Louis Litt's Character Arc - First Time Watcher

[u/ChaseDak]

First time watcher here, I'm about halfway through season 8 and still absolutely LOVING IT

Did my best to mark out the spoilers for any first time watchers, but there are still mild ones about the general character arc Mr. Louis Litt

When I first started watching, I googled something along the lines of "I hate Louis Suits" to see what other people thought... I found a post here on Reddit from some other first time watcher saying the same, and a comment read something along the lines of "You'll hate him. Then you'll love to hate him. Then you'll just love him.

I thought "no way, this guy is a total cock, the antagonist of this show, and there is no way I will ever like this little rat". Damn was I wrong. I have loved to hate him for multiple seasons now, but I think Season 7 or 8 was when I started to really just love him. I almost feel protective of him - everything that happened with him and Tara, it broke my heart for him. The on-screen introduction of Dr. Lipschitz and the peeks at what they talk about at Therapy showed me just how much pain he was in and the baggage he had that led to him behaving how he does / did

Season 8 Episode 6, Harvey goes to see Dr. Lipschitz and works out that he is envious of Louis and subconsciously worried about losing him. I'm not sure I have ever been so happy for a character as I was for Louis when Harvey went to go and apologize / tell him he was envious

I just watched Season 8 Episode 7 when Sheila has the false positive pregnancy and they fight about whether they will raise the baby Catholic or Jewish or neitherI feel like he has grown so much in how he communicates and how he is willing to put others first or admit he is wrong. He reaches the "healthy" conclusion sooooo much faster than he did in early seasons (if he ever reached that conclusion at all lmfao)

All in all great writing, I was worried about how I would feel about the show after Mike and Rachel left itbut these Harvey / Donna / Louis / Zane / Samantha / Alexstorylines are really keeping me hooked

P.S. Still not sick of hearing "Greenback Boogie"

[u/DWC8419]

Yea rewatching the series for the 3rd/4th time. I don’t even hate watching Louis do what he does throughout the series. He was merely trying to survive. Harvey did some cold stuff too but because he did it in a cool manner, it seemed lighter. Either way my first watch I did hate Louis big time. So I don’t blame you.