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India Today
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
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 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 and Samantha: Exes who can't escape their tied-up 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) advertisement 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 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 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!
India Today
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Suits LA Season Episode 10 review: 10 episodes and yet something feels unfinished
'Suits LA' is set to wrap its first season. The 11-episode series showed great potential and served everything that the snappy, sassy 'Suits' world by Aaron Korsh is known for. It had romance, a delicious showcase of power and strength, the jolted interpersonal dynamics between characters, some curiosity from the past, and a glimpse into the world of entertainment law. And yet, with all its attempts and that peculiar vibe, something seemed unfinished. As if 'Suits LA' was on the precipice of giving us a grand entertaining experience, but fell short of latest episode, while not the finale, served as the penultimate chapter, and didn't fully land. It tied up some knots and also didn't in some ways, but it seemed like the show had a lot to offer that it didn't. Its ultimate grand case didn't appear engaging enough, and Ted Black (Stephen Amell), despite all the pizzazz, didn't emerge as a hero for gripe with 'Suits LA', from the very beginning, was that the makers were trying to low-key establish Black as the Harvey Spector of this new world. But, even when Spector joined his old NY friend in LA, he shone and overpowered our supposed hero from the current timeline. Gabriel Macht's Harvey Spector kept that spark burning. His sarcasm remained on point and not because the lines were written brilliantly - they were - but more because he knew how to deliver them as perfectly as he did six years back when the last season of 'Suits' aired. A comparison between Black and Spector was given, but at some point during episode 3 or four probably, we started cheering for the former. We wanted him to win. Gabriel Macht as Harvey Spector in 'Suits LA' (Photo: Instagram/ NBCSuits) advertisementBlack also featured a lot of traits, like Spector - that urge to toe the line and get the work done, boasting a huge self-push to win at everything - at work, with the case, in relationships and even during small arguments. He was supposed to remind us of Spector's go-getter style of living life, with equal amounts of panache and wit. But, instead of reminding us of Spector, he made us miss him even more.[Read ahead if you don't mind tiny spoilers]The series', which, honestly, was expected to end on a high (Look at the ending of each season in 'Suits'), didn't leave us asking for more. It did, however, leave us hopeful, like every other episode of the we are not saying that the show was not a decent watch or that it was too bad that the next season should be dropped. It's about that blank space in our 'Suits'-carved hearts which 'Suits LA' needed to fill, but it didn' probably tried its best to give us the Harvey-Donna magic with Black-Amanda's (Maggie Grace) equation, but the chemistry didn't quite land. The Stuart (Josh McDermitt) -Ted dynamic was supposed to feel like the love-hate bonding of Harvey-Louis, but it didn't. Even Black's issues with his father and his imaginary brother echoed Harvey's family struggles, but no, none of that worked. The makers' attempt at modelling Rick-Erica's on-and-off romance on Mike and Rachel's bonding went in vain. Maggie Grace as Amanda Stevens and Stephen Amell as Ted Black in 'Suits LA' (Photo: Instagram/ NBCSuits) The stage was set in Los Angeles to extract Ted Black out of New York and make the entertainment world look more exciting. But, he had to go back to NY at the end to fight the biggest case of his life, and even the entertainment cases in LA that he fought didn't have any lasting impact. Nobody, it seemed, was walking the talk Spector's three-episode arc in the series didn't do much, except make us swoon all over him again, and remind us that he is sadly not a part of this world. Again, 'Suits LA' could have had a great chance if it was an individual player, or was a fresh law-based series. But, because the comparisons are so glaring and relevant that we can't just look past the fact that the new series didn't leave us discussing it more, or made us totally love or hate its characters. Lex Scott Davis as Erica Rollins and Bryan Greenberg as Rick Dodsen in 'Suits LA' (Photo: Instagram/ NBCSuits) 'Suits LA' appeared like an indifferent show - something that doesn't demand your crisp attention. Between 'Suits LA' and 'Suits', the latter remains the first choice and our go-to place in need of dramatic relief. This also makes the spin-off's roadmap a little harder to envision.3 out of 5 stars to 'Suits LA'.
