Suits
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You want sexy lawyers? We’ll give you sexy lawyers, dammit!
A pristine example of the excess of the American dream, Suits pairs a cocky high-powered attorney (Gabriel Macht) with a brilliant college dropout (Patrick J. Adams) who impresses him with his legal knowledge during an incidental meeting. It oozes style with its snappy presentation and witty banter, and this is what keeps things chugging along.
Indeed, the fact that they’re lawyers is almost incidental at times, with Adams’ character’s troubled past and associations with drug dealers making for more entertaining plot elements than anything that happens in the courtroom. Basically, it’s a pithy show about rich white people, a framework that could be found in anything from Billions to Gossip Girl. The impetus is to make these characters likable, despite our every urge to loathe them for their flippancy.
Does it hit this mark? Not always, though it at least does an admirable job of masking this with its unflappable sense of style.
