LEVERAGE REDEMPTION: Episodes 1.1-16
Flawed redemption reunites unlikely allies — for discerning adults.
Should You Watch It?
LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION is a highly entertaining continuation that brings its original crew back together around a worthwhile mission: helping people who have been victimized. Its strongest material explores grief, forgiveness, redemption, charity, and the possibility of changing after doing wrong.
The series also asks you to accept morally complicated heroes. Each episode centers on a con, and the crew lies and sometimes steals to reach its goals. The show usually frames those actions as serving victims and bringing villains to justice, but the violence, profanity, and homosexual content add real concerns for Christian viewers.
If you are a discerning adult who can engage those elements thoughtfully, the series offers excellent entertainment and meaningful redemptive themes. It is not appropriate for children or young teens. The practical answer: watch it only if you are comfortable with its mature content.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESAfter Nathan Ford’s death, his widow, Sophie Deveraux, is grieving and reluctant to return to the crew’s old work. Her friends—Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, and Parker—encourage her to help people facing exploitation by powerful corporate figures.
The team also gains Harry Wilson, a former corporate lawyer seeking to repair the damage caused by enabling criminals, and Breanna, Hardison’s younger sister. Together, they take on new cases while trying to become better people.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this series is exceptionally entertaining. LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION retains the tone and vibe of the original show while giving its characters further-developed arcs.
The returning crew remains engaging, and the newcomers add emotional depth. Sophie works through Nate’s death. Parker has grown in confidence while still wrestling with her desire to steal. Eliot opens up to the group as family, while Harry and Breanna reflect the series’ movement from corruption toward care.
The Worldview
The series presents a light moral worldview centered on serving others. Its heroes help people in need without asking for anything in return, and the story supports charity, justice for evildoers, grief shared among friends, forgiveness, and the possibility of redemption. It also presents redemption as a slow process of growing beyond past mistakes.
Christian themes appear through forgiveness and seeking redemption. The series mentions Jewish traditions and Catholic saints, including Sophie’s references to saints in a Halloween episode, but it does not present a strong Jewish or Christian worldview. Its heroes still lie and steal, even when they use what they take to help victims or charities. The show also includes occasional anti-capitalist elements.
The series includes a lesbian character and two episodes with females kissing. Those moments do not add meaningfully to the story and may trouble viewers seeking to avoid such content.
The central longing is to become different from the person you were. Scripture gives that hope a deeper foundation: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Light moral worldview with Christian elements focusing on redemption and forgiveness, the plot centers around people who want to redeem themselves and grow from their mistakes, the show demonstrates the importance of charity toward others, true justice is brought to evildoers, and there’s support for grieving friends, plus, while there are mentions of Jewish traditions and Catholic saints, there isn’t enough to say it presents a strong Jewish or Christian worldview, plus occasional anti-capitalist elements and one character is revealed to be a lesbian, and two episodes contain some females kissing
Foul Language
Most episodes vary between three to 12 obscenities and light profanities
Violence
Fights in every single episode (it’s usually a martial arts fight between Eliot and the bad guy’s goons or fighters), but the fighting is never super graphic, but it happens in every episode for action scenes, Eliot mainly fights to protect himself or his family, and in Episode 1.3, a character scares off a goon with a shotgun, there is an intense explosion, as well
Sex
Two episodes contain some homosexual content with females kissing in both episodes
Nudity
No nudity
Alcohol Use
Alcohol consumption, used for celebratory purposes and not drunkenness
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
Very light smoking by villains, no drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Villains rip off desperate people, stealing property, and the attempted destruction of privacy, but it’s clear their treachery is evil, plus the heroes do lie and steal to accomplish their goals, but most of what they steal is donated to charities or to help victims of those they take down in the series.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The crew helps people without asking for anything in return. What does genuine charity look like in your community?
Matthew 6:1–4 · Philippians 2:3–4Harry wants to change after enabling criminals. What does it mean to turn from wrongdoing rather than merely regret it?
2 Corinthians 7:10 · Acts 3:19The heroes lie and steal while claiming to serve justice. Can a good goal make a wrong action right?
Romans 3:8 · Micah 6:8The team supports Sophie as she grieves Nate’s death. How can Christians help someone who is mourning?
Romans 12:15 · 2 Corinthians 1:3–4The Final Word
LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION is polished, engaging entertainment with genuine themes of charity, forgiveness, and changed lives. Its mature content requires discernment, and it is not for children or young teens. For discerning adults, the answer is WORTH WATCHING — ADULTS ONLY.
