Leverage: Redemption (2021-)  imdb rss

The Hitter, the Hacker, the Grifter and the Thief are back, this time with help from a new tech genius and corporate fixer, to take on a new kind of villain. When someone needs help, they provide...Leverage.

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Leverage: Redemption: The Crowning Achievement Job  Season 2, Episode 13

When a formidable enemy steals the Maharaja’s Crown and traps the crew in the museum, the Leverage team must find a way out and the crown before they go down for the crime. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Jan 24, 2023 at 9:50 PM - 4 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Museum Makeover Job  Season 2, Episode 12

When a Leverage International team’s museum heist goes awry, our crew goes in to finish the job, ultimately realizing they’ve been lured into a trap by a treacherous old friend. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Jan 17, 2023 at 8:27 PM - 4 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Belly of the Beast Job  Season 2, Episode 11

"The team reluctantly enlists the help of a naïve but ambitious assistant to take down a predatory music producer, in an episode told entirely from the POV of a regular person."
posted by jenfullmoon on Jan 11, 2023 at 7:43 PM - 15 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Work Study Job  Season 2, Episode 10

A celebrity physics professor steals a grad student's research and humiliates her. The crew infiltrates a campus, makes friends with the janitorial and security staff, and grapples with the intersection of university politics and tech transfer to industry.
posted by brainwane on Jan 3, 2023 at 5:15 PM - 9 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Pyramid Job  Season 2, Episode 9

Yup, it's a pyramid scheme episode, featuring "Magic Baby" and a lady who can smell a rat in Sophie.
posted by jenfullmoon on Dec 27, 2022 at 11:01 AM - 7 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Turkish Prisoner Job  Season 2, Episode 8

Harry takes charge of his first job, saving an ordinary person from crooked cops, and stumbles through a few plans that go awry before Sophie inspires him to intrigue one of the cops with an irresistible puzzle.
posted by brainwane on Dec 21, 2022 at 4:09 AM - 5 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Big Rig Job  Season 2, Episode 7

The team goes up against an awful big rig company run by the founder's narcissistic children who are running it into the ground. One of them is an influencer.... oy!
posted by jenfullmoon on Dec 13, 2022 at 12:24 PM - 3 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Fractured Job  Season 2, Episode 6

Eliot backstory, fracking and poisoned water, Sophie self-doubt, and a guest appearance by Aldis Hodge as Hardison that's so lighthearted it's practically weightless.
posted by brainwane on Dec 6, 2022 at 12:11 PM - 5 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Walk in the Woods Job  Season 2, Episode 5

An explosion in a medical clinic, a super-skeevy private security contractor, and a secretive retreat for powerful men all get the team investigating and infiltrating. [more inside]
posted by brainwane on Dec 1, 2022 at 1:00 PM - 5 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Date Night Job  Season 2, Episode 4

What Parker and Hardison get up to on a date.
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 22, 2022 at 6:09 PM - 5 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Tournament Job  Season 2, Episode 3

The team has to infiltrate an e-sports tournament to stop a ruthless team owner from mentally and physically abusing his young players. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 21, 2022 at 8:57 PM - 5 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The One Man's Trash Job  Season 2, Episode 2

The crew finds out that a shady plastics exporter whose dumping threatens local waters is smuggling black market antiquities on his barges, and plots to relieve him of his ill-gotten gains.
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 21, 2022 at 7:19 PM - 3 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Debutante Job  Season 2, Episode 1

The team helps a journalist investigating the corrupt president of a small eastern European nation, and along the way, infiltrates a high society debut and a rock star's basement.
posted by brainwane on Nov 21, 2022 at 11:51 AM - 10 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Harry Wilson Job  Season 1, Episode 16

The team has to infiltrate the shadowy R.I.Z. to stop it from unleashing a worm that can take down the entire electrical grid, and they must use Harry to do it. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Oct 17, 2021 at 9:37 AM - 7 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Muddy Waters Job  Season 1, Episode 15

