Why won’t there be a Suits LA Season 2? Reasons explored

Suits LA, the much-hyped spin-off series to NBC's hit legal drama Suits, could not replicate the success of its predecessor and was cancelled by the network even before airing its season finale.

NBC cancelled the spin-off series after Season 1 and this was the last we heard of Stephen Amell's Ted Black. While the show tried its best to resonate with the audience, even bringing back Gabriel Macht's Harvey Specter and Rick Hoffman's Louis Litt from Suits, it could not make its place within the audience's hearts.

While Harvey's return was much hyped and fans even anticipated the character's return, his presence and appearance on the show felt underwhelming, and his chemistry with Amell was nothing like Harvey and Mike's.

Since the show could not connect with the audience, which was evident in its declining numbers and showed no growth potential in the future, NBC decided to cancel Suits LA after Season 1.

More on Suits LA cancellation in our story.

Suits LA failed to resonate with the audience like its parent show

Comparing Suits LA to its parent series might be unfair, because the original series became a television mammoth in 2023 after it was made available on Netflix. However, even if the parent series is left aside, the spin-off could not resonate with the audience and NBC saw no potential for a Season 2.

Talking to TV Line, NBC’s president of programming strategy, Jeff Bader, explained the network's decision to shelve Suits LA:

“Suits (LA) has had a very short run, but it really just has not resonated the way we thought it would. There can be many, many reasons — people are speculating why it hasn’t resonated, but it’s just not really showing the potential to grow for us in the future, unfortunately.”

Talking about this 'hard decision', he added:

“We have to look at the performance of the shows both on linear and on digital. We have to see the ones that look like they have growth potential in the future. So we’re looking at how stable they are in their linear performance, how stable they are on digital, which ones are growing, which ones are declining — and we had to make some hard decisions.”

While Suits LA bought many players from the original series, it did little to boost its performance. It had a rocky start, with many audience feeling the pilot was fast-paced and lacked depth. While the creators and the network thought the show would eventually find its footing with the audience, it did not happen and with each episode, the show slipped further away from the audience.

While the story was set in LA, unlike Suits' New York, the creators envisioned that the show would become a regional variant of the parent series, but it did not happen.

Amell's Ted Black's backstory surely had potential, but the show's frustratingly slow pace in revealing it to the fullest did not work for the audience. By the time the show fully realized its potential, the audience had already lost interest.

While Suits LA Season 2 is unlikely to find a spot on NBC's streaming partner Peacock, miracles do happen. The chance is very slim, as Bader already revealed that the show did no wonders even on streaming. The spin-off's future seems to be set in stone.

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