{"id":356,"date":"2008-10-06T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T13:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-10-06T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T13:06:59","slug":"what-warren-ellis-doesnt-tell-you-about-leverage-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/what-warren-ellis-doesnt-tell-you-about-leverage-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What Warren Ellis doesn&#8217;t tell you about Leverage is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that it stars Timothy Hutton, who deserves my undying gratitude for (ever so briefly) bringing Nero Wolfe to the small screen in such an uncompromising and unconventional (an ensemble cast!?!) fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=6525\">his take on Leverage:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all pretty tongue-in-cheek stuff \u00e2\u20ac\u201d although I think the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE-inspired theme music is maybe one put-on too far \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it never loses sight of its simple aim, which is to entertain the shit out of you for an hour. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sentimentalise, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fall into the usual American tv trope of making it all about family, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t treat you like you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stupid and it offers you no platitudes. It just asks you to go along with the ride. And the funniest thing, to me, is that the ending sets up the cast as a team of criminal Equalizers. Hence the title. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We provide\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <em>leverage<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnt.tv\/series\/leverage\/\">Leverage<\/a> comes on TNT this December&#8230;which means I&#8217;ll see it in about a year or two once it goes on Netflix&#8230;or sooner if some helpful fellow throws up a torrent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that it stars Timothy Hutton, who deserves my undying gratitude for (ever so briefly) bringing Nero Wolfe to the small screen in such an uncompromising and unconventional (an ensemble cast!?!) fashion. Here&#8217;s his take on Leverage: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all pretty tongue-in-cheek stuff \u00e2\u20ac\u201d although I think the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE-inspired theme music is maybe one put-on too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-gregs-reference","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-5K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}