A legal drama from writer Aaron Korsh (“Just Shoot Me,” “The Deep End”) about a lawyer who hires a guy who secretly has no legal degree. The fake lawyer has a super-memory, which apparently makes up for his lack of a legal education.
… Rarely, though, have I had as hard a time getting through an inflated USA pilot than I did through all 73 minutes (90 minutes when you factor in commercials) of "Suits" … Still, there are isolated moments where the show comes close to clicking. … the pilot episode definitely would have benefited from a less-is-more approach, while the series as a whole could use a little more meat and/or logic.
… ludicrous, ill-cast and ill-conceived, with a premise that's idiotic even in a medium used to skimming past idiotic premises. …
… erupts from a Mount Vesuvius of absurdities, and yet like so much else in the USA stable, it comes in relatively good faith — not merely with a snappy sense of its own fun, but also with a chipper belief in the viability of renewal. … Though the series begins amusingly enough, it quickly descends into cloying buddy escapade, in which the full-of-heart slacker seeks to teach his careerist boss how to care …
… impressive out of the gate. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… fares far better than the recently introduced TNT legal drama "Franklin & Bash." The guys in "Suits" are more likable, and the legal stories a little more grounded in reality. …
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
… It's all nonsensical, of course, but the show's appeal has nothing to do with credibility and everything to do with the buddy-buddy/big bro-little bro relationship between Mike and his new boss, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), who purports to care nothing about other people but in fact can't help letting a bit of warmth show through as he guides his protege in the fine art of being a rule-bending lawyer. …
… While Macht and Adams spark, the B-story involving a sexual harassment case could have been plucked from “L.A. Law” reruns. No one expects “The Good Wife,” but if the show is aiming for balance, it needs to step up its court game. …
… too bland to elicit very strong feelings either for or against. It’s a legal drama with the same kind of buddy dynamic as “Psych’’ and “White Collar,’’ and by the end of the hour — or, just for tonight, the hour and 20 minutes — I felt like shrugging my shoulders. I’d seen everything in “Suits’’ before, from the New York law firm’s political tensions to the case of a corporate boss accused of sexual harassment, and I’d seen it all done better — and worse. …
10 p.m. Thursday. USA.
