By Ankr Kayastha ’15

If you haven’t watched “Suits” yet, you are making a wrong decision in life. The show began its fourth season on March 6 as a continuation of the series and since 2011, it has become one of the biggest hit-shows on USA Network’s channel. This is probably due to it having one of the greatest plot lines in the history of modern television.

“Suits” is a drama-filled show that encompasses the Wall Street life of lawyers at a top-tier law firm. It may sound boring at first, but trust me the plot gets better. The two main characters of the show are Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) and Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). Mike Ross is a young college dropout who has come from a hard past and has struggled with drug abuse. His difficult past began with a car accident leading to the death of both of his parents, leaving him in the care of his grandma. Later in life, mixing with bad friends and bad drugs, his life falls in a swirling circle of despair until fate pushes him into the office of New York’s best closer (that’s legal jargon for a good lawyer). One more thing about Mike Ross, though, is that he has an eidetic memory. That’s right, a photographic memory.

Before becoming a makeshift lawyer, he made his living by taking the tests of strangers and passing them with flying colors. Along with his photographic memory, his intellect is truly unmatched, and he even passed the Bar exam on a bet with a friend. Ask him a page number in a play from Shakespeare and he will recite the page out loud, verbatim from memory as if he had the book right in front of him. Basically, Specter sees Ross’ superior intellect and hires him on the spot, regardless of not having been to law school. Did I mention the firm that he works for only accepts Harvard graduates? The entire series thrives on keeping his secret a secret, and solving cases that are otherwise too hard to win without two geniuses (one lawyer, one half-lawyer) working together side by side.

The show begins melodramatically with too much detail on the romantic relationships in the show. Sure, that is interesting and all, but the main part of the show is hiding a lawyer that shouldn’t be a lawyer. By the second episode, however, the show fixes its mistake and maintains its intellectuality and cleverness. Start watching the show and the suspense will reel you in, but you have to be tolerant of law terminology. “Suits” is worth a shot, and if by chance you get hooked onto it, let your good taste in shows and strong intellectuality be the reason.