Suits, one of the most celebrated television shows of all time was a result of the previous writers’ strike of 2007-2008. The show’s creator Aaron Korsh had an incredible backstory behind the popular legal drama that originally aired on USA Network.
From stepping into the industry as being writer’s assistant for eight years, Korsh had to overcome several setbacks but it hit him hard when his first job as a staff writer in Notes From the Underbelly met with an unfortunate fate. The show was canceled due to the writers’ strike of 2007-2008. But without the strike, Suits may not have seen the light of day.
Aaron Korsh’s Suits Born Out of Previous Writers’ Strike
When the strike hit, Aaron Korsh had a career crisis, and his desperate attempt to bounce back led to the formation of the brilliant show. “So I wrote this script. I had never written an hour-long script before, I was in half-hour,” Korsh told Deadline. “I wrote it just to try to get a job, at that time you would write scripts to get a job. I never wanted to create my own show; I just wanted to land on someone else’s show,” he added.
“I put pen to paper to write the pilot 11 years ago, in January of 2008, based on my life as an investment banker in New York. There was only network at that time that would buy a script from a baby writer and let them run that show, and it was USA Network. There was only network at that time that would buy a script from a baby writer and let them run that show, and it was USA Network… It’s mind-blowing how unforeseen the success of Suits has been and it’s all because the people at UCP and USA took a chance on somebody that was not a proven writer.”
The Gabriel Macht-starrer show had a wonderful run with 9 seasons to attribute to the glorious success from 2011 to 2019.
Aaron Korsh Responded To The Recent Craze For Suits
Suits is still relevant and invite a global fanbase. As the show landed on Netflix in June, Suits had over 3 billion watch minutes per week and that ran for the entire summer. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Korsh revealed the potential reason behind the astonishing craze for the show. “I think why people are tuning into it is a combination of that TikTok thing,” Korsh reflected. “There’s no doubt that there’s some curiosity about Meghan [Markle], and then Netflix knows how to entice you to watch a television show and then that builds on itself,” he added.
“Now, the reason I think people are responding to it? I don’t think it’s totally different from how I loved Ted Lasso when it came out in the pandemic. I think with the characters in Suits, people either see themselves in someone and/or see who they wish they were, and it also has an inherent optimism to it, even though sad things do happen. It’s funny, I took a lot of heat over the years whenever something bad would happen to someone on the show, people really get upset about it.”
Further, the showrunner stated that “the characters and the underlying base optimism are why people are connecting to the show.” Also, maybe some of it “is tonal because it has drama but also it has humor.” Earlier reports stated that a new show based on the Suits universe is in talks but the expansion would not be a spinoff or reboot.
Suits is available to stream on Netflix.
