Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys.
Leverage is a crime
dramedy which follows the exploits of Leverage Consulting & Associates, a team of criminals led by a former insurance investigator. The team takes a
modern-day Robin Hood approach of finding people and corporations who have committed wrongs and
attempting to restore justice as they see it, using their skills to run elaborate
Ocean's Eleven-style cons on their targets. Think of them as a modern-day version of
The A-Team.
The series just ended its fourth season and has been renewed for a fifth.
One of the show creators is
John Rogers, better known on the Internet as
Kung Fu Monkey
. If you see something about the show cited as
Word Of God, it probably comes from somewhere on his blog.
This show has a work-in-progress
character sheet.
It's also so full of
Shout Outs it's practically
Reference Overdosed, so be sure to check out the new
Shout Out page.It has an
across-the-pond counterpart in
Hustle. While the general concept is the same and at least one prominent guest star appeared on both shows, the two shows are unrelated.