The Smiling Fish

xanthewalter:

gmacht:

Suits S2 - Aaron Korsh Inteview

Okay, I’m never keen on ‘forcing them to question their loyalty to each other’ storylines. It reminds me of NCIS’s perpetual quest to ‘tear the team apart’ and delve into moles and distrust the whole time which ruined the show for me seeing as how the TEAM was why I was watching and they did their best, and succeeded, in ruining that for me to the point where I now actively dislike half the people on the team and haven’t watched that show in months.

However, in Suits’s case, the central relationship is Harvey and Mike, and I hope Korsh realises their importance as a dynamic duo, unlike NCIS with Gibbs and Tony.

I agree with everything xanthe said above but would like to add a couple of things.

I worry about adding another character to a cast that already has half a dozen regular characters. Especially if the plan is to explore all of the characters more deeply in the second season - even if it’s only in terms of their loyalties to one another. (An idea I personally loathe.) It’s been on my mind because in its second season Hawaii Five-O added another character (well, three sort of), changed its focus from the first season and ended up being a hot mess that was mostly unwatchable. I don’t want to see that happen to Suits.

To me, Suits isn’t an ensemble show. It’s a show about Harvey and Mike and the other four characters are only important to me in how they relate to our leading men. I like the three of the four other regular characters quite a bit and even enjoy the other semi-regular characters but I don’t need to see Donna cry for real or watch Jessica go on a date or see Louis at the opera. It’s inconsequential to me. I’d like to see Jessica in a courtroom showing us just how kick ass she is as a lawyer, but her personal life? Not so much. That holds true for everyone except our leads. The promos for the show only feature Harvey and Mike, which leads me to believe that at least the publicity department realizes what draws viewers to the show.

From everything I’ve been reading (and seeing now with this video), Korsh has a lot of ideas for the second season and none of them are particularly new or exciting: the testing of loyalties, the addition of an antagonistic regular character to the cast to keep everyone on their toes, the office romance replete with the tedious ‘will they/won’t they’ trope… they’ve all been done to death and it’s dull. What I loved about the first season of the show was how character-driven it was and how focused it was on the relationship between the two lead characters. I don’t want or need any of that extraneous baggage weighing the stories down. I want to learn more about Harvey and Mike as individuals and watch them grow as a team.

I want to adore the second season of the show as much as I loved the first, but the more I find out the less happy I am. June 14th can’t get here soon enough as I long to be proved wrong and for the show to be as vibrant as it ever was.