History Series / Imposters

** Jules gets with Gina, another woman who's lying about who she is.
** Ezra gets with Sofia, another con-woman.
--->'''Richie:''' …of the con artist you're screwing that looks just like Ava.\\

-->'''Richard''': I think he's getting off on this.
-->'''Ezra''': Nobody who gets conned is innocent.
-->'''Jules''': Now you sound like our ex-wife.

* 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.
* 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.

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). Soon nicknamed "the Bumblers," the trio start to work cons on their own to finance their quest. But circumstances soon put all of them in the crosshairs of the notorious "Doctor."

* 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.
** Also [[spoiler: Maddie when she realizes Max didn't hesitate to sell Sally out to her death just to save his own skin.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: In season 2, [[spoiler: Richard and his female partner decide to check into a hotel...which just happens to be where Max and Sally are holding Ezra's dad hostage.]]

* 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.

* 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.
** Brought up majorly when the Bumblers are hiding out in Mexico in season 2. Jules and Richard are rocked to find Ezra has gotten $25,000 in three days by going from selling fake boat tours to actually selling people boats he doesn't really own.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: A flashback in the season 2 premiere shows how Richard, thanks to Maddie, went from the slickest car dealership boss in town and hometown hero into bankrupt loser.

* MasterOfDisguise: Maddie is quite expert at this, as are Max and Sally. The Bumblers are...not so much.
* TheMissusAndTheEx: A fun variation. When he meets Jules' sister, Poppy, Richard is struck by how oddly familiar she is. He talks on her history, her habits, what perfume she likes...and it finally hits him that Maddie based her entire act of "Alice" on Poppy. Naturally, it doesn't take long for them to hit it off just as well.

* 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]].
** Also when they convince her that [[spoiler: Patrick works for the FBI and Maddie realizes she's been the one played this time.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Ezra uses a Hugh Grant impression he tries on a new friend early in season 2 as the model for an accent he later puts on for a mark. He does sound a lot like Hugh Grant, but Rob Heaps tends to slip on some of his r's and a few vowels.

* RunningGag: Richard is terrible at pronouncing "bureau". Before he screws it up a third time, he just avoids the word altogether.

* RealityEnsues: Patrick is told [[spoiler: by his FBI boss that spending wildly on everything from a huge house to gifts to private plane rides for his romance with Maddie is a major strain on the FBI budget. Naturally, the fact all that money was for nothing when Maddie and the Bumblers get away at the end of the season lands Patrick in hot water.]]

''Imposters'' is a 2017 BlackComedy television series aired by the Bravo cable network. Maddie (Creator/InbarLavi) is a con artist who, with the help of her two teammates, Max (Brian Benben) and Sally (Creator/KatherineLaNasa), gets men and women to fall in love with her and takes advantage of them.

''Imposters'' is a 2017 BlackComedy television series aired by the Bravo cable network. Maddie (Creator/InbarLavi) 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.

''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.

* 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.

* BiTheWay: Maddie has “married” both men and women over the course of her cons.

* StealingTheCredit: Jules' dark secret. When her college roommate/lover killed herself, Jules was a mess afterward and fell behind in her studies. She thus took her roommate's project to use for her senior thesis and was caught. Her family hushed it up but any chance Jules has of getting into the art world will be ruined if it was exposed.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Inbar Lavi,who plays Maddie, sometimes slips up and doesn't quite sound American.

* GiveMeBackMyWallet: In Mexico, Ezra meets a lovely Columbian lady and they chat over the city as she expertly picks his wallet. She heads to an alley to get out the cash and slips the wallet into a purse packed with several. She frowns and starts rummaging just as Ezra calls from behind her, revealing he has her cell phone. Instead of being upset, Ezra gives her tips on "don't flirt so quickly" the next time she pulls this. He also points out that he'd appreciate having the money ''in'' the wallet returned as well.

* FakeArisocrat: Jules' grandfather was a Scottish immigrant who made up being a Baron to impress people.

* 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.

* The MissusAndTheEx: A fun variation. When he meets Jules' sister, Poppy, Richard is struck by how oddly familiar she is. He talks on her history, her habits, what perfume she likes...and it finally hits him that Maddie based her entire act of "Alice" on Poppy. Naturally, it doesn't take long for them to hit it off just as well.