Suits started out as a smart, brilliantly written dramedy about a lazy genius given a chance to shine by the legendary Harvey Specter. From pilot to episode ten, season one knocked it out of the park. Each episode dealt with a new case, yet there was still an underlying story arc that sewed the season together.
Yet, as the series progressed, Suits lost its edge. Amping up the drama to its current level was not a smart idea. I don't want to watch ~50 minutes of concocted drama between all the characters. I mean, in one of the episodes last season, EVERY character was mad at EVERY OTHER character, mostly for really petty reasons.
I could go on for pages about every character but I'm going to streamline it:
Harvey -known for his incredibly smart lines- has been disappointing. His writers seem to think that he's got this swagger about him so that no matter what they write, he'll still come off as awesome. They even completely misinterpreted their own characters relationship with Mike. They were supposed to be brothers, Harvey showing Mike the ropes. They developed that for three seasons. Yet now in this episode they say Mike was a 'surrogate son'? Really? Harvey has had absolutely no character progression to the point that his own writers forget what they're doing.
Speaking of, Patrick Adams has really been phoning it in lately. He used to put in 100% when portraying Mike, but now I can just see right through his acting. They relationship with Rachel is so forced and unhealthy it's impossible to watch. Is he seriously going to play a petty, jealous boyfriend? Is that his new role? "Let's just show that they have sex all the time! I mean that's all relationships are, right?" Mike's progressed into a whiny banker with more money than sense.
Part of the appeal was that this was an intelligently written show about a faux lawyer trying to make it. When they realized he couldn't do it because of his illegitimacy, they should have ended it. Sending Mike off to work somewhere else loses the whole point of this show even existing. Now he's somewhere else supposedly being happy but taking abuse from some banker, Harvey is boring, Donna isn't as smart, Rachel is just there as eye-candy (so let's throw in an ex-flame, didn't have enough of that with Jenny), Jessica is too arrogant, and Louis has just become a caricature. It's gotten so bad I can't even focus on the casework! Something about the SEC and needing this new guy to help? What? They should have sent Rachel off to Stanford, let Mike stay, and, I don't know, shown some development for any of their main characters?
This show could have done many things, but they let fame get to their heads. I don't even know what they can do to salvage what's left.
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