Suits

It's good to start by clarifying what this series is and what it's not. First of all, it is not a legal series. If you want to watch corporate law like "when the case goes to court, it's a loss to both parties" or daily routine law matter than look elsewhere (for example here or here). Here, the legal guise is only tinsel, however undeniably attractive and functional. So what the Suits really are? There is no clear answer to this, as even the creators themselves have not known for a long time, but if anything, they can be described as "Game of Suits / mainstream Mad Meni / office Beverly Hills". You think it does not work well together? Yes, that is true, and that is the biggest problem of the Suits. They are so unusually disordered that the dramatic intriguing episodes with subliminal tension loaded with scheming and plotting are regularly followed by a padding, relaxed episode about the woes of workplace relationships. In this show it applies more than elsewhere that every strong point you can praise (quite rightly) has an equally serious weak point which can (quite rightly) ruin everything. If it weren't so good in the (best) moments, it would almost be a guilty pleasure affair,( extremely important passing of the folders, which takes place ten times per episode, is a moment that is so stupid that you start to love it, and because of the hundreds of repeated phrases in each episode "in the first place", "you know it", "pennies on the dollar", "my firm" etc. it almost call for one drink every time you hear that. But it's SO good most of the time, so it's not that hard just to ignore all the "flaws" (characters as a makeweight, lines that fade away, padding episodes, soap opera moments, cheap production, when they can do only with one courtroom for the whole city, wallpapers behind the windows, three offices pretending to be offices of thousands other companies or, since the first series, recycled introductory shots of New York), because when (and I really mean it) the five main characters get under your skin, then you simply get into it. Especially when it is so addictive and dynamic that you can easily watch five episode in a row. Which becomes a problem in later series, when some of the characters that drive the whole show leave. And the creators deal with it in the worst possible way. Newcomers are stylized as replacements for those characters who have left. Which, as expected, doesn't work and it loses in quality because it's a character-based series. And to the extent that one watches it purely because he is too lazy to stop. It still has its strong points but you do not care for it any more. And the finale scene clearly calls for more bitterness for in all that sweetness. | S1: 4/5 | S2: 5/5 | S3: 4/5 | S4: 4/5 | S5: 5/5 | S6: 4/5 | S7: 3/5 | S8: 3/5 | S9: 3/5 | (03/07/2016)