A Man. And His Blog.

Season 1, Episode 12
Date of airing: Sep 8, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 3.467 million viewers, 1.1 rating with A18-49

Yep, last episode’s cliffhanger was used for this episode, and yep, this episode wasn’t very much. Nice that SUITS delivered a criminal case for the season finale, after the show had a somewhat criminal case in the pilot. I know this show doesn’t need the criminal law, but as long as it is turning up in SUITS to make the characters shine better, or to bring a different story, then I’ll take it.

The thing is just: The story was boring. Clifford (Neil Brown Jr.) was a boring character, whom I haven’t seen fighting for his life; Harvey (Gabriel Macht) took the case in a boring fashion, because he lost all the reasons why he actually took the case; Mike (Patrick J. Adams) was boring in this case, because he barely had anything to do; and the conclusion couldn’t have been more shitty. For a 12-year-old murder case, you have nothing else in mind than bringing in a minor to to let Harvey win this case? I was actually happy that Terrence (Chi McBride) was a hard wolf (hence his name), and that there were moments, where Harvey saw himself losing the case (like the intercuts between Harvey losing the evidence, because it was inadmissible, and Mike telling Clifford that Harvey will definitely win this case), and where I thought that the season could actually end on a negative note. But noo, one twist had to come after another, and at the end everything is good again. Clifford is free, the bad guys are in jail, and there’s a happy end for everyone. Why aren’t USA dramas able to go dark every now and then?

Mike’s plot was ridiculous too. Of course Trevor (Tom Lipinski) stands in front of his door, and of course he turns Mike’s currently perfect life (nevermind his relationship troubles) to shit, just because the writers are still too much into Trevor/Jenny. When Trevor found out that Mike is seeing Jenny (and this from Rachel [Meghan Markle] – just think about it for a second: He learns it from Rachel!), I was so seeing the final scene of him somewhat spilling Mike’s secret. And of course the spilling of the secret wouldn’t have been shown as the cliffhanger. I already see it coming that Trevor will chicken out in the season premiere, or something happens, where he can’t say anything to Jessica. If the writers wanted to expose Mike’s secret, they would have done it right here, right now. But they didn’t, which means they are wusses.

Other than that, the whole threesome between the lovebirds was boring again. I thought Rachel wanted to stay away from Mike, but she seems to fall in love with him. Which is boring. Same goes with Mike, who seems to fall in love with Jenny (Vanessa Ray), which is also boring. I wouldn’t mind if this whole love crap disappears into Neverland in the second season premiere. And I’m probably the only one who hates this plot in this show. But hey, in a show like this, a love triangle is the easiest way to include a serialized story, which lets the viewers connect with the characters. Well, it failed with me. And I hate the love triangle. Vomit.

Not a good season finale. Let’s see where the second season will bring us, and if there are some changes in the show. I’m kinda expecting to hate this show next summer… 5/10

Donna gets cuter with every smile

The final discussion before the final twist

Season 1, Episode 11
Date of airing: Sep 1, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 3.961 million viewers, 1.2 rating with A18-49

I can understand why the writers push that threesome relationship between Mike (Patrick J. Adams), Rachel (Meghan Markle) and Jenny (Vanessa Ray) to its limits, because it’s the only mainstream storyline in the series, which probably keeps the audience turning back to the show (and most of the reviews I’ve read were always relying on the relationship plot of the show). But the writers should really think about scaling this story back for the second season. In these past eleven episodes, SUITS basically had no development in this story. Sure, Rachel and Jenny know the truth about Mike, and he kissed them both, but that’s it. It’s not just boring, but it is repeating itself.

