By Mallory Mattingly
SUITS LA couldn’t live up to the hype of the original SUITS, so NBC decided it will not return for a second season.
The show launched in February and starred Stephen Amell, Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg. But despite a three-episode arc featuring the original show’s Harvey Specter and even a visit from Louis Litt, the ratings for SUITS LA were dismal at best, and the show drew mostly negative reviews.
“NBC canceled the show SUITS LA after one season. The legal drama had trouble keeping a steady audience, with ratings barely passing 1 million and little traction on streaming platforms,” Complex posted on Instagram.
Many fans of the original series sounded off in the comments, expressing their support of the cancelation.
“This is the correct response. BRING THE ORIGINAL SUITS BACK,” one person wrote.
“It wasn’t the actors, it was definitely the writing. OG suits had a great storyline. The reboot needed its own unique identity with an interesting & fresh take. I was rooting for them but I stopped watching after 3 episodes,” another viewer said.
Someone else explained, “I couldn’t figure out if it was the writing or the acting that was the issue, but just wasn’t working.”
“They failed with trying to replicate the same characters and then bringing in old ones so we can compare?! But why? Harvey didn’t need to be here till SZN 2 or 3. Dude in arrow is amazing in arrow though, excited to keep him there,” another commented.
NBCUniversal’s President of Program Planning Strategy Jeff Bader spoke on the show’s recent cancellation, stating, “It’s so hard to talk about shows and which ones we’re bringing back.”
“SUITS: LA had a very short run, but it really has not resonated [with audiences in] the way we thought it would,” the president told reporters. “There can be many, many reasons why it hasn’t resonated, but it’s just not showing the potential to grow for us in the future, unfortunately. Those are the decisions we had to make.”
More shows also ended up on NBCUniversal’s chopping block, including THE IRRATIONAL, NIGHT COURT and LOPEZ VS. LOPEZ.
“We had to look at the performance of the shows, both on linear and on digital,” Bader explained. “We had to see the ones that looked like they had growth potential in the future. We’re looking at how stable they are in their linear performance, how stable they are on digital which ones are growing, which ones are declining. And we had to make some hard decisions.”
While SUITS LA didn’t make it, the SUITS franchise still boasts a strong fanbase, so perhaps another spinoff will happen in the future.
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