#the van Gogh Job

[bisummers]

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. In Leverage’s The Van Gogh Job the old dude sees Parker instinctively offer Harrison a tissue and realizes they love each other. The whole rest of the episode hinges on noticing that one caring gesture. Then at the end of the episode Hardison sneezes again and Elliot immediately offers him a tissue just like Parker did… and I’m not suppose to see that as a gesture of pure love? That wasn’t an intentional canonization of the ot3?

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x4- "The Van Gogh Job"

[leveragecentral]

There's one thing I want to tell you. Don't waste time. Leverage (2008-2012) The Van Gogh Job (S04E04)

[ziorite]

there has never been and never will be any episode of any tv show ever as devastating as the van gogh job. i was in genuine tears over dorothy and charlie! real tears! (it doesn’t help the beth riesgraf and aldis hodge played both of their roles so well… devastating but genius choice by the directors)

see i didnt even cry when charlie left on the train— no, it was when they hit that shot of dorothy playing the organ after hiding the van gogh inside, then stashing all her money in hopes that her first love would come back. the thought ?? of her just waiting and waiting and never seeing him again ?? HEARTBREAKING. I WAS A WRECK. I DEMAND EMOTIONAL COMPENSATION FOR THIS EPISODE.

[amazzyblaze]

"The Van Gogh Job" doodles

[leverage-ot3]

tear-inducing leverage episodes, in no particular order:

the van gogh job

the long way down job

the grave danger job

the big bang job

the future job

the stork job

the low low price job

[kcdahippie]

Leverage is the type of show where I imagine it's a lot of work to put the props and stuff together especially connecting episode to episode.

Is it a set designer? Like what is that job called? Regardless I think it would be a lot of fun to do.

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

What was the obsession the early 2010s had with like procedural shows and lost art the nazis stole

Like this episode in leverage and then the whole white collar arc and I’m forgetting other examples but I know there’re more examples

[outofmyhead-justlikeyou]

The Van Gogh Job and The DB Cooper Job both telling a past story using our current cast to play a different set of characters AND both of them being a love story between Parker and her boys!!

Like the Van Gogh Job was obviously trying to show parallels and set up Parker and Hardison’s relationship and it was the only episode that told a story in this way (that I can think of right now). THEN they bring this trope (genre? I can’t think of the word write now, style? maybe) back for the DB Cooper Job with the main love story this time being between Parker and Eliot, instead of Hardison. And technically I know this one was about true justice and what it means, BUT it was also about the love between Stephanie and Steve.

All I’m saying is that connected the dots, where the dots are and what shape they make I don’t know, but I connected them

[blue-bec]

Excuse me while I get all pedantic on this, but the ending of The Van Gogh Job (Leverage S4:4) really annoys me. Background, I have a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies (which I studied because I was bored) and so I have spent time looking at repatriation of objects and artworks.

See my essay here for starters:

https://blogs.bluebec.com/essay-it-belong-to-them-lets-give-it-back/

Plot synopsis is:

On the trail of a lost Van Gogh, the team learns the painting was the center of a World War II love story between a black soldier and the white heiress he was forced to leave behind.

So the painting is found and Nate suggests to Charlie Lawson that he consider donating it to the Boston Museum (we won't delve into that one too much)... and just fucking no.

The art was looted by a Nazi (sure he saved it from a fire in a gallery/museum/safe-location for the collection of the (now) Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg). The art has an owner. Charlie Lawson is not the owner of the artwork and it should be returned to the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg.

Sure it sucks, but the US Government has been instrumental in leading conventions and practices to ensure that looted art is returned, even when they suffer economic loss from it. The Boston Museum, or any other US Museum/Gallery who this artwork might be donated to would ask how it came into Charlie Lawson's possession and then would flatly refuse to accept the donation unless it was to return it to Germany.

The only way it would make sense for Charlie would be to sell it to a private bidder, and so the team have effectively left him in the same dangerous position. He has his art, and he can either have it stolen from him by someone with more power, return it to Germany, or illegally sell it.

So yeah, I loved the episode, but hated the ending because just no. Nate would know all this too. He's an insurance investigator, which as we know includes a lot of art knowledge by him. He would never have recommended donating it. The rest of the team would have offered to fence it for Charlie Lawson.

Return the art to the rightful owner or sell it on the black market.

[renew-leverage]

LEVERAGE REWATCH MARATHON: The Van Gogh Job- Streaming today

It’s Sunday, Leverage Marathon folks, time for another episode!  This week we’re watching the 4th episode of season 4, The Van Gogh Job - in which an old man heavily projects onto Parker and Hardison, so we get old timey Leverage!  Watch the episode with us on our Sunday Leverage Marathon discord server and post all about your feelings, thoughts, comments, anything & everything.

Come on in, say hi to your fellow fans, get comfortable.  We’ll be starting in about 15 minutes at roughly 3:30 PM Eastern U.S. Time. Sorry for the short notice!

[ft-nostalgia]

So I started rewatching The Van Gogh Job and was saying (to myself) how I was so excited for a roller derby episode, but it isn't really. Which means we can still steal a roller derby! Put it on the list, someone!

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x4 - "The Van Gogh Job"

[spocks-evil-godmother]

I am realizing that "The Van Gogh Job" is very much a reference to Inglorious Basterds and wow. Lol

[leverage-ot3]

rundown job (s5) thee polyam ep of all eps

the long goodbye job (s5) thee polyam ep of all eps part 2

experimental job (s4) best for parker x hardison and hardison x eliot

grave danger job (s4) best for parker x hardison and hardison x eliot

long way down job (s4) best for parker x hardison and parker x eliot, has some good hardison x eliot scenes too

the gone fishing job (s3) best for hardison x eliot with some pardison sprinkled in

the big bang job (s3) best for all individual pairings, they all have moments to shine! big development for pardison in this ep

the boys night out job (s4) best for parker x hardison and hardison x eliot

the french connection job (s5) best for parker x eliot and hardison x eliot. can't remember off the top of my head how much pardison is in it

the boost job (s3) best for parker x hardison and some parker x eliot shenanigans

the van gogh job (s4) best for parker x hardison but has some hardison x eliot moments too

the queen's gambit job (s4) best for parker x hardison with some hardison x eliot moments (a hug!)

the future job (s2) best for parker angst and her boys looking out for her

this list is mostly accurately ranked, but after the first five or so there is more wiggle room on ot3ness depending on which dynamics are more prominent

edit: I was stupid and half paying attention with work and managed to forget the long goodbye job HOW COULD I FORGET THAT

Quick best ot3 episode of leverage

[your-icarian-carrion]

Guys the. The Van Gogh episode. I knew it was a good one but I was so not prepared. That was a gorgeous episode of television. I sat staring at the middle distance after I finished it, and then my dad asked if I was okay and I started crying trying to explain to him the emotions I felt seeing Van Gogh look at his paintings in a museum and hear that he was history’s greatest artist