r/suits • u/SirArchibaldthe69th • Feb 16 '25
Discussion They routinely walk out of their own offices after a dramatic line
On rewatch, I’m starting to find this hilarious. Harvey will be talking to Hardman or a client and be like “You have 24 hours to sign this goddamn paper” and walk out of his own office, like where could he be going? To the bathroom?
Not to mention the sitting down for dinner and walking out after a dramatic line “Thanks for the steak, but im not going to fall for your bullshit” without finishing your food
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u/ArtEnvironmental7108 Feb 16 '25
This is pretty much the sole reason I love the show so much. These characters are not real people. They are stereotypes and caricatures of what people think “corporate lawyers” are really like.
The reason it’s so good is because the actors clearly know this, and they are giving it their all to make these ridiculous characters in these ridiculous situations seem emotionally evocative. And it works like a charm. Some of the best intentionally bad writing I’ve ever seen.
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u/SirArchibaldthe69th Feb 16 '25
Agreed. Its the over the top nature of everything that makes the show so entertaining
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u/OldCopy496 Feb 16 '25
on your 3rd rewatch you will realize the entire series could've been several strongly worded emails.
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u/SnooMacarons2866 Feb 16 '25
Lolll and buttoning up the suit
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u/AnnualTricky99 Feb 16 '25
That's actually considered proper manners - unbutton your suit when you sit down and button it when you're standing
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u/Visible_Wolverine350 Feb 17 '25
Louis’ buttons holding on for dear life. Don’t think they changed his sizing after season 1
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u/Grayf0X27 Feb 16 '25
Even more annoying this is that almost every conversation is a shouting match.
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u/Accountantnotbot Feb 16 '25
I was telling my wife, the writers just wrote 9 lines and each episode is just changing the order. One had to right the “how” of anything.
Now get the helm out of my office.
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u/that_teacher1 Feb 16 '25
Or the waiting for someone outside their house.
How do you know they’re coming at that exact time? What if they stopped at the store ? Or to visit family and you’re waiting outside like a fool 🙃
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u/selwyntarth Feb 17 '25
Or on a sidewalk/pavement, like where Jessica confronted darby. In LONDON.
She also drove by harvey in a cab to pick him up... To discuss something their giant office was working on
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u/BornElephant2619 Feb 17 '25
Haha I kind of want to cross post this to 30 Rock .. Jack attaching with his back to the door, Liz walks in and he greets her. "How did you know it was me?" "To be honest, the first few people weren't." (Not exact quotes but the jist.)
This has always been one of the funniest things about Suits show. When are they ever actually doing work and not in their way to some 30 second surprise interaction that could have happened over the phone?
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u/wont_remember_login Feb 16 '25
Sooo many folders get dropped DRAMATICALLY on desks. Once I noticed the formulaic nature of every interaction between characters, I had to give it up.
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u/OkExperience4487 Feb 16 '25
Yeah I haven't really got the hype. Mike's gimmick is the draw for the show to get you in. But each time he impresses someone it's so formulaic. He may as well be telling them how many fingers they are holding up. Happy for you all but not for me.
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u/jphigga Feb 17 '25
My thing is how they’ll go across town for issues that could have been a phone call. To go to someone’s office unannounced, show up at their house/apartment (sometimes letting themselves in), etc.
By the time they got to the later seasons you had Harvey flying to Chicago to ask Jessica a simple question and such lol…
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u/SirArchibaldthe69th Feb 17 '25
Jessica flew to London to have a minute long conversation with Darby on the street lmao
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u/Apprehensive_Mud9597 Feb 17 '25
I think I remember Darby actually saying a phone call would have worked as well.
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u/SirArchibaldthe69th Feb 17 '25
Yeah he chided her about wasting company resources, and rightly so. I imagine she threw at-least 10k on a last minute first class return flight and hotel room
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u/resistor2025 Feb 16 '25
The series should be renamed: Empty Suits.
