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It finally happened, Suits fans. After years of stolen glances and flirty banter, one of television’s longest will they/won’t they couples, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) and Donna Paulsen (Sarah Rafferty), finally hooked up during the Season 8 finale. Well, technically speaking they hooked up again, but romantic semantics aside, this was the moment the fanbase had been eagerly anticipating since the show premiered way back in 2011. The biggest question mark heading into tonight’s season premiere was how the show would handle the Darvey of it all. Are Harvey and Donna together? Was their steamy night of passion a one-time (okay, two-time) thing?
It didn’t take showrunner Aaron Korsh very long to provide fans with some much-needed clarity: Donna and Harvey’s sultry night of wordless seduction wasn’t a one-night stand.
The season appropriately begins with the newly-minted couple still in bed as the silky sounds of the Apocalypse’s “Cigarettes After Sex” serenade them. “I just wish I had come to my senses sooner,” Harvey says. “It’s okay,” Donna responds. “I was worth the wait.”
After they call Rachel and Mike to share the good news (naturally), the two engage in some classic Darvey banter before they’re interrupted by an agitated Louis Litt because, and you won’t believe this, THE FIRM’S IN JEOPARDY! Classic Suits. The Donna and Harvey of Season 1 would’ve tried to conceal their relationship, but they’re prepared to share the piping hot gossip with their pal, only a preoccupied Louis misinterprets the situation. After a marathon of double entendres, Louis leaves and Donna and Harvey decide to wait until the firm is out of hot water to share their news.
Awesome! Based on past history, that’ll happen sometime between the year 2030 and never. So much for the afterglow.
What exactly is going on with the firm, you ask? Well, since Robert Zane took the bullet for Harvey, the NY State Bar Association wants his name off the wall or else they’ll take over the firm. You’d think the NY State Bar would have bigger fish to fry, but, in their defense, this law firm brazenly bends if not outright breaks the law on a weekly basis so I’ll allow it!
Back to the Harvey and Donna of it all. Donna officially ends things with Thomas Kessler, while Samantha finds out about the Darvey rendezvous. Guess what? She is not a fan. Samantha threatens to put Harvey “through a wall,” which sounds like an overreaction to me, but seems par for the course at good ol’ Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams Alvin Simon Theodore or whatever the hell the firm’s called these days. Eventually, the two settle their differences by engaging in a healthy, respectful exchange of ideas.
Just kidding! They have a boxing match. Oh, Suits. Suits, Suits, Suits. I’m gonna miss the hell out of ya, you crazy son of a bitch. Since I can’t legally share a screenshot of Harvey and Samantha duking it out from my screener, here’s a photo of Katherine Heigl being annoyed by Sofia Vergara and/or tomatoes from the 2011 film New Year’s Eve.
In the closing moments of the episode, we learn that Harvey kept Mike and Rachel’s apartment in the hopes that they’d one day return from their deus ex machina in Seattle. Donna joins him and the two long-time friends and emerging lovers share one final swoon-tastic moment.
“I thought I was going to lose everything at that hearing, and then I didn’t, but I felt empty,” Harvey tells Donna. “And then I won, and you weren’t there. What I’m trying to say is that night everything finally made sense. I’m finally where I’m supposed to be.” Donna’s reply? “We both are.”
And that’s a wrap on the season premiere. Oh, wait, the last scene of the episode centers on the NYC Bar Association taking control of the firm, but you know what? Who cares! That’s next week’s problem, baby! Harvey and Donna are together! Buckle up, Suits fans. It’s going to be a crazy final season.