Other than that, the episode wasn’t entertaining at all. I’ve had the feeling this was just a usual episode with nothing but an episodic arc, which will be forgotten after a short while, but the end seemed like Harvey (Gabriel Macht) is trying to get some of his past mistakes right. Though I liked that he was conflicted with turning on Cameron (Gary Cole), even though Harvey had every right to believe that Cameron actually played wrong in his career, the story didn’t give much until the end. So, I liked the story for its last couple of seconds, which probably means that this episode has a cliffhanger leading to the season finale – which is unexpected. At least for me, since I don’t watch USA dramas. But as a whole, the whole plot with Cameron, and Alexandra (Alicia Coppola) wanting to get him with Harvey’s involuntary help, didn’t work for me. I was never believing that Harvey could be disbarred, because of Cameron’s cheating moves in the past, and I never believed that Harvey’s past as a DA was that pressuring for him and Jessica (Gina Torres). Maybe it was a mistake to not mention anything about it during the first season, and come up with it now, so the episode has a story and the necessary back story. And maybe there should have been a bigger threat for Harvey in this episode. After all, Alexandra’s mission of not just getting Cameron on burying evidence, but also getting Harvey for helping Cameron, even though there was no evidence to that, was just too small for an episode like this.

The actual story about the will of a dead tabloid owner was boring though. It was basically nothing and only brought the wager to the front. I liked that Harvey and Louis (Rick Hoffman) were opponents once again and wagered Mike. But how the story went on from there was just lame. Mike does another mistake, Louis uses it for his favor, he basically wins the wager, but Harvey said that he won, yet seconds later it was a draw, then Louis says again he wins, but doesn’t want Mike for the ten days? Blah blah fucking blah. That was an annoying back and forth there, which I don’t want to see ever again. Maybe the story should have focused on the sisters Kelsey (Alex Paxton-Beesley) and Madison (Megan Fahlenbock), because I liked their bitchiness in the beginning of the episode.

So, next episode is the season finale. I’m kinda glad it’s over after that. Even though SUITS is still not crappy USA entertainment, after a while it gets tiring to not have a serialized storyline (I’m excluding the love triangle here, because of its clichés) at all. 5.5/10

The funny thing about it? His eyes

Prosecutors can rely on their sexy too

Season 1, Episode 10
Date of airing: Aug 25, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 3.818 million viewers, 1.2 rating with A18-49

During the last couple of episodes I have learned that SUITS won’t ever be more than average entertainment, with stories not going further as a romantic kiss between two love interests, and the usual punches between Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Mike (Patrick J. Adams). Similar to PARENTHOOD, I’d wish for the writers to go more into the offensive, when it comes to creating the storylines. Otherwise SUITS is nothing but the best USA series for me, which still doesn’t manage to get past all the network shows I’m watching.

Meaning: This episode was alright. Since Mike is now “officially” a Harvard graduate, after he got the false documents a couple of episodes ago, the writers needed to find new ways to keep this storyline alive. So, they send Mike to a Harvard dinner, letting him meet the graduates he would have known, if he would be a graduate, and letting all the 2010 and 2011 graduates ask themselves, why they don’t know Mike. Honestly, it was a terrible plot. The only good thing about it was Jenny (Vanessa Ray), and how she sunk into Mike’s world, pretending to be somebody else and delivering an accent. But here I really asked myself why Mike even considered to go to the class reunion. He pretended to be a 2011 graduate (after he was thinking about how illogical it would be to be a 2010 graduate), and yet he expected he would have an easy game with the other graduates? Sorry, but that did not work at all.

The case of the week was okay. Connecting it with Mike’s dilemma, mentioning that Mike is still a kid in the office and that he makes numerous mistakes, yet comes out on top at the end (as Harvey said to Jessica [Gina Torres]). When the writers use stories like this to make Mike a person of interest in the office, they could bring Mike and Jessica together for a couple of scenes, maybe an own story. Because until now, there wasn’t anything in the show, which suggested that Jessica was much interested in Mike. Yeah, Mike is Harvey’s guy, but Mike is also the guy who cracks cases in the firm. And yet he and his actual boss have never “met” and talked together. It’s kinda lame.

