Simply a number of days after Fits LA introduced again Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter for its flashback storyline, one other Fits alum has been introduced for the NBC spinoff. David Costabile, who performed Daniel Hardman within the authentic collection, will reprise his position someday in a while the 2025 TV schedule. Nonetheless, given the character’s historical past, it’s onerous for me to think about he’ll do something moreover trigger bother.
This casting replace involves us from Selection, though no particular particulars had been offered about Hardman’s return. All we all know for now could be that he’ll have a “visitor position” in a future episode, although it’s unclear if it will likely be as a part of the present’s 2010-set flashbacks or within the current day. Costabile is the third Fits actor to come back alongside for the Fits LA experience, as Rick Hoffman can be set to reprise Louis Litt for an episode separate from the 2 others Macht has lined up.
Launched in Fits Season 2, Daniel Hardman was the co-founder of the Pearson Hardman legislation agency with Gina Torres’ Jessica Pearson, whom he’d mentored. Nonetheless, when it was found that he was embezzling cash from shoppers to finance his affair quite than to pay for his spouse’s breast most cancers remedies like he claimed, he was pressured into resigning from the agency. Following his spouse’s demise, he returned to the agency and tried to take full management of it. Hardman’s scheme was foiled and he was ousted as soon as extra, however he continued to be an antagonist in Seasons 4, 5 and eight.
As indicated earlier, Fits LA has been delving into the lifetime of Stephen Amell’s Ted Black in 2010, when he was nonetheless a federal prosecutor in New York. That’s how Harvey Specter factored into “Batman Returns,” as he tipped Ted off that somebody from the Pellegrini crime group was inside Ted’s workplace. Though Fits gave conflicting details about when Daniel Hardman left Pearson Hardman (it was stated in Season 2 to be in 2007, but a later flashback confirmed him nonetheless there in 2009), my intestine tells me that David Costabile’s was already out of the image throughout Harvey’s meet-up with Ted.
Having stated that, I discover it onerous to consider that Daniel Hardman will in some way issue into what’s occurring in Fits LA’s current day storyline. Like Harvey and Louis, Hardman doesn’t work in leisure legislation. He additionally primarily works in company legislation, so it’s onerous for me to think about how he would become involved with the prosecution of Ted’s consumer, Lester Thompson, who’s been charged with homicide. So for now, I’m going to imagine that we’ll be seeing Hardman in 2010, and nevertheless this involves go, his presence certainly gained’t result in something good.
I all the time loved seeing Daniel Hardman’s smug face rework right into a defeated expression through the Fits days, so I welcome seeing extra of that in Fits LA. Whereas we look forward to his return, stream the spinoff’s first 4 episodes with a Peacock subscription, which you may also use to entry Fits.