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** Also [[spoiler: Maddie when she realizes Max didn't hesitate to sell Sally out to her death just to save his own skin.]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Clearly hit by [[spoiler: Max when he leads Sally to think that they're going to run off together but then hands her off to Lenny, just shrugging "Rules of the game."]]
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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: After discovering [[spoiler: Richard is an FBI agent, Maddie is basically kicking herself that she fell for exactly the same sort of tricks (from a fake family to playing hard to get) that she's used countless times on her own marks. Naturally, the Bumblers take some pleasure out of Maddie getting a dose of what she did to them.]]
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* JerkAssHasAPoint: It takes Richard's blunt talk to finally get Ezra to face up to how "Ava" never existed and her life/love with Ezra was all a lie. He also has to realize that rather than be a pawn of others, she was willing to do this.
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* MasterOfDisguise: Maddie is quite expert at this, as are Max and Sally. The Bumblers are...not so much.
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* FourthDateMarriage: Seems to be Maddie's MO.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Inbar Lavi,who plays Maddie, sometimes slips up and doesn't quite sound American.
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* FreudianTrio: Ezra is the cool-headed Superego - the others even call him the "mastermind" of the group. Jules is the passionate, intense, artistic Id. Richie is the Ego, balancing ambition and pleasure-seeking with the strongest moral compass and sense of decency of the group.
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* WhamShot: Richard following Patrick into [[spoiler: the Seattle headquarters of the FBI where Richard and his "family" are all wearing suits and agent badges.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: Ezra feels this to his father as Maddie's "goodbye file" reveals that not only has Ezra's dad been cheating on his mother for 20 years but he also stole the company's groundbreaking patent from his own brother.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: A fun variation. At an airport, Ezra's brother Josh meets Maddie, who's just dyed her hair blonde and preparing to leave for her next mark. She plays off him seeing a resemblance for some flirting, then leaves him hanging as she walks off. As she does, he sees she's wearing the anklet Ezra got her and she ''is'' Ava. He chases but is unable to catch her before she reaches his flight.
** This plays into how, worried about Maddie's leverage over him, Ezra plays off they just split up but Josh is able to figure out the truth.
** This plays into how, worried about Maddie's leverage over him, Ezra plays off they just split up but Josh is able to figure out the truth.
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* PaidForFamily: A variation as Maddie's partners, Max and Sally help her with the cons. They switch turns with one playing her parent or other guardian while the other infiltrates the mark's company.
* ProperlyParanoid: Ezra shows Gabby the wedding video of Elias and Katherine rather chummy for total strangers and how odd it is that Elias had a "fatal" heart attack the day Ava and Katherine left. Gabby tells him he's just being crushed by the pressure of Ava leaving and his imagination is running wild. As it happens, Ezra is dead on as Elias and Katherine are really Max and Sally, Maddie's partners.
* ProperlyParanoid: Ezra shows Gabby the wedding video of Elias and Katherine rather chummy for total strangers and how odd it is that Elias had a "fatal" heart attack the day Ava and Katherine left. Gabby tells him he's just being crushed by the pressure of Ava leaving and his imagination is running wild. As it happens, Ezra is dead on as Elias and Katherine are really Max and Sally, Maddie's partners.
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* SpotTheImposter: Obviously done as Ezra, Richard and Jules' lack of experience causes them to make a lot mistakes early on with their cons. However, it's shown that even a pro like Maddie can still make mistakes of her own.
** A fun variation. At an airport, Ezra's brother Josh meets Maddie, who's just dyed her hair blonde and preparing to leave for her next mark. She plays off him seeing a resemblance for some flirting, then leaves him hanging as she walks off. As she does, he sees she's wearing the anklet Ezra got her and she ''is'' Ava. He chases but is unable to catch her before she reaches his flight.
** Ezra is able to see through Richard's FBI act due to Richard's inability to pronounce "Bureau" correctly.
** Watching their wedding video, Ezra is struck by how Elias, a former worker at the company who just had a "fatal" heart attack and Ava's "Aunt Katherine" are rather chummy for two people who don't know each other. This leads him to figure out they're Maddie's partners.
