History Series / LeverageRedemption

** It could also be looked at as the team being the Valet, and Milton, having only conversed with Nate occasionally and having been told the stories from his POV, as the fan, in which case it is played straight.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Nate Ford was killed off before the show in order to distance it from Timothy Hutton because of an accusation of past sexual assault made against him. He has since been cleared of the charge due to lack of evidence.

A second season premiered on November 16, 2022.

A second season [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/leverage-redemption-renewed-season-2-imdb-tv-1235130084/ has been announced]] and will premiere on November 16, 2022.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Harry's tipping point. He was fine with his job when it was at a distance, but for Maxwell's case, he personally visited every one of Maxwell's victims and convinced them to take the settlement. And then Maxwell reneged.

A second season [[https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/leverage-redemption-renewed-season-2-imdb-tv-1235130084/ has been announced]].

* ReplacedWithReplica: The first episode has the team [[FramingTheGuiltyParty framing]] TheMark for insurance fraud. This plan involves swapping out nine pieces of art he had donated with fakes and then destroying one of them.

The first teaser for the series can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpPH4mzVCu8 here]] with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPOeC78AV4M full trailer released a few weeks later]]. Another teaser was released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrfv0xJ-kNw for the second half of the season]] a month ahead of its premier date.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Harry's tipping point. He was fine with his job when it was at a distance, but for Maxwell's case he personally visited every one of Maxwell's victims and convinced them to take the settlement. And then Maxwell reneged.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: The mark from "The Great Train Job", with his neo-Nazi ties and ideologies, is very clearly enamored with Sophie's character, a German aristocrat. Sophie takes every opportunity to deny his advancements and is quite visibly disgusted when she has to let him go in for a kiss.
* AbortedArc: The fifth season had Sophie discover her calling in directing and teaching acting and Parker trying to expand in interests outside of thieving. Neither case get referenced in the new series though Parker is apparently seeing a therapist.
** [[spoiler: Unaborted in Episode 9. Running the cons IS how Sophie directs. It's also noted that Parker has a more healthy life, and works as the roper and has friends. Episode 15 also has Sophie offered a directing job in London.]]

* AudienceSurrogate: The Leverage team can be broke down into three groups of these with the original members representing long-time fans who know the [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] and [[spoiler: feel the absence of Nate not being part of the show]]. Harry represents someone completely new to the series and reacts appropriately such as confusion to the team's "Let's go steal a..." catchphrase. Breanna is the third group who are those in the in-between: someone who knows all about the team, but from being told rather than experiencing events of the original series.

* TheBore: Fake Nate from "The Mastermind Job" is ''astoundingly'' boring, regularly putting people to sleep with his long-winded conversations on bureaucratic regulation (which is, unfortunately, the only thing he can talk about with any real detail). To hammer the point home, he ''knows'' he's boring, and resorted to pretending to be Nate because he got tired of it. By the end of the episode, he finds fulfillment knowing this is his superpower, and has even been recruited to Leverage International, where his skill can find use in infiltration.

* CaperCrew: Naturally Team Leverage, a JustLikeRobinHood team who use their not-inconsiderable skills to get justice for those used and abused by the rich and powerful. Along with '''The Hacker''' (Hardison), '''The Thief''' (Parker), '''The Hitter''' (Eliot), and '''The Grifter''' (Sophie), the team sees the new addition of [[TagalongKid Breanna Casey]] and [[TheAtoner Harry Wilson]].

** At the end of "The Too Many Rembrandts Job", Eliot admits they might need a plan M, which Hardison angrily vetoes, because Hardison dies in plan M.
** When Hardison and Parker argue that Breanna is too out of her depth being on the field, Sophie counters them by pointing out neither of them started out very well when put on the spot for the first time in a con, specifically bringing up Parker's issues with the Serbian mob in "The Stork Job" and Hardison's master thief persona in "The Ice Man Job."

