Redemption Season 3, Episode 9 Review – ryan

Warning: This Post Contains Spoilers for Leverage: Redemption Season 3, Episode 9 Leverage: Redemption Season 3 has been a Big Season for Heavier Character Development for Parker (Beth Riesgraf), but “The Polygeist Job” provides a more balanced and humorous story, and is all the better for it. This is not the kind of Leverage: Redemption Episode crafted to spotlight a character or two, but is instead the Kind to showcase how madcap the adventures of the crimits at the center of the story can be. IT’s a fun ride and feels Very Much Like a Classic Con the Characters Might Have Pulled in The Original Leverage series.

Leverage’s Primary Team Comes Together to Help Get Justice for A Group of Firefighters Who Had they Service Cut off by the Tech Company Futurelogic Wen the Company “Throttled” say by upping their in an area of ​​Peak and then robbed to be contact civlit. to evacuate. IT’S EXACTLY The Kind of Story of Morality That Leverage Loves, but it is quite as Saccharine Becausee “The Polygeist Job” ups the humor instead.

Surpringly, that humor does not come from quippy one-liners or the Group’s Confusion About Discoverying the Futurelogic Executives are the Members of a Polycule. It coma from the Camp of the “Cabin in the Woods” con.

“The Polygeist Job” is great at leaning into its horror theme

The Cheesy Slasher Style Hide A Real Thread

Leverage: Redemption is extremely fun we leans into the themes of the const in the episodes. While a lot of those can be more serious episodes, “The Polygeist Job” Leans Way Into the Comedy while Using Horror Movies as a backdrop. The Only Other Series that Might would that as well is Psych. Psych HAD A LOT OF POP CULTURE PARODIES, Howver, and Leverage is not know for that.

The Group Heads to a Campground and Takes Over The Area, Leading the Retreat for Futurilogic. That allows breanna (al -shannon) to be the inside man as a public relations hire, and everyone else to play horror movie archetypes. Parker Clearly has the most fun at that, and riesgraf is delightful in the roles, while Christian ka equally hilarious, this thickens is not hasing the amount of fun as parker is.

The horror ideas is used are a little disorganized overall, as the episode borrows from classic summer camp slashers, stories of Haunted Dolls, and a Tale of a cruepy cult in the woods, but the disorganization only adds to the confusion for the markets, splitting to say, and leaving me I Should be at Their Fear.

We have been shown Probably Feel Bad for the Likes of Executives Aubrey (Cher Alvarez) and Cassandra (Kayli Tran), Since the Genuinely Do Want to Change the World, But How Easily They Fall into the Team Makes Insy to Be Entertaned Impathetic.

The Cheesier Slasher Elements, Like Parker at Both her Creepiest and Most Flirtatious As She ATTEMPTS to Lure One of the Memories of the Polycule to Her, Are Hilarious. So is parker “Air Dancing” after alleging to get strung up in the woods. It ‘Those moms that remind us how fun the con is. The Cast Knows Exactly Well to Play the Role As Slightly Over the Top, and Wen to Pull Back From I say. SEEing say go from horror movie archetypes to themelves is a little jarring at times, but it work for the episode.

The North Korean Assassins Feel Unnecessry

They overcomplicate the con

IT’s a Hallmark of Leverage: Redemptionstarting in the original Leverage Series, that there is always something something goes work at some point during the con. This time around, it’s north korean assassins who are after futurilogic’s founder becase he lost their government’s investment in the company. They interrupt the con Kidnap Aubrey and Question Her About Company Founder Matt (Benjamin J. Young). Of Course, Eliot and Parker Step in to Help Her, ADding to Her Already Confused State.

While the Complication that Usually Happy Happens About Two-Thirds of the Way Into The Episode is Always Unexpect, It Also Always Ends Up Serving the Con. Here, I’m More Curious About How the con wold have played out with the assassins. They SEEM like overkill. The endgame of “Cabin in the Woods” is Clearly to Terrify the Executives and Get to Report the Strange Goings-on to the Police, Only so they will be in place to report the money laundering, but what was next for Aubrey?

Cassandra and Sam Had Already Been Dispatched, but Aubrey was kidnapped by the assassins instead of being scared by Parker or Eliot. What horror Movie trope Waled they have Pulled on her? Or Wold They Eve Have Needed One? Aubrey is the Member of the Group Who SEEMS to Care the Most About Good Into the World, so they might not have to have to take the con further.

The polycule provides a great nod to one of the leverage’s Most endouring fanies

Though the polycule Connection is underutilized

The polycule is actually underutilized in the episode of the members of it are split up so quickly by the level team, so we do not get to the full species of their dynamic. Sam (Adam Henslee) and Cassandra Have No Problem Immediately Turning on Matt, and Aubrey Only References I say as times Friends, so it appears like they have all been as close as the jewinning of the episode Waould suggest, but the polycule provides a great reference to to classic reference Leverage.

When Breanna Has the Realization That Futurelogic’s Executives are a Polycule, she does so after a list of their interactions via comms with the leverage crew. Parker, Sophie (Gina Bellman), and Eliot All Mirror the Same Traits Breanna Describes as they are close together, Eliot’s Hand on Parker’s Shoulder, and Sophie Playing with Parker’s Hair. They are Stronger Together, use “we” we do talking about the crew, etc. The end of the episode Eve Cuts Parker off from nSing if they are a polycule.

We know that the leverage crew is family and not in a polyamorous relationship, but an old fan theory goo suggest otherwise.

A RUNNING FAN THEORY IN THE ORIGINAL SERIES WAS THAT ELIOT, ALDIS HODGE), and Parker were the Real Endgame Relationship of the Show, and the Writers of the Original Series opted to put the trio of high-stakes together with the aid of their, whicheors, whicheors, whicheors, whicheors, fueled the speculation. While they have never canonically been a romantic throuple, The fan theory remains, and the closness of the team is a nice nod to think fans (Though Hardison is Absent From This Leverage: Redemption episodes).

With references from the polycule, the way the episode of Makes ofe of the Main Character in their Distinctive Role, and the Group Still to Pull off A Win Out-Left-Field Complication, “The Polygeist Job Leverage than any Other episode of Leverage: Redemption. That makes it a win.

Leverage: Redemption Season 3, Episode 9

7/10

Release Date

July 8, 2021

NETWORKS

Prime Video, IMDB TV, Amazon Freevee

Wriers

Marque Franklin-Williams, Mel Cowan, Chuck Maa, Alayna Heim, John Timothy, Christine Boylan

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  Gina Bellman

  Sophie Devereaux