#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.

[spoofymcgee]

i just finished rewatching the van gogh job and i have so many emotions about it.

i love that not only does this show have an interracial romance, they have an entire episode addressing the significance of it, and it's a parker episode. parker's episodes are about her growing, figuring out how to be more of herself, who she wants to be, and learning how to navigate the world around her and the relationships she has with her people and with her past.

so the episode comes out not with a trite message about not wasting time, but with a recognition of. it's scary, to take that leap, to leave behind what you know knowing that danger and hurt are, in some form, ahead of you. it's really hard. dorothy couldn't do it. which isn't a bang on her–she made a choice because she knew of something happened to charlie she couldn't take care of herself, and her being with him would put both of them in danger.

the point is that parker and hardison are on that same edge dorothy and charlie were. and what the episode is saying to parker is that it's okay to be scared and she's right, it is going to be hard, and it is going to hurt. she can take her time, but. there is only so much time. so when she's ready–she and hardison have the choice and the chance that dorothy and charlie–they didn't, not really.

and i just think that's really cool.

[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.

[wordybee]

I am never ready for the Van Gogh Job during my Leverage rewatches. It's simply impossible to be ready for the Van Gogh Job.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x4 - "The Van Gogh Job"

[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!

[spocks-evil-godmother]

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