Suits LA Video: Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter Meets Ted Black in Contentious First Introduction
It seems Harvey Specter and Ted Black weren’t always friendly.
In a promo for next Sunday’s Suits LA, Gabriel Macht reprises his role as the charming lawyer from the original USA Network drama, and he and Stephen Amell’s character are off to a contentious start.
First, Harvey corrects Ted’s drink order, then he asks, “Would you like to play it with me, or would you like to play it against me?” (Perhaps he’s referring to the prosecutors’ league baseball team that creator Aaron Korsh told TVLine both men were a part of during their days in New York.)
“Why you think I couldn’t take you?” Ted counters.
Macht’s three-episode arc will kick off Sunday, March 16 (at 9/8c on NBC) in the flashback storyline, when “the danger of going against a mob boss sends Ted to an old friend,” per the official synopsis.
“It’s just like in the middle of an episode, you’re going to have a flashback scene, and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, there’s Harvey!'” Korsh previewed. “We tell the story of what their relationship was in the past in the first couple of episodes he’s in, and then in the third episode, he shows up in the present day, and they take care of some unfinished business.”
As for what made Harvey the right character to bring in as Suits LA’s first original Suits alum, Korsh told TVLine that “he was the clear and obvious choice.”
“Ted was a prosecutor in New York at the time that Harvey was working in New York, so they, clearly, would’ve known each other,” Korsh explained. “Now, they didn’t work in the same office. Ted was a U.S. Attorney, but Harvey was in the District Attorney’s office. So what I came up with was they both played in this prosecutors’ league baseball team. So it just made sense that they would know each other. To put other people in would be just much harder to figure out.”
That said, it was recently announced that Rick Hoffman will also reprise his Suits role as the neurotic Louis Litt. His episode and Macht’s arc are not expected to overlap.
What are your thoughts on Harvey’s Suits LA debut? Hit the comments!
Can’t wait to see how these episodes turn out to be! Gabriel Macht has been missed.
We will stop watching the show if Harvey Isn’t on it. The show so far is not good very confusing as to who is who. Not very good actors either. We only keep watching to see Harvey.
Is this like the “royal we”, Martha? Or do you have six different personalities inside of your head 😂
Suits LA? Not totally sold on it. I loved the original Suits, awesome series. Should just leave it at that and not try to make a knock off show. And using the same intro song too, really?
I was very unimpressed with the pilot, didn’t care to come back for episodes 2 and 3. I suppose I will watch the Harvey arc. But as a fan of Found, The Irrational, and The Hunting Party, don’t want Suits LA taking a renewal that could go to any of those shows.
I am pretty sure The Irrational is getting cancelled , The last episode is airing on 25th March which isn’t a good sign for 18-22 episode shows..
The Hunting Party is now struggling against repeats from the other networks on Mondays
So happy Harvey is back!
Suits LA seems to be going down the road of having guest star cameos by cult faves. I can see them rely on that guest star power more than decent storylines & great characters.
Black is no Specter. The show still feels like a Temu rip off of the original.
The LA Suits needs more cameos of the originals. Also, there is too much info crammed into the LA series. The original was easier to keep up with and there was much more humor that made it enjoyable!
The problem with the series is it was planned as a stand alone show and then was made into a Suits show. So it’s really not very good.
They should have made a real spinoff with one character from the original and the rest of the cast is new.
This just highlights that Amell just doesn’t have the charisma of Macht. I was looking forward to this show, but it’s just all angry and tense and yelling and just blah. At least in the OG there were good relationships and friendliness amidst the competition, but the only highlight here is the budding friendship with Erica and Leah.
I am so looking forward to Suits LA and seeing Gabriel Macht!
I became a fan of Gabrial when he played in American Outlaws. Then
came Harvey Spector!!! In all those suits! I am really glad that the character of Louis Litt is coming back as well