“Without me you wouldn’t even know where to look.”
This is Meghan Markle giving her love interest a good dressing down.
In this case, however, her glassy-eyed rage is not directed at a supposedly under-pecked Harry, but instead at her co-star, Mike (played by Patrick J Adams, who has all the macho heft of a daffodil), in Suits.
The TV legal drama, which first aired a decade ago and ran for nine Steel and Glass seasons, has been strangely picked up by the BBC as it has been available on Netflix for over a year, making it the most streamed show of 2023. .
Meghan Markle got her big break when she joined the cast of Suits in July 2011
The BBC picked up Suits even though it had already been available on Netflix for over a year, making it the most streamed show of 2023
Meghan, who plays Rachel Zane, tries her best, but as one reviewer noted when the BBC announced its scoop, “Underneath all the clever dialogue there isn’t much real depth.”
The Suits wedding scene in which Meghan’s character Rachel says “I do.”
Meghan was in Suits before she married into the royal family, but she only became famous in Britain when she met Prince Harry – and ‘paraded through the gardens of Kensington Palace in a cream coat’
We all know Meghan was in Suits before she married into the royal family (well, we know now – I’d never heard of Meghan until she paraded through the gardens of Kensington Palace in a cream coat.)
And it is no longer a requirement for royal brides to never have had a life, a previous husband or even a paid job.
It’s not even particularly terrible that the Duchess of Sussex is on screen in her bra. Have fictional sex! We are all mature enough to separate facts from friction.
No, my problem with Suits is that it’s humorless nonsense, although we can’t blame Meghan for that.
She must have taken the job on a pilot basis.
These series are always a gamble. I’m sure that when Meghan was cast in the role of Rachel Zane, the paralegal with a pencil skirt and a huge chip on her shoulder, since she didn’t go to Harvard, she saw it as an opportunity to be a strong black woman to portray. who takes no prisoners, a feminist confident enough to expose her Victoria’s Secrets.
She would not have been able to develop any character or storylines and, before meeting Harry, was no doubt happy to be tied into a contract with a reliable, lucrative salary.
The arrival of Suits soon to air on the BBC iplayer won’t help the rest of the Windsors – and will only reinforce the fact that our royal family has been turned into a compelling soap opera in the vein of Dynasty.
When Meghan and Catherine emerged to greet mourners ahead of the Queen’s funeral, were you waiting for them to start wrestling before falling into a lake in Windsor Park, a la Alexis and Krystle?
Suits simply cannot be compared to the work of another actress who became a royal in, for example, Rear Window or High Society.
The quality of those films only added luster to the dusty, largely unknown Grimaldi family into which Grace Kelly had married.
Those Oscar-winning roles on the big screen gave her a touch of class, even though she quit acting by accepting Prince Rainier’s millions.
The bald (sorry, Haz) fact is that Suits is heavy, with complicated storylines and business chicanes: LA Law is not.
Sadly, there’s none of the loveable idiocy of an Ally McBeal.
Rachel Zane is as prickly as a porcupine: “Do you think this is brown all year round?” she snaps.
She always threatens to sue anyone who disparages her. If I had been Harry and shared a family subscription to Netflix, despite the fact that she looks fantastic on screen, I would have walked a country mile.
He should have worried that the lack of humor, even an ounce of self-awareness, was not in fact a brilliant piece of Method acting. She was just playing herself.
Meghan tries her best, but as one reviewer noted when the BBC announced its scoop, “Underneath all the clever dialogue there isn’t much real depth.”
To me, she has all the dramatic nuances of something King Charles might plant to tackle climate change. She tries valiantly to convey, as Dorothy Parker put it, “The range of emotions from A to B.”
Had the Sussexes remained as senior working royals, the BBC would not have touched Suits with a barge: screening it would have been tantamount to broadcasting the final season of The Crown straight after the King’s Christmas message.
I imagine that when Meghan heard this news at home in Montecito, she must have been thrilled at what she will see as a bit of corporate, mainstream validation.
Meghan’s real wedding was a little more prominent and took place in Windsor, not on screen…
I do not agree with it.
The BBC just wants to attract female viewers who are tired of the endless sport on our terrestrial channels and need a spot of mind-numbing retro rogering in the stationery cupboard…
After giving myself an ice headache watching all 134 episodes, up to the scene where Rachel marries Zane, I can reveal on YouTube that her highlights are only 12 minutes long.
If you really have a life.