** A fun variation. At an airport, Ezra's brother Josh meets Maddie, who's just dyed her hair blonde and preparing to leave for her next mark. She plays off him seeing a resemblance for some flirting, then leaves him hanging as she walks off. As she does, he sees she's wearing the anklet Ezra got her and she ''is'' Ava. He chases but is unable to catch her before she reaches his flight.
** Ezra is able to see through Richard's FBI act due to Richard's inability to pronounce "Bureau" correctly.
** Watching their wedding video, Ezra is struck by how Elias, a former worker at the company who just had a "fatal" heart attack and Ava's "Aunt Katherine" are rather chummy for two people who don't know each other. This leads him to figure out they're Maddie's partners.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: A fun variation. At an airport, Ezra's brother Josh meets Maddie, who's just dyed her hair blonde and preparing to leave for her next mark. She plays off him seeing a resemblance for some flirting, then leaves him hanging as she walks off. As she does, he sees she's wearing the anklet Ezra got her and she ''is'' Ava. He chases but is unable to catch her before he's tackled by security.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: A fun variation. At an airport, Ezra's brother Josh meets Maddie, who's just dyed her hair blonde and preparing to leave for her next mark. She plays off him seeing a resemblance for some flirting, then leaves him hanging as she walks off. As she does, he sees she's wearing the anklet Ezra got her and she ''is'' Ava. He chases but is unable to catch her before he's tackled by security.she reaches his flight.
** This plays into how, worried about Maddie's leverage over him, Ezra plays off they just split up but Josh is able to figure out the truth.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: A fun variation. At an airport, Ezra's brother Josh meets Maddie, who's just dyed her hair blonde and preparing to leave for her next mark. She plays off him seeing a resemblance for some flirting, then leaves him hanging as she walks off. As she does, he sees she's wearing the anklet Ezra got her and she ''is'' Ava. He chases but is unable to catch her before he's tackled by security.
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* FakeFamily: When first finding out the truth about Maddie, Ezra tries to call her "Aunt Katherine" who raised her and was at the wedding. When there's no answer, he realizes she was part of the con. Indeed, Sally is part of the team, acting the role of aunt/mother/sister for Maddie's cons.
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* FakeFamily: When first finding out the truth about Maddie, Ezra tries to call her "Aunt Katherine" who raised her and was at the wedding. When there's no answer, he realizes she was part of the con. Indeed, Sally is part of the team, acting the role of aunt/mother/sister for Maddie's cons.
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* WasItAllALie: Maddie's video to Ezra (and, it's hinted, to Richard and Jules as well) lampshades how they will all be wondering how much of their relationship was fake or not.
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* HowWeGotHere: The pilot opens with Ezra in the middle of his trashed living room, looking a complete mess and yelling to someone at the door to go away as he's trying to kill himself. It then flashes back five weeks to him marrying Maddie and then discovering how she conned him.
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* AndThisIsFor: In the finale, [[spoiler:Maddie ditches Max when she learns that he got rid of Sally. When Max opens the briefcase he thinks has the FBI's money in it, Maddie has left a note invoking this trope]].
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The protagonists are people hiding terrible secrets who got conned and eventually become grifters themselves, while the antagonists have no problems destroying people's lives or outright killing them without blinking.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: "Always forward, never back." A phrase Maddie likes to say a lot, that Ezra, Richie and Jules each remember her saying to them.
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* DarkActionGirl: Lenny Cohen, the Doctor’s main enforcer is a brutal hand to hand fighter who will break your arm if you annoy her at a bar.
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* DarkSecret: Ezra, Richard and Jules all have one that made them targets for Maddie, Max and Sally. Ezra's and Richard's are eventually explained, but Jules's has yet to be fully revealed by the end of the first season.
* DarkSecret: Ezra, Richard and Jules all have one that made them targets for Maddie, Max and Sally. Ezra's and Richard's are eventually explained, but Jules's has yet to be fully revealed by the end of the first season.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Doctor is actually a medical doctor. He is seen performing surgery and looking at X-rays while talking to Max.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Gaby for Ezra. It's almost sad how she's clearly in love with him, while he can't get over his former "wife".
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Used heavily from the eighth episode onward.
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* BatmanGambit: Part of Maddie's play in the eighth and ninth episode has [[spoiler:Ezra withstanding an interrogation from Patrick, an FBI agent, and subtly manipulating him]].
