Sometimes I am just minding my own business and then it hits me once again: Mike Ross was drugged, he could have been dying as far as he was concerned, and his last words would have been “Call Harvey”, because when he is scared and everything stops making sense of course that’s who he wants to call.
So we are almost to the midway mark of this first batch of episodes for season six of Suits and I thought this latest episode was okay. I loved certain aspects of it but some of it was really far fetched and I still think they have some issues with maintaining balance, mainly with the way they are utilizing the Louis character this season.
Still, I think this episode was better than some of the others and although I’m not really enjoying these episodes at the level that I have enjoyed Suits in the past, I am happy they got the season seven pickup they just announced. Hopefully season seven will regain some of this show’s past glory and we’ll see everyone working together again in some capacity. Personally, I would love if that happened with Mike taking a PI job for the firm but I’m getting ahead of myself.
First, let’s break down the good and the bad of Suits 6x04 - Turn under the cut.
Jessica - Why? Why is that head stockbroker guy (I refuse to learn his name, he annoys me so much) flirting with her? Why did Jessica look like she was thinking about going out with him for even one tiny second? Why is this happening to her? Jessica deserves so much better. SO MUCH BETTER! Talk about a complete and total downgrade from Jeff Malone! They better not be setting a romance up here. She deserves SO MUCH BETTER!
Okay, now that I got that out of my system let me move on to Jessica’s interactions with Harvey in this episode. I love that she gets Harvey and she understands that he can’t think of anything but Mike right now. Her giving him permission to just focus on that and taking everything else off his plate for him showed how much Jessica understands and cares about Harvey and yes, even though he was a pain in her ass, Mike too. She wants her family back and she knows she isn’t going to get the old Harvey without Mike.
Louis - For some reason nothing about Louis is working for me this season. I know that he’s always been over the top but I think they’ve taken it too far for me this season. And none of the humor surrounding Louis is funny to me. It’s been crass and gross. The whole filling the Litt Up mugs with urine tests, was that really necessary?
And the new love interest for him, Tara, when Louis was sniffing her hair instead of making me laugh it made me want her to slap a restraining order on him. It’s nice they are trying to give Louis a love interest but I wasn’t feeling it at all this episode. Right now he’s coming off too creepy stalker for me to get behind it. Him and Shelia worked for me because they were both over the top characters. Tara seems too grounded and mature for Louis.
Donna - I thought this was the best episode Donna has had so far this season. I was thinking about why and came to the conclusion that while she was still getting into things and giving advice it wasn’t unsolicited either time and that made a world of difference.
I loved her scene with Rachel but then I love that friendship on the show so I’m always fan of their scenes. What is so great about them is that they really listen to each other and are supportive. I liked her trying to ease Rachel’s guilt over not thinking about Mike every second.
I also thought this was the best scene she had with Harvey so far this season. Mike knew that Donna was his best chance at getting through to Harvey and Donna advocating on his behalf was a nice moment. So far this season it’s felt like Donna has just been yelling at Harvey but this scene she was sincerely pleading with him on behalf of her friends because she knew if Harvey used Rachel against Mike by telling her about the deal he would damage not only his relationship with Mike but also he would destroy Rachel. This scene worked for me because Harvey was being unreasonable and blinded by his need to get Mike out of prison and Donna was trying to get him to see reason from Mike’s point of view. They should give them more scenes like this one and less of the yelling at each other we’ve gotten previous to this episode.
Rachel - I have mixed feelings on Rachel in this episode. I love that she’s involved with the innocent project and passionate about it. It fits her character that once she committed she would work tirelessly toward releasing a man she believes is innocent. I just wish they hadn’t tied it back to Mike by having her say she was imagining that he was working with her on it. I’m wary of this case becoming Mike’s case too or it being all about Mike. Rachel’s character has been eclipsed by Mike so many times in the past that I really want this storyline to stay her’s and not involve Mike.
While Rachel and Mike aren’t my favorite couple in the world, I did find their reunion in this episode sweet. I’m glad Mike told her about the deal. They have had too many secrets between them and adding another one would have only blown up in Mike’s face later. Though I do have to say, as Donna pointed out earlier, Mike has chosen prison over her twice. He’s also chosen Harvey over her at least twice as well. Rachel might want to think long and hard about that before she walks down any aisles with Mike.
