Suits - Season 1 [DVD]

I have pre-ordered this series on DVD - and am counting the days until it is issued!I hadn't heard of 'Suits' until a friend mentioned it on her website. Her recommendation made me decide I'd keep an eye out for it airing here in the UK. I was really excited when I saw it was being shown on Dave.(Although it surely deserves a wider audience!)From the start I was hooked. I freely admit that I watched both the original airing and then watched the repeat a couple of days later - for every episode!So, what is so good about 'Suits'?Well, I could say that the writing is sharp. The plot-lines are strong. The characterisation is spot-on. Characters are well-rounded and develop throughout the series. The show redefines 'witty' with breathtaking dialogue between the main characters. The music for the series is seriously good.....and all these reasons are true, and valid reasons for buying the DVD....but there's more!...I could point out that Gabriel Macht is ueber-hot. Which he is. And well worth the price of the DVDs all by himself! But that's not the best bit...The best thing about the series is the relationship between Harvey and Mike. WOW! These guys are so much more than friends/work colleagues. They smoulder with UST! Just watch the looks that pass between them! Listen to the barely disguised innuendo in just about every conversation! (Two stand-out scenes for me have to be Harvey getting cross/upset when Mike gets high, such a strong scene and so nurturing!.....and in a later episode Harvey smirking at the imagined idea of Mike in drag when taking the LSATs for a girl! - so funny!)If you've seen the show, I think you'll know what I'm getting at!I am so looking forward to this DVD arriving - and thrilled that it has been picked up for a second series. Best TV in simply years!

I know the DVD isn't out yet, so this review is a little premature. But I've watched every episode to date (about 5 I think) and (1) I can't praise it highly enough and (2) I can't understand how it's slipped under the radar (probably 'cos it's on Dave) and isn't been raved about elsewhere.I won't repeat what others have already said - but what I think they've missed is how great the music and cinematography is too. The whole thing is just a joy to watch and the episodes just FLY by.I'm also impressed by the standard of the writing and the subtexts. In the episode I just watched Mike lost a "faux trial" because his fav paralegal was on the stand and upset and he backed off from "breaking her". Landing him a telling of from the firm's head, Jessica, for being too soft....and disappointing Harvey in the process.This was juxtaposed with a storyline for Harvey (they didn't interact much in this one) where he had a hot hook up with a girl who was top of his class in Harvard (Scotty) and, realising she was hiding something about the merger they were both on, pulled something out of the bag and beat her in court. She then got fired by her client and told him she was heading back to England to marry a guy who'd proposed to her a month before.So you had Mike pulling back and deciding a woman in his life was more important than the win - and Harvey doing the opposite. Clever.Cannot recommend this show highly enough.

Suits is a refreshingly light and entertaining take on the well-trodden legal drama genre. Compared to other more intense and heavier drama series such as CSI and Law & Order, Suits take's the ingenious approach of imbuing the legal action with comic undertones as sharp as the suits the character's wear. Based around Harvey Specter, leading partner of a big New York legal firm, and his mentor student Mike Ross, who happens to have an incredible talent for remembering and getting his head round complex legal ideas, and also happens not be a student of Harvard Law School - the basic requirement for the law firm - leads to some classic and awkward comedy moments in which Mike gets made fun of for his (lack of) knowledge about things most law students can only dream.The writing of the show is such that you're made aware of something even before you realise it, with clever one-liners and Harvey in particular making use of every legal angle to make cases go his way, in particular in the way he dangles a noose around the neck of anyone he believes has done wrong. Assisted somewhat naively but expertly by Mike Ross, who has a few personal problems of his own lurking in the background, this provides a nice twist to the drama. Ultimately, the show offers a relaxing and pleasant way to enjoy the dilemma of legal issues in the modern world, without having to sit back and take everything so seriously and pretend you understand everything. Highly recommended.

I thought that maybe with the resurgence of this show (now week 13 at #1 worldwide for TV) they might have rectified the production issue with this series. I bought the S1-7 box set 4 or 5 years ago and while I loved the series I was always irritated that S1 was missing episodes 9/10 of the 12…it still is. So either get confused every time you watch it, or buy a Netflix subscription just to be able to watch the ACTUAL complete series.