June 27, 2014

Suits: Two in the Knees (4x03)

DEAR LORD WHAT IS THIS SHOW DOING TO ME! It's amazing. Every episode of this season just keeps getting better and better. I'll try and restrain my enthusiasm long enough to get out a plot summary.

So Logan Sanders decides that the best way to take out Mike and Walter Gillis is to dig up personal dirt on Mike. Harvey protests, but Logan says if Harvey doesn't do it, he will. Harvey is stuck - Donna tells him to get Mike to quit, but Harvey knows that he won't. So, feeling terrible about it, Harvey goes to Gillis and tells him about Mike's past with drugs. Apparently, Gillis' son's death had something to do with drugs. Gillis immediately severs ties with Mike.

Mike confronts Harvey about it, and when Harvey insists that he was saving Mike, Mike reveals that he has Harvey's father's records, something that Donna told Mike Harvey was trying to procure. Logan Sanders still isn't happy. He wants Mike utterly destroyed. Harvey wants to go ask Mike to give up, but Donna suggests that he have Rachel do it instead. Rachel doesn't go to Mike. Instead, she goes to Logan and convinces him to stop the personal attacks on Mike. Logan owes Rachel because of something that happened in their past. Logan agrees, and backs off. Mike sends Harvey's dad's records to Harvey, via Rachel.

June 20, 2014

Suits: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (4x02)

Yayyyy things are getting so exciting. I am just so in love with the way the conflict is developing this season. Before I give a plot summary, I'll start off by saying this: I feel like this episode was very, very, similar in most respects to last week's. We're still pushing the conflict between Mike and Harvey, but keeping things balanced on the knife's edge between friendly competition and out-and-out hostility. I'm glad we're staying in this little pocket of potential energy. It's really fascinating.

Mike gets a judge to put a freeze on Logan Sanders' ability to go after Gillis' company. Harvey and Sanders try to buy Mike off, but when Mike learns that Logan plans to sell the company for parts, he refuses the great offer. Harvey gets an important board member to flip to their side, and Mike's boss tells him to get the 30 million that Harvey earlier offered, or he'll be fired. When Mike tries to do so, Harvey tells him the deal's off the table. However, Mike manages to take the step that Harvey didn't think he would, by convincing Gillis to put up the same amount of money that Harvey got another guy to, thus crushing Gillis' dream for the company, but keeping them in the running.

Louis starts working with Jeff Malone. He is at first heartbroken that Malone gets the corner office, thinking that Jessica has just effectively told him he'll never be made name partner. With some coaxing from Katrina, Louis decides to cooperate with Malone, to an extent, and the two of them tackle a client together, coming to have a tenuous trust in one another. Donna tells Jessica that Louis knew about the SEC before she and Harvey did, and suggests that she find a way to give Louis some of his dignity back. Jessica offers Louis the corner office, instead of Malone.

June 13, 2014

Suits: One-Two-Three Go... (4x01)

It's baaack! One of my favorite shows ever. All the sexy outfits and sexy slow-mo walking and snappy, snarky, sexy dialogue... uh. Sexy. This show is sexy. Maybe I should talk about the plot of this Season Four premiere!

Mike has an idea to take over a company owned by Walter Gillis. His boss, Sidwell, thinks the plan is too soft, and so does Harvey. Harvey doesn't want to help Mike with it, because he doesn't think it's ruthless enough. Mike, angry, puts Pearson Specter under review, trying to force Harvey to get a better attitude and help him. Just as Harvey decides to help Mike, whatever the cost, another client of Harvey's, Logan Sanders, pitches an idea to take over Gillis' company. Because Mike put the firm under review, Harvey is obligated to help Sanders instead of Mike. Harvey tries to get Mike to back down so that he can still help him, but Mike does not. It looks like Harvey will have to support Logan Sanders against Mike, even though he doesn't want to.

Meanwhile, Jeff Malone, a litigator for the SEC, comes to Harvey and Jessica and announces that Woodall is going to use him, Malone, against Pearson Specter's clients. He wants Harvey and Jessica to hire him, so that he can work for them, instead of against them. Harvey wants to do it, but Jessica has a complication... she has been in a personal relationship with Malone. She decides to hire him, but declares that their personal relationship must end. While this is happening, Louis is waiting for Jessica and Harvey to come and ask him to help get rid of the SEC problem, but his coy game doesn't work out, to his and Katrina's disappointment.