That Stan (John Billingsley) was as person like Mike, who falsified his résumé and never finished college was just the “icing on the cake” – but negatively speaking. The parallels with Mike were annoying, and that he had to question his current life in every third scene was annoying as well. I’d wish for this story to end with this season, because SUITS doesn’t need it. It still reminds me of the horrendous premise of nobody having checked Mike’s background in the beginning of the series, and it still does make me feel really bad and makes me want to punch somebody. Anyway, Tory’s (Andrea Parker) involvement in the whole “scandal”, aka the money stealing from the firm, could have been elaborated a bit more. I had the feeling the writers didn’t really want to go into this mess and revealed that story in the last third, just to bring out Stan as the good guy at the end. It was lame though, and there was no thrill.

Anyway, SUITS is still good enough to be followed by me, even though the episodes will never reach a rating of and beyond the 8-point-mark. But at this moment I don’t care. I still like SUITS. 6.5/10

Everybody should have seen it coming: Mike gets naked

The usual shocked face, when the twist is revealed to the character

Season 1, Episode 9
Date of airing: Aug 18, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 4.455 million viewers, 1.5 rating with A18-49

Well, the episode was alright. I didn’t go much for the story, but the competition between Travis (Eric Close) and Harvey (Gabriel Macht) was interesting. But only because the writers went back to the original plot of the series: Harvey was looking for another him, and even though he has Mike, there was actually somebody out there, who was like Harvey the whole time. But that character is too interesting to have him wasted for only this single episode.

The deposition case against Emerson Petroleum seemed boring at first, and it could have been interesting, when Travis came in and started to destroy the deposition for his own win. There could have been a bigger back story though, especially some more information about the firm he was working for, or about the case itself. After all, it seemed to be about cancer, about a high school, about money, about a past lawsuit… I never knew what it was actually about, which is why the writers need to start focus more on the cases and not the surroundings of it. With going a bit more into the actual cases, the story would be more interesting, there would be suspense in the story, and I would care more about the characters. Especially Harvey. But for now, the story was alright, and it almost seemed that Travis was created for more than just one appearance. And since he was cast with a recognizable TV face, I can imagine he will reappear in the second season. Hopefully the writers are going to work on the ending – I so could not buy that Travis was not seeing the bluff in Harvey’s move.

The second plot involving the breach and Jessica (Gina Torres) thinking that the leak in the office could be bigger than anticipated was an alright-story as well, but it was so damn predictable that Mike (Patrick J. Adams) would eventually have to deal with the leak, and that Rachel (Meghan Markle) was involved as well. It was a lame move from the writers to make the mysterious character blame Rachel for the leak, and to make it look like that Rachel was just a random to-blame person in the office. The only moment I liked in this story was Mike’s moment with the IT guy (though I wonder why nobody outside the legal offices knows that the legal offices have a guy like Mike). And the other thing I didn’t like was the fact that Jimmy (Pooch Hall) was the leak, and did it just because he is still an associate. Umm, seriously? First: predictable, after Jimmy got so much screentime, and this as a character I didn’t know at all. Second, pretty lame reason for leaking the witness list, just because he is still not an attorney, and is still fighting for Louis’ acceptance as an associate. Yeah, it was that funny. 6/10

It's the happy face of an assistant

It's the sad face of a former FBI agent

Season 1, Episode 8
Date of airing: Aug 11, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 3.963 million viewers, 1.2 rating with A18-49

Interesting episode, which, again, trips over its premise. I wonder why Louis (Rick Hoffman) has never tried to look up, if Mike (Patrick J. Adams) was a Harvard alumni, after it seemed so easy to look it up. And I wonder why it took so long for the writers to come up with this episode to close the gap. Now I feel a bit safer about Mike’s secret and don’t have to worry about those plot holes anymore. Well, they’re still there, but they were seriously crushed together with this episode.