"The Leverage team infiltrates an oil rig and a small-town trial to find evidence that a corrupt oil CEO is hiding a dangerous oil leak in the gulf, causing illnesses along the spill zone." Better recap: Harry comes to the team when his ex-wife's current husband, who he thinks is a decent oil CEO, is in trouble. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Oct 16, 2021 at 8:36 AM - 5 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Great Train Job  Season 1, Episode 14

"Two local farmers are targeted by a hate group, but something more poisonous on the farm leads Team Leverage to a crooked green energy innovator and an old-fashioned Train Heist." (Disclaimer: the very beginning of the episode features gay-bashing, then turns into something entirely different after the first five minutes, involving a fake battery scheme.) [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Oct 16, 2021 at 7:40 AM - 8 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Hurricane Job  Season 1, Episode 13

"Stuck together during a massive hurricane, Eliot and Parker must stop a band of corrupt cops who have taken over a small hotel, and find what the cops are searching for, before it’s too late."
posted by jenfullmoon on Oct 14, 2021 at 10:07 PM - 6 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Golf Job  Season 1, Episode 12

"An old friend visits, sparking a self-doubting Harry to uncover an unlikely client on the links at his exclusive golf club." Directed by Noah Wyle.
posted by brainwane on Oct 13, 2021 at 9:50 AM - 9 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Jackal Job  Season 1, Episode 11

"The Leverage team explores the failing memory of a legendary grifter to try and find her greatest score before her abusive Elder Guardian gets his hands on it and takes over her life."
posted by brainwane on Oct 12, 2021 at 6:45 AM - 8 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Unwellness Job  Season 1, Episode 10

"The Leverage team sets out to discredit a lifestyle and wellness guru targeting desperate people and peddling snake oil instead of actual medicine." (Directed by Noah Wyle.)
posted by brainwane on Oct 11, 2021 at 9:40 AM - 12 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Bucket Job  Season 1, Episode 9

The Leverage team's holiday good deed goes awry when their attempt tp give a small-town librarian the spy-thriller adventure of a lifetime is interrupted by a shadowy spy organization. (Guest starring Levar Burton, directed by Beth Riesgraf)
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 8, 2021 at 7:43 PM - 19 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Mastermind Job  Season 1, Episode 8

Sophie must keep her feelings in check when she discovers that someone has written a memoir of the team... (half-season finale) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 11, 2021 at 5:56 PM - 8 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Double-Edged Sword Job  Season 1, Episode 7

The team takes on a brilliant software developer who is selling a groundbreaking facial recognition system that threatens everyone’s privacy except his own.
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 11, 2021 at 4:50 PM - 6 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Card Game Job  Season 1, Episode 6

The Leverage team dives into the world of a high fantasy collectible card game with a devoted following to take down a pharmaceutical bad boy who is price-gouging drugs to fund his own house of cards.
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 11, 2021 at 3:26 PM - 12 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Paranormal Hacktivity Job  Season 1, Episode 5

When a woman believes she is being haunted and runs from her home in terror, Sophie leads Breanna and Parker through a con to convince the two real estate scammers responsible to target Leverage HQ.
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 10, 2021 at 6:42 PM - 11 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Tower Job  Season 1, Episode 4

One member of the team seeks redemption and justice by convincing Leverage to con a developer out of an entire luxury apartment. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 10, 2021 at 5:33 PM - 18 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Rollin' on the River Job  Season 1, Episode 3

The Leverage team takes on a greedy riverboat casino owner, before he can bulldoze the homes of longtime New Orleans natives for his planned expansion. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 9, 2021 at 7:49 PM - 15 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Panamanian Monkey Job  Season 1, Episode 2

With a new team member on board plus the arrival of Hardison's genius foster sister, the team heads to Panama to pull an elaborate heist before an evil billionaire can get his money and flee to a non-extradition country. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 8, 2021 at 7:47 PM - 12 comments

Leverage: Redemption: The Too Many Rembrandts Job  Season 1, Episode 1

When the team comes together to help Sophie, they intercept guilt-ridden corporate fixer Harry and decide to help him take down an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 8, 2021 at 5:56 PM - 21 comments