Warning: This article contains spoilers for Suits LA Episode 10 Suits LA is floundering 10 episodes in as the series scrambles to create new exciting angles. With a total lack of cohesive storytelling and a struggle to maintain focus on narrative arcs, Suits LA is out of its depth. Somehow, the story has become less compelling with the end just around the corner, and it's hard to believe this is a story that came from the creator of Suits.

With Ted Black's New York past dealt with, the narrative has made another big shift, with a larger focus on the relationship between Stuart and Ted. Of course, Suits LA wouldn't be complete without flashbacks, so despite resolving things that haunted Ted initially, the show continues to use bizarre flashbacks to try and expand the characters. Meanwhile, every other relationship in the show implodes.

Suits LA Is Obsessed With Backtracking

Both in of digging into the characters' pasts and creating twists that are hollow and lack real payoff, Suits LA spends much of its time trying to fake out the audience. Moving the story to LA meant the characters put on a face, concealing true motives, and constantly switching sides. The result is a show that attempts to insert clever twists, but only comes off as having no clear direction.

Suits LA spends much of its time trying to fake out the audience.

While the relationships are part of what made Suits great, and the spin-off hoped to create some similar connections between the cast, the characters fall flat. With some drama and backstabbing to try and expand their stories, all that brings to Suits LA is more hollow, unlikable, and tiresome characters. Even characters who had strong starts, like Rick Dodson and Erica Rollins, are quickly devolving into something considerably less charming by this episode.

But beyond the characters, the story is quickly jumping from one plot to another, changing dramatically and losing focus. To maintain an engaged audience, each episode has to have a compelling central narrative and the entire season should build towards something bigger. Suits LA tried to do both, and now things are falling apart as the thin plot grows ever thinner in episode 10.

What Is Suits LA All About?

Suits LA built up Ted Black as a central protagonist with a dark past. Then, he was stabbed in the back in a way that could define his character's future. But 10 episodes later, everything that has been established appears to be resolved, inconsequential, or reversed. And yet, there are still three more episodes left before season 1 concludes.

Every episode takes these characters who are intended to be larger than life, and highlights how small, insignificant, and changeable they are.

As of episode 10, Suits LA doesn't have consistency, character, or structure. Every episode takes these characters, who are intended to be larger than life, and highlights how small, insignificant, and changeable they are. But it's failing to do even that in an enjoyable way. Instead, it comes off as overly cheesy, aimless, and meaningless.

The relationships that make a show like Suits into a powerhouse are devoid of gripping direction. Whether characters are flirting or arguing, it seems that everything can change and be completely different in the span of one episode. So, what is the point in following the story when it doesn't connect to these rapidly shifting ideas? Suits LA is still only half-baked, and it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel for season 1.

New episodes of Suits LA air each Sunday at 9pm ET on NBC.