Mike - Mike’s loyalty is so engrained in who he is that it’s believable that he wouldn’t want to take a deal to turn on Kevin. Despite just having met, these two are in a very heightened environment. They sleep in the same cell together, eat meals together, have kitchen duty together and pretty much spend every waking minute watching each other’s back because of Gallo. That is going to create a bond very quickly. Mike likes Kevin and he doesn’t want to mess up this guy’s life because of Cahill on a whim. I don’t think it was unreasonable for Mike to ask exactly what they needed Kevin for so he could weigh the turning on a friend against the deal being offered. Turning his back on someone he considers a friend isn’t something Mike finds easy to do. As Donna pointed out, if it was Harvey would be in prison. Not to mention how much Trevor got away with before Mike finally kicked him out of his life.
So Mike not wanting to cut a deal if it meant throwing a friend under the bus worked for me. If the whole deal blew up in his face Mike would have to deal with the consequences inside the prison for another two years and things never go well for a snitch in prison. If it went well Mike had to live with screwing Kevin over. So either way it wasn’t a winning deal for Mike. Him trying to tell Harvey that fell on deaf ears but at least he tried.
Speaking of Mike and Harvey, Mike’s reaction to finding out Harvey drugged him and took him out of the prison was the best part of the episode for me. Mike knows that Harvey is determined and will do anything to get his way and he knows that Harvey cares about him but I don’t think he thought Harvey would go that far. This is Harvey at his most desperate and most determined and that’s great except that he isn’t listening to what Mike is trying to tell him. These decisions are Mike’s to make and Mike’s to live with and what Harvey did to him in this episode wasn’t cool, as much as the shipper in me enjoyed Harvey’s desperate need to get Mike out at any costs.
What was cool was Mike telling Rachel the truth even if it took him a minute. He’s learning from past mistakes and trying to be honest and transparent now. He knows better than anyone the cost of lies and hiding things.
And this was a small moment but I love that Mike stopped Harvey from punching Cahill. That’s the third time he’s stopped Harvey from punching someone.
Also a small moment but a meaningful one was that when he thought it was Gallo that tampered with his food and was passing out he asked Kevin to contact Harvey. Despite everything at the end of the day Harvey is and always will be a safe haven for Mike and someone he literally trusts with his life. He knows when he’s in trouble it’s Harvey that will come to his rescue every single time.
Harvey - Harvey was out of control in this episode. His guilt is eating away at him so badly that he can’t stand it so, mix that with how much he misses Mike and how worried he is about his safety, the minute Cahill dangled the early release carrot in front of Harvey there was no way Mike wasn’t taking that deal no matter what lines Harvey had to cross. The only problem is that Harvey wasn’t listening to Mike this episode and he was manipulative and crossed a huge line to get Mike to take Cahill’s deal.
It was Mike’s choice and if he said no, no matter how much that upset Harvey, he should have respected it. Having someone drug Mike’s food and whisking him out of the prison to drop off at Rachel’s was way over the top. Harvey has always had a problem respecting people’s boundaries and this was just another example of how much he hasn’t changed in that respect. So while the shipper in me enjoyed Harvey’s grand gesture the rest of me wished he respected Mike more than that this episode. Mike is a grown man who is capable of making his own decisions and Harvey had no right to bulldoze over that to get Mike to take the deal. It was selfish because it was Harvey who can’t handle Mike’s two year prison term, not Mike and if anything goes wrong, which we all know it will, Harvey will have to live with the consequences of whatever happens then too.
The other moment of Harvey’s I wanted to touch on was when he was about to hit Cahill. Before it escalated that far Cahill pointed out a very important thing, that Harvey had always planned to bring Mike to Rachel’s even before he asked Cahill to arrange all this and he purposefully left Cahill in the dark about it. More and more this season it’s becoming apparent that Harvey isn’t learning from past mistakes. He’s still bending the law and the truth to fit his needs, especially when it comes to Mike, and that is what got him in trouble in the first place. So far this season we’ve seen Mike and Jessica both learning from the past and being better people now because of it and I can’t help but wonder because Harvey isn’t learning from his past at all that this show isn’t setting him up for a big fall at some point in the near future.
I also wonder if it’s just the way Gabriel is playing Harvey this season or if it’s something the writers are doing as a nod to the Marvey shippers, but every episode Harvey comes off more and more in love with Mike. Too bad the writers won’t go there.
So those are my thoughts on this episode. It was better than most of the episodes so far this season, but unfortunately that’s been a low bar to meet. I’m sure that this deal Cahill offered is going to get incredibly messy and I’m sure Mike will find out Kevin’s story and over identify and make things even messier. In the end though, a glimpse of hope that this prison storyline will be wrapping up in time for the midseason break makes me incredibly happy. Mike’s isolation from the rest of the cast has hurt this show and the sooner they get them all back together, the better the show will be!
As always, thanks for taking the time to read my review! See you next week!
