Your Advance Review of Leverage: The Three Nights of the Hunter Job

Wednesday, August 12th brings us another fabulous NEW episode of Leverage. This episode is called The Three Nights of the Hunter Job. I sat down to watch this for review purposes and was so caught up in the fun that I almost forgot I was supposed to be taking notes. Luckily, I managed to go back with the magic of my DVD player (so much easier than with our old VCR players). So, let’s talk Leverage!

Monica Hunter hosts an exploitative TV segment called “Hunt for the Truth”, and in one of her latest segments she ruins the reputation of an innocent man. She’s the type of reporter who instills fear in the public to get ratings. She’s not-so-affectionately refereed to as a “whack job” and it’s clear she’s in it for the fame. Hunter is played by actress Beth Broderick who many of you will remember fondly as Aunt Zelda on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch with Melissa Joan Hart.

Beth Reisgraf and Christian Kane, all photos by Erik Heinila

The innocent man whose life Hunter has effectively ruined has a daughter who gets the Leverage team to help. But they don’t want money. Hardison has a valid point when he says, “We’ve stolen a lot of odd things before but how do we steal back a man’s reputation?”

The team has internal worries because Nate has put Sophie in charge, albeit reluctantly. They haven’t forgotten the LAST time she was in charge and the office went kablooey. But Sophie wants a new challenge, and given the events of the last episode of Leverage, Nate’s feeling generous.

Beth Reisgraf, Aldis Hodge and Beth Broderick

Why is Monica Hunter a good target? She’s shown to be more than a disgruntled and difficult person, she’s downright bitchy and self-obsessed. But mostly she’s a target because  she doesn’t expose the truth – but whatever can seem shocking and believed to be true. She takes no responsibility for what she reports and she’s into sensationalism. So how do they take her down several notches? She wants to be taken seriously! She’s like a Paris Hilton who’d love to get cast in a Tarantino film based on her acting merits. (We all know that won’t happen.)

I’d describe this episode as one where Parker does her best impersonation of Nicole Kidman in To Die For, Hardison is Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory, Eliot is Will Smith in Men in Black, and Nate is…well, I don’t watch a lot of military movies… (And I don’t have a Sophie comparison.)

Beth Broderick and Beth Reisgraf

Beth Reisgraf, Aldis Hodge and Beth Broderick

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