A host of different reasons may have contributed to the spectacular failure of Suits LA, but lead actor Stephen Amell believes that he is to blame for the show’s premature cancellation. In a recent interview, he opened up about NBC dropping the Suits spin-off after a solitary reason and admitted that it was his job to solve all the issues with the show.
Stephen Amell reflects on why Suits LA was canceled
During his appearance on a podcast, the Arrow star assumed sole responsibility for the cancellation of Suits LA after just one season.
“The blame rests with me,” Stephen Amell exclaimed on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. “Whatever problem you have with the show — because I think that there were issues — it’s my job to solve those, to smooth them over and to gloss them up with some type of performance or something that, tangible or otherwise, covers up those mistakes. Because you do something that is magnetic, that is charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.”
Amell doubled down on his inadequacies as the lead of Suits LA by stating, “I didn’t find anything ultimately with Ted Black, that character, that translated, that smoothed those things over, that gave us a chance to keep going.”
The Canadian actor further justified his reasoning behind the failure of the Suits spin-off. He noted that if the show was “successful, I’m gonna get a disproportionate amount of the credit, and so I think it’s only fair that I stand in front and I take the blame. I’m the lead of the series, and it didn’t work.”
Additionally, Stephen Amell revealed that franchise creator Aaron Korsh was equally uncertain about Suit LA’s merit, right from the start. “I sat down with Aaron Korsh, who created Suits and Suits LA, and he was editing the pilot. He was like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work.’ A lot of what he wanted to do seemed to run up against what the network wanted,” the 44-year-old thespian said, adding, “It just seemed like what he wanted to do and what they wanted to do were different.”
Amell also shared that “it’s not anyone’s fault,” and that they were hoping there would be another season to rectify their mistakes, but that didn’t happen.
Notably, Suits LA premiered on February 23, 2025, only for NBC to cancel it three months later after one season.
