Line #5 YMMV/Suits


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Lots of the "good" characters have this. Jessica Pearson showed no remorse over some rather nasty pranks she played when she was younger and occasionally mistreats Louis. Harvey is very smug and possibly a hypocrite about Mike's pot use. Still, they're unquestionably the heroes of the program. Louis, an initially villainous character, has shown a more [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex human]] and [[ButtMonkey sympathetic]] side.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJnpbicLnk very catchy theme song]], Ima Robot's "Greenback Boogie". Watch one episode and there's a good chance you'll be humming it if you watch another.
3	* CharacterShilling: One must wonder if Harvey Specter has it in his contract that every other character must go out of their way to say how he's actually the greatest lawyer of all time, even more so than his boss and mentor, Jessica Pearson. When Mike, Louis, Donna, or Rachel mess something up, Harvey will relentlessly chew them out and end up receiving an apology. When Harvey screws up, he faces no repercussions, and ends being in the right most of the time anyway.
4	* CriticalDissonance: Not so much at the time it first aired, but when this show exploded in popularity as that "old show that broke viewing records on Netflix", all the critics had to watch it to see what the ruckus was all about, and almost unanimously were left scratching their heads wondering what people saw in what they considered such a [[SoOkayItsAverage lackluster, mediocre TV show]]. At least a couple of critics offered explanations, usually involving Suits being a great example of comfort TV, with the good-looking cast, episodic nature, and generally low stakes. A small number of critics said they understood the public and considered Suits a guilty pleasure.
5	* DesignatedHero: Harvey Specter. While most of the characters in the show aren't above shady tactics or mistreating one another, Harvey consistently backstabs or alienates everyone as a result of his own ego (even if they always join forces later), but is meant to be seen as the hero of the show. More often than not as soon as he wins the case, the expectation seems to be that everyone else immediately forgives all his crappy behavior along the way. It reaches new heights in Season 5, when[[spoiler: Harvey promises Louis that he won't sleep with his sister Esther, immediately breaks this promise upon discovering she's attractive, then assaults Louis and throws him through a glass table when confronted. Louis wanting to suspend Harvey and have him actually be held responsible for his actions for a change is treated by other characters as a borderline [[MoralEventHorizon moral event horizon]] for Louis.]] This really comes to a head in Season 7A where every problem the firm faces is a result of Harvey's past and present actions against every character on the main cast.
6	* DesignatedVillain: Anita Gibbs. Sure, she is a cruel, calculating person who uses dirty tactics against Mike and Harvey...just like they do in almost every one of their cases. The fact that we know Mike is ultimately a good guy doesn't negate that he and the others have knowingly been committing a serious crime for a LONG time. On any other show, she would be seen as a hero. Downplayed in that the smug way she ''goes about it'' leaves a lot to be desired.
7	* DryDockedShip: Donna/Harvey. Possibly. [[spoiler:No longer up in the air as of 3x06.]]
8	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Louis and Donna are pretty much neck-and-neck for this honor.
9	** Katrina later joined the race, and became a regular in Season 8.
10	* GrowingTheBeard: While season one established itself as another quirky show about a genius fake lawyer learning on the fly, season two introduced a well-woven and tightly-written story arc, that focused on internal dynamics of the firm, [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] and a MagnificentBastard BigBad who could go neck-to-neck with Jessica.
11	* HarsherInHindsight: In the beginning of Inside Track, Harvey tells Mike to cancel on visiting his grandmother (see below quote). After “Asterisk” and “High Noon”, it's a lot less funny and more heartbreaking.
12	-->'''Harvey''': Is she dying?
13	-->'''Mike''': No.
14	-->'''Harvey''': Then cancel on her.
15	* HilariousInHindsight: While Louis may proclaim to be a [[Series/GameOfThrones Lannister,]] he probably wasn't quite expecting to have to face up against the hatchet man of Lord Varys.
16	** If you watched ''Series/LieToMe'', you may have noticed Louis' actor appearing as a cynical State Department employee in a B-plot revolving around respect, and Mike's actor in another episode as a more idealistic State Department employee who's willing to lie.
17	** And if you watched ''Series/WithoutATrace'', you would have again noticed both actors guest-starring in separate episodes opposite Creator/EricClose, who would eventually have a recurring role as Travis Tanner on this show.
18	** In 2011's "Bail Out", the creator of the Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection {{Expy}} makes Mike a doll that looks like him (and Harvey implies he may have one, as well). American Girl would start making boy dolls for real in 2017.
19	** All of the seriousness surrounding Mike being an illegal pot user, former or otherwise, is this in the wake of recreational marijuana becoming legal in New York in 2021.
20	* HoYay: Mike and Harvey, mainly. Part of the reason it developed a devoted cult following online. Now has its own page [[HoYay/{{Suits}} here]].
21	* JerkassWoobie: Louis is shown to have a severe inferiority complex that causes him to constantly try to prove how competent he is and that he is a better lawyer than Harvey. When he screws up a case it is heartbreaking to see him admit this to Harvey and when Harvey treats him as an equal he temporarily loses all his Jerkass aspects. The worst part of all this is that Louis, when on his game, is genuinely a good lawyer. This is taken up to eleven in Season 2, where it seems like the universe seems to have developed [[ButtMonkey a great dislike of him]] despite the fact that he's trying to come out of his shell, gets even worse after the incident with Daniel Hardman, and worse than that in Season 3 when [[spoiler: he genuinely tried to befriend Mike and work with him after Harvey refused to forgive him, only for Mike to go back to Harvey at the first opportunity.]] He's slowly becoming less of a {{Jerkass}} and more of a {{Woobie}} the more the show goes on. The main jerkass part comes in that he's not above taking shortcuts that could bite himself and others in the ass if they look convinent and when things do go wrong, he's very quick to overreact when angry and make things go from a problem for some into a catastrophe for everyone.
22	* JustHereForGodzilla: Ever since Meghan Markle started a relationship with, and later married and had a child with, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry]], some people have started watching the show just to see her character.
23	* MoralEventHorizon: Hardman definitely has crossed this when we discover that he [[spoiler: forged the incriminating memo that caused Tanner's lawsuit against the firm, showing that he cared more about looking better than Jessica and Harvey than about the firm he supposedly was trying to save.]]
24	* RetroactiveRecognition:
25	** Actors often go on to other acting jobs, but going on to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex become royalty?]]
26	** Gregory Boone from the second episode went on to play Agent James Aubrey in the final seasons of ''Series/{{Bones}}''.
27	** Daniel Hardman is now better known as another ruthless, amoral corporate man -- Mike "Wags" Wagner on ''Series/{{Billions}}''.
28	* {{Squick}}:
29	** Louis...country club locker room...''naked''.
30	** Louis, again, with the arrival of female Harvard Law School rep Sheila Sazs. Harold describes her as a "Female Louis" and wonders if the world would be destroyed if they touched. An aghast Mike doesn't want to think about them touching.
31	*** Sheila herself ups the {{Squick}} factor exponentially with her [[Creator/MaeWest "come up and see me sometime"]] invite to Louis:
32	---> '''"Bring coconut oil, a ski mask and duct tape."'''
33	** [[RuleofThree Louis]]. Mud.
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