Another all timer. Feras is in the running for greatest player of all time. Just unreal.
The twist was genius, giving us the best gameplay and most important decision points for the vote. I loved it.
Though I actually really enjoyed the conflict between Harvey and Louis in this episode, this has to be an absolute low point for the series. Never has Suits watched more like a daytime soap. The drama between Mike and Rachel is the opposite of compelling, the premise that he would accept his Jr Partnership is absurd, and the idea that he couldn’t escape this confrontation with this self-righteous attorney is absurd.
To top it all off, his last minute visit to her would be the height of Mike’s stupidity if the episode didn’t go on for another minute. Alas, it does, and the weight of at least five intelligent people he deeply respects and cares for going along with his charade means nothing, it seems, in the face of this nonprofit jurist wagging her finger at him. Mike has never seemed more pathetic and impressionable.
Just a bad episode of TV.
Just noticed the dude from the second episode of Veronica Mars is in this.
A fitting send off for Jack McCoy. “It’s been a hell of a ride.”
Horrible, offensive episode of TV. SVU has never been worse. If the person who made this is pro-cop and anti-social justice, they did great work here with this absurd propaganda built from right wing fantasies. If the person who made this thought they were making some kind of commentary on racism or racial injustice, get your head examined.
The fourth season started weak but ended fine. Season five, so far, is much better. It’s nice to see Harvey up against it in a way that is relatively trivial. The Mike and Robert dynamic is also a lot of fun.
A Rashomon reference? Is this the season of high minded cinematic allusions?
Funny that this episode and the one before it are both so prescient. This one is a thought provoking plot in context of COVID and COVID vaccines.
The extended The Third Man reference is also so awesome.
This is a really cool episode and kind of fun to think about in light of Young Thug’s ongoing court case.
Gotta love when the team is getting along.
This is my second watch of the first 4.5 seasons of the show but I hope this is the last job Mike has any job outside of Pearson Specter. I hope to god the show gets better from here.
This season is just so bad. There’s great stuff here, it is Suits after all, but the bigger plot arc is intolerable.
This one is for all the Billions heads.
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I don’t get the feeling of not wanting to be alive. Probably because I’m a robot. … I guess I wasn’t programmed to feel that way. My big brother didn’t wanna die. His programming wouldn’t let him feel that way either. But he died, all the same. I’m really sad now. Sadder than I’ve ever been. If I were a human and I felt this sad, would I think that I’m better off dead the way you do?
Damn. They actually did it.
They gave us a happy ending, which I wasn’t sure I wanted before but I ultimately found very satisfying.
“Because he’s a lying son of a bitch, you’re a piece of shit, and this is the end of this deposition.”
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me."
Rewatching this episode, I came to comment that it was an all timer and what do I find but a comment from me 6 years ago.
People have called the series overall slow, but this episode moves at the speed of a bullet train with a laser focus on getting from point A to point B. It’s almost cinematic in that respect, abandoning the diffuse storytelling focusing on several different characters and the separate plots that characterize modern prestige TV. Instead, there’s one plot, and every second of the episode dedicated to advancing it. Even better, it sets the context of Picard’s past up extremely effectively. One hardly needs to be a Star Trek expert to grasp what’s happening here. I loved it.
A pretty promising proof of concept for a next generation of SVU detectives.
This is another amazing turn for the new era of Law & Order. The episode was phenomenal and there's a moment, just one moment where Jalen Shaw is indignant about the "blue brotherhood" (he delivers a couplet where the emphasis ends on each word) when addressing Lt. Dixon. In that moment, Mehcad Brooks' performance echoes that of Andre Braugher in Homicide. I'd like to see more of that. Brooks seems to be a formidable actor.
Damn, is this the best season of Law & Order ever?
Ritchie Costar had no reason to go this hard pretending to be Hannibal.
They're really taking this child soldier thing to a new level, huh?