The case about the missing $150 million was interesting, though the conclusion couldn’t have been more of a cop-out. But I liked that Louis was involved in the story, and that the writers have given him a story outside of picking on Mike all the time. Here, Louis did one mistake after another, which could have cost Harvey (Gabriel Macht) the case and eventually Jessica (Gina Torres) would have lost the patience with her two best guys. I liked how Louis went totally nuts during the deposition with Elliot Perkins (Richard Zeppieri), and I loved the scene when he was slapped by his wife (Laura DeCarteret) during the funeral. That kinda made Louis a bit more sympathetic, because I was actually feeling for him. He did mistakes, though he was thinking with a good heart here, but he always ended up on the other side of the road, because he behaved like a child, who doesn’t know what just happened. And thankfully the writers decided to let him work together with Harvey the whole time, and not bring Mike into the mix for the saving moment. But like I said, only the ending was a cop-out. So, after all the trouble of finding the money trail, it was all in seven different safe deposit boxes, and it was “so easy” to get the information. I don’t know, but I didn’t like how the story was concluded. And how Mike was able to get Lola’s (Amanda Crew) help to crack the case.

Well, and there we are: Jerome (James Morrison) and Lola, and the case of more money being stolen. The story could have been more interesting, if it would have been all about the case, instead of the troubles between father and daughter. Sometimes I had the feeling I don’t even know why Lola stole the $2 million, or why it had something to do with the fake ID he accidentally found (remember: it all began with the fake ID). Initially, I didn’t know if the writers wanted to have a personal problem between Jerome and Lola, or if it was all about the case of Jerome’s company getting bad press, because money was stolen, found again, but not returned (instead given away). Even more, I don’t know why Lola decided to help Mike with the Stable Shelters case, even giving him a back-up with his Harvard secret. First she wanted to expose his secret, and then ten minutes later she went into Harvey’s office, found the information for him and gave Mike all what he needed for his story at the end of the episode? There was a scene or two missing to explain her change of character.

OMG, I like this show now. It’s actually the first USA show I like. Call Guinness, I think this is a record… 7/10

Flowers don't help in Louis' case

Finally: Mike has the real deal of a diploma

Season 1, Episode 7
Date of airing: Aug 4, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 4.025 million viewers, 1.3 rating with A18-49

The episode was alright, but why does a mock trial have to be the first trial for Mike (Patrick J. Adams), in which he loses the case? I was always waiting for a lost case in a light legal drama (FRANKLIN & BASH comes to mind) like this one, and finally a case was lost, but then it was just a mock trial. A game. The Debutante Ball for Mike in the firm, so to say. Blah blah.

Okay, the mock trial was an interesting story. First, it was just a normal case of wrongful termination, which went outside of the corporate business of the firm. And I have the feeling we won’t see those kind of cases anytime soon in the show. But of course Mike was one of the attorneys, to prove himself, and of course he would be troubled, because he is still thinking about where he came. The first half of the story was interesting: Mike trying to settle with Kyle (Ben Hollingsworth), and getting the Kobayashi Maru speech from Harvey (Gabriel Macht). Then Kyle’s backstabbing, and how Mike continued with the countersuit. I didn’t see every connection in the story, because the writers weren’t really focused on the mock trial, but it was a nice story. Until Jenny (Vanessa Ray) got in the game.

I wonder: How is it possible for an outsider to completely get into the “game”, with all the information. While Jenny was questioned in her character as a witness, I asked myself how much she knew about the mock trial, how much information she got about the case, how much information she had on what to say and what not. I mean, you could clearly make something up on the stand to make Mike look good in front of everybody, but instead it all looked real, as if it was a trial about wrongful termination. I don’t know if it was a plot hole here, or if the writers just neglected to give me the info that a couple of days passed by and that Jenny had to know loads of information for the “game”. Like I said, she could have made something up, when Kyle was questioning her, but instead she “didn’t know why the video was made” – with a bit of thinking, she could have saved Mike from total annihilation within seconds, and the trial could have probably been blown. I don’t know what was going on here. And finally: Thanks for Mike losing the mock trial, though he did it in a terrible fashion. Just because he had a heart for Rachel (Meghan Markle) doesn’t mean he can’t kick ass in court. Mike is in fact an intelligent man, but he wasn’t able to go beyond his feelings to show the firm what he’s made of? Yeah, he pretty much kicked himself in the ass, which also means the writers haven’t developed his character. Instead, they opened the door of a possible romance between Rachel and Mike. With Jenny somewhat in the middle of them.

