Suits.

Guess I'm the only one who wanted him to get punished for this.

All this could have been avoided (and not just because the verdict was not guilty) but if they'd had him get fired back in the beginning of the second season, get sent to college the way Rachel did later on, and then get re-hired properly.

But they didn't. In-universe and out, they brought this on themselves.

edited 3rd Mar '16 8:37:09 AM by HandsomeRob

No, no, I DO want to see him get punished for this. But not on HIS terms. I mean, he took a fucking deal that lowballed the punishment. He should have been up against a real attorney, not some hack who won this as a charity case because Mike was already feeling guilty. He won and threw the game. He should have LOST. Hard. To the point where he and everyone else could tell he wasn't a real lawyer. That foreman said it best. She didn't make her case.

edited 4th Mar '16 3:09:26 PM by Journeyman

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You gotta good point.

Not enough pounds of flesh.

Don't worry. He'll still suffer in prison. Maybe someone will break something.

Last time I heard something this vitriolic was when Palpatine was trying to seduce Luke to the Right Side of the Force, oops, I meant the Dark Side.

Let the hate flow through, or something like that.

Eh, we're not wrong. The show's kind of a train wreck. A shoddy premise coupled with a character that can run circles around most of the people around him. Only two people I actually like in this are Harvey and Donna, with Jessica almost there. They really should have sent a better attorney after him. This one was utter shit and she should never have been on the show.

You know I recall Mike haws actually taken and passed the Bar exam on a dare. I wonder if this is going to be used as an out come next season?

The issue is if he was qualified to take it, since he didn't have a law degree at that point.

I'm not a lawyer but you could argue that if he passed he was qualified. Not sure if that's how it works in the real world or not but since Jessica managed to successfully argue that her ex being in a right state of mind when he wrote his final will was besides the point I could see the argument passing muster.

I couldn't see a reason why passing the bar doesn't qualify you to be a lawyer. Only reason I can see is that either A. The lawyers are just guarding a gate to MAKE everyone go through years of Hell or B. The test really isn't made that well to begin with, no matter how hard it is.

New season starts a week from Wednesday. We're rewatching the last season and it just reminds me of how much Louis doesn't deserve any of the good things he's gotten. He keeps rubbing it in Harvey's face that he's a named partner, but he only got there by cheating. Honestly, he's the closest thing on TV that I've seen yet to the Takers from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and I fucking hated those guys.

It's started. Lets see how things turn out.

Edit: Well, that was interesting.

....I missed the very last few minutes. I was there right up until Mike's roomate revealed he was acting as a mole to get information on Harvey, but I missed anything after that, because someone in my family chose that exact moment to want something from me and pulled me away.

edited 13th Jul '16 7:03:12 PM by HandsomeRob

You didn't miss much after that according to what I've read so there's no point putting in spoiler tabs.

I honestly hope after this season they take the series out back, humanely kill it and bury it in the cemetary for once great shows that have just that little bit exceeded their welcome. I don't care how good the ratings are for it - it's time has come, and passed.

I don't know, it might be fun seeing a season where they've been taken down a peg, survived it as a small pack of fire forged friends who decide to pick up from scratch. Mike takes the bar and passes, Rachel gets through school, and the rest of them use their cash to build a smaller-scale firm from the ground up that they can all work at.

I doubt it would happen, but that would actually be a decent ending for the show.

Mikey has a conviction for fraud, that he received for pretending to be a fully qualified lawyer, not only that, he practiced law and took cases. Unless I am very much mistaken, that's a felony conviction, therefore, he ain't never gonna get into law school legitimately.

Nobody commented on last weeks ep, but with both that one and yesterday down, I'm wondering what people think:

Will Mike go through with it? I don't think he would. He's pretty loyal, and since he went to jail because he refused to throw Harvey and company under the bus, I don't think he'll do it to his cellmate either....and hopefully, said cellmate won't think he would do it.

Louis needs to meet one of the firm's externally facing windows at high speeds. Out the window and splat on the ground. Where he belongs. He's been nothing but a drama starting shithead since the start of the show, and he's only getting worse, not better.

Honestly....I agree.

Louis has had some Pet the Dog moments, but as a whole, he's almost always been more trouble then he's worth.

This last episode was pretty good. And if it leads to the ending they've already used for a couple of other shows in similar veins, they already set that ending in motion with Harvey getting Mike drugged. Faking his death would be a matter of upping the type of drug involved to Tetrodotoxin, which Harvey could probably get a hold of.

You think it will go that far? I don't know. What's the point of anything that doesn't get Mike out legally?

Any deal they cut is likely to have him marked for death by some inmate or another. They've already used drugging to cover him getting out for a short time. He probably WILL get out legally but not without needing to cover his tracks. So they'll pull a Burn Notice on him, maybe one on Rachel too, and disappear at least him.

And lo, the horror continues.

"Suits, USA Network’s longest-running original scripted series on the the air, has been renewed for a 16-season seventh season for a premiere in 2017. "

It becomes the fifth series that the USA Network has commissioned that will reach 100 episodes. Though if you look at the list of shows that follows that factoid, you will see if you look them up that all of them bar Royal Pains are gone.

So I missed last weeks episode.

What happened?

Also, a seventh season? Seriously? There's nothing more they can do! They've milked all the drama they can out of Mike's illegal life. There's no way he can be a Lawyer ever, anywhere. How can they keep doing this shit?

I could see him being a consultant. Even if it's just to Rachel.

You'll remember they've already run with the idea of him not being a lawyer when they made him a stock broker for a few episodes.

As for 100 episodes . . . that's Syndication-length. They want shows to make it that far so they can put them on other networks and continue making money off them. Though there's plenty of one season wonders on Prime and Netflix, so maybe the bar's been lowered severely.

ETA: I could see them trying to fight that whole "Can't be a lawyer if you've been a felon" rule, too. Seriously, Mike proved he was damn good at the job and I can't see them just taking that lying down.

edited 23rd Aug '16 6:17:39 PM by Journeyman

He did technically get declared innocent. People who knew he was faking still felt he deserved to be a lawyer.

I suppose it's possible.

As a hard and fast rule, it needs some work anyway. No one has more reason to learn the laws than someone who has been to prison and doesn't want to go back. And as this year's election cycle is proving, not all criminals go to prison, and not all lawyers deserve to be anywhere near the law whether they're outright criminals or not.

So I could see the show making the case that the law needs changed.

edited 23rd Aug '16 7:23:36 PM by Journeyman