The Small Screen: Suits Season Review

The Small Screen: Suits Season Review


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Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) is a brilliant college dropout. Mike's childhood dreams of becoming a lawyer are crushed after uncontrollable situations, including having to care for his beloved grandmother, lead him to drop out of college. Naturally intelligent and with an eidetic memory, Mike makes a living taking tests for other people, particularly LSATs.

During the first episode we meet his friend Trevor Evans (Tom Lipinski),Mike's drug-dealing best friend. Trevor begs him to help with a big delivery. Mike is reluctant to do it but agrees. Things obviously go wrong and Mike finds himself at a job search. A lawyer job search. There he meets Harvey Specter.

Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) is one of New York City's top attorneys who has recently been promoted to senior partner at his firm, and is forced by company policy to hire an associate. After an accidental interview with Mike, Harvey is impressed by the younger man's quick wits, his encyclopedic knowledge of the law, and his genuine desire to be an attorney, and hires him. Due to the fact that Mike lacks a law degree, and because the firm prefers Harvard alumni, they both pretend that Mike is a Harvard graduate.

At the firm, Mike is continuously hounded by junior partner Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman),

a rival of Harvey's who is suspicious of Mike's credentials. Mike is eventually befriended by Rachel (Meghan Markle), a paralegal, whose testing anxiety has prevented her from becoming a lawyer, and the two soon develop a mutual attraction. Mike and Harvey often come into conflict over Mike's naivete and ethical scruples and Harvey's hard charging and seemingly uncaring demeanor.

That is pretty much the show in a nutshell. It sounds boring, I know. But I gave it a shot and really enjoyed this show. The witty banter between Harvey and Mike made this show for me. The constant back and forth, trying to one up the other, and trying to beat each other was hilarious and brought a lot of tension to the season.

The law firm itself is home to a lot of the hijinks and drama especially when you add in Louis, Donna (Sarah Rafferty) Harvey's secretary, and Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) Harvey's boss and managing and founding partner of Pearson Hardman.



Another overall arc to the show is will someone find out the truth about Mike and what would happen to him and Harvey. Many episodes dealt with this issue. And at one point Rachel finds out but decides to keep Mike's secret. A couple of other episodes we see what could happen to Mike if he is found out but we see it through the actions of another. The firm finds out that an important and priceless accountant lied on his resume and was essentially thrown out and almost sued horribly. In another episode we see a clients daughter threaten to reveal Mike's secret only to help him out later and hack into Harvard and deliver an authentic degree and records for Mike.



The season finale was actually pretty good. We see Harvey deal with past problems while working as assistant District Attorney. Trying to clear the name of a guy he helped convict for a murder. He succeeds the way that the team of Harvey and Mike always do. But at a cost. Throughout the season Mike's drug dealer friend almost cost him his life twice. In the finale Trevor finds out Mike has been going out with his ex girlfriend. Trevor then heads to the law firm and the season ends with him talking to Jessica Pearson about Mike. Leaving us hanging until next summer.


Overall Suits was a welcome new show to watch during the summer show season. It is as good as White Collar and Royal Pains. And seriously, I can't wait until the new season starts.