Needs more POW! BOP! And KABOOM!
In this edition of Suits, a bright young woman with teaching aspirations is accused of insider trading and sent to prison. She swears that the tip that she acted on was on her daily sheet, thereby making the trade lawful, or at the very least, eschewing her from responsibility. Mike and Harvey gradually start to believe her and work to clear her name.
Yes, yes, she’s innocent and free by the end of the episode.
The episode itself isn’t without bright spots:
When Harvey demands that the brokerage firm employing the woman hand over their trade records, he deduces that they aren’t the real records and enlists Mike to figure out what the actual exchanges are. Mike does this by getting wasted at a bar that caters to the Wall Street crowd. And oh, yes, he gets the other brokers at the woman’s firm to spill. And sure, it’s the middle of the night but Mike just has to tell Harvey now, even though Harvey pretty much orders him not to bring his drunk ass into his apartment.
Does Mike listen? Does Mike ever listen?
No, no he doesn’t, and in this case, it’s the highlight of the episode.
When he’s not drunk, Mike spends his time brooding and fretting over Rachel’s bestie possibly coming to work at Pearson-Hardman. She’s one of Mike’s old clients from his test-fraud days. Lucky for Mike, she doesn’t get the job. Unluckily for Mike, she tells Rachel how she scored well enough on her LSATs to get into Harvard.
So, between Rachel’s righteous outrage and the fact that we haven’t seen Trevor’s ex, Jenny, in about three episodes, I guess that love triangle thing isn’t going to pan out just yet. That right there was the sound of my sigh of relief.
We also glean one tiny nugget of backstory concerning Harvey when it’s revealed that he has/had a younger brother who was bullied when they were kids. Harvey stood up to the bullies for him and even at the age of 13, thought it was completely unacceptable that the father of one particularly unpleasant brat had no idea what terror his son was unleashing on the neighborhood.
Tell us more, Harvey. Tell us more!
And finally, Louis has a positive impact on the firm for once and Jessica rewards him with tickets to see King Lear. Louis loves King Lear. I’m trying to figure out if that’s poignant or not. This is what happens after four years of literary theory: the power-switch gets jammed in the “on” position.
It makes for some interesting watching though. Take Cars, for instance, the Pixar movie. I despise Cars. It makes no sense. Where are the people? Is it an alternate reality where cars are sentient? Then why is everything still people-sized?
Yes, I know it’s a children’s movie. Shush.
If you think of Cars as a post-apocalyptic future flick where humanity is wiped out by… something, and in order to survive, humans download their consciousness into automobiles, it becomes an infinitely better movie.
I’m just saying.
Anyway, King Lear is a play about the perils of rewarding insincere suck-ups. Louis is an insincere suck-up. Louis just became an infinitely more faceted villain.
Harvey makes fun of Jessica for getting stuck on a “date” with Louis. He regrets this decision later when Jessica rewards him with Yankees tickets… the stipulation being that he gives the other one to Louis.
It’s okay Harvey, I’m sure Louis is just as thrilled to be stuck in your company too.
Some stats and info about Suits, “Tricks of the Trade”
TV SHOW – Suits
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 1, Episode 6
AIRED ON – July 28th, 2011
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – USA/Netflix
GENRE – Drama, Legal Dramas, Office Culture
CREATED BY – Aaron Korsh
CAST – Gabriel Macht, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle, Gina Torres
This review originally appeared on TV Geek Army.