>”Anything that ends not on your terms is a failure. Ultimately, I think that the blame rests with me. Whatever problem you have with the show, because I think that there were issues, it’s my job to solve those, to smooth them over and to gloss them up with some type of performance or something that, tangible or otherwise, covers up those mistakes. Because you do something that is magnetic, that is charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.”
>”I didn’t find anything ultimately with Ted Black, that character, that translated, that smoothed those things over, that gave us a chance to keep going.”
NoTitleChamp on
Bit too hard on himself, it was a bad idea from the start. Fans liked the characters, not the wider “universe” of Suits.
Coolman_Rosso on
I mean wasn’t the entire thing just an attempt by NBC to capitalize on the original show’s sudden resurgence on streaming?
illini02 on
My take on that show is they made it far too serious to start with.
It started with a murder case. They also had a dead, mentally challenged brother. As well as a bunch of relationships that weren’t exactly clear.
By the end of the first season, I do think it had found its groove. All of that may have worked better with a binge release model, but I don’t think week to week worked in its favor.
gldoorii on
Huh..didn’t even know it had come out already
AKAkorm on
It was the creator and writer’s faults. They took the worst aspects of the original show (the later seasons when all characters became less likable due to always being in the middle of extremely overplayed drama) and started with that. Not to mention inane creative decisions like a partner at an entertainment law firm not knowing even the basics about what her clients do.
If they made this a fun buddy-buddy show with Amell and McDermitt or Greenberg that evoked memories of early Harvey and Mike, this could have worked. But it was doomed from the get go by abysmal writing.
xavPa-64 on
Didn’t this guy make some anti-union comments during the writers/actors strikes?
I-Have-Mono on
Sorry, I didn’t think this guy could carry this show and I hate that I was right.
EnzoMcFly_jr on
Fair guess. He’s the reason I didn’t bother watching the pilot.
a_View_Finder on
You have failed this spinoff.
eggflip1020 on
I don’t love Stephen Amell admittedly, but this isn’t on him. This show had horrendous writing and they buried it on Peacock, which nobody has.
No_Truth4137 on
Suits was just another lawyer show.
The appeal was the characters, the chemistry, the connection and heart and soul.
Its the same with most spinoffs that are character driven. The office is another great example of a spinoff failure.
For a spinoff to work it has to continue to star main characters (Young Sheldon, Better Call Saul (a prequel admittedly) and things like that and it doesn’t always work (Joey, Pearson).
GirthIgnorer on
I feel like Stephen Amell thinks Chris Pratt is a political office and he’s campaigning to win once the current guys out of office
martinkem on
The man spoke in CAPS all the time in addition to having such a thin storyline to go with. They should have focused on the clients at least for the first season.
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Amell:
>”Anything that ends not on your terms is a failure. Ultimately, I think that the blame rests with me. Whatever problem you have with the show, because I think that there were issues, it’s my job to solve those, to smooth them over and to gloss them up with some type of performance or something that, tangible or otherwise, covers up those mistakes. Because you do something that is magnetic, that is charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.”
>”I didn’t find anything ultimately with Ted Black, that character, that translated, that smoothed those things over, that gave us a chance to keep going.”
Bit too hard on himself, it was a bad idea from the start. Fans liked the characters, not the wider “universe” of Suits.
I mean wasn’t the entire thing just an attempt by NBC to capitalize on the original show’s sudden resurgence on streaming?
My take on that show is they made it far too serious to start with.
It started with a murder case. They also had a dead, mentally challenged brother. As well as a bunch of relationships that weren’t exactly clear.
By the end of the first season, I do think it had found its groove. All of that may have worked better with a binge release model, but I don’t think week to week worked in its favor.
Huh..didn’t even know it had come out already
It was the creator and writer’s faults. They took the worst aspects of the original show (the later seasons when all characters became less likable due to always being in the middle of extremely overplayed drama) and started with that. Not to mention inane creative decisions like a partner at an entertainment law firm not knowing even the basics about what her clients do.
If they made this a fun buddy-buddy show with Amell and McDermitt or Greenberg that evoked memories of early Harvey and Mike, this could have worked. But it was doomed from the get go by abysmal writing.
Didn’t this guy make some anti-union comments during the writers/actors strikes?
Sorry, I didn’t think this guy could carry this show and I hate that I was right.
Fair guess. He’s the reason I didn’t bother watching the pilot.
You have failed this spinoff.
I don’t love Stephen Amell admittedly, but this isn’t on him. This show had horrendous writing and they buried it on Peacock, which nobody has.
Suits was just another lawyer show.
The appeal was the characters, the chemistry, the connection and heart and soul.
Its the same with most spinoffs that are character driven. The office is another great example of a spinoff failure.
For a spinoff to work it has to continue to star main characters (Young Sheldon, Better Call Saul (a prequel admittedly) and things like that and it doesn’t always work (Joey, Pearson).
I feel like Stephen Amell thinks Chris Pratt is a political office and he’s campaigning to win once the current guys out of office
The man spoke in CAPS all the time in addition to having such a thin storyline to go with. They should have focused on the clients at least for the first season.