The first two - three now - of s2. I liked them, but you know, I loved L.A. Law back in its heyday, and I love The Good Wife, so I'm amenable to enjoying legal dramas that are mostly office politics and legal shenanigans whether or not they go to court. I feel like Mike is everything not enjoyable about the show. So I'm not sure watching the season where he is preeminent because it's about him instead of about Jessica and Harvey's power struggles with the other guy is going to make me like him or enjoy the show more. I mean, maybe I will go back and watch it, but the fact that it focuses more closely on Mike and his poor life choices is not an enticement.
I jumped up and down about what a hypocritical idiot he was being about Rachel this season, so understanding him may not make S2 any better.
Heh. That is why I wanted to punch him in the face!
It's interesting to watch the show they're actually making while knowing what show they think they're making, where Mike is actually a good guy, with heart and stuff, and not a product of
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I feel like Mike is everything not enjoyable about the show. So I'm not sure watching the season where he is preeminent because it's about him instead of about Jessica and Harvey's power struggles with the other guy is going to make me like him or enjoy the show more.
I hear that. At least for me, I enjoyed the Harvey-Mike dynamic in season 1. They're fun to watch together, even as Mike on his own can be very trying. But I have noticed how much this season is inextricably linked to last season - little moments, especially, that land so much harder if you have the foundation - so there's a layer that you might be missing. But then, that might not matter.
It may also be that you want to watch a show that they're just not making. For better or worse, the set-up is Harvey and Mike vs the world. It's nice when they let Jessica be awesome (if really stupidly antagonistic toward Hardman in a way that's beneath her, given her badassery in S1...but whatever) and I wish it would be like that all the time, but she's not the focus
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It may also be that you want to watch a show that they're just not making. For better or worse, the set-up is Harvey and Mike vs the world. It's nice when they let Jessica be awesome (if really stupidly antagonistic toward Hardman in a way that's beneath her, given her badassery in S1...but whatever) and I wish it would be like that all the time, but she's not the focus.
That is pretty much true, though I think by not being that emotionally invested in it, I can still enjoy it without being angry that it's not the show I wish it was? If that makes sense?
Like, I'm still annoyed that suddenly Fringe became about Peter Bishop's Special Destiny when for 3 seasons it was about Olivia Dunham: Superhero, which makes it harder for me to want to watch next season. But here I'm just sort of enjoying it and checking my email when Mike's on the screen for too long.
I enjoyed season one of Suits. Mike was more tolerable and Rachel less tolerable for me. The one reason to watch is to see how Rick Hoffman manages to make Louis a well rounded, interesting and sympathetic character. Looking at the writing Louis starts as the whiny, weaselly attorney with few if any redeeming values. But somehow he becomes vulnerable and very human. Watching an actor make that type of gold on his acting alone is a real treat. It also gives us season 2 Louis, who I love.
I feel the same way about Mike Ross... I mean, he started out okay but the more I watched the show the more I find myself far more interested in everyone BUT Mike. I loved Harvey's relationship and history with Jessica, and Donna, and this season, with Louis.
But Mike? Level of interest went way down to zero.
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I jumped up and down about what a hypocritical idiot he was being about Rachel this season, so understanding him may not make S2 any better.
Heh. That is why I wanted to punch him in the face!
It's interesting to watch the show they're actually making while knowing what show they think they're making, where Mike is actually a good guy, with heart and stuff, and not a product of ( ... )
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I hear that. At least for me, I enjoyed the Harvey-Mike dynamic in season 1. They're fun to watch together, even as Mike on his own can be very trying. But I have noticed how much this season is inextricably linked to last season - little moments, especially, that land so much harder if you have the foundation - so there's a layer that you might be missing. But then, that might not matter.
It may also be that you want to watch a show that they're just not making. For better or worse, the set-up is Harvey and Mike vs the world. It's nice when they let Jessica be awesome (if really stupidly antagonistic toward Hardman in a way that's beneath her, given her badassery in S1...but whatever) and I wish it would be like that all the time, but she's not the focus ( ... )
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That is pretty much true, though I think by not being that emotionally invested in it, I can still enjoy it without being angry that it's not the show I wish it was? If that makes sense?
Like, I'm still annoyed that suddenly Fringe became about Peter Bishop's Special Destiny when for 3 seasons it was about Olivia Dunham: Superhero, which makes it harder for me to want to watch next season. But here I'm just sort of enjoying it and checking my email when Mike's on the screen for too long.
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But Mike? Level of interest went way down to zero.
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Yes. I wish that is what the show were really about, because Mike is just bleh. I'm not interested in him at all.
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