As How to Get Away with Murder can attest, the “previously on” section that starts a TV show can tell you a lot about how difficult a show is to follow. Many shows have a thirty second clip that just gives the same general background. “The Night Lila Died,” the penultimate episode of How to…
How To Get Away With Murder finally proved that it knew where it was going all along: the twists are shocking, sure, but it pulled through with a logical conclusion to the question of who killed Lila Standgard (Megan West). Rebecca (Katie Findlay) was lying, and Sam (Tom Verica) has plenty of opportunity, as we…
The characters on How To Get Away With Murder might not be solving all their cases—in fact, Lila’s murder gets unofficially reopened this week—but the show itself has solved its biggest problem. The show is developing its characters. Murder is a huge ensemble show, with Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), her students, her coworkers, and a…
Sam’s body has been uncovered, and now the heat is on in “She's a Murderer,” the 12th episode of How to Get Away with Murder's Season 1. Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) and her students are out of options and need to learn just one thing: how to keep their mouths shut. Some have a harder…
I never hated eating my vegetables as a kid. I just didn’t see much of a reason to. So when I tell you that this episode feels like a pile of mushy broccoli, that’s not as large an insult as it sounds. It just means that this episode is something to push past in order…
ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder opened its first season with the revelation that the main character’s husband, Sam Keating, would be killed in the future. Over the next nine episodes, we saw all the events that led up to the death, and we wrapped up the first half of the first season with…
“Same time next week?” Conner (Jack Falahee) wisecracks to his accomplices in crime, right after dropping a final garbage bag of Sam’s machete-diced remains into a dumpster. For the first time, there’s no case of the week to distract from a single nightmarish day for the law students and Annalise Keating (Viola Davis). The winter…
Finally we get some momentum! Relationships are getting set up, vital evidence is almost uncovered, and the trophy/future murder weapon is stolen. By the time “He Has a Wife” ends, we’re already at the evening that all the future-set scenes have shown, and it’s murdering time. Let’s find out how we get there. There’s a…
I’m disappointed that this episode wasn’t titled “The Plot Thickens.” There’s a definite format to those titles: they are always a short, punchy quote from the episode—five syllables, tops—and it’s a distillation of the soapy drama that this show loves. And this time around, the plot is definitely thickening. The “case of the week” format…
Finally, Asher (Matt McGorry) gets the attention he deserves! My favorite character and the show’s biggest loser, Asher Millstone, gets an emotional arc that’s actually better than most of the other characters’, even though he’s endured the past five weeks as the most one-dimensional cast member. This episode they’re tackling the case that first opened…
