S5E14

Self Defense

Suits · 2016-02-17 · 42 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 19 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Time is running out before the trial and Mike wants to represent himself. Harvey wants lead and challenges Mike to a showdown. Louis attempts to get Sheila out of the picture for good.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 19 comments — 6 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit19 read

“I'm already mad and we're only ten seconds in”
iamPause▲ 184about 0–1% inread it ↗
“finally getting to court was just unbelievably bad”
▲ 157about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The prosecution rests." You WHAT?! Are you serious? That was your whole damn case?”
Simplyx69▲ 95about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Rachel showing she has a backbone for the first time in this whole season.”
▲ 68about 0–100% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Patrick J. Adams
written: Kyle Long

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Pooch Hall as Jimmy
Tom Lipinski as Trevor
David Reale as Benjamin
Max Topplin as Harold Gunderson
Rachael Harris as Sheila Sazs
Leslie Hope as Anita Gibbs
Suzanne McKenney as Judge Ralls

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