Todd’s Movie Blog

I know that this is a blog about movies but I have been watching the coolest show on TNT.  It’s called Leverage and stars Tim Hutton (the definitive Archie Goodwin in my opinion) as an ex-insurance investigator who dropped out of circulation and into a bottle after his own company denied his insurance claims which resulted in his son’s death.  Resurfacing with a crack team of criminals (all of whom he himself had chased during the course of his former job), he now sets out to help ordinary people (no pun intended) who have been taken advantage of by ruthless corporate  CEOs and con them out of their money, and maybe get them sent to jail.  Like The Equalizer and Vengeance Unlimited, this show is the ultimate revenge fantasy with the twist of the timeliness of making  rich business people the villains who get their just desserts (something  that would probably warm the heart of any Great Depression kid today).  What is great about the show is you never really know where they are going until you get to the end, each time at the two thirds mark you think that the villain has figured it out but then it turns out that was all part of the scam from the beginning and the real reveal is something completely different.  Kudos to TNT for adding another great show to their roster of great shows.