Warning: This article contains spoilers from theSuitsseries finale.
The emotional series finale ofSuitsdefinitely wasn’t lacking in incident.
In a surprising twist, that wasn’t the finale’s only wedding.
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In other words,Suitsended with Batman and Robin reuniting, and Donna joining them.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The decision to bringHarvey and Donna together in the season 8 finalewas pretty last-minute.
Did the decision to have them get married happen relatively late in the writing process too?
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AARON KORSH:No, it was not last-minute.
You know, once Harvey and Donna got together, I was never going to break them up.
That was all kind of come up with, I want to say, in like January.
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What made marriage the right move for them?
Because of that, then it felt right to get to see them married.
It all kind of melded once we [decided] Harvey’s mom was going to die.
You know, it affects you, obviously.
I have known some people in my life who lost both parents as adults.
It’s almost like inside they wanted to start their own family because the one above them was gone.
So that resonated with me.
The other big move in the finale was that Harvey decided to move to Seattle and work with Mike.
Where did that idea come from?
You know, he’s not in touch with his emotional side.
He doesn’t really care about his clients.
He doesn’t really care about anyone other than himself.
And he hires this fraud because he also doesn’t care to follow the rules.
It’s just following the rules.
That is not the same as being a moral or ethical person.
Faye is a rule-oriented person, but she has some vindictiveness in her.
What went into the decision to actually not have Jessica return?
It was a very difficult process of deciding how to handle Jessica in theSuitsthing.
I just didn’t want to mess with the integrity ofPearsonto serviceSuits.I didn’t think that was right.
Unfortunately, by the time we wrote that scene, all of the sets ofPearsonwere gone.
We’d wrapped and put them away and we didn’t own those stages anymore.
So it just logically didn’t end up working, and it bummed me out.
What we did do: I wanted to hear Jessica in that memory section.
In writing the script, what was the hardest story beat to nail?
Unfortunately, I was the director on this one.
For the most part [in the series finale] it was all just this [one story].
So there were some transitional challenges in the episode that we don’t usually deal with.
What if we just stage this fight and then we reveal it after?"
This was your directorial debut too.
What was the hardest beat to hit as a director?
The challenge was a lot of these big scenes.
So both the big conference room scene and the scene after it, those were huge challenges.
Obviously the weddingit was two weddings, right?
That was a three-day affair, spread out because we had a lot of night shoots.
It was just one kind of logistical challenge after another.
What was the last thing you shot?
We were going late that night.
It was like 2 or 2:30 in the morning.
[Executive producer] Chris Misiano tried to convince me not to shoot that last shot.
The last image, he tried to convince me we didn’t need it.
He was so helpful to me in this process.
I want to see the star of my show for the last image."
So I’m glad we did that.
