The Fractured Job

I live in north Texas and several years ago I went to live & work in south Texas for a short time. Fracking had just came on the scene and it does affect so many lives. I appreciated this episode, its really hard to fight the money.

The shocker in this episode was seeing Elliott so sensitive. This episode has some good writing and as always, such good acting. Elliott doesn't need anyone else in the scene, he can hold his own but it was great that everyone was involved.

As usual, some good fight scenes, lots of laughs and plotting thats makes you go, what?? Lol keep it up guys and gals! Until next time.

This one made me actually cry at the end. I HATE CRYING.

Elliot & Billy making amends touched me in a way I'm not used to having to deal with.

The story itself was a typical Leverage story, but the Elliot story hit me hard. Actually made me cry for the relationship I never had with my own father.

The rest of it was great, of course, but it's the missed opportunity to reconnect with ones loved ones and move forward together that actually hit me.

I'm more in love with this show than I ever was, and I've been watching since the original Leverage.

I still wish they'd have figured out a way to forgive Timothy Hutton, but this is a worthy successor.

Setting aside the glaring factual errors, the entire plot was cheaply contrived and amateurish. It's a shame, because the original series had a lot of creative ideas and plots. Rather than the kind of creative climax the original series was known for, this series seems to rely on hastily scribble, pulp hack endings that would be more appropriate for a comic book. What's worse is the writers having the "good guys" using the same sleazy, underhanded tricks the bad guys use. This gives a miserable ethical conundrum where we have one set of liars fighting another set of liars with no real definition of why one would be better than the other.

I felt so happy/proud of Eliot/Christian Kane. He's always the more silent type and I've been feeling like his character has been missing something since the breakup last season. I'm happy that both actor/character got this opportunity to tell this story.

This was the episode I had been eager to see. They put that little possibility, that thread out there in the previous series and it was a satisfying feeling to loop that thread into this series at last.

And holy crap they did not waste a moment of this episode! They even had a Hardison cameo which was a clever way to keep his character in it, BUT I wish he and Eliot could have actually shared the space for some of those more weighty scenes. It's not that Christian can't act to nothing but it would have made the scene better - grounded a little more. (But that is outside of their control so I give it a pass - I just miss Hardison being in it more).

Regardless, a delight and bravo for them really diving into the characters this season. Love it!