IIn the summer of 2023, a strange thing happened. The TV show Costumes—A Modest USA Network Legal Procedural of 2011 – Broke was one of the biggest successes of Netflix never arrived on the streaming service. This meant that a suite or a restart was inevitable. The original showrunner Aaron Korsh is back for a version of the west coast of the legal dramatic filled with characters who speak with the same imprecision as their New York counterparts but spend more time outside. This long -awaited fallout, Suit, Broadcast on NBC from February 23.
The action focuses on Ted Black (Stephen Amell), the best entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, although we learned through a series of flashbacks that he was a prosecutor from New York and laugh at lawyers who have concluded contracts for celebrities. It is surrounded by a casting of characters who will be strangely familiar to fans of CostumesAs if Korsh had torn off personality traits from his original players, threw them into a mixer and poured them again into various partners and associates.
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In the first episode, the public is extremely thrown into a dramatic break between Ted and his colleague founding partner of his law firm, Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt). Stuart, bad above a fight which is frequently referenced but which has never been shown, associates with the ex-PETITY friend of TED to form a new business and to screw their best friend. Since we have no context on how one or the other of these relationships met and collapsed, it is difficult to feel too bad for Ted when he starts to pick up the pieces . We also do not feel everything that has invested in any effort to repair his relationships with his former colleagues, friends and lovers. The show, at least at its beginnings, is quite confusing and not particularly clear. But it is not its fatal defect.
What makes Costumes So Bingable was the premise: Mike (Patrick J. Adams) had no law diploma, and yet his mentor Harvey (Gabriel Macht) still hired him because Mike has a perfect memory that made him a learned. He has always resolved insoluble legal casualture at the end of each episode. The tension was born because Mike – and by proxy, Harvey – at any time is caught in this masquerade.
Is it ridiculous that Mike has managed to hide information this season after the season? Yes. But this nucleus of a saved idea Costumes to become a case of oblivious procedure of the week. The legal fight of each week provided conspiracy B. But the main push in the story was Mike and his mentor Harvey Bonding when they completed to hide Mike’s lack of friends, colleagues and romantic interests . He extended the limits of credulity, but he offered an important backbone to the series.
Suitable does not have such vanity. Instead, Korsh tries to fill a huge amount of background frame for his main character Ted in very short screen time. It is vogue Currently so that television writers deploy incessant flashbacks to reveal characters’ secrets: recently published programs as Heaven,, Apple cider vinegarAnd No good action all abused the aircraft. While shows like Lost And Orange is the new black would use flashbacks to develop their characters over time, the new shows seem obsessed with the flashing in history only a few seconds after meeting a character in order to explain their damage. Bleam banks like Netflix, which apparently requires that the characters indicate what they do aloud in case the public is distracted by linen folding. The subtlety in dialogue has become through the window.
But perhaps no show has used flashbacks as confused as Suitable. In the first episode, Ted continues to sleep and dream of the past. These dream measures throw us directly into action with scenes involving gangsters, a neglected father and an explosion – all before returning to unrelated conversations in modern times. The experience is disorienting. There is also a truly inducing moment when the identity of a certain character is revealed at the end of the first episode. (Believe me, you will moan.)
The structure of the disconcerting plot could be forgiven if these characters had the charm of the original distribution: what is also missing Suitable is the chemistry that Adams and Macht found on the screen from the moment Mike accidentally stumbled in a job interview with Harvey. We have learned the respective damage of the characters in many seasons – the dead parents, a mother who cheated, commitment problems – not everything in a single episode. Costumes Instead, relied on these two characters who rushed to the other facades to reveal the rare hearts below. Reliable comic transactions of the malice of Rick Hoffman, Louis and Sarah Fleerty, Donna, Donna, brought a lightness to the show and completed the whole.
By the second and third episodes, Suitable calm down a little. There are still flashbacks and disturbing references to dangerous past. But there are also cases to do, the innocence of the defendants to establish, and, since it is the celebrities to name Drop. (In a line that has aged badly before the show was broadcast, Ted compares his status as goat to that of the quarter-arre of the chiefs of Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes.)
But the result is something closer to a generic procedure than the show that initially broke out on the USA network. Amell makes an admirable impression of macht, an arrogance and a charm with equal parts with random cries thrown, but it is always an impression. Why not just hire Macht and build a series around him instead? The show is a pale shadow of its predecessor.
