Jun
21
Leverage will start its fifth season with “The (Very) Big Bird Job” airing on July 12. Check the four key spoilers about the season 5 premiere below.
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May
08
Matthew Lillard is headed to Leverage season 5 for a guest role.
Lillard will drop by the TNT caper drama as Gabe Erickson, a corrupt businessman who has successfully evaded jail — that is, until Nate and Co. have their way with him.
Lillard’s most recent TV credits include House and a memorable turn opposite Carol Burnett on Law & Order: SVU.
Leverage season 5 premiere will air on Sunday, July 15.
You can check Leverage season 5 News and Spoilers HERE.
Apr
14
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Apr
14
Treat Williams is headed to Leverage season 5.
Williams will play Pete Rising, an ex-hockey player who now owns a professional team. After Rising sacrifices the team’s star player to get ahead, Nate (Tim Hutton) and his group step in to protect the team from its ruthless owner. An air date for the episode, titled “The Blue Line Job,” has not yet been scheduled.
What do you think about this episode of Leverage season 5?
You can check Leverage season 5 News and Spoilers HERE.
Jan
10
Emotion swings, excitement at its best, and one of the best Leverage episodes so far. That’s “The Radio Job” for you.
On one end of the emotional spectrum, we had some of the funniest moments this show has offered. How could you not love the nod to Die Hard from Eliot as he was communicating with Special Agent Dennis Powell? The latter was on the verge of being over acted by the always great Michael Paré, but just when I thought it was going over the edge, he reigned it back in.
We had Parker, Hardison and Eliot’s initial break in. If I was Hardison, I would have asked the same thing about why he is always being pushed off of stuff. Was anyone else waiting for Eliot to knock him out after Parker suggested he be unconscious?
The icing on the hilarious cake was Eliot’s running commentary with the last goon he was fighting about being too greedy and not bringing any backup. This is the attitude and scenes that I for which watch this show.
Then we had the emotional side of this episode, as it went in a direction I would never have imagined think it would go. While Jimmy Ford has been mentioned many times, we have only met him once before. It’s taken more than 18 months, but I got my wish that the writers figured out how to bring Jimmy back again to work with his son.
When Jimmy revealed that he was doing the job to keep Nate safe because Latimer threatened to kill him, I literally sat with my mouth gapping. First, from the fact that Jimmy Ford was capable of putting someone else’s needs first, but also that the laid back Latimer had used that kind of threat.
That was only one of several slack-jaw gapping stares I gave the TV as the one-two punch of Jimmy being blown up in the warehouse was followed by the fact that Victor Dubenich (Saul Rubinek) had been behind the plan to kill the Ford family.
For the third time this season we are getting a blast from the past, given that Victor was Nate and the team’s very first take down. It’s going to be very interesting to see how Latimer and Victor are connected and what Nate decides to do.
Nate has been content to leave Latimer alone because none of Latimer’s hijinks have affected him or the squad. Now that he will feel that Latimer is involved with the death of his father, Latimer may have wished he had never met Nate Ford. I may be most curious to see how Nate moves forward after learning that his father cared about him enough to sacrifice his life. Nate’s had father issues from the very start.
Of course, it’s the goal of any parent to keep their child safe. But it took until this episode for us to buy into Jimmy Ford as that kind of parent. I hope that his last message to Nate helps Nate find closure, though I have a feeling full closure is going to come in the form of bringing Latimer and Victor to their knees next week on the conclusion of this caper.
I really enjoyed episode 17 of Leverage season 4. Did you feel the same?
You can check Leverage Season 4 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.
Aug
29
“The Queen’s Gambit Job” features the return of Sterling on Leverage season 4.
TV Fanatic: I’m a fan of Mark Sheppard. I have enjoyed him on shows such as Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Warehouse 13. So, yes, I was thrilled to see him back.
I was also thrilled that the episode didn’t disappoint. I loved every minute of it, from opening car chase to the concluding toast. In fact, had Parker and Hardison smooched during their touching dance-dance scene, or after she got in the van, it would have received a perfect rating from this critic.
Speaking of Parker and Hardison’s dance-dance training, how awesome was his reassurance that she wasn’t alone? And then to follow that up by having packed her a parachute, knowing she might need it?
