[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Leverage: Redemption Season 2.]
Did the Leverage: Redemption Season 2 finale, in its final moments, arrange the subsequent job we’ll see the crew pulling off?
Hardison (Aldis Hodge) movies in from the house station the place he’s been for a lot of the season to disclose that the fellows who despatched him up there forgot about him and might’t launch a rocket for a rendezvous for 2 months. But he has an answer: The others can come get him! Sophie (Gina Bellman), Parker (Beth Riesgraf), Eliot (Christian Kane), Harry (Noah Wyle), and Breanna (Aleyse Shannon) make excuses and stroll out… leaving Hardison to name after them. He can’t take one other freeze-dried meal, he insists, plus he’s missed three DC motion pictures (a pleasant nod to Hodge’s function as Hawkman in Black Adam) and doesn’t even know who’s combating whom. Everyone, after all, comes again, keen to begin planning to interrupt into NASA.
But is that one thing we might see, as a substitute of simply listening to about, in a possible third season premiere? (Amazon Freevee has but to resume the very enjoyable heist drama.) It would seemingly rely on Hodge’s availability.
“Aldis Hodge is probably the hardest working person in the show business right now, and yet, when he has like four days off, he gives it to us. It’s so generous of him that he comes back even while he’s making these $300 million movies,” govt producer Dean Devlin tells TV Insider. “So, a lot of it will literally just depend on the timing because his attitude is he’ll do as much of the show as he can physically and he’s just been so spectacular about that. But it’s tricky to write because you don’t know if you’re gonna get him or for how many days you’re gonna get him.”
That being mentioned, it is rather doable that might kick off a brand new season. “Yeah, I’d love to do the whole bringing him down from outer space episode,” the EP continues. “‘Let’s go steal a Hardison!’”
Also relying on his availability is whether or not we might see something much like “The Rundown Job” from Season 5 of the unique sequence, which simply featured Hardison, Parker, and Eliot. We did hear about them working collectively within the time that handed between Leverage and Redemption; they continued the work and expanded it to Leverage: International after Sophie stepped away with Nate (who died a 12 months earlier than the revival picked up).
“We’d love to. The more [Aldis] we get, the more we’ll do with him. Because [Hardison’s] kind of the glue in a strange way that we didn’t realize until we were shooting the first episode of Leverage: Redemption Season 1,” Devlin explains. “There’s something about him that literally glues all the other players together, and when we don’t have him, it’s like it’s missing.”
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The excellent news was that in Season 2, we did get date night time for Hardison and Parker, which, after all, ended up together with a con.
“That was such a special episode and one we’d wanted to do forever because a lot of the fans always said, ‘I wonder what it’s like when these two go out on a date.’ It was real kind of like fan fulfillment,” the EP shares. “It was such a special script because on one hand we wanted to have an issue between them that had to get dealt with, but on the other hand, everyone loves this couple, so the issue can’t be too big of an issue or you don’t buy it because they’re kind of like the couple we all want, right?”
Let’s simply hope we get to see that rescue as a result of wouldn’t or not it’s cool to see Parker break into NASA and Eliot struggle — you recognize one thing would occur to require it — in zero gravity?
Leverage: Redemption, Seasons 1 and a couple of, Streaming Now, Amazon Freevee