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.
As we know, Gabriel Macht played Harvey Specter on Suits, a man who loved his Whiskey. When Bear Fight Whiskey realized this, they asked him to be their creative partner.
However, I don’t think he was part of their creative meetings for their advertisements. I say that because the actor got beat up in their first commercial together.
They had a man in a bear suit fight him, and the director’s brother-in-law took his role seriously. So much so, first, he punched Macht in the mouth, causing him to lose a tooth. Then, the “bear” followed that up by tackling him in the chair, which led to him getting a concussion. For the final take, the grizzly climbed the rafters and planned on jumping on the star. But by this time, he was wise to what was going to happen next. So, he grabbed the bottle and headed to his trailer for safety.
I bet from now on, he will only work with actors in three-piece or birthday suits.
I would like to say that this is Macht’s toughest co-star, but I can’t. After all he did work with Meghan Markle for seven years.
NBC just released a full trailer for Suits LA, and the spinoff has a different feel than the original one. And that is a good thing. We wouldn’t want the same thing with different faces.
Ted Black (Stephen Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while we slowly unravel the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.
Are you going to watch the legal drama when it premieres on February 28th?
Last week was a good week for Suits LA, the spinoff of Suits. First, Gabrel Macht revealed that he would reprise his role as Harvey Specter. Then, NBC announced that the legal drama will debut on February 23rd. Finally, the network released a promo with a song that sounds familiar to fans. It is the same theme song from the original series. All of that gives me hope for this show. I just hope it doesn’t let us down.
