Suits S04E09 'Gone' Review

Charles Forstman.....

 Forstman, you magnificent bastard. To instate a MINION as head of the SEC?! Please, PLEASE, let him stick around. The guy is such a dominant FORCE (or is that Forst ?XD), with so little screen time. I mean come ON, most people go at Harvey with some sort of agency or case behind them, while Charles Forstman just has such a power as to *throw the SEC at someone*?!

Oh come ON, that is FAR too badass. Hardman could plant a fake memo. Cameron Dennis can try and frame Ava Hessington. But Charles Forstman?! Insidiously corrupts a federal agency through his epic amounts of money, power, rules-lawyering, and overall magnificent bastardry? He makes *every* villain that’s appeared look like complete idiots by comparison!

How do we petition Korsh to keep him around? HOW I ASK? Let him take this one on the chin, and say “this was merely a setback!” in his quest to get revenge on Harvey!

Oh, and yay, things are happy once again outside the apartment. That mock depo was such a cheap shot by the writers. “Oh hey, Rachel’s first on his list.” ANGST BOMB! “Derp, never mind!”

In any case, character review time!

CHARLES MAGNIFICENT BASTARD MOTHERFUCKING FORSTMAN: This guy is freaking epic. Seriously. Bankrolls THREE senators, instates a minion as HEAD OF THE FREAKING SEC, and uses an entire governmental agency to pursue one private firm. Man! That is one bad and badass dude you DON’T want to cross. But I think Harvey may have him this time. I still want to see him continue on this show. He’s too fun, because he goes only after the people who can fight. Hardman made Donna collateral damage, which is when he became a fully-fledged villain. Season 3, *Jessica* effectively was the villain. Season 4? Cahill turned out not to be a villain, Logan should have gotten a knife in the throat for what he did to Rachel—but Forstman? Man, he’s just FUN.

Eric Woodall: tsk tsk tsk. If only you’d listened to Louis Litt’s confession, played it cool, and not made him suspicious. Instead, thanks to *that*, you got caught like a level 1 caterpie. Bought, owned, and sold. See ya. 

Sean Cahill: classic Hero Antagonist the whole time. Here’s a man that didn’t really have it out for Harvey at all—he was honestly just *doing his goddamn job*, and wanted to see justice done. Thumbs up, bro. Never really did any harm, so no foul. Also, “Gentlemen, give me one minute.” I believe that’s the equivalent of the gory discretion shot in Suits. If this were fantasy, you’d see Woodall’s corpse in the next scene.

Jeff Malone: not much to say about him besides “you better not cross Jessica. The real Jessica is the angry Jessica.”

Jessica: the scene with Donna says it all about who she is when the chips are down. A vicious, heartless woman, without a shred of empathy. And if any young woman tries to emulate her ruthlessness instead of Donna’s warmth, I hope anyone shows them the door. A world of good people should not tolerate a monster hiding in a pretty shell like the kind Jessica is. Family. Love. Empathy. Loyalty. Those are the themes of this show—they seem absolutely alien to Jessica, and seem to be the very essence that comprises Donna. I don’t care how nice she can be when things go her way. She’s a vicious woman, and “her” firm would be twice the force it is if *she* weren’t involved in running it. And again, this is yet another episode that she basically did nothing of substance besides be the villain within, making everyone miserable, as though the Category 5 Hurricane Charles isn’t a force enough. Gina Torres may be regal (Cleopatra! Zoe! The voice of mizukage in Naruto! So many other action and geek icons!), but Jessica is absolutely vicious. Not a human being I’d ever wish to find myself around. Oh, and one other thing—just like in season 2, when Jessica fired Donna unilaterally, and took the merger unilaterally, and now fired Louis (UNILATERALLY), this is going to come and bite her and her oh-so-precious firm in the ass. Again. Because every single time she overrules Harvey, it bites her in the ass. You’d think she’d learn by now that her “lieutenant” knows far more about everything than she does. But nope. Ruthless, authoritative, sold-her-humanity-for-her-career, has-nothing-else despot makes yet another decision that involves pulling rank. What else is new?

Donna: essentially the foil to Jessica—no actual authoritative power, but has the power of conscience—which is why I suppose her powers don’t actually *work* on Jessica—because said woman has so little conscience to speak of. But no matter who’s in trouble, Donna would bend over backwards to help them. She’s a living embodiment of everything one can ever want in a human being—warmth, selflessness, love, empathy, kindness, understanding, the list just goes on…and she didn’t even screw up before. The memo was a fraud, and Jessica fell for it then, and just because she’s a despot, used her authoritative power to get Donna to back down, from an argument that Donna was winning. And just like back in season 2, it’s the same damn thing now—everyone wants to do one thing, Jessica wants to do the other, and so, bad things will happen because of it. But as for Donna…she *is* a flawless angel. Now can we make Harvey fall in love with her, please?

Rachel: just all of my awwwwwws for her this episode. Got Mike the burritos, found his photo album, and, well, was basically back to the warm-and-fuzzy voice of conscience that I adore so much. Then again, considering her obvious parallels to Meghan Markle, it’s all too easy to adore Rachel. She’s easily the hardest character to separate from her actress (because of the deliberate efforts to make them similar), and Meghan is just pure goodness incarnate, and Rachel has been for the majority of the time on this show.

Katrina: ahahahaha. So true with the Sopranos analogy. Sharp lady, this one. And her loyalty is fantastic. She’s come so far from the days of getting in Rachel’s face and making that immature screen saver about Mike. I think everyone loves this new Katrina.

Mike: definitely some strokes of brilliance this episode. At the same time, once AGAIN, his stinking emotions cause unnecessary hurt to the one woman he loves. And to all the haters out there: you know the story about porcupines hurting each other with their quills in winter but dying separately? He should read that. And Rachel put it correctly to him—there’ll be bumps in the future, but that gives no right for him to be cruel and vicious. That’s a side of him that wasn’t around in season 1, and I hope he kills that aspect of himself quickly—unless it’s to backstab Jessica. She’s fair game.

Harvey: “sometimes, brothers fight”. Epic. Know what’s also epic? How Harvey got Cahill to scratch his JUSTICE itch. And that at the end of the day, Harvey went to bat for Louis. So at the end of the day, no matter how many times Harvey blows up at someone, the only time he ever really was going to carry anything out was in 2x12, when he blew up at Louis for trying to get him fired. Beyond that, he may act like a jerk, but deep down, he’s firmly a good guy—in stark contrast to that other managing partner, who can act nice, but whose actions rarely if ever have good consequences. If Harvey was in charge, things would be so wonderful.

Louis: Louis’s worst enemy is Louis. Sure, he cleaned up the mess THIS time, but that highlight reel Jessica rattled off? Ouch. Rick Hoffman can’t leave the show, though, so let’s see how the status quo is restored.

That promo: is Mike’s conscience screwing things up yet again? Mike? Wat are u doing? Mike? 

Conclusion: Is there a series greater than Suits? I don`t think sooo!!