Why me and Suits are pretty much done...

[graculus]

I guess it was probably inevitable, but I think me and Mr Korsh's show are done.

Back in 2011, I fell in love but wondered at the time just how far you could take the premise - after all, the longer it goes on with Mike not having his Harvard degree but still practising law, the more tenuous it becomes...

Now we've had a second season and it's become even more threadbare. Jessica knows, which is fair enough - she's meant to be clever enough to be a named partner in a Manhattan law firm, so she ought to figure out something's going on. We had the whole Daniel Hardman thing, which was interesting enough till they flogged the life out of it by having Hardman be the pantomime villain (look out, he's behind you!).

My main enjoyment, to be honest, has been the development of the character of Louis Litt. Except now even Louis has been compromised to bow before the wonder that is Rachel Zane.

Yes, this post is going to be a Rachel rant, one that I think has been building for a while. Of all the female characters in Suits, even the ones we're meant to dislike (hello, Scotty!) I find Rachel the most irritating. She is Mary Sue, practically perfect in every way. First off, this season, we're told she doesn't want to be in her (famous lawyer) father's shadow, which is obviously why she still has the same surname as him. And then the whole Harvard thing - Rachel doesn't get what she wants and so people lie to her to make her feel better about why. Because she can't possibly be allowed to consider that she's not good enough, after all, she's Rachel Zane!

Which is, I guess, part of the reason why we got the wank-fodder sex scene at the end of the season finale. Seems like we're falling back on the whole 'men want her, women want to be her' trope where the writers are concerned, that or they haven't figured out how she's going to foul things up in season 3 now she knows Mike's secret and/or the episode was running a little short...



Thank heavens I still have the utter awesomeness that is Person of Interest!

Comments

[obelix]

Thanks for the warning this was a show I was thinking of watching but now... NOPE! hate, Hate, HATE Mary Sues and I have gritted my teeth through too many Perfect!Everyone LOVES her Mary Sues to watch another one :-)

I feel the pain...

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

The episode wasn't running short, it was actually 8 min longer than usual.

[nialla]

My DVR cut off too soon, so I missed the ending, probabably 5 -10 minutes worth. How wanky are we talking?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

It seemed to go on forever and it was one of those sex scenes where there's any excuse to get the woman half-naked yet the man is still fully clothed, which is always a bit vexing. I'm not opposed to sex scenes per se (and they had a much hotter one, imho, involving Scotty and Harvey losing far less clothing on the plane a couple of eps back) but this one really came out of left field for me - cliched 'oh, I'm so angry with you, hey let's have hot sex in the file room!'. Meh.

[nialla]

I looked up a recap to get a better idea of what happened, and I can't believe they really went the Hate Sex route.

I think the show is one of many that have an interesting "hook" to start, but the hook is also what makes it unbelievable to continue for very long. In one sense, I'm glad they didn't continue to leave Jessica out of the loop about Mike not being a Harvard grad, yet that's just one more thing that makes it so ludicrous.

I've always felt if they were going to stick with Mike practicing law without a license and leaving the firm open to lawsuits and Mike ending up in jail and/or paying fines, they should have set it up as a limited run series, which ends with Harvey (and possibly Jessica) backing Mike to actually attend Harvard.

There's been several close calls about someone potentially realizing the truth, and I can't believe Hardeman wasn't the one to figure it out.

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

I've watched it, but I really don't get how Harvey could have ever hired Mike knowing he'd never gone to Harvard. He knew there was no way they could keep it secret forever, and that would open up the firm to potential lawsuits. Then there's this animosity between Harvey and Mike which turns around to be an almost buddy-buddy relationship which is confusing.