Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-23 (Sunday)

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Suits LA - So I paid attention to last night's ep. more for the first
time. Stephen Amell plays a jerk, but unlike Harvey Spector who you
still generally wanted to root for, Amell's character is *just* a jerk!

Well, yeah. Also, Harvey wore nicer ties.

   I guess Amell's character was ejected from his old law firm(?), and
so has started his own firm(?), which focuses on "Hollywood law", though
rather than dealing with contracts, Amell is somehow a trial lawyer.

He's a former prosecutor from New Joisey. Also, asshole celebrities may
need criminal work.

He
is defending a Hollywood murder defendant (Kevin Weisman), with a
co-council (Maggie Grace, who still looks pretty great) that he's
brought in, and he's up against a horrible unscrupulous prosecutor-type
(Sofia Pernas).

Maggie is his tenant; he had no idea.

   There are machinations within Amell's firm, and with his rival one,
though I am less interested in that. (Azita Ghanizada from "Alphas"
seems to be playing the one in charge of Amell's firm's rookie lawyers.)
   What's interesting here is that rather than follow "Suits'" old
basic formula of "one-case-per-episode" this show seems to be stringing
one trial over multiple episodes (and maybe over the whole season).
   Another interesting difference: "Suits LA" makes the firm's
investigator (Troy Winbush) a major character. On the original "Suits",
I don't remember there being a main investigator character - indeed, I
want to say multiple investigators came and went on "Suits", and none of
them were major characters.

Uh, Mike touched a keyboard for 30 seconds and had all the information
they needed on their opponent. Also, pre-ex-princess Meghan came up with
a lot of crap. There were occassional investigative guest stars.