It was also very cute that she needed him to hum the music so she could remember the steps they practiced. I adore the two of them together. I just wish the powers that be would let them move forward a step. Would a kiss really kill anyone?!?
Meanwhile, Nate was his typical cleaver self, but when I saw Olivia tapping the bishop on the table, I connected the fact she was Sterling’s daughter before the reveal. She spent way too much time talking about her “real dad” for it not to be obvious.
Adding a daughter to the mix for Sterling makes me wonder if we have seen a new side of him. He seems to have not only accept Nate’s choice in helping those who need it, but embraced it himself to get his child back. I hope we get to see more of him on the same side as the team, or as much as he’s capable of.
We can all agree he would be a great contact. But am I the only one rooting for Jim and Nate to figure out how to repair their friendship? Okay, maybe Eliot isn’t rooting for them to become pals.
Who can blame him, given that Sterling drugged his coffee and locked him in a control room? Then again, Eliot has a semi-healthy way of working out his anger issues by beating up bad guys. So maybe it’s all part of the bigger plan.
On the topic of plans, I worry that so many of them include Hardison dying. Yes, I know Nate said them as if he were kidding, but given the level of danger in their job… exactly how much was he kidding? Hmmmm…
What are your expectations for the return of Leverage on November?
You can check Leverage Season 4 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.
Aug
25
Mark Sheppard gave us some hint on the upcoming episode of Leverage season 4.
The word is officially out, so what can the popular, extremely busy actor tell fans about his role on “The Queen’s Gambit Job?”
Sterling faces a “time crunch issue,” Sheppard says. “Something needs to be done in a short space of time. There are no legal means by which to do it, so who are you gonna turn to?”
We all know the answer to that question, of course, but we won’t know a lot more about where things go until we tune in on Sunday. Sheppard wouldn’t say much about the cliffhanger or whether he’ll return to Leverage this fall.
The actor does enjoy the dynamic between his character and Timothy Hutton’s Nate, however. He jokes that Sterling is “kind of like Nate’s ex-wife” because “the further we go with them, the more we learn about their past.”
Going back a few years, meanwhile, Sheppard said he was shocked to hear that he didn’t have to audition for this role and that it was originally in the script as “The Mark Shepperd.” He had never even met Leverage creator Dean Devlin, but the pair shook hands and Devin simply asked: “So, do you wanna play him English or Irish?”
Leverage concludes its summer season on Sunday and then returns on November 27.
What can you say about the season so far?
You can check Leverage Season 4 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.
Aug
22
One of the many things I like about this episode of Entourage titled “The Cross My Heart Job” – Nate knows how to keep his promise.
TV Fanatic: Okay, let’s all agree that the production team took some serious liberties with its representation of airport security. If anyone has traveled recently, that much was clear. A huge deal in an entertaining episode? No. But worth pointing out.
Honestly, I was willing to go with them on anything from the moment Eliot and Parker saved the little girl while Sophie was distracting the waiter in the restaurant. Does anyone else wonder exactly what Sophie packs to travel when she mentioned she didn’t have handcuffs “for this job,” but always has a pair of heels?
Nate did an amazing job of keeping himself together, given how close to home this job hit. His warning/threat to Chesney about destroying him and everything he had built or touched showed us exactly how far Nate has come since the pilot and reminded us why he is the mastermind of the team.
For his part, Chesney was every bit the hard ass James Tolkan is known for playing. I would love to see him back again facing off against Nate after he gets a new heart. Tolkan’s skills are still sharp, as it’s hard to appear intimidating when you are connected to tubes and lying in bed, but he did it. Honestly, it was fun to see Tolkan on screen again; I haven’t seen him in anything for years!
This is the second episode this season that featured the team working on a timed deadline. However, the difficulty was raised to an 11 as they were working inside an airport with none of their gear. I didn’t know how they were going to pull off finding the heart in 108 minutes.
I was surprised that there was no mention of Latimer. It’s hard to see him as a significant bad guy or threat when he has barely turned up and is never mentioned. Maybe this year the team isn’t really up against a single bad guy.