* CallingCard: When Maddie has gotten what she came for, she leaves her mark with a website containing a video explaining herself, telling her mark not to find her, and threatening them if they try.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Always forward, never back." A phrase Maddie likes to say a lot, that Ezra, Richie and Jules each remember her saying to them.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Always forward, never back." A phrase Maddie likes to say a lot, that Ezra, Richie and Jules each remember her saying to them.
* EnemyMine: In the eighth episode, [[spoiler:Maddie decides to recruit Ezra, Jules and Richard in order for her and Max to have a chance at conning Patrick despite learning that he's in the FBI]].
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: How Ezra fell for Maddie.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: How Ezra fell for Maddie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ezra doing the quarter-in-the-ear trick on Jules. In the finale, [[spoiler:he does the same thing in revealing that he successfully stole the ring from under the noses of the FBI, Maddie and Max]].
* GambitPileup: From the seventh episode onward, the amount of deceptions between characters begin to grow exponentially, even as they have to work more closely together. They all come to a head in the season finale where the last few scenes show who got away with what.
* GentlemanThief: Ezra grows into this as he continues grifting in the process of trying to track Maddie down.
* GambitPileup: From the seventh episode onward, the amount of deceptions between characters begin to grow exponentially, even as they have to work more closely together. They all come to a head in the season finale where the last few scenes show who got away with what.
* GentlemanThief: Ezra grows into this as he continues grifting in the process of trying to track Maddie down.
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* HollywoodLaw: An FBI agent [[spoiler:repeatedly having sex with the suspect he is trying to catch]] would complety and utterly tank the case in the real world. Here it isn't even brought up.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: One of the things that attracts Maddie towards Patrick is the fact that he is not a mark and she could lead a perfectly normal life with him.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: One of the things that attracts Maddie towards Patrick is the fact that he is not a mark and she could lead a perfectly normal life with him. [[spoiler:It turns out Patrick is an FBI agent going after The Doctor and using her to track him down, and she has her moment of heartbreak when she learns this]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Max, Lenny, and The Doctor. If Max has to intervene, there's probably something beyond Maddie's control at play in the con. If Lenny shows up, it means one of the con artists screwed up. The Doctor, however, only gets involved if any of them even thinks of leaving the life.
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* OhCrap: Maddie looks like she is about to completely lose her shit when [[spoiler:Ezra, Richard and Jules confront her in a diner in episode 5.]]
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* OhCrap: Maddie looks like she is about to completely lose her shit when [[spoiler:Ezra, Richard and Jules confront her in a diner in episode 5.]]
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* RunningGag: Richard is terrible at pronouncing "bureau". Before he screws it up a third time, he just avoids the word altogether.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Jules.
* TitleDrop: The name of every episode comes from a line of dialogue used during said episode. The show title itself is dropped at the end of the first season [[spoiler:when The Doctor calls Lenny and tells her to go after "the three imposters" (referring to Ezra, Richard and Jules)]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Ezra grows more assertive and confident, as a grifter and just as a person in general, the further along he goes in trying to find Maddie. By the season finale, [[spoiler:he manages to fool not only the FBI, but both Maddie and Max, and is the only one among them who gets away with anything valuable in the end]].
* RunningGag: Richard is terrible at pronouncing "bureau". Before he screws it up a third time, he just avoids the word altogether.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Jules.
* TitleDrop: The name of every episode comes from a line of dialogue used during said episode. The show title itself is dropped at the end of the first season [[spoiler:when The Doctor calls Lenny and tells her to go after "the three imposters" (referring to Ezra, Richard and Jules)]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Ezra grows more assertive and confident, as a grifter and just as a person in general, the further along he goes in trying to find Maddie. By the season finale, [[spoiler:he manages to fool not only the FBI, but both Maddie and Max, and is the only one among them who gets away with anything valuable in the end]].
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* CleanupCrew: In addition to being a deadly enforcer, Lenny is also very handy when it comes to disposing a body and making it look like the corpse disappeared on his own initiative.
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* FakeNationality: InUniverse, Maddie pretended to be Belgian when she seduced Ezra.
