Suits LA Episode 11 review: Legal drama turns legal mess - case of identity crisis
Episode 12 of 'Suits LA', 'Tearin' Up My Heart,' has established that the show is going nowhere. There were signs all over the place, but it took us 12 episodes to finally understand that the spin-off has got no direction to follow. Certainly not any direction that can lead it to the viewers' hearts! What once started off as a legal drama, with the excitement of dealing with entertainment cases in the film industry set in Los Angeles, has now turned into a soap opera - not a very good one at that - with forced relationships, and unimpressive flashbacks of equations from the past.advertisementWe remember asking for more individual stories in the drama when it began in February this year. But, that was because it was always a good idea to know where the decisions of these characters were coming from. Why was Ted Black going against someone in court the way he did, or why did he trust someone so strongly, or why did Stuart decide to deceive his best friends of years to make a selfish decision? It was all asked so that we could find ourselves more invested in 'Suits LA' - this new world which was clearly so different from the iconic 'Suits', and yet looked similar (without the interesting bit, though).However, all that seems to have backfired now. At this point, there's too much melodrama and no action happening in the show. The twists are limited to long gazes and silent sighs of relief. And a tiring sense of baggage of past relationships. Let's have an account of these relationships that continue to work in the past:Stuart and Ted: Friends-turned well... not-friends-anymoreRick and Erica: Slept together in the past, but broke up or didn't or if that was just a one-time thing - we don't know.Ted and Samantha: Exes who can't escape their tied-up past.Amanda and her troubled childhood - a controlling father who never let her make her choices - and that gets the best of her while picking cases.
Josh McDermitt as Stuart Lane in 'Suits LA' (Photo: Instagram/ NBCSuits)
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None of it would have looked so troublesome if there was still a main narrative leading from the front. Like in 'Suits' - Harvey, Donna, Mike and Rachel - all had their individual stories, but we were still given an interesting case to follow. There was something for everyone's taste in the show.Creator Aaron Korsh has got the structure right, but there's no concrete inside. The new 'Suits' series is not able to establish a permanent conflict that makes it capable of making the audience sit up and take notice, leaving them asking for more, or at least making the wait for the next episode difficult. The romance is not romancing, and the mystery is not thrilling enough. Honestly, 'Suits LA' looks like a forget-it-now-case, where you have the recipe, but you are unable to follow it step-by-step, again and again.This is the point where we seem more interested in the build-up to the finale than the finale itself. Because, well, at the pace it's going, it might as well just end abruptly and nobody would demand a closure!
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