Leverage is pretty dope. You mostly just have to ignore that they're all superhumans. 
Similar to Person of Interest in that regard and also the setup, only it doesn't have the overarching plot or the supercomputer thing. But otherwise it's helping people whose "number has come up" more or less with similar roles split among the characters. Or maybe more like Burn Notice's "someone needs your help Michael" random case of the week. More comedic and winking about tropes than PoI, also making references to movies and stuff deliberately, one episode does The Office, etc.
Initially it tries to be a little more realistic in explaining their superhuman capabilities but sort of just leans into that and stops explaining it and more of a "you just didn't see all the work" thing. Then leans into it even more by making the absurdity of what they're pulling off lampshaded with non-sensical explanations and characters getting bored with the extended explanations.
One complaint I could see it does take a bit before the show gets around to figuring out explaining and does what I think is a more decent job than most shows of explaining how they could anticipate what everyone does: the plans hinge on what the most expected reaction would be and narrowing paths to force this as much as possible. And some of the episodes become about the person doing something random or even getting suspicious about what's going on. So it is far less something like Sherlock where a supergenius just knows everything and more about "if this is how things are setup and this happens then based on what we know about them they will most likely do this" without it ever seeming too contrived. The plans are far closer to White Collar or Burn Notice in not being overly complex with all kinds of random but somehow expected twists than Sherlock. One of the episodes even gets into having a plan that's far too complex and elaborate so keeps running into problems.
Probably the biggest issue is that because of them having superhuman capabilities it's kind of all over the place about how much they actually need the others and the individual roles of each versus one of them or at most two of them just being able to do everything themselves. One issue with the Rashomon episode is that it shows them all basically being successful by themselves at what's supposed to be an impossible heist. This may have been a power creep issue as it's later in the show but supposed to depict events before the show started and they sort of forgot that the characters weren't this good before the team. Also the fact that none of the characters had ever been caught before while working alone seems too much of a stretch. I'm kind of reaching for criticism because I'm enjoying it far more than I expected to.
Easily the worst part is the musical cues that try to beat you over the head about what emotions you're going to want to feel for what's going to happen next. It's one thing to have the overwrought music come in about the homeless kidnapped gay kid having cancer too as it's revealed and another to start it as the conversation begins.
Best characters are Parker and Eilot. Then Sterling.
edit: Forgot to mention some of the funniest CGI ever: https://youtu.be/Pe8ueO4Ay0U?t=132 (can't find a clip of this on YouTube but can find the full episodes to timestamp)
edit2: I looked into that channel and it's actually the producers of the show uploading their own shows to YouTube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Entertainment
Similar to Person of Interest in that regard and also the setup, only it doesn't have the overarching plot or the supercomputer thing. But otherwise it's helping people whose "number has come up" more or less with similar roles split among the characters. Or maybe more like Burn Notice's "someone needs your help Michael" random case of the week. More comedic and winking about tropes than PoI, also making references to movies and stuff deliberately, one episode does The Office, etc.Initially it tries to be a little more realistic in explaining their superhuman capabilities but sort of just leans into that and stops explaining it and more of a "you just didn't see all the work" thing. Then leans into it even more by making the absurdity of what they're pulling off lampshaded with non-sensical explanations and characters getting bored with the extended explanations.
One complaint I could see it does take a bit before the show gets around to figuring out explaining and does what I think is a more decent job than most shows of explaining how they could anticipate what everyone does: the plans hinge on what the most expected reaction would be and narrowing paths to force this as much as possible. And some of the episodes become about the person doing something random or even getting suspicious about what's going on. So it is far less something like Sherlock where a supergenius just knows everything and more about "if this is how things are setup and this happens then based on what we know about them they will most likely do this" without it ever seeming too contrived. The plans are far closer to White Collar or Burn Notice in not being overly complex with all kinds of random but somehow expected twists than Sherlock. One of the episodes even gets into having a plan that's far too complex and elaborate so keeps running into problems.
Probably the biggest issue is that because of them having superhuman capabilities it's kind of all over the place about how much they actually need the others and the individual roles of each versus one of them or at most two of them just being able to do everything themselves. One issue with the Rashomon episode is that it shows them all basically being successful by themselves at what's supposed to be an impossible heist. This may have been a power creep issue as it's later in the show but supposed to depict events before the show started and they sort of forgot that the characters weren't this good before the team. Also the fact that none of the characters had ever been caught before while working alone seems too much of a stretch. I'm kind of reaching for criticism because I'm enjoying it far more than I expected to.
Easily the worst part is the musical cues that try to beat you over the head about what emotions you're going to want to feel for what's going to happen next. It's one thing to have the overwrought music come in about the homeless kidnapped gay kid having cancer too as it's revealed and another to start it as the conversation begins.
Best characters are Parker and Eilot. Then Sterling.
edit: Forgot to mention some of the funniest CGI ever: https://youtu.be/Pe8ueO4Ay0U?t=132 (can't find a clip of this on YouTube but can find the full episodes to timestamp
)edit2: I looked into that channel and it's actually the producers of the show uploading their own shows to YouTube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Entertainment
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