Suits Recap – Season 5, Episode 9: Uninvited Guests
In this penultimate episode of the summer season, the writers tease us with hints that real changes might happen, both to the show’s somewhat tired five-year-old premise that Mike is a fake lawyer, and...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 10 Summer Finale
The good in this episode: Harvey and Mike make what seem like real, significant life/career change decisions, and there’s a nice cliffhanger of an ending for the summer finale. The bad: a shitload of...
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Suits returns, starting tonight, Wednesday January 27th, for the first of the back 6 episodes of Season 5. I will once again be recapping the show, but because I don’t get screeners (ha ha, as if),...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 11
Over an opening montage of Mike getting booked at the police station, and stripped of potential self-harming instruments like shoelaces and his tie – hey, what about the thread in his suit and shirt...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 12
It was Sheila Szaz who turned Mike in! But first, Donna, Donna, Donna: Donna celebrates her return to Harvey’s desk by wearing a nightclub-ready, cleavage-centric, flamenco-skirted dance dress to work,...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 13
Last episode, Mike and Harvey bargained away a legal chip that could have saved Mike’s ass to keep Donna and her dad out of the mor-ass (yup, I’ll be here all week) that is Mike’s case. This episode,...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 14: Self Defense
Do Trevor and Gibbs have the same nose? It occurred to me last time, with talk of Mike’s trial being 2 weeks away, that the season might end without us getting to know the trial’s outcome, which would...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 15: Tick Tock
This penultimate episode features twists, turns, reversals, slow motion running, multiple exhortations to have faith, and a cliffhanger ending. All of which is building toward a resolution of the...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 16: 25th Hour
Did you think the Suits endgame of this season – of the last five seasons, actually – was that Mike Ross would go to jail for the fraud that is the core of the show’s premise? I didn’t. I thought he...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6 Premiere: To Trouble
The Suits Season 5 finale ended with Mike entering the Danbury prison, and his law firm compadres returning to the Pearson Specter Litt office to find the premises abandoned, all partners and staff...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 2: Accounts Payable
In which Mike gets beaten up, Harvey makes and breaks promises, we learn that Jessica and her beautiful hair live in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood, and Jack Soloff returns! Prison Blues Turns out...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 3: Back on the Map
In which Harvey works hard to find a new client, Rachel gets her own case outside of the office, and Mike (finally) uses his legal knowledge to try to protect himself in prison. Jessica, wearing an...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 16, Episode 4: Turn
In which the annoying Stu Douchebag character gets more screen time than he deserves, Louis gets a new love interest in Canada’s own Carly Pope, Harvey gets to labour under a contrived 2 day deadline,...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 5: Trust
In which Harvey becomes everyone’s attorney, Jessica helps Rachel not give up on fighting injustice, and people lie like mad to get other people to trust them. I blanked out from boredom with legal...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 5, Episode 6: Spain
In which Donna and Jessica break out some (more) beautiful day dresses, we’re subjected to painful double entendres about Louis’s ‘wood’ and we’re expected to believe that Mike’s cellmate, Kevin...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 7: Shake the Trees
In which arbitrary, rapidly approaching deadlines are imposed for purposes of story tension, Jessica and Rachel wear great hair to wage legal battle, Donna mentions in passing that she just broke up...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 8: On Borrowed Time
In which deals are on and off and off and on, and I’m sorry to say that the plot reversals have come to feel more like time fillers than organic, inevitable outcomes of a well developed story. The end...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 9: The Hand that Feeds You
In which Mike gets out of jail, for real and for good! Yes, there were many machinations and reversals and ‘the deal is off’ declarations in this hour, but still – Mike’s release came earlier than I...
View ArticleSuits Recap – Season 6, Episode 10: PSL
In the mid-season/summer finale, Jessica leaves Pearson Specter Litt, and Gina Torres leaves the show! Also, Louis proposes to a pregnant Tara, and OMG, Harvey and Donna end the episode holding hands,...
View ArticleSuits Recap- Season 6, Episode 11: She’s Gone
Jessica Pearson is well and truly gone (for now), hence the episode title that shouts out Hall & Oates’ classic track without actually playing the song, one of several great tunes by them that I...
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