#leverage: redemption

[coldalbion]

As a disabled person who's loved LEVERAGE and LEVERAGE REDEMPTION since the beginning - for the characters but also the whole ethos of performing acts that help people against crap systems, it's wonderful to be reminded that it springs from reality.

[respectissexy]

Pitching Leverage to a socialist friend: "The heist team gets hired by people who have been victimized by these corporate baddies, so there is always a scene at the beginning where some lady is telling the team 'my dad died because he couldn't afford his diabetes medication after the new factory owner Joshua Dirtbag the Third cut his hours' and the team is like 'say no more. we will put on elaborate disguises and convince him to bet on a fake racehorse, and somehow at the end of it you will have all his money and he will go to jail'."

[gnar-slabdash]

let's do crime with mama

[aenslem]

Leverage (2008–2012) & Leverage: Redemption (2021–) x DOCTOR WHO

[infriga]

Eliot is the Leverage team's guard dog, and Harry is the Leverage team's little purse dog.

[birdofdawning]

Libraries appear in so many stories on tv and film, and they are almost always completely wrong. The writers use stereotypes or half-memories or wish-fulfilment, and librarian viewers get to share the experience of medical professionals and café workers everywhere of flinching at how WRONG WRONG WRONG something is (wtf was up with that Dewey code thing early Person of Interest? It made NO SENSE).

So Leverage: Redemption's 'The Bucket Job' was so great to watch because someone in that writers' room had obviously worked in an actual public library. And the stuff that rang truest was important to the plot!

The part where the borrower tries to manhandle a resting homeless person out of the library, and LeVar Burton, kindy librarian, suddenly becomes The Guy You Shouldn't Mess With defending the homeless man's right to be there — that's a thing. Public libraries are third spaces where everyone is welcome. And during the day a lot of homeless people come in to get out of the elements. They almost never cause trouble... they just want to be left alone.

And (maybe because libraries tend to be staffed by women? idk) you also get male borrowers deciding to police 'undesirables' they see in the library. This never makes any situation better. You can get into some heated conversations talking down a man who doesn't want to let go of the idea that he was being a hero in shoving some sleeper or neurodivergent youth.

The "Hey, I'm a taxpayer" bit is... *sigh* ... all too true as well.

And the reveal at the end where the treasure was being stored in a book that was guarded by always taken out once a year, so as to not get on the annual list of books to be considered for weeding — that was both very plausible and really fun. Sure, I would have chosen a book less likely to be picked up by a random borrower and I would definitely have used a much older-looking book, but the idea was still obviously suggested by someone who knows how libraries work.

Anyway, Leverage always comes across as well-researched and well-written, and I guess it should come as no surprise that they did this well too!

[hawkster359]

thinking about Eliot, trapped in the US special forces when his mom died, unable to get home for her funeral and losing any hope he had of ever reconnecting with his dad in the process

and then thinking about Nate dying in August/Septemberish of 2020, on the opposite coast, and the entire country being on lockdown, and funerals being attendance-capped. Eliot telling Hardison that he has to get them there, forge whatever permits they need, that they have to be there, because he's not missing this one and he's sure as hell not losing Sophie