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!