Leverage: The Miracle Job Rewatch

December 31, 2019 4:09 PM - Season 1, Episode 6

Nate helps his old friend Father Paul stop the demolition of his church. His means however, a fake miracle, are a lot less holy than his ends.

Episode transcript

KF Monkey Post: none that I could find. Rogers takes a minute to hit his stride here, maybe around Juror # or 12 Step Job.

Mark Watches

snerson's nom for best like this episode: "Hell fire, damnation, et cetera. You know what? I’m gonna step over here, so when the good lord throws down on all of y'all, I don't get hit by the lightning."

next episode: The Two Horse Job

posted by snerson (6 comments total)

I have a huge soft spot for most of s1, but this one is just, oof. So good. I think the writing here is truly great -- I'm always shook by the line about 5 thieves saving a church as a miracle, and the bits of homily we see are gorgeous.

I kind of wish we'd seen Fr. Paul back for an episode in the Latimer arc to contrast with his "descending with a fiery sword to smite the wicked" type comment.
posted by snerson at 4:21 PM on December 31, 2019

I liked how Parker's fondness for Christmas/Santa is set up from the first season. Impressed with her phlebotomy skills; not impressed with a lab that would release a positive pregnancy result for a male!
posted by Naanwhal at 3:06 AM on January 1, 2020

Favorite Hardison/Eliot bit:

Hardison: How 'bout that? Man, you-you see me?
Eliot: He was injured.
Hardison: Well, somebody got to fight the injured. Shoot, that's my niche.
posted by oh yeah! at 12:27 PM on January 1, 2020 [3 favorites]

I have to be honest, this is far from my favourite of season 1, but that might be because a housemate came home while Sophie was demonstrating one of the world’s worst australian accents and wouldn’t trust my taste in tv for years after.
I have to imagine there was a plot reason for Sophie to be so bad at Australian accents and not that Gina Bell can’t do it. Not sure exactly what reason, tho!
posted by applesauce at 12:53 PM on January 1, 2020

Gina Bellman's from New Zealand, so it's not surprising she doesn't sound Australian!
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 1:41 AM on January 2, 2020 [1 favorite]

I though she sounded like a New-Zealander who's lived in Australia for a while. Or vice versa.
posted by Coaticass at 11:55 PM on August 1, 2021