** "Fake Nate" in "The Mastermind Job" recites the original series' opening monologue nearly word-for-word in his interview, and references many of the team's old cases.

* ChristmasEpisode: "The Bucket Job" takes a break from the formula to instead have the team craft an elaborate spy thriller adventure as a gift for a dying librarian on the request of his young friend.

* FakeIdentityBaggage: This trope is invoked and played straight in "The Mastermind Job". A man named Milton writes a book based on the Leverage Team's accomplishments and casts himself as Nate Ford, taking credit for his role as the mastermind. The Leverage Team try to convince him not to publish it by making him think he is being targeted by some of the people they took down. Unfortunately, Milton's false claims have drawn the attention of a man who wants him to steal a scarab from his ex-wife, a feat Milton is incapable of performing. Thus, the team's goal changes to saving Milton's life.

** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path towards being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based off of his comments.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Downplayed. The first eight episodes of season 1 released a day early, announced by [[https://twitter.com/LeverageRedempt/status/1413233377797230592?s=19 a post from the official Twitter account asking where Hardison was.]]

* TheGhost: Nate Ford gets this to the point of literally being a ghost having died before the series began, being mentioned every episode and his absence is felt. There's also Harry's unnamed daughter, whom he mentions repeatedly but is never seen.[[spoiler:.. until the first half of the finale.]]

* HeistClash: The first episode has Eliot, Parker and Hardison try to cheer up Sophie who is feeling depressed on the anniversary of Nate's death by planning a heist from an art museum. While there, they come across [[TheFixer Harry Wilson]] trying to steal a painting donated by his corrupt client. When Harry trips the alarm, the team have to decide if they should help him or not. They choose to help him, and he becomes a new teammate.

** "The Double-Edged Sword Job" reveals that in the time gap between two series, Parker and Eliot have learned Klingon. Parker (presumably) because she was dating Hardison, and Eliot because Hardison bet him that he couldn't. Breanna isn't fully sure if Hardison really "lost" that bet.
** "The Bucket Job" shows Breanna is a much bigger fan of antique computers and technology than one would expect of a young hacker, geeking out over the sight of an old school big block PC and happily receiving a vintage UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} for Christmas.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In "The Double-Edged Sword Job", Breanna reveals the guy Eliot bumped into earlier in the episode was their mark, then pulls up a series of photos and asks him to pick out the guys' face. Eliot starts to say that he only saw him for a few seconds, only to then cut himself off by saying, "It's the third guy on the left, bottom row."

** "The Golf Job" sees Harry, Eliot and Hurley run into a guy at the golf club running a scam on one of the other members, the former of which turns out to be trafficking undocumented Vietnamese immigrants through a nail salon.
** "The Great Train Job": The team help out a gay couple who are the victim of a hate crime. It turns out they are being targeted by a CorruptCorporateExecutive who is trying to run them out of town before they reveal he is poisoning their farm through illegal dumping.

* NaiveNewcomer: Breanna and (especially) Harry, who has to get used to the original members' catchphrases, in-jokes and rituals. Ultimately, they fulfill a similar role to who Hardison, Eliot and Parker used to be: relatively new to being a part of a team and inexperienced to their roles, but over time grow into them to become equals to the rest of the crew.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In addition to the examples listed under RippedFromTheHeadlines below, there are a couple references to real-life people:

* PrivateMilitaryContractor: RIZ Security is a secretive, amoral organization that provides security for dictators, mobsters and {{corrupt corporate executive}}s -- and the people who run it have sinister plans of their own. They're recurring villains throughout the season. [[spoiler: And the final bad guy, plotting a terrorist attack as a proof of concept.]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: As with the original series, many cases are inspired by real world events, and likely wouldn't be believable if they didn't actually happen.