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* BlatantLies: Ezra, Richard and Jules all claim to be over Maddie, but it's transparently clear that all three are still very much in love with her.
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* MaleGaze: The camera never misses a chance to focus on Maddie's spectacular body. The fact that she only dresses in outfits that shown it off undoubtedly helps.
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* IHaveManyNames: Maddie goes by a different name with every mark, being also known as Ava, Alice, CeCe and Saffron.
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* IHaveManyNames: Maddie goes by a different name with every mark, being also known as Ava, Alice, CeCe [=CeCe=] and Saffron.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheTin: The Doctor is actually a medical doctor. He is seen performing surgery and looking at X-rays while talking to Max.
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''Imposters'' is a 2017 BlackComedy television series aired by the Bravo cable network. Maddie (Inbar Lavi) is a con artist who, with the help of her two teammates, Max (Brian Benben) and Sally (Katherine [=LaNasa=]), gets men and women to fall in love with her and takes advantage of them.
Even as Maddie and her team begin working on their latest mark, three of her former victims team up to track her down: Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Marianne Rendón).
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* AssholeVictim: The bulk of Maddie and her crew’s mark are people who had done something wrong, so that they can blackmail them into keeping quiet after they’ve been robbed of everything. Becomes a DiscussedTrope when Ezra and Richard resort to cons to survive and set as a rule that they will only steal from assholes.
* BadBoss: If any of his employees so much as thinks about leaving “the life” The Doctor will send goons to beat the crap out of their loved ones.
* BigBad: The Doctor, a mysterious figure who plans the cons Maddie and her team carry out and keeps 70% of the take.
* BiTheWay: Maddie has “married” both men and women over the course of her cons.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Richard may be self-obsessed and dimwitted, but he is a born salesman.
* DarkActionGirl: Lenny Cohen, the Doctor’s main enforcer is a brutal hand to hand fighter who will break your arm if you annoy her at a bar.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ezra becomes so depressed after Maddie leaves him that he tries to kill himself, but botches it.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheTin: The Doctor is actually a medical doctor. He is seen performing surgery and looking at X-rays while talking to Max.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Ezra, Richard and Jules undergo a mild version of this trope, as they are left to resort to becoming con artists themselves to fund their search for Maddie.
* IHaveManyNames: Maddie goes by a different name with every mark, being also known as Ava, Alice, CeCe and Saffron.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: One of the things that attracts Maddie towards Patrick is the fact that he is not a mark and she could lead a perfectly normal life with him.
* ImagineSpot: Maddie fantasizes about one of her marks choking on his sushi and dropping dead at the table.
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Even as Maddie and her team begin working on their latest mark, three of her former victims team up to track her down: Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Marianne Rendón).
!! ''Imposters'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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* AssholeVictim: The bulk of Maddie and her crew’s mark are people who had done something wrong, so that they can blackmail them into keeping quiet after they’ve been robbed of everything. Becomes a DiscussedTrope when Ezra and Richard resort to cons to survive and set as a rule that they will only steal from assholes.
* BadBoss: If any of his employees so much as thinks about leaving “the life” The Doctor will send goons to beat the crap out of their loved ones.
* BigBad: The Doctor, a mysterious figure who plans the cons Maddie and her team carry out and keeps 70% of the take.
* BiTheWay: Maddie has “married” both men and women over the course of her cons.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Richard may be self-obsessed and dimwitted, but he is a born salesman.
* DarkActionGirl: Lenny Cohen, the Doctor’s main enforcer is a brutal hand to hand fighter who will break your arm if you annoy her at a bar.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ezra becomes so depressed after Maddie leaves him that he tries to kill himself, but botches it.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheTin: The Doctor is actually a medical doctor. He is seen performing surgery and looking at X-rays while talking to Max.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Ezra, Richard and Jules undergo a mild version of this trope, as they are left to resort to becoming con artists themselves to fund their search for Maddie.
* IHaveManyNames: Maddie goes by a different name with every mark, being also known as Ava, Alice, CeCe and Saffron.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: One of the things that attracts Maddie towards Patrick is the fact that he is not a mark and she could lead a perfectly normal life with him.
* ImagineSpot: Maddie fantasizes about one of her marks choking on his sushi and dropping dead at the table.
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