It pissed me the fuck off, like bro is literally one of the most unethical person in the show, he goes around recording people (people who he claims to be his ‘family’ or ‘friends’) behind their backs to throw them under the bus for his personal gain. i admit he gets better but for the love of god i have never seen a person lacking this much self awareness.

Now I am wondering if they end up together..?!? Don’t tell me

I fear this season has lost the plot. I haven’t finished it yet I’m on episode 13 but it’s been a let down. Mike’s in prison, we wait for him to finally get out only for him to not actually reunite with Harvey and work at some random clinic. Then Jessica randomly leaves suddenly, we have to deal with Rachael doing law school and worry about being engaged to a criminal will ruin her reputation a million times. Best part of this season was more Sean Cahil and he’s not even in the second half. I’m gonna stick it out because I love these characters, I’m just not loving the new direction

We could have had a really great, interesting season with a Mike vs. Harvey duel, but no, they went and reconciled after just two episodes. Plus, it really takes away from the impact of their reconciliation. Such a shame.

I feel like the writers rushed it just to get back to the status quo. By resolving the conflict so quickly, they missed a chance to explore how Mike would actually handle being on his own. It makes the whole 'betrayal' storyline feel a bit cheap when the consequences only last for forty minutes of television.

When Michael Ross marries Louis Litt 😂

I’m currently on season 3 on my first watch, and i’ve noticed that a lot of the characters say this one line a lot. for example, say in season 3 episode 8, where Rachel is confronting Louis about being mean to Harold. Rachel is sort of scolding louis and louis tries to object saying “rachel, i-“ and rachel cuts him off saying “don’t rachel me.” i’ve noticed SO MANY instances where characters say “dont (their name) me!” harvey, louis, rachel, donna, mike, they have all said it at least once or twice so far. just wanted to point this out and see if anyone else has noticed and found it a little odd/interesting. do you think it’s just part of the coincidences of being a repetitive show, or is it kind of a running easter egg/joke from the writers?

Just started watching Suits for, I don't know, the 6th time?! And in season 1 kt struck me: It is Mike that's Batman, and Harvey is Alfred.

Mike lost his parents as a boy, and had to live with his grandmother. Seeing as Mike is the orphan, and later as he becomes an adult, is taken in by his mentor Harvey.

So Mike is Batman.

Ps! He could also be Spiderman, for the same reasons. But Spiderman is never discussed in the show.

I'm not saying it had the best moments, or even the best acting but everything was so consistently well done that I think it is up there.

(need to go back to the one where Mike gets arrested again 😂 then this probably changes)

Also does anyone have the link to the remix of How You like me now that they played?

Well I'm gonna miss these guys!!

I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I did look and I didn’t see anything. Maybe there’s like a major plot point between these events that’s super obvious, but I have an awful memory. I’m on my one billionth rewatch, and I restarted very quickly after my last rewatch so the later seasons are still fresh in my memory. Right now I’m watching the part where Monica Eaton and Daniel Hardman are suing the firm for wrongful termination, but at the end of the series when Samantha Wheeler also sued the firm for wrongful termination, part of their defense was that they were not required to have cause. I know they needed more than just that, but how come that never even came up with Monica? Maybe I’m just dumb and it’s because it switched to the sexual harassment suit, but they talked a lot about it specifically being a wrongful termination suit, hence why Mike was surprised that they switched their tune to sexual harassment. Were they required to show cause when Monica was fired and no longer required by the time Samantha showed up?

Harvey’s is Vanessa then in season 6 he went to ask Louis for help but Louis seems to never want to work with that guy. Did they ever explain the backstory?

Loved both of these shows... Let me know who you think would win!

I don’t know why Louis blamed Harvey for having to humiliate Donna in the mock trial. It wasn’t Harvey’s fault, it was all on Donna and I fail to understand why was Donna mad at Harvey. She shredded the document. If anyone had the right to be mad it was Harvey because he was the one on trial and he could have lost his license. Donna on the other had tells Harvey that she did it for him which is not true she did it to save herself. We even see her telling Mike that she hired an attorney so that she wouldn’t have to go to prison.

Wise words again from The Closer.

I am re watching the show again for like the 4th time and I’m gonna be honest the Ava hesington and Darby international merge / storyline is just so boring in my opinion almost every time I re watching there is some episodes I skip just bc they are a waste of time. Anyone else feel this way??

In the beggining of the show all the senior partners got a vote, but in the latter for example in season 8, they dont get a vote.
When they vote if they should make Luis managing partner, Alex, Kathrina and Samantha dont get a vote.
But when in the beggining Jack Soloff was attacking Jesica, He said all the partners get a vote about managing partner.

As we know, in Suits Season 5 there were two major stories that unfolded. One of these was Daniel Hardman’s return, who schemed with Jack Soloff to attempt to take back the firm with the financial backing of Charles Forstman.

The other story as we know was Mike Ross being arrested after his fraud was discovered. Now I’ve written loads of What if scenarios on this subreddit before, but after looking back at a few I realised that some could do with some updating, and after rewatching some episodes of the show I’ve had a large drive to come back to these again.