** "The Card Game Job" is inspired by Martin Shkreli. Shkreli was a hedge fund manager who bought out a pharma company and raised the cost of an antiparasitic drug used by HIV+ and AIDS patients (that only they had the rights to manufacture) by a factor of 56 and was later convicted of securities fraud. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also purchased the sole rights to listen to a]] Music/WuTangClan [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking album]]; even this is alluded to in the episode, as one of the {{Plot Point}}s is the Shrkeli {{expy}}'s possession of the only copy of a valuable pop-cultural artifact.

** "The Unwellness Job" is pretty clearly based off of Creator/GwynethPaltrow's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goop_(company) Goop]], a health and lifestyle brand started by a B-list actress that comes under fire due to heavy use of products based on pseudoscience.

** Hardison refers to the team's re-recruitment of Sophie as "Getting the gang back together, like ''{{Film/Star Trek|The Motion Picture}}''," while giving [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Mariner's backwards Vulcan salutes]]. Eliot joins in by referencing the StarTrekMovieCurse:

** "The Card Game Job" has its creator loosely based on Richard Garfield, with a hilarious reference to Creator/GeorgeRRMartin in the middle of the episode. There's also a moment when Breanna is playing said card game with the VillainOfTheWeek, and he throws down a [[Manga/YuGiOh Blue-Eyed Dragon]]. Extra points for him also being a ruthless CEO who only cares about winning and a penchant for a mystical card game.

** After Parker comes across an invisible laser grid in one episode, Hardison helps walk her through it via an infrared camera. At one point, Parker has to bend over backwards one of the lasers. Hardison bends backwards to follow her movements as best as he can, but a) he's nowhere near as flexible as Parker and b) he forgot to stretch beforehand, so after a few seconds of holding the pose, there's a loud 'SNAP" and Hardison spends the rest of the episode moving with an obvious limp.
** Hardison created a program that wipes any trace of the team from the Internet and then gives them perfect cover identities. Elliot's cover is blown because a security consultant saw a picture of his from his mercenary days and remembered his face. As good as he is, Hardison cannot hack people's memories.

** During a fight, Breanna attempts to help by smacking Eliot's opponent in the back of the head with a wooden pole. Of course, with her being a young hacker with the physical prowess that implies, the pole just bounces off the guys' back without so much as a crack, only serving to make her a target.

** Hardison previously needed an entire van (Lucille and, later, Lucille 2.0) to house the team's field equipment. Since the original team parted ways, computer technology has advanced to the point that Hardison was able to turn every one of Elliot's food trucks into a "Lucille" (thanks to a hideaway compartment in the back), allowing the team to work internationally.

* UnPerson: Hardison has written an algorithm capable of erasing all photos and evidence of a person from the Internet. The team uses this to protect their identities and ''The Double-Edge Sword Job'' reveals it allows them to run their own version of Witness Security. The same episode has the team deal with a tech-genius who created an algorithm that can find people in photographs that are so blurry that Hardison's program can't recognize them and so doesn't delete them.

** Hardison introduces himself as "[[Series/DoctorWho Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]]".

* CelebrityParadox: ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gets multiple mentions, but "The Bucket Job" features Creator/LeVarBurton in a guest role and his character confesses to not knowing what ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' is.

** In "The Hurricane Job", [=McSweeteen=] and Taggart are namedropped by Maria Shipp. They've somehow moved up in the FBI, with [=McSweeten=] as the head of the Counterterrorism Task Force and Taggart as Deputy Director.

* CharacterNameAlias: In "The Panamanian Monkey Job", Sophie and Hardison introduce themselves as [[Series/DoctorWho Jo Grant and Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]]. Breanna later uses [[Characters/DoctorWhoNewSeriesCompanions Billie Potts]] (bonus points: Billie Potts is ''also'' black and gay). In "The Double-Edged Sword Job", Eliot is given the alias [[Series/{{Chuck}} Emmett Milbarge]], and the alias [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil Armus Vagra]] in "The Muddy Waters Job", doubling as a StealthPun given his cover as an oil well worker.

