the jobs where they make things better.
The jobs where they do still take down the bad guys, give them their due, stop the harm. But they also make things better.
Sometimes it's small things, like the Tap Out Job where the guy they help gets to run the boxing club going forward, keep his people safe. The checks they sometimes give at the end of an episode, with a suggestion of what to use it for, fall into this theme.
Slightly bigger, you get things like the Underground Job where the mine will have proper safety equipment now and an owner who will keep it that way. Or the Blue Line Job, which comes with a show of solidarity between the guys that fight each other on the ice - but not when it could kill one of them. Not once they know. And now they'll make sure no one faces that risk again.
On a personal level, there's the Carnival Job, where a father ends up connecting with his daughter again by the end.
And then there's the episode that got me thinking about this.
The Gimme A K Street Job.
For once, they're doing a (mostly) legal job. And the end goal is simple: get laws into place so teenage girls won't get hurt from the lack of safety regulations.
And going forward, no more teenage girls are going to break their bones because they landed on a mat that doesn't give anything except the illusion of protection.
Leverage is different from the typical crime solving show because of the robin hood angle, sure. But it's also different because every now and then, they don't just catch the bad guy. Every now and then, they make things better.
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