I was tipped off to Leverage because it’s Christian Kane’s current show; Christian Kane was formerly a recurring character on Angel. What can I say? I’m a sucker for cute guys in the media. (You’ll see a lot of that around here.) ^_^

Here’s how I described it to Grant: It’s about a bunch of thieves and con artists who get together with a former insurance investigator (think Rene Russo from The Thomas Crown Affair, only a guy and not hot) who end up pulling cons on bad guys and corrupt politicians/businesses in order to make lots of money for themselves and for social justice.

It’s… kind of like a high-tech Robin Hood, sort of. I guess? But where is it going? I don’t know how many caper episodes I can watch before I get bored. (This may have something to do with the fact that, after Prison Break, stupid capers get to me, and due to my innate fiction preferences, capers where you pull the answer out of your ass drive me nuts.)

Shamefully, I would probably be stuck to it like glue if Christian Kane weren’t scraggly-haired and… no, I can handle the “shaving is a luxury I don’t have when I’m so busy kicking this much ass” thing, but ugh, the man has the hairstyle Eddie Vedder did in 1992, and you know… uh… I’m not 14 anymore. I kind of like it when guys use shampoo and get regular haircuts.

So my totally shallow opinion is that, since I’m watching it for the hot, the hot needs to improve some if I’m gonna stick with it, or I need to be willing to lower my standards enough for a Guy Of The Month’s primary appearance to include the ’90s hairstyle that helped define the genre name “grunge”. It’s not awful (and it isn’t Prison Break-level ridiculous), but it isn’t great, either, and Christian Kane badly needs a haircut. I’ll probably give it a few more episodes to see where it’s going, but if it doesn’t grab me, it’s not one I’ll miss much.