Leverage wrapped up its first season Monday evening with the conclusion of their most daring heists yet. After getting caught by Sterling, Nate Ford and the rest of his team scattered to avoid being killed.
It didn’t take long for them to come back together. They didn’t have any contact with one another after being found out, yet they all managed to show up at Blackpoole’s gallery to scope it out. Their presence was detected, forcing them all to flee, but not before Nate came right to Sterling and Blackpoole and told them point-blank that he’d rob the gallery on opening night. Nice, Nate.
Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford and Kari Matchett as Maggie
One of the scenes I was looking forward to most was the scene between Nate and Maggie. Maggie was still unaware that Blackpoole denied the insurance claim which likely would have helped Sam, Maggie and Nate’s only child. She was horrified when she learned the truth.
In order to get into the gallery, the group had to employ quite a few tricks, some of which I saw coming and others I didn’t. One of those was hiding BEHIND the Egyptian scarcophagus. That was quite clever.
Mark Sheppard as Sterling
Although it’s quite easy to hate Nate’s former co-worker Sterling, I quite like him as a villain. I really enjoy intelligent villains and Sterling gave Nate a run for his money this season. I just hope it isn’t over for him. He’s too good to write him out of the show.
Leverage is on a very short list of clever shows that have appeared in recent memory. It’s something I would easily recommend to people. I suspect TNT will be re-airing this series quite a bit considering how popular it was for the network. And with season two in production, we can expect to see more of Leverage later this summer.
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