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Leverage: "The Long Good-bye Job"
When Leverage tore through the first 10 episodes of its fifth season late last fall, there didn’t seem to be any reason…
Leverage
Leverage: “The Rundown Job”/“The Frame-Up Job”
Last year, Leverage produced a lark-y couple of episodes that divided the team up by gender, with the guys working one…
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Leverage: “The First Contact Job”
A few weeks ago, an Entertainment Weekly reviewer bitch-slapped Leverage. The charge: that, rather than playing to its…
B+
Leverage: “The Blue Line Job”
According to some insane law of basic-cable drama, it probably stands to reason that as soon as Leverage had shifted…
B+
Leverage: “The (Very) Big Bird Job”
Last year’s season premiere of Leverage opened with Eric Stoltz speaking into a video camera from the other side of the…
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Leverage: “The Last Dam Job”
Leverage has had its pretty good seasons and its not-so-good seasons, and this past season has mostly fallen under the…
B+
Leverage: “The Radio Job”
This is the episode I've been dreading since last summer, the one where Latimer, the mystery man (played by Leon Rippy)…
B+
Leverage: “The Gold Job”
For its first episode of the new year, Leverage chose to go after people who run TV commercials imploring you to bring…
C
Leverage: “The Lonely Hearts Job”
Speaking as someone who has known the pain of a lonely Christmas night at home with nothing to watch but the country…
B
Leverage: “The Boys’ Night Out Job”
Here's the companion piece to last week's episode showcasing the women of Leverage. This time out, it's the men's turn…
B+
Leverage: “The Girls’ Night Out Job”
Coming after last week’s mock-mockumentary episode, tonight’s episode, “The Girls’ Night Out Job,” confirms that, this…
B+
Leverage: “The Office Job”
Leverage got its MADtv on tonight, with a thickly layered episode that was largely staged as a parody of The Office, as…
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Leverage: “The Experimental Job”
If you've been keeping count, you might think that "The Experimental Job" marks the beginning of the fifth season of Lev…
B+
Leverage: “The Queen’s Gambit Job”
Tonight's wrap-up to Leverage's "summer season" was perfectly pleasant late-August entertainment, and pure time-killer.…
B
Leverage: “The Cross My Heart Job”
I spent the past week dreading this episode. The trailer for it clearly indicated that it would involve the team in an…
Leverage: "The Grave Danger Job"/"The Boiler Room Job"
In the final five minutes of the second of tonight's two back-to-back episodes, a scheduling ploy that I believe TNT…
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Leverage: "The Carnival Job"
The most entertaining episodes of Leverage this season have basically been self-parodies, goofy little diversions that…
B+
Leverage: "The Hot Potato Job"
Where to begin? Well, Nate and Sophie did it again. You can always tell when they're going to do it, because they take…
C+
Leverage: "The Van Gogh Job"
In theory, I find it admirable and exciting when a show like Leverage mixes it up a little and tinkers with its formula…
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Leverage: "The 15 Minutes Job"
Tonight's episode begins in the offices of Reed Rockwell, a professional shaper of public opinion and master of media…