''Leverage: Redemption'' is American {{action|Genre}} [[CrimeDrama crime drama]] streaming television series, a {{revival}} and continuation of Creator/{{TNT}}'s ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. The second [=IMDb=] TV original series, the first season began on July 8th, 2021[[note]]a day ahead of schedule[[/note]] with 8 episodes, with an additional 8 premiering on October 7th of the same year[[note]]also a day ahead of schedule[[/note]].

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: As much as the series delves into the opposite trope, "The Paranormal Hacktivity Job" shows the reverse is also true: honest, good people have a hard time believing someone would take advantage of and hurt others for simple greed. The client of the episode actually finds it easier to believe that she's being haunted by her grandmother's ghost than two men are {{Gaslighting}} her as part of a real estate scam.

--->'''Breanna:''' I read the manual.[[note]]Hardison left behind a series of manuals for Breanna so she could do his job[[/note]] ({{beat}}) I skimmed volumes one to three.\\
'''Parker:''' There's ''fifteen'' volumes.

** Both Harry and Breanna, as the "kids" of the team, serve as this to Parker, Hardison, and Eliot, who filled that role when the more experienced Nate and Sophie were in charge. Their reasons for joining are also different. Besides Harry's motivation, as mentioned above, Breanna tells Harry right off the bat that the reason she wants to join is because "the world sucks" and she wants to "make it suck less." Contrast the trio in the original series, who initially joined for money/revenge and ''then'' learned that GoodFeelsGood

** One storyline was ''not'' ripped from the headlines, as it aired far too soon after the event in question for it to have been intentional. "The Tower Job" was not taken from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse collapse of the condo]] in UsefulNotes/{{Miami}], UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}.

** One storyline was ''not'' ripped from the headlines, as it aired far too soon after the event in question for it to have been intentional. "The Tower Job" was not taken from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse collapse of the condo]] in UseuflNotes/{{Miami}], UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}.

** "The Too Many Rembrants Job" is based on the Sackler family, who founded and control Purdue Pharma, and were sued for their involvement with the American opioid crisis after covering up how addictive Oxycontin could be. Multiple museum galleries had their names attached, notably in the Guggenheim.

** One storyline was ''not'' ripped from the headlines, as it aired far too soon after the event in question for it to have been intentional. The Tower Job was not taken from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse collapse of the condo in Miami, Florida]].

** "The Grand Train Job" reveals Harry keeps a lot of chemical testing equipment on hand, having grown suspicious of what ends up in food after his firm took a case involving cobalt-tainted beer.

* FromBadToWorse: According to Eliot, things have gotten worse over the years for the innocent: the rich and powerful are still exploiting them and are now finding new creative ways to work ''within'' the system.

* CharacterNameAlias: In "The Panamanian Monkey Job", Sophie and Hardison introduce themselves as [[Series/DoctorWho Jo Grant and Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]]. Breanna later uses [[Characters/DoctorWhoNewSeriesCompanions Billie Potts]]. In "The Double-Edged Sword Job", Eliot is given the alias [[Series/{{Chuck}} Emmett Milbarge]], and the alias [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E22SkinOfEvil Armus Vagra]] in "The Muddy Waters Job", doubling as a StealthPun given his cover as an oil well worker.

* TheBore: Fake Nate from "The Mastermind Job" is ''astoundingly'' boring, regularly putting people to sleep with his long-winded conversations on bureaucratic regulation (which is, unfortunately, the only thing he can talk about with any real detail). To hammer the point home, he ''knows'' he's boring, and resorted to pretending to be Nate because he got tired of it.

* ShipTease: Immediately between Eliot and Maria Shipp, thanks to the InterplayOfSexAndViolence. Frequently between Sophie and Harry, as when he asks her out for coffee at the end of an episode that made a big point of the client getting coffee and a big clue being that she loved to get coffee with her wife.

* ShipTease: Immediately between Eliot and Maria Shipp, frequently between Sophie and Harry.