'Suits' was never a high-concept show, and that's what made it charming. The fallibility and approachability of the individual characters. Each with well-defined strengths and weaknesses, playing together in an ensemble. The last strong season of the series was 5, Mike's fall and eventual incarceration.
Season 6 was an odd melange never really finding its feet, as the team moved from'Suits' was never a high-concept show, and that's what made it charming. The fallibility and approachability of the individual characters. Each with well-defined strengths and weaknesses, playing together in an ensemble. The last strong season of the series was 5, Mike's fall and eventual incarceration.
Season 6 was an odd melange never really finding its feet, as the team moved from crisis to crisis, resolving them with varying degrees of believability. It's hard to continue from the end of Series 5's plot-line. Not only was Mike 'found out' but also he confessed and accepted a jail sentence. That's the end of the series' major conflict and plot. Series 6 attempted to reboot the storyline as being about something other than Mike's dark hero story, but it didn't take. Instead the characters felt flat and generally banal. There were a few hero moments and legal wizardry that are the show's trademark, but these were and are exceedingly rare.
If Series 6 fell flat, Series 7 picks up where that left off. The dialogue sounds choppy and forced. The characters themselves are generally unbelievable, and there's weak arcs. The therapist conflict could have taken all season to play out, rather than forcing it through an episode. If there's one word for Episode 1 of Series 7, it's impatient. If there's another word, it's flat.
Unfortunately, I don't really see where Suits goes from here. The major conflict has passed, and the writers don't have a confident strong adversary or theme for Spector's ascension. It's gone from a big New York story into Life at a Law Firm, and I don't know how long that will hold people's attention. I think we'll see the series wrap up quite quickly from here.… Expand