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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Suits Season 3: "Shitty shit shit"
 
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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 The problem with the show is when the writers decide to tread water and turn it into a ho-hum procedural of office politics that literally no one gives a poo poo about.

It doesn't help that Varys is literally a series regular.

The characters, actors, and dialogue when the writers decide to put effort into it are more or less unparallelled.

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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 That video is the most beautiful thing in the world. :allears:

* # ¿ Jul 2, 2013 19:36
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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 The personal drama on this show is so loving stupid, and I hope the writers begin to realize that the strength is in the comedy and not the drama.

* # ¿ Jul 24, 2013 17:41
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ufarn
May 30, 2009

JohnSherman posted:

Why does it seem like characters have case winning epiphanies at least once an episode?

e: drat it Louis.
It's a procedural thing: crime, law, medicine.

House MD was probably the blatantly worst at it.

* # ¿ Jul 31, 2013 12:39
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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 In a 5-4 ruling, SCOTUS has struck down any further mock cat trials.

* # ¿ Aug 28, 2013 13:04
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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 We also don't know what Mike saw in those dropped documents.

* # ¿ Aug 29, 2013 13:27
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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 I'm officially tired of the personal drama.

* # ¿ Sep 11, 2013 12:19
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ufarn
May 30, 2009

Social Media posted:

I can't wait for another personal drama season finale cliffhanger to not care about.
Mike ends up having an affair with Bunk.

Rachel goes to community college.

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ufarn
May 30, 2009

Fazana posted:

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I just don't like the base premise of Suits anymore :smith:

The relationship nonsense has been cranked up to taking over the show levels and the sheer number of times everything has won out in the last ten seconds is making the writers of House point and laugh. I just want them to go back to season one where they fought actual cases for or against people in an entertaining fashion and get rid of this overarching "season" long nonsense they've never satisfactorily pulled off. Having a smaller background thread is fine but the Hardman and then the Hessington storylines haven't been worth the screentime at all when it came to the payoff.

If I was the showrunner (and you'll all be glad I'm not) I'd have taken the opportunity to get rid of Mike and Rachel and bring in SASS to join the cast and have Harvey and Louis' dysfunctional relationship as the comic focus of the show and them go back to doing lawyer of the week stuff. Mike really doesn't add anything to the firm anymore that Donna, Katrina, SASS and Louis couldn't do between them to assist Harvey.
Procedurals with good writing tend to turn into, well, just procedurals.

And shows generally tend to drop in quality after the first or second season. Maybe that's what's at work here. The actors are as great as ever, but the writers appear to have grown either lazy or clueless about what to do now.

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ufarn
May 30, 2009

Acquilae posted:

Pearson Litt [Up] Specter IMO

However, even if Louis becomes a managing partner I don't see them changing names since Sheila pointed out the mockery of firms who change their names a lot.
Louis is clearly moving to form a firm with Rachel named "LittZane".

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ufarn
May 30, 2009
 Royal Pains still exists? Good lord.

White Collar is one of those shows that's unabashedly a procedural, but is still pretty fun to watch - more so if you've got the hots for Bomer, I imagine.

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