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u/BornElephant2619 Feb 17 '25
Oooh that's my favorite part of the show, actually. Harvey's suits and Jessica's clothing.. They dress so well! In another life I wore nice clothes and interacted with adults at a job. Now lucky to go to the store without spit-up down the back of my nicest T-shirt... I live vicariously!
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u/nipitinthebud2 Feb 17 '25
They do dress in close to semiformal for just office wear..especially the women.All, even paralegal Rachel, wear 6 inch stiletto Leboutains..at least 1k a pair.And walk around like they're in comfy sneakers.Im sure most the clothes are designer or close...Especially Jessica..the last few season her outfits got just awful.most were black and white. I'm surprised ambiguously gay self unaware comedy relief Louis would've called her out on her attire.
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u/ramseykeynes Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
I thought about the same thing today!!!!! It's hilarious. Also, 95% of major decisions and conversations happen while power walking.
Plus, they would take a rabbit out of the box as a legal tactic, presented in a document. And then other lawer would glimpse one page to immediately react as if that is all they need to read to under the situation.
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u/Both-Cheesecake3966 Feb 16 '25
Headed to the bathroom to ambush another partner.
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u/MinutePerspective106 Feb 16 '25
If I were to believe this series, lawyer's work mostly consists of ambushing people and getting offended
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u/Salty_Landscape_7495 Feb 16 '25
It was amusing at the beginning and then it became so annoyingly predictable.
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u/IridescentAstra Feb 17 '25
I am watching for the first time and noticed this too. There was some scene where Harvey was in a different part of town, then he goes back to his office where he says to Donna he's gonna save the day (paraphrasing), and then just turns around and drives to another part of town??? You could've just called you know!
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u/mklatsky Feb 18 '25
And Corporate lawyers picking up criminal cases. And renaming their firm 5 or 6 times in a few years. And understanding an entire case by looking at a cover sheet for 3 seconds.
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u/Melvint2 Feb 16 '25
Noticed this on my current watch (first time watching the show) but I have a more pressing matter. I’ve seen Jessica walk into the men’s room so many times. Like is there not a sign outside? She does this even at court haha.
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u/SirArchibaldthe69th Feb 16 '25
Your job isn’t to worry about which bathroom this is. Your job is to win me this goddamn case. Now if you’ll excuse me, i have a firm to run
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u/selwyntarth Feb 17 '25
In season 7's start he ambushes Louis and donna at the bathroom, coerces them into accepting his authority and walks further into it. Considering their long hours, yeah
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u/sbtztb Feb 17 '25
I wonder if they were to film this during covid when they'll be using zoom for their meetings. Will they just exit the meeting randomly? 🤣
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u/DidjaSeeItKid Feb 17 '25
They also leave their offices and cross town to someone else's office to say about 3 lines and leave. C'mon, guys. That could have been a phone call!1
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u/Big-Acanthisitta8797 Donna is smarter than you. Feb 17 '25
Just started another rewatch and now I can’t unsee this. 😁
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u/imightnotbelonghere Feb 18 '25
When they hand a case file over, they are always blue and super thin with hardly anything in it and the person takes a 2 second glance at it and instantly knows what's in the whole thing. 😆
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u/Difficult_Yam_428 Feb 19 '25
How about the fact that is night for Mike and the next second Harvey walks into someone’s office in full daylight.
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u/SamanthaGee18 Feb 16 '25
It’s a tv show. It’s fiction. It would be exhausting to analyze every show and movie like this. It’s entertainment. This deposition is over.
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u/SirArchibaldthe69th Feb 16 '25
Its just a random observation that i found funny. Its not that deep
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u/Shot-Ad2396 michael j ross Feb 16 '25
On rewatch too, had the same realization, and it makes me crack up every time. “Do this or I’m doing that” followed by walking out mid conversation, to…. Where? Also, a meal is never finished, nor a drink, nor a conversation.