A typical yet enjoyable Leverage episode. What do you expect on next week’s summer finale?
You can check Leverage Season 4 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.
Aug
15
One good thing about episode 8 of Leverage season 4 is its well done story shifting. “The Boiler Room Job” did the shifts and still blended together in the end to make a truly well told story.
TV Fanatic: Did anyone else expect the civilian actors were actually Sherman’s other victims?
Of course, the episode was full of surprises as Nate and Sophie’s relationship was outed by Sherman as well. Shows you how good he really is, given than Parker, Hardison, and Eliot hadn’t suspected a thing.
It’s really hard to be attached to Sophie and Nate’s romance given that all of it has happened off camera and we only see the “day after.” Would it hurt to have an episode where we see them snuggling, or kissing, or how about a hug?
It was good to see our favorite thief hopped up on chocolate and caffeine. She rattled off the name of three episodes this year in her questioning of what the job was they were doing too, a nice touch! It was good to have happy Parker back after having seen somber Parker recently.
We also found out who the Mysterious man was that visited Nate earlier in the season – Jack Latimer – who appears to have been making a profit by betting against the companies and people that Nate and his team have been taking down. Latimer is being portrayed by Leon Rippy who was previously a regular on another TNT show Saving Grace.
I am on the fence if he is a good guy or bad guy. He has actively avoided turning in Nate and his team as he sees the work they are doing righting the wrongs; but, at the same time he has been profiting well in the process so why would he want to turn them in. I am sure we will learn more about Latimer in the coming episodes.
Question for the Eliot fans, was he hot in the Indiana Jones outfit or what? I watch Leverage with two women (one being my wife) and I swear one of them muttered “yummy” as he was swinging the hatchet in Ecuador; but, neither would fess up to it when asked.
Of course, Eliot also got to beat someone up again, so he seemed pretty happy when it was all said and done.
Did you enjoy this episode of Leverage?
You can check Leverage Season 4 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.
Aug
15
The good thing about Leverage episodes is that plans are not always smoothly executed. Sometimes they even have to race to save someone’s life. That is true in “The Grave Danger Job.”
TV Fanatic: Five minutes into the episode when Parker and Nate were talking about faith, I knew this was going to be an emotional rollercoaster ride for Parker.
I adored Beth Riesgraf’s performance in showing Parker’s emotions that she hides so well normally. There were so many subtle body motions and facial expressions that spoke volumes if you were watching for them.
To summarize what we learned about Parker on this ride: She lost someone close to her when she was young, which has resulted in a slight crisis of faith, she doesn’t want to let anyone close because she doesn’t want to lose them, and Hardison means more to her than she is ready to admit (yet).
Did I forget any?
The anticipation and tension around Parker’s feelings for Hardison built at a perfect pace throughout the episode and crescendo with Parker shouting Hardison’s first name (Alec) when she was trying to say how much he means to her, (she at least got out that she needs him). Unfortunately, the music hit a sour note and all of us hanging by our fingernails the whole time were left high and dry in the final scene between Hardison and Parker, when nothing was said and Hardison giving her a kiss on the cheek returned them to “quirky awkward silence” with him walking away right afterward.
REALLY?!? He nearly died and they didn’t even hug or give him a kiss back??? I call shenanigans!
This appears to be a case of the writers didn’t want to move them to the next stage in fear of ruining their chemistry. Anyone who watched Moonlighting can appreciate the delicate nature of this problem. But, come on, he nearly DIED and she is terrified of losing someone close to her, they would have had more of a reaction than a peck on the cheek!
It would have been much more of a Parker reaction to have been constantly near him or touching him (hand on his arm, leaning against him, etc), just to reassure herself that she hadn’t lost him. It would have been cute to see her being protective of him in the bar unnecessarily, then it could have been worked back into the goofy-silly-relationship they have now.
Okay, moving on. It was a refreshing episode given that we very rarely see any of the team members really in a life or death situation.
Nate did a fantastic job of keeping the team focused and using all of their skills to help find Hardison. Did anyone else catch Eliot’s reaction when he hugged Hardison? I love the way Eliot has grown to consider the team like a family and how protective he has become.
You can check Leverage Season 4 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.
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