The merger case between Harvey and Dana (Abigail Spencer) was boring though, because the hostile takeover came from nowhere, and was concluded pretty lame. Then again, this story was all about letting Harvey have a shot at relationship for a second, giving him sex with a hot woman, giving him doubts about his love life, or maybe even his future with his life outside the office. No wonder that the hostile takeover was just part of the story for like two minutes, between Harvey finding out about it and Harvey sitting together Jones and Daniel to go back to the original merger deal.

So, how about less Rachel and Mike, and more Mike and Harvey. A male buddy romance would do the show good. And would make look FRANKLIN & BASH old… 6/10

Another woman for Harvey. How many does he have?

Donna is an actress!

Season 1, Episode 6
Date of airing: Jul 28, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 4.435 million viewers, 1.5 rating with A18-49

It was a solid episode, and I finally know what’s so different about this legal drama from any other legal dramas in TV shows. It’s all about corporate lawyers and their relationships to businesses and assets. Thanks to English not being my first language (you might have noticed…), I was never able to speak out the difference between SUITS and DEK shows. Well, know I can name it by definition, and this kinda makes me like the show more.

But then again, I don’t get the stories much. I feel I need subtitles just to get the names and the legal vocabulary right, because SUITS is a bit different in the legal drama genre; and I always think that I don’t fully get the story and the logic behind it, because I don’t know anything about corporate business. Like this time. Gabby (Jenny Mollen) made mistakes in trading shares within Morello Assets, and just because a stinky business man like Burt (Doug Murray) wanted to cheat, a trader like Gabby had to pay for it with jail time? First I didn’t understand what Burt wanted to achieve with Gabby using the illegal tip sheet; second I couldn’t understand why there was jail time to it; third I couldn’t buy that it was not possible for somebody to see that Gabby’s lawyer worked for Morello Assets before, as well as having a business connection to Burt, eventually conspiring for Morillo Assets.

I liked how the business relationship between Mike (Patrick J. Adams) and Harvey (Gabriel Macht) developed though. After six episodes, this episode seemed to have been the first time where the two acted as “friends”. The two made jokes to each other (Rocky and Stallone, Mike eventually seeing Harvey’s luxury apartment), the two completely listened to each other without asking too many questions (Harvey knowing in an instant that Mike was right about Gabby’s innocence), and it seemed like this was also the first episode, where Harvey just couldn’t metaphorically beat up Mike for his mistakes. The only thing I’m missing so far is Harvey getting into the cases. Until now, it was always Mike, who had to get the information, who had to dig deep. Harvey just sat on his ass, waiting for Mike to come with the resolution. Though this time, I liked that Mike won a bit more self-confidence – the scene on the basketball court was cool, and how he tricked the traders in the bar was nice as well. Please more of that.

Rachel’s (Meghan Markle) plot… Well, not much likable, and how she came to realize Mike’s secret was kinda… not really good. First, USA Network totally spoiled the story while asking during the first couple of minutes, if Rachel finds out Mike’s secret (WTF? Who is doing something like this, just to get the viewers hooked up on their website?); second, Rachel realized it way too fast. Just because Mike changed the tone, doesn’t make me think that he actually changed the tone and was telling something different. I think the writers just wanted the secret out to make the relationship between Mike and Rachel more complex. And it would have been a much better story, if it would have been all about Theresa (Jeananne Goossen), and Mike fearing she might get an internship in the firm… 7/10

Mike is cool on the basketball court

There's something private going on here...

