Suits

We tried giving "Suits" another chance but gave up again in the first episode.  The script writers rely too much on formulae.  The young hero who comes into the law office, pretending to have gone to Harvard Law School, well, we gave him a chance to fake it convincingly.  But we could not stomach his willingness to surrender his integrity, his security, to a childhood friend who as we learn has betrayed him time after time, and, as we know him better, understand that this "friend" is a druggie without scruples as almost all of them are, who yet manages to maintain incredible good looks and perfect skin tone.  That seemed to us as unlikely as the protagonist's repeated inclination to trust and forgive his miscreant boyhood chum.  People who live by their wits trust no one.  His position in the law office is threatened by an ugly fellow--that's also a strange business since everyone in the series except for this one guy is super good looking.  The ugly bozo improbably enough--very very improbably enough--went to Harvard, back in the day when the Ivy League was for good looking Wasps, not somebody whom even liberals would want to put up a wall to exclude from these shores.  The script writers have fastened on the narrative line taken from fairy tale of the enchanted prince who is preyed upon by ugly monsters and we the spectators tremble for this innocent lad beset by powerful Ugly on the one side and seduced by sinister charm and childhood loyalties on the other.  It's all so obvious and he ends up seeming to be such a dope; in the fairy tale he would be the enchanted victim, in real life he is just a dope.  If we the spectators have seen this plot line a million times, we cannot willingly concede that this dimwit does not recognize it himself.  Perhaps it is also the case that we the spectators are a teeny bit bored by the fact that none of these highly educated (except the waif hero who has no college degrees) characters can manage to say anything that suggests even the most minimal attachment to a humanistic culture, or to anything else that suggests the web of human society. But then they are lawyers.   Do I harp on this because I am a retired professor who imagines that everyone slings the academic bullshit with extraordinary finesse?