Tag: leverage

letsgostealaleverageblog:

“This lead us to design the new grifter in a very specific way: although she’d be doing Sophie’s job, she’d be the opposite of Sophie’s persona. Where Sophie’s European and genteel, Tara’s ballsy and physical. In one email I sent Downey while we were designing the character (I was up in Portland shooting #207) I wrote “While Sophie still exchanges Christmas cards with some of her marks, the end of Tara’s cons involve running out of burning buildings carrying metal briefcases full of blood-stained money.””

— John Rogers, on creating a substitute for Sophie, not a replacement.

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angeldrake3:

LEVERAGE 

Ep13, S1

Don’t spy on your ex wife with the spy camera she remembers, Nate. She’ll pull shit like this on you. 

This was an amazing scene and is probably one of my favorites from my very favorite show. For many reasons. Mostly because it demonstrates why I love this show, despite it having one of those straight white super smart male leads. Nate here is being ridiculed, humiliated. Everyone is staring at him, embarrassed on his behalf. He does not come back from this moment, call his ex-wife a bitch or a liar, or try and humiliate her in turn. His embarrassment remains and lasts. He is our protagonist, our lead, but he is not untouchable, he is not perfect, and he is not always right. 

It’s nuance like that, among so many other wonderful things, that makes me love Leverage so much. It is my very favorite show. 

The exact moment I fell madly in love with Maggie.

If you look carefully, right before this scene you can see her quickly glance towards Eliot’s hidden camera (it was so subtle, it took me like my third rewatch to notice). Like, she noticed that shit within 0.2 seconds of seeing Eliot.

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thelyssymarie:

best parts of leverage:

  • the scene at the end of every episode where the whole team smugly stares down the mark while they stand in a dramatic cluster across the room
  • “it’s a very distinctive ____”
  • sophie attending her own funeral on multiple occasions
  • eliot hugging hardison and then pushing him away like he was the one to initiate it
  • maggie. just maggie
  • nate trying and failing to figure out sophie’s real name
  • parker being aggressively festive in the christmas episodes
  • the team working seamlessly on a job
  • every single interaction with sterling
  • sophie being incapable of acting when it’s not for a grift
  • hardison hacking the bank of iceland to pay his nana’s medical bills
  • constant sci fi references
  • the entirety of the rundown job
  • eliot and parker slowly learning to trust others over the course of the seasons
  • eliot sarcastically praising parker and hardison
  • “age of the geek baby”
  • the episode that’s filmed in the style of the office
  • competence porn
  • eliot being offended at the wrong things

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knitmeapony:

What is the best part of this?

1) That Elliot is pretty clearly playing from the Alec Hardison Book of Trolling People You Hate

2) That he legitimately did this ‘simply humanly impossible’ trick with a gun 

3) That he possibly did it specifically because he was thinking about the JFK assassination, not just on the job but possibly out of sheer curiousity / for funsies.

4) That Sterling knows Elliot’s file well enough to quote chapter and verse like that.

5) That Sterling knows Elliot’s history well enough to choose something to put in the coffee that he wouldn’t immediately recognize and stop drinking.

5) That Elliot is right about the coffee.

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