Review of Leverage

Leverage (2008–2012)
8/10
Interesting to Re-Binge
25 December 2020
We watched the whole series in late 2016, and I remember them fondly but don't remember too much detail other than the character interplay. So we started again with S1E1 last night. What I found most surprising on this re-watch was that (a) Dubenich was actually the guy who brought the team together, not Nate (this had completely escaped me the first time), and (b), the team was pretty relaxed and comfortable with each other right off the bat, with their roles as team players. I feel like the show would have had greater stakes if the first episode, which perhaps could have had a longer runtime as the pilot, had had Nate finding and hiring the team (with difficulty) instead of Dubenich, and had explored their discomfort at working with others, and possibly either "funny screwup scenes" or "dramatic screwup scenes" as they tried to perpetrate the heist. It just all went a little too smoothly for people who "always work alone" and didn't really know each other. Other than that, it's fun, and we're looking forward to re-watching the whole series.
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