June 28, 2015

Suits: Denial (5x01)

Oh my God Harvey. You poor dear! And poor Donna! Seriously I'm so upset. But also so excited about this season! This episode was honestly really hard to watch, but at the same time when it ended I had the biggest grin on my face. Let's go over the plot.

Basically, Donna has left Harvey and is going to start working for Louis. Donna tries to be an adult about it, but Harvey insists that they rip off the band-aid and just get it over with. Donna doesn't stay with Harvey for her final two weeks, therefore, and instead goes straight to working with Louis. Harvey is in denial. He thinks that Donna will come back. Louis is also uncertain about Donna's new position, as he thinks that Donna will abandon him and run back to Harvey. Harvey goes to see a therapist, hoping to be given anti-anxiety medication. He has been suffering from panic attacks due to losing Donna. He fears that he's going to drop the ball and mess things up.

Meanwhile, Rachel and Mike decide to keep their engagement a secret for the time being. Originally, they were going to tell Donna, but the news about Donna now working for Louis eclipses all else from their minds. Rachel misses a test in school because she sticks around and helps Harvey. Harvey is still refusing to hire a new secretary, thinking that Donna will come back. The case that Harvey and Mike are working on nearly gets screwed up because of a minor oversight of Rachel's, but Mike tells him it's his own fault for not hiring a new secretary. Rachel shouldn't be blamed, since this isn't even her job!

June 10, 2015

Outlander: To Ransom a Man's Soul (1x16)

Well then. That's one way to end a season. Honestly, this episode was even tougher than the last one, so if you couldn't stomach, 1x15, steer clear of the followup. Let's take a look at the plot.

Murtagh and the MacKenzie men successfully enter Wentworth Prison by causing chaos with a herd of cows. They get Jamie out, but he is badly injured, both physically and psychologically. Jamie, Claire, and the other men stay at the nearby Scotsman's house while Jamie recovers from his ordeal. It seems no matter what anybody says, Jamie is convinced there's no coming back from what happened to him. He is suicidal, and he actually asks one of the men to kill him. When Claire finds out, she realizes she cannot keep coddling him. She needs to get to the bottom of what happened.