“You wouldn’t even know where to look without me.”
This is Meghan Markle giving her love interest a good dressing down.
In this case, however, his glassy-eyed ire is directed not at a supposedly humiliated Harry, but at his co-star, Mike (played by Patrick J. Adams, who has all the macho heft of a daffodil), in Suits.
The television legal drama, which first aired a decade ago and ran for nine seasons about steel and glass, was acquired by the BBC in a curious move, given that it has been available on Netflix for over a year, becoming the show most reproduced of 2023. .
Meghan Markle got her big break when she joined the cast of Suits in July 2011.
The BBC has acquired Suits even though it has been available on Netflix for more than a year, becoming the most watched program of 2023.
Meghan, playing Rachel Zane, does her best but, as one critic commented when the BBC announced its scoop: “Behind all the clever dialogue there’s not much real depth.”
The Suits wedding scene in which Rachel, Meghan’s character, says ‘I do’
Meghan wore Suits before marrying into the Royal Family, but only became known in the UK when she met Prince Harry and “paraded in a cream coat through the gardens of Kensington Palace.”
We all know that Meghan wore suits before she married into the Royal Family (well, now we know: I’d never heard of Meghan until she paraded around Kensington Palace Gardens in a cream coat).
And it is no longer a prerequisite for real brides to have never had a life, a previous husband, or even gainful employment.
It’s not even particularly horrible that the Duchess of Sussex is seen in a bra on screen. Having fake sex! We have all grown up enough to separate facts from friction.
No, my problem with Suits is that it’s humorless trash, although we can’t blame Meghan for that.
He will have accepted the job thanks to the strength of a pilot.
These series are always a bet. I’m sure that when she was cast in the role of Rachel Zane, the pencil-skirt-wearing paralegal who has a major grudge, since she hadn’t gone to Harvard, Meghan saw it as an opportunity to play a strong black woman. that she takes no prisoners, a feminist confident enough to expose her Victoria’s Secrets.
She won’t have been able to develop characters or story arcs, and she was no doubt happy, before she met Harry, to be tied to a contract with a lucrative and reliable salary.
The arrival of Suits on the BBC iplayer in the near future will do nothing for the rest of the Windsors, and will only reinforce the fact that our Royal Family has become a compelling Dynasty-like soap opera.
Were you expecting, when Meghan and Catherine came out to greet mourners before the Queen’s funeral, for them to start wrestling before falling into a lake in Windsor Park, Alexis and Krystle style?
Suits simply isn’t on par with the work of another actress-turned-royalty in, say, Rear Window or High Society.
The quality of those films only added gloss to the stuffy and almost unknown Grimaldi family that Grace Kelly had married into.
Those Oscar-winning big-screen roles gave him a veneer of class, even though, upon accepting Prince Rainier’s millions, he retired from acting.
The obvious fact (sorry, Haz) is that Suits is leaden, with convoluted plots and corporate chicanery: LA Law is not.
Unfortunately, there’s none of Ally McBeal’s likeable giddiness.
Rachel Zane is as picky as a porcupine: ‘Do you think this is a year-round tan?’ she blurts out.
She is always threatening to sue anyone who disparages her. If I had been Harry, sharing a family subscription to Netflix, even though it looks amazing on screen, I would have run a mile across the countryside.
He should have worried that the lack of humor, of even a hint of self-awareness, wasn’t actually a brilliant piece of Method acting. She was simply playing herself.
Meghan does her best, but, as one critic commented when the BBC announced its scoop: “Behind all the clever dialogue there’s not much real depth.”
To me, it has all the dramatic overtones of something King Charles might plant to tackle climate change. He valiantly attempts to convey, as Dorothy Parker said, “the range of emotions from A to B.”
Had the Sussexes remained working royals, the BBC would not have touched Suits with a barge pole: screening it would have been equivalent to broadcasting the final season of The Crown directly after the King’s Christmas message.
I imagine that upon hearing this news at home in Montecito, Meghan must have been excited by what she will see as a piece of mainstream, corporate validation.
Meghan’s real wedding was a bit more high-profile and took place in Windsor, not on screen…
I disagree.
The BBC simply wants to attract female viewers who are tired of endless sport on our terrestrial channels and who need a bit of mind-numbing retro gamification in the stationery cupboard…
Having given myself an ice cream headache watching all 134 episodes, up to the scene where Rachel Zane gets married, I can reveal that its highlights take up just 12 minutes on YouTube.
If you really have a life.