Season 1, Episode 5
Date of airing: Jul 21, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 4.376 million viewers, 1.5 rating with A18-49

And I was hoping this show would be something different. Well, it kinda is, but the stories are still forgettable, and don’t really develop anything. Neither the story involving Mike (Patrick J. Adams) and his fake past, nor some character development for any of the characters. Not even the guest characters. And SUITS could be so much more, when the writers finally decide to focus on making the stories more intriguing.

I’m talking about the licensing case with Joy (Susan Saint James) here. It seemed interesting at first, because it was another business-related storyline for the show (the ones I would even like more, when they would be more relatable), and it started interesting, when Mike was forced to hold off the deal, until Harvey (Gabriel Macht) was done with his car accident. But then the case went from would-be-interesting to nowhere, when the episode focused on the civil suit between Harvey and Tony (José Zúñiga). And the civil suit was the opposite to the licensing case: It started off pretty boring, because I didn’t really know where it was going, and it looked like Tony wanted to give Harvey a wipe, because he’s a rich lawyer, but at the end there was a bit more to the story – the only thing is that the writers haven’t used any of it. The case didn’t develop much, and the “friendship” between Harvey and his driver Ray (Anand Rajaram) was pretty much not a friendship. As if the writers needed Ray as a character for this episode, and needed him to have a connection with Harvey. But I liked the idea of Harvey being a witness to a civil suit. It wouldn’t hurt, if TV lawyers getting in some legal trouble a bit more often, without their careers on the edge.

Mike’s story was ridiculous again. I don’t like the whole story involving Trevor (Tom Lipinski), and I don’t like that Trevor remains to be a problem for Mike. It seems like the writers are preparing to reveal Mike’s dirty little secret with Trevor’s help, and now that Trevor knows where Mike works, there is not much space left between Trevor and Louis. I’m now counting the episodes, until the two meet under whatever circumstances, and make Mike’s life a living hell. Does it seem predictable now? Anyway, the whole deal with Mike helping Trevor was lame. He wanted to have Trevor out of his life, but as soon as he calls from jail, he is back in. And of course Trevor wants to get clean, but of course there are still shady people whom Trevor owns money. And of course they are after Mike, because there is a contact between Trevor and another person. It was a bla bla story, I didn’t care about it, and it wasn’t thrilling. And I wondered why Harvey was willing to help Mike out of this situation. The scene with him and the shady guys was indeed kick-ass, but isn’t Harvey saying all the time he would kick Mike out of the office, when he finds out he’s still dealing with Trevor? It’s time for Harvey to tell him where the boss in this relationship is. And it’s time for the writers to kill the Trevor story and make something out of Louis breathing in Mike’s neck.

I still haven’t given up on this show. And saying that to a USA drama makes me question my sanity. 5.5/10

The doll is not crazy

Some shady people in this elevator...

Season 1, Episode 4
Date of airing: Jul 14, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 4.378 million viewers, 1.3 rating with A18-49

Another solid episode in standards of USA dramas. I don’t believe it myself, but I’m starting to like this show, even though I still absolutely hate the premise of it. And since the writers haven’t forgotten that Mike (Patrick J. Adams) was not coming from Harvard and making it an ongoing storyline, the reasons of hating SUITS still exist. But somehow, I like how the legal genre plays out. Which is why I’m sticking with the show for now.

The main storyline involving Jessica’s ex-husband Quentin (Russell Hornsby) and his Amylinx drug was interesting at first. Even though it was a cliché, I liked that the case started completely against Quentin, and that there was the possibility of a financial fraud, together with the question, if Quentin was not the good guy Jessica (Gina Torres) learned to know and marry (and divorce), and that there might be more deeper reasons why the drug was not helping some of the ALS people. But then the twist came, and Quentin was suddenly struck with ALS and the story transformed from being a question about the business moral into a personal dilemma. I wasn’t really satisfied with the ending, but at least the story brought Jessica into the focus of the story. And thankfully, there was no hate between Jessica and Quentin’s current girlfriend Lisa (Sharon Leal) – I was thinking differently, when Lisa was introduced as a character.

