Suits

[Blue Jam]

Legal comedy-drama series featuring that actor who quit to marry someone or other. The premise: Mike Ross (Patrick J Adams) is a college dropout who figured that his searing intelligence and incredible memory skills would be better put to use sitting the Law School Admission Test for lazy but wealthy students who are willing to stump up large amounts of cash. When a mate offers to pay him even more money to deliver drugs to some wealthy buyers in a posh hotel, he has to go out and buy a suit (geddit). Naturally it all goes horribly wrong and while running from the cops in his new suit he ends up hiding in the offices of a random law firm, ushered into an interview with senior partner Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) and, because he is so very smart, being offered a job despite not having a law degree. This actually turns out to have been a good idea, even after loads of furtiveness and plotting and backstabbing ensues.

It's all bollocks of course but it's undemanding, highly entertaining bollocks. I enjoyed it back when it first started and got sucked back in recently, not sure what prompted that, anyway someone called Meghan Markle is in it and she's pretty good as Rachel Zane, I enjoy the bromance between Mike and Harvey, but the real star of the show is the unintentionally creepy and strangely endearing Louis Litt- I do like sleazy-but-charming characters, they're hard to get right but Richard Hoffman does a great job, also he gets all the best lines (including a fair few Tobias Funke moments) and thoroughly deserves them.

I was going to put this in TV Guilty Pleasures but I think that would be a bit unfair as it's better than that. No Better Call Saul of course but I'm enjoying it while I wait for that to return. Any other fans here?

[Jerzy Bondov]

I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons but then they got rid of the jaunty end credits music and I stopped watching altogether after the first episode of season four. I found it totally incomprehensible. Mike was coming to Harvey and asking him about something and Harvey was getting all worked up and then Mike was getting worked up at him but I just had no idea what they were talking about. Some business/legal gibberish. Might have just been saying the lyrics to the theme song. I was watching it because it was undemanding froth and then they come at me with this. I really fancied Donna so it was shame to stop watching but I can't be having my brain twisted all up with legalese when I'm trying to look at sexy men in suits and sexy women in uncomfortably tight dresses.

[paruses]

I remember enjoying the first couple of series, first three even though I couldn't tell you anything about the content.

Enjoyed Richard Hoffman's turn very much - but does he ever play any other character? Am sure he's turned up in CSI and the like and a film I can't remember and was exactly the same; not that he's not great.

I also liked Donna best (if Donna is Harvey's secretary).

Do you think it would stand up to a rewatch or would Meghan Markle's current incarnation overshadow everything? I seem to remember she was my least favourite character - just seemed very wet.

[DrGreggles]

I think I watched the first 3 seasons, and enjoyed it for the lightweight froth it was, but then it completely disappeared from my radar. Did it change channels or something?

The first time I saw Princess Megan would have been on the news when the wedding was imminent and I thought she looked like "that lass from Suits". I hadn't made the connection.

[Old Thrashbarg]

I've watched all of it. The middle few seasons (5-7 maybe) were a bit of a slog, but then the introduction/promotion of some other characters breathed a bit more life into the last couple of seasons.

It was never really anything more than mindless fun, and some of the plotting and scripting made it feel like the writers were way too pleased with themselves, but it was always well performed by the main cast. And they had plenty of moments of tension that actually worked (though too much deus ex machina) and lots of decent comedy too.

Not a classic, but it managed to be entertaining for 9 seasons.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I definitely watched the first episode and maybe a few after that. I assume it's just my ignorance showing, but where is the drama in Mike's situation? I remember he had an interview in which Litt acted ludicrously menacing (despite looking like a cartoon gopher) ever verging on the truth. If Mike is exposed as a fraud though, won't he just end up back where he started, or would he actually be prosecuted? Presumably the cops aren't circling the office, like sharks, ready to grab him the moment he's kicked out.

The USA network seems to specialise in this sort of show "Froth" is the perfect word for it. I used to watch Burn Notice on a regular basis, until one episode in the third or fourth series, I realised I just wasn't interested in it any more.

[Jerzy Bondov]

If Mike is exposed as a fraud though, won't he just end up back where he started, or would he actually be prosecuted? Presumably the cops aren't circling the office, like sharks, ready to grab him the moment he's kicked out.

Hmm I never thought of it like that. Presumably he does get found out by everybody at some point. By the time I stopped watching it a few more people were in on it. I think.

[Blue Jam]

Watching more Syoots now. Louis Litt's ranting about wanting his favoured Uniball fineliners is funny but FFS Louis, where's your self-recockingspect? Get yourself a proper fountain pen, you magnificent fopp.

[Blue Jam]

Max Beesley in season 3 is creepy as fuck and I'm not convinced it's entirely an act. What the fuck did Scary Spice see in him?

Also do Americans really get the RFH for "the British accent" to that degree? Why don't more of us Limeys move there gor blimey guvnor?