Although Dean Devlin the executive producer of the original version is back, Leverage: Redemption-now with Kate Rorick as its showrunner-is a clunky shell of its former self. Something has gone awry in this new iteration. I might have described it as a great show to fold laundry to.
One that didn’t make you think too much but provided a comfortable diversion.
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It didn’t break any new TV ground, but it was always a very entertaining and enjoyable show. Think Monk, Burn Notice, Rizzoli & Isles, The Glades or The Librarian, which Wyle also headlined. It was part of a bygone era of basic cable TV dramas that don’t really exist anymore. I don’t think it ever made any year-end best lists. Leverage was never going to win an Emmy award. I was a fan of the original series, even though I would not have called it great TV. These villains stop just short of twirling their mustaches. Now he seeks-you guessed it-redemption, hence the title of this revival.įilmed on location in New Orleans, each episode offers up a new dastardly foe for the team: an art collector who made his fortune via the opioid crisis a real estate developer who cuts corners a casino developer who bulldozes people’s homes. Noah Wyle takes over for Hutton as lawyer Harry Wilson, who has spent his career legally protecting evil doers and their fortunes. But you know how it goes: Every time you think you’re out, they pull you back in. She, along with the rest of the gang, have basically gotten out of the grifting game.
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We learn in the opening moments of the new series that Nathan has died, and Sophie is now his grieving widow. In the original series, Timothy Hutton played insurance executive Nathan Ford, who is devastated when the company he works for fails to provide treatment for his terminally ill son. Returning cast members include Gina Bellman as sophisticated grifter Sophie Devereaux Beth Riesgraf as Parker, the thief who can steal anything Christian Kane as Eliot Spencer, the sensitive brute whose brawn can take down any foe and Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison, a tech genius who can hack into any computer system. The storyline is thread bare, the plot twists are projected from miles away, and the bad guys would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling con artists.Īs in the original, a ragtag group works a con to get the bad guy and deliver their own brand of justice. This new version plays a bit like Scooby Doo come to life. I thought about Scooby a lot while watching Leverage: Redemption the new IMDb TV series which revives the drama that ran on TNT from 2008 to 2012. The villains are easily identifiable and they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids. The comfortable beats of Daphne, Fred, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby are delightful to a six year old. “Mommy,” he would triumphantly declare from the back seat. Recently my family and I took a long car trip, and my son discovered Scooby-Doo.
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