Some fun news has been released for fans of the original Suits series. Gabriel Macht, who played the brash and suave super lawyer Harvey Specter on the original series, will reprise his role on the upcoming offshoot, Suits: L.A. in a three-episode arc.
Since Suits: L.A. was announced a year ago on the heels of the original series’ streaming resurgence on Netflix, there has been talk about original cast members appearing in the follow-up. NBC executives have hinted at that possibility, with most Suits alums publicly saying that they would do it if Aaron Korsh, creator of both the original and the spinoff, called them.
Harvey Specter and the lead character in Suits: L.A., Ted Black (Stephen Amell), share the same background, as they both were former prosecutors in New York. In a short Instagram teaser video (you can watch it below), he referred to Harvey helping “an old friend in need.”
Macht’s stint is a guest arc and is not a precursor to him potentially joining Suits LA full-time. Landing him for the spinoff is a big get as it marks Macht’s first return to the screen since Suits. After his nine-season run on the USA series ended in 2019, he took a break from acting as he moved with his family to the UK.
When we last saw Harvey Specter in the Suits series finale, he left his career as a corporate lawyer and, along with his wife/executive Donna, moved to Seattle to join Mike Ross’ (Patrick J. Adams) legal clinic.
Suits: L.A centers on Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself by representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career.
“Ted is surrounded by a group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other and they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All this happens while the show slowly unravels the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved to start all over. Starring alongside Amell are Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg.
I loved the original series, and Gabriel Macht was so good in it! It will be fun to see his character return (hopefully with Donna!), and see how this next chapter in the Suits universe plays out. Suits: L.A. is set to premiere on February 23rd.
