The popular revival series Leverage: Redemption returned for a third season, but this time on Prime Video instead of Freevee. Coming as a continuation of Leverage, which aired its final episode in 2012, Redemption follows Nate Ford's widow, Sophie Devereaux, as she reunites with his original crew and continues their crusade against corporate greed and government malfeasance. Like its predecessor, Leverage: Redemption takes the procedural format and turns it on its ear with clever plots that serve up weekly doses of satisfying social justice.
The first two seasons of the continuation were met with rave reviews, and it's clear that the team behind Leverage hasn't missed a step, even after a decade. Dean Devlin returned to serve as executive producer once again, and series creators John Rogers and Chris Downey also returned. This gives the revival series a sense of continuity with its predecessor and has also allowed characters to continue to grow as they re in Leverage: Redemption.
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Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Critical Reception
Critics Are Still Loving Leverage
As the world gets darker, Leverage only has more stories to play with. That is the critical consensus when it comes to Leverage: Redemption season 3. With most of the creative team the same as the original series, the revival has been able to pick up effectively in the same world as the original. The AV Club notes that the show still has plenty of room to play and grow with its original cast in those storylines:
The thing about Leverage: Redemption is that it has the perfect setup for a true spin-off series that works whether or not original cast pop in. But this season of the show makes the case that there is a lot left in the tank concerning those characters from the first series...
Season 3 has been able to do a great job at fleshing out the pasts of different characters and bringing in new layers for them. The latter is especially true for Parker, who often finds herself at the center of the stories.
The Chicago Tribune also notes that it's in the little details that Leverage really excels, showing the absurdities of the world in which the characters live:
...the show tends to do the little things so well. In one episode, a food bank charity raises money at a gala where the theme is Marie Antoinette. So wrong, so absurd — no notes!
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Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Release Date
The Redemption Team Returned In April 2025
Season 3 is also Redemption's first season as a Prime Video exclusive, marking the second time the show has changed hands since its debut in 2021.
After a long wait for the third season, Leverage: Redemption returned on April 17, 2025. The season kicked off with the first three episodes on the 17th, before shifting to a weekly schedule for the remainder of the season. Season 3 is also Redemption's first season as a Prime Video exclusive, marking the second time the show has changed hands since its debut in 2021.
Leverage: Redemption season 3 concluded on June 5, 2025, making it the shortest run of the revival series with just 10 episodes.
Where To Watch Leverage: Redemption Season 3
The Season Is Available To Stream
Leverage: Redemption was initially part of IMDbTV before moving to Freevee. With the shuttering of Freevee, Prime Video picked up the series for season 3. Leverage: Redemption season 3, as well as the first two seasons and the original Leverage series, are all available to stream through Prime Video.
Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Cast
The Familiar Team Returned In Season 3
Like the best procedural series before it, the cast of Leverage: Redemption season 3 did not change too much. This means that many of the show's familiar faces returned, and that the series continued to have continuity not only with its own seasons, but with the larger Leverage universe as well. Gina Bellman returned to lead the cast into season 3 as Sophie Devereaux, alongside other mainstays like Christian Kane, who played Eliot Spencer once again. Beth Riesgraf reprised her role as Parker, while Aleyse Shannon played Breanna Casey again.
Fresh off his success in the medical drama, The Pitt, Noah Wyle returned as Harry Wilson, while Cross star Aldis Hodge is back in his familiar role as Alec Hardison. Both actors returned in "special guest star" capacities to for them missing several episodes for their other projects.
The main cast of Leverage: Redemption season 3 includes:
Actor |
Leverage: Redemption Role |
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Gina Bellman |
Sophie Devereaux |
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Christian Kane |
Eliot Spencer |
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Beth Riesgraf |
Parker |
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Aleyse Shannon |
Breanna Casey |
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Noah Wyle |
Harry Wilson |
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Aldis Hodge |
Alec Hardison |
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The series also employed a wide range of guest stars from episode-to-episode. While most of those guest stars appear in the series only once, Leverage: Redemption season 3 brought back several characters from previous seasons - and from the previous series.
Lucy Taylor returned for an episode as Alexandra Bligh, the RIZ Security executive who originally made trouble for the team in the revival. Alexandra Park is also back as Astrid, Sophie's stepdaughter, and Auden Wyle (Noah Wyle's real-life daughter) returns as Harry's daughter Becky, as season 3 made an attempt at the characters balancing their grifting lives with their families. The series also, however, brings back fan-favorite characters from the original series, played by Jeri Ryan and Drew Powell, for new jobs.
Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Story
The Team Uses Their Leverage To Stop High-Profile Criminals
While season 2's finale seemingly put the show's two biggest villains, Ramsay and Arthur, behind bars for good, other things were less certain. The reconciliation between Sophie and Astrid happened during season 2, but season 3 explored their complicated relationship in more detail, especially when contextualized through Sophie's mentorship of Parker, Astrid's previous nemesis.
Leverage: Redemption season 3 is mostly full of standalone episodes, which is befitting of characters being able to come and go throughout the season, so a lot of the continuity is maintained through conversations about previous events in both the revival series and the original show. The season did not see characters appear on screen who made their debuts in season 2, like Eliot's father or Harry's mother, but the relationships with both characters get frequent mentions in the season as both men work to repair the relationships they have with the parent they have left.
Outside of those personal relationships, the season brought in a bevvy of new cases. The steam went up against a man using cryogenics to prey on terminally ill or elderly people, a corrupt judge who also ran drugs and was the mayor of a small town, and took on a factory owner using child labor to make his money.
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Leverage: Redemption season 3 is largely Parker's season after the first two seasons focused more on Harry and Sophie. The season sees Parker running more jobs than she has in the last two, starting to take some of the reins back from Sophie a bit. When the season kicks off with Hardison wondering if he still wants to even be in the field for Leverage International, it gives Parker something to think about all season, and that brings the show full circle in time for the finale, when she and Hardison discuss why they do crime at all.
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Leverage: Redemption
- Release Date
- July 8, 2021
- Network
- Prime Video, IMDb TV, Amazon Freevee
- Directors
- Dean Devlin, Noah Wyle, Jonathan Frakes
Cast
Noah WyleHarry Wilson
Gina BellmanSophie Devereaux
WHERE TO WATCH
Leverage: Redemption reunites The Hitter, The Hacker, The Grifter, and The Thief, ed by a new tech expert and corporate fixer. The group targets contemporary villains, from an opioid crisis architect to a secretive security firm, continuing their mission to provide leverage to those in need.
- Seasons
- 3
- Creator(s)
- John Rogers, Chris Downey
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