'Pearson' review: The Gina Torres-led 'Suits' spinoff dives into the world of Chicago politics
For seven seasons on the USA legal drama "Suits," Gina Torres played Jessica Pearson, the head honcho at a white-shoe law firm in New York who spent her days expertly maneuvering around power players while attempting to keep her own colleagues in check as they created one complication after another.
Building a spinoff around Torres is an ingenious idea and with "Pearson" (premiering 9 p.m. Wednesday on USA), it's now Jessica who's creating some complications of her own - at least one that got her disbarred before the events of the first episode even unfold. Unable to practice law, Jessica nabs herself a job working for the mayor of Chicago.
Her exact title is left unspecified: she's part fixer,
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