Suits Review: Privilege (Season 5 Episode 6)

He’s ready to talk.

After watching Harvey go to therapy sessions for numerous episodes, talk about Donna, and all his feelings, he’s finally ready to talk. That’s what the conclusion of this week’s episode of Suits, entitled “Privilege” focuses on.

The episode starts off with McKernon Motors and Samual Tull, so we immediately know this is a personal episode. Suits has taken many chances over the years, but I think it has realized that it does best when it focuses on the people — not the cases. The Harrington’s case was probably an exception, but watching Mike and Harvey fall out, has always been more interesting.

And that’s what this episode does. It focuses on Mike and Louis, and Donna, and Jessica — gosh, we always need more Jessica, and even Soloff.

We finally realize why Soloff is doing what he’s doing. For the past couple of episodes, he’s just come off extremely mean, petty, and rude — and we didn’t know why.

Did he have something against Harvey? Or maybe Jessica? Was he someone secretive from Harvey’s past? Why did he manipulate a whole situation he could hire one of McKernon Motor’s competitor, just so Harvey, Mike and Louis would look bad? Why did he always feel the need to be so antagonizing?

In “Privilege,” we find out, that pretty much, he’s Danial Hardman 2.0. I’m not sure what this means for the storyline. Will Hardman come back, or is Soloff just getting cues from him? Will it be an all out civil war again?

It’d be nice to see Jessica humanized the way they have done so with Harvey this season. She always just comes in, says some sassy lines, and shuts everyone up, or agrees with Harvey. The most vulnerable I’ve ever seen her was when Daniel was around, so I think it’d be great storytelling to see her as a human too. That these untouchable, unbreakable lawyers are still only just human.

Speaking of humanizing people, we see a lot of that in our therapist Paula, and Harvey tonight as well. I like that we see small glimpses of Harvey becoming a bigger man. Like giving people second chances — maybe some who don’t necessarily deserve it, and realizing when he’s wrong. Now, he’s taking Tull’s case — someone who he hasn’t really liked in the past.

What’s more is that they didn’t “fix” Harvey over night. He may be changing, and becoming a better person, but he’s still a lawyer first, and that means doing anything he can for his client — including humiliating his therapist while deposing her. Sure, yes, he does say he felt like crap after, and he does apologize to her, but you know what else he does?

He says he’s finally ready to speak about his mother.

This is such a huge turning point for Harvey, because this has been the reason he hasn’t been able to have healthy relationships. Could this mean that there’s still hope for him and Donna? Even though they don’t work together, can we still see them interact? I feel like my Darvey heart gets just a little bit bigger every episode they don’t talk to each other.

Coincidentally, Donna has a small epiphany in this episode as well. She recognizes that she hasn’t welcomed Gretchen to the office, because she isn’t ready to move on from Harvey. But she finally does, and they even became friends. So while Harvey is working his way to becoming a man who could actually have a relationship with Donna, it seems Donna is moving away from Harvey — even in the slightest fashion. I do hope these crazy kids find their way back to each other. Anything else would tragic.

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Suits airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on USA.

Smriti Jasra

Smriti (a.k.a Sim) is a TV and comic book enthusiast, and has been since the days of Angel and Alias. She watches over 20 shows a week, and her perfect idea of a date is sitting on a couch with some pizza, while having the ultimate debate of Marvel vs. DC. When she’s not live-tweeting her favorite shows or working at her day job, she’s usually writing fan-fiction. Her favorite shows include: Arrow, The 100, Suits, The Flash and Kingdom. Follow her on Twitter: @simjasra