Summary Suits season 9’s final scene was a reminder of how much the show had changed since its pilot, particularly regarding Harvey Specter’s role in the story. Suits struggled a lot after the exits of Gina Torres, Patrick J. Adams, and Meghan Markle, but the series ended on a high note thanks to an arguably perfect finale.
Even though Mike was around for three episodes, Suits ’ final season was still mostly told from Harvey’s perspective. However, as the show went on, Mike’s photographic memory gimmick became the least interesting thing about Suits. Likewise, every time one of the Suits characters found the truth about Mike, the Harvard lie became less and less interesting. By the time Mike was arrested for fraud, virtually every main character on the show already knew he had not gone to law school.
Additionally, Mike’s story had already come to an end in Suits season 7. By the time Patrick J. Adams left the show, Mike had already paid for his crimes, become a real lawyer, and started his own firm to help those in need. The Mike Ross who appears in Suits season 9 is what he had always dreamed of being – a lawyer who uses his talents to help those who could not afford the best closers in the city. Mike and Rachel’s marriage was Suits’ “first series finale” in a sense.
Suits Was At Its Best When It Was About Mike & Harvey Harvey and Mike completed each other. Harvey Specter may have been a fantastic character who managed to get the show going after so many protagonists had already left, but he was always more fun to watch whenever he was interacting with Mike and vice versa. The same applies to the entire show – Suits was at its best when both Mike and Harvey were around.