• Network: TNT
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 7, 2008
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 81 Ratings

  • Summary: Hutton is an ex-insurance investigator leading a group of specialists to right wrongs caused by a variety of corrupt people and companies.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Suspense
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. 100
    John Rogers and Chris Downey have created a show that's equally smart and diverting.
  2. 80
    Even when Leverage flirts with serious issues, including the mistreatment of an Army reservist who is shot in Iraq by a private contractor, the dramatic tone is whimsical and tongue in cheek. This motley crew is a kind of guerilla comedy troupe that can pick pockets and empty bank accounts, too.
  3. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    Aside from an easygoing quality and mild comic flair, there's not much here to steal the hearts of viewers; instead, it's another modest, lightweight addition to TNT's diner-style menu of comfort food for a weary nation.
  4. Once TNT's new Leverage scrambles to its feet, it becomes an adept, fast-moving adventure yarn built on the familiar but serviceable premise that justice sometimes isn't best served through legitimate channels.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 34
  3. Negative: 1 out of 34
  1. PeterD
    10
    There's is nothing on television that is more fun to watch then "Leverage".
  2. JimL.
    8
    Really like this show. Bunch of odd balls be that's what makes the show.
  3. 6
    If you want to be entertained by this show, realize up front what you are getting. It lacks realism on all levels, but if you can get past that, it is enjoyable and watchable. The characters are well done and the sort of Ocean's Eleven (the new ones) endings are memorable. Expand
  4. OliviaN.B.
    3
    I utterly loathe this show. Everything about it but mostly the writing and the atrocious acting attributed to the bad writing. It tries to be funny, cute, and classically "cool" what with the needless explosions and with the 'little guy' prevailing it blatantly intended to give the audience a "Hell yeah!" kind of feeling. I find it wholly transparent and I won't be dragged into it's inspirational, 'Viva La Revolution' intention. Expand

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