Not even gonna worry about the "wokeness" as that's already been covered, this just breaks the willing suspension of disbelief. In a show where you have to accept as much as you do about the one improbable expertise of the characters, you can't just do a 180 and expect us to think that Elliot wouldn't recognize Russian mobsters at a single glance, or that they wouldn't have researched the security guys beforehand. And what's the point of the elaborate break-in if they could have just rented some scuba gear and sawed in from the bottom? We are supposed to believe a casino vault has a 1" wooden floor exposed right to the river? Even the premise of how the people were being forced out of their homes was unrealistic and quickly dropped in favor of the heist. The old Leverage would "pick up where the law left off," and would often explain why whatever was going on was supposedly "perfectly legal" in-universe, this doesn't even bother to try. It feels like we went from Mission: Impossible with thieves to Scooby Doo with thieves.
Review of The Rollin' on the River Job
