Chicago Redshirt September 5, 2018 Share September 5, 2018 Harvey helps Samantha settle an old score; Louis faces a hurdle on the path to fatherhood. Link to comment
Carolina Girl September 7, 2018 Share September 7, 2018 I was appalled that this show would have Gretchen going to another secretary at another firm and asking her to falsify receipt of a document to get her ass out of trouble. Now don't get me wrong. I LOVE Gretchen. But the scenario put forward was completely implausible. First of all, any legal secretary worth their salt has the delivery company CONFIRM the delivery of a document before they leave the office for the day. I have service documents all the time. If I haven't heard back from the company by a certain time, I'm on the phone with them confirming it, especially time sensitive documents. Not only that, if the document wasn't there for pickup, why didn't the receptionist call Gretchen with"hey, there's a messenger here for a pickup but I don't have anything." But to think a legal secretary would even THINK of going to her counterpart at another firm and asking her to falsify the receipt records of a document is unthinkable. Consider: remember how annoyed the firm was that the signature page had not been delivered? Can you imagine the trouble that secretary would have been in if she'd said "oh, no it came in yesterday and I forgot to give it to you." Especially, since I would assume the individual who was waiting for that signature page alerted everything that he was expecting it and to deliver it to him immediately upon receipt. I can't with this show anymore. I think I'm out. Especially when they made Gretchen look dishonest. 7 Link to comment
Orbert September 10, 2018 Share September 10, 2018 Yeah, I was glad to finally get a story line that focused on Gretchen, but then the story itself kinda sucked. Up until now, she was one of the few truly decent people. I guess she's still a decent person, but asking someone else to falsify information to call in some kind of "inherited favor" was really bad. Maybe the idea was to show how desperate she was? I don't know. The Louis story wasn't any better. I guess we're supposed to see how Louis has risen above his high school mentality, and can put grudges aside for the sake of future paternity, which is really noble. But I always root for the bully to get his comeuppance, and there was none. Louis did the guy's homework for a year, and he doesn't even remember him? I was hoping for some way for Louis to get his revenge that didn't jeopardize anything with Sheila, but apparently there was no such solution. The kid playing high-school Louis was great, though, I'll give him that. He had the mannerisms and expressions down. 1 Link to comment
Chicago Redshirt September 11, 2018 Author Share September 11, 2018 There was so much contrivance in this episode. There's a big deal that needs a signature. But not just any signature. For some reason it doesn't need a signature from anyone from the client's company. Or Alex's signature (which if for some reason someone from ZSL needed to sign should be good enoughn since he is a senior partner). And not just any named partner. Just Louis, so we can wrap Gretchen in. (BTW, do Robert and Harvey actually have their own secretaries that we've seen?) And there has to be an emergency deadline to get this signature (Did Alex procrastinate on getting the signature, or was it just some weird condition of the deal that it was struck and the signature was neeeded in a day or something?) And Louis is off babymaking, so it's not as simple as walking into his office and just getting the signature. And Gretchen doesn't do the belt-and-suspenders approach of not just couriering over the signed document, but sending a faxed version and/or a scanned version over e-mail. As for Gretchen trying to guilt-trip a secretary to lie for her...ugh. As for the Samantha/Harvey plot, I wish the writers would stop acting like clients are poker chips. A lawyer can decide to drop a client, but can't force the client to take on another particular lawyer. And the plan Samantha had to prosecute a case against a company to get that company's business....just doesn't make sense. 3 Link to comment
dahling September 11, 2018 Share September 11, 2018 (edited) Gretchen screwed up, tried to get another secretary (a stranger) to voluntarily take the fall, and wondered why that didn't work? Did I understand right that then Gretchen went to Samantha and asked Samantha to exact revenge on that secretary? What? Samantha buried evidence on a client she "knew" wasn't guilty - and she would do it again? Good thing the Constitution guarantees us a trial by a one-person jury of our defense lawyer. Oh wait, it doesn't say that at all. What? I think I'm out. I just have to figure out how to reprogram my DVR. This show is nothing like the show it was in the first couple of seasons. The only thing it has in common is some of the same actors. Edited September 11, 2018 by dahling 2 Link to comment
chitowngirl September 11, 2018 Share September 11, 2018 When Samantha told Harvey that her clients are none of his business I’m surprised he didn’t rip her a new one. 1 Link to comment
yourmomiseasy September 14, 2018 Share September 14, 2018 On 9/10/2018 at 2:33 PM, Orbert said: Yeah, I was glad to finally get a story line that focused on Gretchen, but then the story itself kinda sucked. Up until now, she was one of the few truly decent people. I guess she's still a decent person, but asking someone else to falsify information to call in some kind of "inherited favor" was really bad. Maybe the idea was to show how desperate she was? I don't know. The Louis story wasn't any better. I guess we're supposed to see how Louis has risen above his high school mentality, and can put grudges aside for the sake of future paternity, which is really noble. But I always root for the bully to get his comeuppance, and there was none. Louis did the guy's homework for a year, and he doesn't even remember him? I was hoping for some way for Louis to get his revenge that didn't jeopardize anything with Sheila, but apparently there was no such solution. The kid playing high-school Louis was great, though, I'll give him that. He had the mannerisms and expressions down. Not only that, but wasn't it his bio homework? And he was mad at Louis to begin with because Louis ratted him out for cheating in bio. Call me crazy, but I don't want to go to a doctor that I did the bio homework for and that I personally know cheated in bio. 4 Link to comment
statsgirl September 14, 2018 Share September 14, 2018 Not to mention someone who doesn't remember who you are after you did his homework for him for a year. He can't be nearly as smart as his reputation makes out. 2 Link to comment
Chicago Redshirt September 14, 2018 Author Share September 14, 2018 Is it a possibility that the doctor did remember Louis but just was pretending not to to avoid awkwardness over having cheated in HS bio, or something? 1 Link to comment
statsgirl September 14, 2018 Share September 14, 2018 He said something about having been a bad person when he was younger so he may have remembered Louis or maybe there were so many kids he bullied it was an all-purpose whitewash. I didn't hear an apology. Biois the one subject you don't want your doctor to have got someone else to do his work for him. 1 Link to comment
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