I don’t think we’ll get Leverage Redemption season 4, but I’d obviously go fuckin’ feral for it.
But I think Leverage Redemption, specially with Noah Wylie is such a chefs kiss like I read somewhere he was the surrogate, introducing the new fans and kind of playing refresher for the fans who didn’t rewatch the og leverage again in preparation and honestly? I like LR more than the og.
And I LIKE the original. It’s good. It’s solid. It’s a show crafted around characters that I like and find myself enjoying but without Nate, there’s more room for growth and exploration of WHY. Like why do they continue to fight? Thrill? Money? Because it’s the right thing? Are they trying to redeem themselves in their own eyes?
Redemption brought not only loose threads to an end, but it felt organic and gentle. We got a deeper look at real world issue, but also the crew’s families and the motivation as to why the fuck they’re doing this. Still!
Eliot’s dad? Sobbing. Sophie’s daughter? Wrecked me. Parker openly going through therapy? Fuck yes!
Brianna and Harry provide the perfect amount of whimsy and fun to something that was so serious and grave. We’re not going after a company to give justice to a man who died with his son. We’re going after people who are hiding behind the law - a law that is built to protect THEM. Not us, them!
We’re working with AI deepfakes, child labor laws, fracking, the list goes on but we don’t need alcoholism and regret behind the wheel. We have something that’s found the balance between “this is real and it’s scary” and “but we can still have a little bit of fun with it”.
They provide… leverage. From the scariness of nanas being rolled, hating yourself because while you’re helping people, you’re helping the wrong team and coming to terms with helping people with skills you have. From laws that were built to protect the people who built them, but told us it was to protect us instead from people like them.
