'Suits LA' is the dollar-store spinoff we didn't need: Review
NBC is giving the people what they want: More "Suits." Except that's not actually what they're doing. The USA Network legal dramedy, about a genius pretending to be a lawyer and the mentor who enabled him, was a solid performer in its 2011-19 basic-cable run, but it exploded in popularity in 2023 when it arrived on Netflix. All of a sudden "the green back boogey" was trending again, and NBC was more than happy to capitalize on it by extending the franchise. But making more "Suits" in its original form is impossible, and not just because one of its stars is now a duchess. So NBC entrusted "Suits" creator Aaron Korsh with a spinoff, and what he came up with was "Suits LA" (Sundays, 9 EST/PST, ★½ out of four) a bargain-basement version of its parent show. There are the trappings of the original series: the pretty people in business formalwear, kicky music, fast-paced dialogue, full-frontal flirtation and a legal system that exists only in Fantasyland. But it's missing the humor and fun of the original series, an integral part of the addictive tone that makes it so very binge-watchable. Plus it lacks a unique hook or characters anywhere nearly as appealing as
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