Leverage (2008– )

A crew of high-tech crooks attempt to steal from wealthy criminals and corrupt businessmen.

Creators:

Chris Downey, John Rogers

Stars:

Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane

3 wins & 19 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Timothy Hutton	...	Nathan Ford (77 episodes, 2008-2012)
Gina Bellman	...	Sophie Devereaux (77 episodes, 2008-2012)
Christian Kane	...	Eliot Spencer (77 episodes, 2008-2012)
Beth Riesgraf	...	Parker (77 episodes, 2008-2012)
Aldis Hodge	...	Alec Hardison (77 episodes, 2008-2012)

Storyline

Former insurance agency investigator Nathan Ford heads a team of former top-criminals. They handle 'unorthodox' cases of people unlikely to get their dues through regular channels and legal procedures. That often involves stinging or otherwise scamming criminals. Nate's team is altered at times, and his professional as well as personal past repeatedly seems to catch up.

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Plot Keywords:

team | master thief | con artist | one word title | greed | 

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Taglines:

Sometimes Bad Guys Make the Best Good Guys

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

TNT

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Dokonalý podraz

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Electric Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In Season 1, The Juror #6 Job, the actor Brent Spiner who played the defendant, wore yellow-tinted glasses. A nod to his character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, who had yellow eyes.

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Quotes

[repeated line]
Eliot Spencer: It's a very distinctive style.

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Connections

Spoofed in The Simpsons: The Book Job (2011)

User Reviews

Leverage gets your dose of white hat-black hat conman every week

Leverage might after a first show look like a series replica of Oceans Eleven with even the same generic music attached to some scenes, it fares deeper into a storyline you might expect being left on the cutting room floor of that same movie. Revenge being a large element of the series and changing plots, schemes and situations putting a viewer on the wrong foot this show delivers what all the polish and high-speed actors in forenamed picture couldn't actually deliver: credibility!

Many TV fans were loving a show like Thief (2006) but for the big audience that's called TV this is too grimy and realistic. Don't expect somebody to get actually hurt in "Leverage". The grimy and therefor risky aspect of the show has been rooted out carefully and in comes a storyline that could have been a "A-team" episode. Maybe halfway the season Colonel Decker will start chasing the headliners of this show but until then it's a risk-free show that won't be canceled.

Agreed, whoever thought of this format was far from a genius (the genius invented "Thief 2006") but he'll have a job for that much longer mixing Oceans Eleven, Thief and the A-team together in a show that doesn't offend, hurt, kill or mame people and yet stays funny and interesting to watch.

Leverage is a good TV-show among other good TV-shows but will eventually wind up in decay like other good TV-shows will. In one more season it will be more boring to watch then the new episode of Prison Break. Maybe it will generate the same cult status and devotion with viewers they will keep watching and it survives 2 seasons more. I hope so since this quiche of TV-shows is the most entertaining and relaxing show i've seen this year...

9/10 (won't last 2 seasons)

P.S A delight to see Gina Bellman again after a brilliant role in Coupling. She's a under-appreciated actress if u ask me.