#suits la

that is... huh. interesting take.

while i'm sure it would engage a certain percentage of the vintage suits audience, i personally would not be the slightest bit interested in a movie about the daily life of family specter, occasionally featuring mike ross and probably oblique references to rachel zane. unless it's about the inevitable collapse of harvey and donna's marriage, i simply do not give a shit. of course, said marriage collapse might involve a bitter custody battle and/or desperate attempts from either side to curry the child's favor, but...absent father is certainly another route.

the difficulty here starts with believably portraying harvey as a deadbeat dad. i actually do think it can be done; i've said before that i don't think harvey is particularly interested in having children, or at the very least it's not super high on his to-do list, and while this is certainly not the guaranteed outcome, i would buy it if he and donna ended up with a child and he responded by throwing himself headfirst into his work.

given the portrayal in suits la, this might even be the reality that the writers (probably) accidentally walked themselves into. all we know about harvey's personal life post-suits is that he's willing to drop everything at a moment's notice to haul off to los angeles to help out some guy he knew tangentially for a few years way before mike ever came into the picture, leaving donna and little what's-his-name back in seattle to fend for themselves. and on top of that, specter jr.'s only message (that we know of) to his father is "when are you going to call," which is not exactly the surest sign of a healthy parent-child bond.

now, i'm not arguing that harvey is maliciously neglectful. but having a child is a big, huge responsibility that i don't think he's especially keen to take on, so when he does end up doing so, under whatever circumstances that happened, i do find it believable that he'd just sort of end up leaving most, or all of the hard labor to donna while he goes off and spends literally all of his time making money, and more or less parenting remotely. i know for a fact that any seattle-era suits movie that might end up getting made (which it won't, but if it did) would never in a million years feature that kind of reality, even as a subtle nod to harvey taking after his own father in the...fatherhood department, but, i mean. i think it could work.

i have only watched the original but i'm curious about what people think. i didn't add 'Pearson' because Jessica/Gina is in a league of her own.