Suits LA is kicking off tonight, and the critics are already weighing in.
The LA-based spinoff of Suits, which experienced a resurgence in popularity after arriving on streaming in recent years, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday (February 23) on NBC.
Here’s a synopsis: Ted Black (Stephen Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while we slowly unravel the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.
TV critics have already started sharing their thoughts on the spinoff series.
Keep reading to find out what critics are saying…
The show currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 36%, with a majority of the reviews being negative.
The New York Times said the show is “flat and joyless,” adding “this NBC attempt to capitalize on the surprising Netflix success of Suits has almost none of the charming traits that distinguished the original.”
People wrote: “Unfortunately, Suits LA doesn’t have Suits’ smoothness, sexiness or snap, all of which probably had something to with the original’s enjoyable, easygoing shallowness.”
Variety wrote: “Suits LA does not know where it wants to go or who these people are. Moreover, the entertainment law aspect isn’t unique enough to distinguish the show from other legal dramas. What is clear, however, is that some things are better off left in New York.”
The Guardian wrote: “Suits LA is just convoluted plot and unrealistically alert lawyers – maybe baseline entertaining, but not sexy. Without it – after three episodes, at least – this spinoff is just business.”
THR wrote: “Sure, it might not be fun or fizzy enough yet to replace Original Flavor Suits in anyone’s heart. And no, no one from Suits has appeared yet to explain what one show has to do with the other. But you can see how it’s trying to get there, and even how it eventually might. All in all, there are worse ways for a spinoff to start.”
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