Suits: Oh! re: Harvey and Donna
I've been catching up with S1 while I've been watching S2 and I just watched the last episode of S1. All caught up. So, there's something that Harvey said that really resonates with Donna's storyline in S2: "We work because I've always known I can trust you. Don't ever go behind my back again."
I hadn't realized that Harvey had already had a confrontation with Donna about this subject back in S1. No wonder he was so angry and disappointed with her in S2. They had this conversation. He made it clear that being honest with him was what he wanted and that was how he would decide if he could trust her. She made the call that, again, he didn't need to know the truth, that she could 'take care of him' better than he could take care of himself. She doesn't trust him to be able to handle things; and that means that he can't trust her.
Wow, this makes the S2 rift deeper than I'd realized that it was. Now that Donna has done something like at least twice*, after Harvey has asked her not to, how can he possibly trust that she won't do it the next time she thinks he needs protecting?
And, hilariously, Jessica is the one telling him to get over Donna going behind his back to protect. Because "think of what your life would be like without her". Because, of course, Donna going behind Harvey's back is fine and he needs to just move past it, because she was only trying to protect him. Donna going behind Harvey and Jessica's backs is unforgivable. Yet the same impulse governed Donna in both cases. What she does in S2 is more extreme**, but her reasoning is the same in both instances. She just wants to protect Harvey.
And, of course, the question goes in the other direction -- Harvey feels betrayed by Donna? Well, she feels betrayed by him, too, as she made explicit in the last episode. When Mike was the one at risk, Harvey put everything on the line for him, made them a 'package deal'. He wasn't willing to lose his job for Donna. After her years of loyalty, that must have felt like a slap in the face.
It's feeling to me like Suits is something of an examination in the virtues and faults of personal loyalty and what it can mean.
* And Harvey may well ask himself if she's done it other times, too, without getting caught.
** And more illegal, but this is the show where fraud is constantly being committed, so I don't know if legality is something the characters should be making too much of a fuss about.
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I hadn't realized that Harvey had already had a confrontation with Donna about this subject back in S1. No wonder he was so angry and disappointed with her in S2. They had this conversation. He made it clear that being honest with him was what he wanted and that was how he would decide if he could trust her. She made the call that, again, he didn't need to know the truth, that she could 'take care of him' better than he could take care of himself. She doesn't trust him to be able to handle things; and that means that he can't trust her.
Wow, this makes the S2 rift deeper than I'd realized that it was. Now that Donna has done something like at least twice*, after Harvey has asked her not to, how can he possibly trust that she won't do it the next time she thinks he needs protecting?
And, hilariously, Jessica is the one telling him to get over Donna going behind his back to protect. Because "think of what your life would be like without her". Because, of course, Donna going behind Harvey's back is fine and he needs to just move past it, because she was only trying to protect him. Donna going behind Harvey and Jessica's backs is unforgivable. Yet the same impulse governed Donna in both cases. What she does in S2 is more extreme**, but her reasoning is the same in both instances. She just wants to protect Harvey.
And, of course, the question goes in the other direction -- Harvey feels betrayed by Donna? Well, she feels betrayed by him, too, as she made explicit in the last episode. When Mike was the one at risk, Harvey put everything on the line for him, made them a 'package deal'. He wasn't willing to lose his job for Donna. After her years of loyalty, that must have felt like a slap in the face.
It's feeling to me like Suits is something of an examination in the virtues and faults of personal loyalty and what it can mean.
* And Harvey may well ask himself if she's done it other times, too, without getting caught.
** And more illegal, but this is the show where fraud is constantly being committed, so I don't know if legality is something the characters should be making too much of a fuss about.
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