Stephen Amell is the lead of the Suits spinoff Suits LA. In other words, he is the new Gabriel Macht, who was the ringmaster of the OG legal drama. So in a way, Amell took over for Macht.
You would think that Amell would be happy with that. But it was not enough for him. Now, it seems that Amell is taking over as the spokesperson of Bear Fight Whiskey, which is/was Macht’s company.
I say that because Amell was seen joking with the whiskey’s mascot and stealing him away from Macht.
Does this mean that Macht is being replaced? Time will tell, and we will find out in the next funny commercial from Bear Fight Whiskey.
Ever since it was announced that Gabriel Macht was going to guest star on Suits LA, Suits fans have been anxiously waiting for that episode on the spinoff. Well, tonight at 9p on NBC, it is finally here. And the episode doesn’t disappoint.
Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt) and Rick Dodsen (Bryan Greenberg) team up to get Enrico Colantoni to keep out of jail. However, the actor won’t admit why he did the crime that got him in trouble. So, now they have to play bad cop, good cop to get the truth out of him. Will it work?
Ted Black (Stephen Amell) and Erica Rollins (Lex Scott Davis) have to work together to help out their client (Kevin Weisman), who has been accused of murdering his business partner. Because of that, his name has been taken off of his upcoming movie, and he wants it back on. But they can’t do it alone, so they recruit someone to help them. Is she as good as she seems?
Finally, someone comes back from Ted’s past, and he threatens Eddie (Carson A. Egan). That is what brings Harvey to the episode. Can Harvey help them out? All I will tell you is that he is still Batman, so who is Ted?
I will tell you one more thing. This is the series’ best episode to date. It really feels like the OG Suits. I knew the show just had to find itself, and it has. All spinoffs have their growing pains. But they get through them and become their own. And that is what Suits LA does tonight.
Give this show a shot because it has proven to be worthy of our time!
When Zoe Perry was a little girl, she hung out on the set of Roseanne with her mom, Laurie Metcalf. In fact, she played the younger version of Jackie on two episodes.
Twenty years later, she will be working with her mom on The Connersm the Roseanne revival. This time, Perry will play a cop trying to convince Jackie not to rejoin the force for two episodes.
Perry also played the younger version of her mom on Young Sheldon, the spinoff of The Big Bang Theory.
Talking about spinoffs. Rick Hoffman will reprise his Suits role of Louis Litt on Suits LA for at least one episode. He is the second OG to appear on the legal drama. Gabriel Macht will be back as Harvey Spector in an upcoming episode.
If you are tuning into Suits LA on NBC at 9p and expecting to see the Suits you knew on USA, you will be disappointed. But not getting a ripoff is not a bad thing.
That works for and against it. Suits focused on Harvey and Mike’s dynamic with the people at the law firm assisting the storyline. And it worked because there were just six leads. Everyone had their purpose and different roles.
Suits LA has too many characters, and too many are fighting someone else for a position.
Ted Black (Stephen Amell) is a former NY mob attorney who moved to LA to get away from that job and his father.
Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt) is a criminal defense lawyer who owns an entertainment law firm, and he persuades his old friend Black to join him and merge their firms. But neither man is sold on the idea.
Ted has two entertainment lawyers, who both want to run the firm’s entertainment department.
Rick Dodson (Bryan Greenberg) has been promised the job. He is not the best closer, but there are a lot of other things he is good at, which makes him the right person for the job.
Erica (Lex Scott Davis) also wants the job and is the best closer. She will do anything to get it. Even though Ted keeps telling her, the title is going to Rick.
Leah (Alice Lee) is treated like Erica’s assistant, but she is a lawyer and wants more responsibility that her boss won’t give her. Therefore, she will go around her boss’ back to get help from others.
And there are more people who work at the firm and play other roles. But I couldn’t keep track.
The show’s biggest downfall is using real stars to play themselves in stupid scenarios. It works when Victoria Justice plays someone else but not when Patton Oswalt and Brian Baumgartner play themselves. It ruins the series and takes you away from the episode because it feels so misplaced.
It might sound like I don’t like this show, but I do. I just think as it goes on, they will need to tighten the scripts and stop having so many rivalries. We fell in love with Louis Litt, but none of these characters have gotten to his level yet. And I hope they do.
I say we need to give the legal drama a chance because it has potential.
Gabriel Macht played Harvey Specter on Suits for nine seasons, and it is hard not to love his character. So when people see him in person, they stop to say hi.
However, he has a message for them if they say this one thing to him. “When people come up to me and they’re like, ‘I went to law school because of you,’ I always apologize profusely,” the actor told People. “If you like to read, that is great because you’re going to sit with a book, like this, for hours.”
If they were reading instead of watching Suits, then they might have become an actor instead of a lawyer.
Macht will be inspiring a new generation of lawyers when he guest stars on NBC’s Suits LA starting on February 23rd.
