My broken heart at having had to
delay my trip back to LA was finally mended yesterday when I sat down to watch
the four episodes of Suits I had missed when in the UK.
There is nothing quite like the
excuse of jet-lag to enable you to don a dressing gown and lounge on the sofa
with a glass of wine in one hand and the remote in another.
The fabulous Patrick J. Adams, who
plays Mike Ross, appears to have grown a foot, and now spends more time kissing
than talking, which is a good thing for viewers, although less good for the
firm, I suspect.
Gabriel Macht is even more beautiful
than I remember him. The hair and the suits of his character, Harvey Specter,
are perfect, every follicle and stitch a tribute to the make-up and costume
departments who make this faultless specimen of manhood possible.
Then there’s Harvey’s hunger for
power – never more impressive and sexy than when his back is against the wall
(which brings me to another fantasy, but enough dribbling for one day. But
gosh, he is beautiful).
It is, quite simply, fabulous TV, and now I will be living
for Tuesdays for the foreseeable future. So don’t call, don’t drop in, just
leave me to my angel.
I’ve also been catching up on
Mistresses, which is as laughable as Suits is brilliant. And yet it is
strangely addictive. Quite why Joss (Jes Macallan) has chosen to be a lesbian
with the clingy Alex (Shannyn Sossamon), when she had a bloke who could get her
bra off in one flick of a light switch movement, is anybody’s guess, but she’s
still my favourite.
Savi (Alyssa Milano) has good taste
in necklaces, but why do her eyelashes permanently look as if they are trying
to do a runner from her face? Give them a visa and they’ll be off, I’m telling
you.
April (Rochelle Aytes) is prettiest
of the bunch, but it’s a bit of a bummer that her dead husband turned out not to
be dead, after all. Still, she should have been grateful for the extra customer
in the shop. Has she sold ANYTHING since the series began?
And then there’s Karen (Yunjin Kim),
who stares into the middle distance while speaking in a voice that is so tiny,
it could send a tiger into hibernation. Will they ever manage to excavate a
personality? Will she ever get her fringe cut? Will she ever manage to get
another patient, now that the only one she ever had is dead?
There is not a man in Mistresses to
compete with Gabriel Macht, alas, and Dominic (Jason George) is the best of a
very mediocre bunch.
But he and Savi work in a very odd
law firm that is not a patch on Harvey’s Pearson/Whatever-that-English-bloke’s-name-is-in-the-second-half-of-the-title.
They never have any clients, never
do any work, and have all their mates and spouses popping in at all hours for
casual chats.
Apart from Savi and Dom’s quickie,
there’s no office sex there, either, whereas in Pearson Thingummy, you can’t
even go into the photocopying room without ending up with someone else’s sticky
DNA on your hands.
British actor Max Beesley has now
joined the cast as “fixer” Stephen Huntley for a few weeks and he is ALWAYS in
the photocopying room. Let’s just say he never emerges with anything in his
hands. Not papers, anyway.
And here’s the really confusing
thing – Gary Cole, who plays Harvey’s nemesis, Cameron Dennis, in Suits, is
also ballistics expert Kurt McVeigh and on-off lover of Diane in that other
great legal drama, The Good Wife.
Anyway, Suits is back, and that’s all I
care about.
My Angel Gabriel is flying high once
more.