Mike’s first own case was alright. I liked that it was just a simple housing case, and how he came to lose it, because he didn’t have the balls to go the law way. But I didn’t like how Harvey came to believe that the case was way more than Mike was thinking, when Harvey (Gabriel Macht) heard the name Vivian (Christina Chang), and that she was the lawyer on the other side. All of a sudden, the case was bigger, and Mike was in his element. And of course, Mike won the case at the end, but only with another lame twist. Similar to the main case of the episode, I didn’t like the second half of the case, though the scene with Mike and Rachel (Meghan Markle) “undercover” as a couple looking for an apartment was nice. Though forced, because it doesn’t look good, when the writers want to couple up two colleagues, who just met. We’re four episodes in, and there is already such a storyline here.

Other than that, the writers could do more with Louis (Rick Hoffman). Is he suspecting that Mike didn’t go to Harvard, or is he just fucking with him, because he doesn’t know any better? It feels like Louis was only written into the series for this exact part. That makes him a boring character with no development at all.

One final note: Are bed bugs the talk of TV shows now? First there are the theme of a LOVE BITES segment I watched just previous to this episode, and now this? 6.5/10

Vivian is cold-hearted

It's like a secret meeting

Season 1, Episode 3
Date of airing: Jul 7, 2011 (USA)
Nielsen ratings information: 4.527 million viewers, 1.3 rating with A18-49

I have realized something during this episode. SUITS doesn’t want to be one of those usual legal dramas, instead the stories show the business end of being a lawyer. It’s not about defending or prosecuting citizens of the state, instead the law firm is fully in completely in the business relationship between people and their clients. Which is kinda refreshing, especially after having a show like THE GOOD WIFE, which wants everything from the genre, and FRANKLIN & BASH, which wants to be funny. I have to say, I kinda like SUITS for that. That doesn’t mean the show is good though.

The problem is that the stories are totally boring. I didn’t care much about Harvey (Gabriel Macht) wanting to lose Robert Stetzen (Hamish McEwan) from the company, and therefore as a client, even though I should care about it in a writer’s way, since there was no reason given, why Harvey wanted him out. Furthermore I didn’t really care that Harvey was hating Dominic (Titus Welliver), yet he was the only one able to save the motor company and eventually the billable hours for the law firm. But it’s good to realize that the writers take some time on exactly that, and make the series a bit different from the rest. And I wouldn’t mind if the rest of the season keeps that difference. The writers just have to learn to make the stories more intriguing. When I don’t care about the guest characters and their stories, why should I care how Harvey is eventually winning his cases?

In addition, I liked how Mike (Patrick J. Adams) was included in that plot, though it seemed he was reading the bylaws only, just to find something, which Harvey can attack Stetzen and win Dominic as the new CEO. The whole bylaw thing went a bit too far though – it was used way too heavily, and I can’t imagine the board of the company didn’t knew about the points Harvey and Mike were getting at. And I so didn’t like that the whole story involving Trevor (Tom Lipinski) came back to bite Mike’s ass. It was already an annoying factor in the pilot and the disappearance of it in the last episode was gladly appreciated. So why did the writers chose to bring this story back? Just to have Mike finish with Trevor, or just so he can make out with Jenny (Vanessa Ray)? And why did he actually have to make out with Jenny? That just looks like a cheap way of getting Mike some character depth (I’d welcome it, but I would like it with less clichés), and to keep Trevor in the story. And I really don’t need that plot in the show.

The episode could have done way more with the rookie dinner though. First I was believing that Louis (Rick Hoffman) was shitting Mike, but then the rookie dinner was actually a necessity for Mike. But hey, it brought a scene with Mike and Rachel (Meghan Markle), and the writers used it to hint at a possible relationship – after all, SUITS needs some storylines the viewers can handle, besides all the legal stuff. 6/10

The view is probably great from this position

It's a moment of true sexiness - depending on the viewer