Suits on USA

So USA's new legal drama premiered last night.

Here's the skinny...

So the show wasn't too bad.  The characters seem interesting enough, and the premise is yet another legal show, however the legal stuff seems a bit more grounded in reality than most other shows about lawyers, with a lot of casework and settling out of court and the like.  I'm not sure how suspensful the "Will they or won't they be exposed" thing is, but I'll be interested to see where they go with it.

And the whole drug dealer angle with the Adams character might make for some interesting situations, though I do find it a bit cliched.

Anyone else catch this?

So three episodes in, and I think the show is pretty solid, but the leads are kinda unlikable in my opinion.  It's one thing to be good at your job, its another thing to be a superficial dickhead with way too much hubris.  I mean, House can pull it off, but this show so far hasn't really given me any real reason to care about these two guys.

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Originally Posted by HarleyQuinn22 

I caught up on Youtube because Hulu is being a shit about getting this show up.  I really dig the two leads, especially Gabriel Macht, who I did not recognize as being the guy from that piece of fucking shit The Spirit.  The eeeevil lawyer guy is a fucking joke.  I wish they didn't go out of their way to make the guy a human version of Snidely Whiplash.  I'd take him more seriously as a real threat if the show didn't go out of its way to make him look like a doof.  In every single ep, he's been made a fool of while the leads triumphantly stroll off and laugh at his dumbassery as some cool music plays.  They're undercutting the threat level from that guy, and it hurts the show. 

True, but if they guy became a real threat by becoming a senior partner, he could just fire anyone he wants and Macht couldn't do anything about it.  He's actually more of an antagonist to the sidekick than to Macht's character.

Last night's episode was pretty good though.  I liked the ending where he walks into the apartment with the two mobsters and psyches them out of their $50k, lol.  And they actually came off likable for defending that driver and not taking the cabbie to the cleaners.

I do agree with you though, Macht needs a better foil.