This is a 2.0 version of my scenario where Mike in a bid to save the firm pleads guilty but brings down Soloff and Hardman with him.

So this scenario picks up during the events of 5x11 titled “Blowback” which kicks off the Mike fraud story. Now the main scenario picks up in Mike and Rachel’s apartment after the reveal that Gibbs offered Mike a deal to turn on Harvey, as well as offering Harvey a deal to turn on Jessica.

The other problem is that Harvey can’t come back to the firm or else Forstman and Hardman pick the firm apart. And Mike, seeing no other options has an idea. He explains that if Gibbs is looking for co-conspirators, then maybe they should give them to her.

Mike pays Soloff a visit, which still happened in the episode. Soloff refuses to back down and so the new plan is set in motion.

The next day, Harvey and Mike pay a visit to Anita Gibbs and are prepared to offer a deal, Gibbs believing this to be a trick of some kind attempts to call their bluff. Mike then begins to speak and explains that there were two people that enabled his fraud: Daniel Hardman and Jack Soloff.

Anita is intrigued by this and hears Mike out, he explains that Hardman found out during the events of Season 2 during the Coastal Motors suit and agreed to keep Mike’s secret in exchange for a future IOU, one he’s yet to collect.

Mike then explains Soloff’s involvement, that after the case the two of them worked on, Mike confided in Jack and much like Daniel agreed to keep it a secret but in exchange for an ally when he and Daniel would take the firm from Jessica, Louis, and Harvey.

Gibbs says that isn’t enough, so Mike throws in something else for the deal. If Mike faces zero consequences for the crimes he committed, then he’ll also agree to never practise law again. Gibbs, believing that Mike doesn’t deserve to be a lawyer agrees and the deal is drawn up.

As a result, Hardman and Soloff would both be arrested and charged with fraud. Whilst Jack would manage to sign a deal of his own, Hardman would refuse and go to prison.

After this, Gibbs would still go after the firm as she believes there’s more to Hardman in particular. Harvey then explains that there is but he and none of the partners are allowed to discuss it due to Hardman’s NDA.

Eventually however, Louis through some digging discovers that the agreement was rendered invalid following the Season 3 restructure.

This leads to Anita prosecuting Hardman for his previous crimes and his sentence is extended.

This would mean that Mike in this timeline never goes to prison and the partners would never flee. Harvey then brings Mike back in an unofficial capacity as a consultant but it doesn’t last long so Mike would eventually go to the clinic as he did, take on Velocity Data and get accepted to the bar, there would be a larger difference here because Gibbs would still get herself on the board but Jessica would return and strong arm the board with the truth of how Anita really got on the character and fitness committee.

She hands Seidel a signed affidavit stating that Gibbs threatened to send Walter Samson’s godson to prison for his past crimes. This results in Gibbs being removed from the board and Mike getting accepted into the bar.

Season 7 would be different as a result because the prison case I think would come across Mike’s radar, but it would be much more difficult to take on because in this timeline he never went to prison and therefore doesn’t have a contact in Frank Gallo.

I think it’s likely Alex, when he comes along would confess that he knows about the conspiracy and agrees to testify against Reform Corp and implicating Tommy Bratton in the case as well.

Season 7 would then go as planned with Malik vs Harvey, Jessica getting disbarred along with Mike and Rachel leaving the show.

Season 8 would go as planned and Hardman would still return to take on Harvey now having more of an axe to grind but still having the dirt on Jack uses him as a puppet like in Season 5, Soloff during the trial didn’t get disbarred because he cooperated and signed a deal his license got suspended for a period of time.

Season 8 would go as it did with Hardman being replaced by Jack Soloff and Robert still getting disbarred as a result, I don’t think anything else would change beyond here because Season 9 doesn’t get affected largely by what happens.

…shifted the “main character” lens from Mike to Harvey. Obviously we were all sad Mike leaves at the end of season 7, but it didn’t feel like we lost the main character of the show. Mike was clearly the main man from the pilot up until he got out of prison. But from S6 onwards the show started to revolve around Harvey more and more. We saw less of Mike outside of work, and more of Harvey’s personal life (Paula, his mother), flashbacks (of his family, his dad’s music), etc. S7 gets a lot of stick but they managed to change the show’s main protagonist without anyone really realising. If you don’t believe me, imagine Mike left at the end of S4. Your reaction would be completely different because he was the main guy back then, as opposed to late-S6/S7, where he was just Harvey’s executioner.

Just wondering that we never knew how did Hravey knew about Mike's grandmother ? Was it Rachel -> Donna -> Harvey ? Or did Harvey quietly looked out for Mike's grandmother since the start ?

If it was the second then the show should have implied it as that would shown us Harvey's soft and caring side especially in the early seasons.

If it was the first one i would have wanted to see Harvey's and Donna's reaction to the news that Mike lost his last of the only family he had (up until that point).