Suits are in fashion (again) in the United States. No new episodes have appeared. Not that it’s available on streaming for the first time. It’s not like another person in his cast is going to have a royal wedding. What happens is, as has happened on other occasions with series already broadcast, the Netflix factor: the content platform once again has the broadcast rights in its original market and, suddenly, it dominates the country’s viewing list.
The Nielsen company, which analyzes streaming consumption data outside of the services’ press releases, reported that the lawyer series had accumulated 3.1 billion minutes viewed during the last week of June. It was over 2.3 billion minutes from the previous week, when it had been released on Netflix and the data showed that audiences were starting the series from the pilot episode.
There, Netflix accessed the first eight seasons of Suits in June, which it shares with NBCUniversal’s Peacock platform, which already had the episodes in its catalog in addition to the ninth and final season. With this data, Suits has the record for the most successful acquired series on the platform, exceeding the 650 million minutes that Manifest obtained at the time, and for which the platform was convinced to resurrect the series and produce a final season to close the plots. .
The success of a finished series like Suits, which aired between 2011 and 2019 on the USA Network cable channel, cannot be said to be a surprise. The series that the platforms buy to have a wardrobe background sometimes become real narcotics for customers: you just have to see that fictions like Grey’s Anatomy or Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, with two decades of history and more than 20 episodes per season, they work wonderfully in the streaming era, characterized by series with short seasons and little run.
But it must be recognized that, taking into account that it had previously been available on streaming services, in addition to its resurgence with Meghan Markle’s wedding to Prince Harry, this phenomenon by a classic television model, focused on the dynamics of firm with Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Rafferty, Meghan Markle, Rick Hoffman and Gina Torres is turning heads. Gene Klein, one of its executive producers, has even said that he hopes to get a call soon to resurrect Suits in some way.
“In this era of reboots and meetings and all these things, I expect a call at some point,” he acknowledged to the TVLine portal. This is a thought that he communicated to Aaron Korsch, the creator of Suits, although they have not yet received the call in question. With Korsch, in fact, they have commented that this recurring obsession of the public is “crazy” and Klein himself has his theories as to why the public is once again paying attention to the firm with Harvey Specter.
On the one hand, there is the Netflix factor, which has so many subscribers that it allows this kind of phenomenon when it introduces a new title and highlights it on the cover. On the other, “there is also something in the series that makes it reviewable” and the public feels comfortable when they enter their legal world.
Of course, he acknowledges that it would be very difficult to assemble the original team again, although he is of the opinion that there would be a good predisposition on the part of the actors because, after working together for so many seasons, friendships were created on the set of filming. The problem? The scheduling problems of the actors, who are involved in other projects, not to mention that he assumes that Markle could not return in any way because he turned the page on the world of acting.
