- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 2025
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As the show goes on, it becomes a little more interesting — not the main story, so much, which involves Ted’s defense of a producer accused of murder, on which he is staking his professional reputation. It takes up a lot of air without being in the least compelling. But around the edges, in the lesser plots and comic moments. .... embers are glowing.
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This is bad TV as addictive as semi-warm pizza or a post-pub kebab. Objectively, it is awful. But goodness, it goes down easily, and there is the bonus of it never taking itself seriously.
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This gives the show slightly more depth than many broadcast series today, but it’s nowhere near the entertaining, complex psychological machinations on display in “The White Lotus,” which airs on HBO at the same time.
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If this show can shuck off its tiresome flashbacks as well as its more ridiculous twists (viewers who reach the end of the pilot will have no question as to what at least one of them might be), there could be something watchable here. But Suits fans hoping for a West Coast-flavored edition may struggle to find here what they enjoyed before.
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A show that’s both too much and not enough at the same time.
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Because Suits LA kicks off in absolute mayhem, it barely gets the chance to be fun. Even the banter that Korsh did so well in Suits is almost non-existent. It is heavy and dark from the get-go, with several plot twists, backstabbing, and even underdeveloped angst just in its first hour.
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“Suits LA” is flat and joyless.
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Maybe this series will break free of Ted’s gloom eventually, and find its way toward the clear blue skies that its title suggests it should have been chasing all along. But by then, I can’t imagine I’ll still be watching.
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Aside from Erica, and an occasional good Ted Black moment (Amell has the cadence and the jawline), the banter wilts more than it zings. Without it, Suits LA is just convoluted plot and unrealistically alert lawyers – maybe baseline entertaining, but not sexy. Without it – after three episodes, at least – this spinoff is just business.