Harvey goes head to head against Robert Zane, Rachel’s father, on a gender discrimination case that forces Rachel to confront her complicated relationship with her Dad.Download Video Suits The Strong Survive Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Suits Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.One of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers (Gabriel Macht) sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate and hires the only guy that impresses him - a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout (Patrick J. Adams). Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers must continue the charade.
Mike and Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), who is Mike’s boss at New York’s prestigious Pearson Hardman law firm, spent the first season hiding Mike’s little secret. Not only did he not graduate from Harvard Law School, a requirement to work at Pearson Hardman, he doesn’t even have a bachelor’s degree.
At the end of the first season, Mike’s former best friend was about to drop this factoid on others at the firm, like top dog Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres).
Fortunately for all, “Suits” is the kind of clean, basic drama that can handle cliff-hangers — although that can sometimes mean complicating them further.
One major complication here: the return of the firm’s founding partner, Daniel Hardman (David Costabile), who used to run the place with all the social grace of Attila the Hun.
He was muscled out five years ago, thanks to the discreet exercise of blackmail by Harvey and Jessica. Now he’s back.
Also back, happily, is Donna Paulsen (Sarah Rafferty), Harvey’s assistant, who is one of the coolest and smartest characters on television.
Patrick J. Adams plays Mike Ross, whose ability to retain seemingly every piece of information he reads has made formal education a crashing bore for much of his life.
No matter: Suave super-lawyer Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) saw potential in the kid and hired him as an associate at the high-powered firm of Pearson Hardman, overseen by the formidable Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres). Trouble is, if anyone finds out that Mike is a college dropout and a fraud, Harvey could get canned and disbarred.
There's a whole subplot focusing on Mike's personal life. He's crushing big time on paralegal Rachel Zane (Meghan Markle), but he's supposed to be in a relationship with Jenny Griffith (Vanessa Ray), who is the ex-girlfriend of Mike's drug-dealing former best friend Trevor (Tom Lipinski).
The only reasons to care about any of this are that Rachel and Mike, portrayed by two of TV's most attractive actors, are clearly meant to be together, and that Trevor has decided to get back at Mike by outing him to Jessica Pearson as a college dropout.
The story twists around like a runaway roller-coaster car in Thursday's episode, succeeding in reminding us where we left off last season: Mike is still romantically conflicted, but also resolving what Jessica has done after learning that Mike is a fraud.
His choosing btw dumb girl and smart girl (both under-developed) presents a problem for women viewers in the end. Let's develop the women more, OK? Great to see a smart African-American woman as managing partner (although she's starting to turn into a Mom figure -- equity partners don't have to seek her approval on their every move -- and that's a problem).
The villain character, Lewis, is a train wreck of writing. He's one dimensional. He's emerging as a joke (even Mike Ross rolls his eyes) and doesn't pose a real threat. What is his function in the show? He sneers and the show makes fun of his being "less gorgeous" than the rest.
Here the comedy/drama schizophrenic nature of the show falls apart. Paralegal, love interest character is also one-dimensional; Mike Ross will wrestle with his desire to take LSAT for her, yada yada. It's already predictable. Only Mike Ross character has a backstory, and he's lifted out of (melding) Catch Me If You Can and Good Will Hunting, as someone else noted.
Need to develop the Harvey/Mike relationship by developing Harvey more: why would he jeopardize his legal career by hiring someone who doesn't have a law license to practice law as his associate? How did Mike Ross get a law job without passing the bar as "Mike Ross."
How did he get past Human Resources and the State of New York bar? Maybe having him taking classes at night, slowly getting his degree secretly, would work? Harvey needs to be something more than a Gandalf/House enabler. Big questions left unanswered, a gaping whole that makes the show unbelievable.
Show is ambitious, but it suffers from genre confusion: is it a comedy, coming of age story, legal drama, office culture expose (Mad Men insulated to the office)?