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Episode four of the second season of How To Get Away With Murder (#HTGAWM) aired last night and boy was it crazy as far as the client goes. With the season now well on its way, many of the shows both old and new are settling into what they will be and the tone they'll set for this season, and while some shows have changed their modus operandi (cough *Blacklist* cough; doesn't mean it's not good because it is still really good), others have stayed the course giving us the good twisty, drama we all want. How To Get Away With Murder fits squarely in the latter category.
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Episode four of the second season of How To Get Away With Murder (#HTGAWM) aired last night and boy was it crazy as far as the client goes. With the season now well on its way, many of the shows both old and new are settling into what they will be and the tone they'll set for this season, and while some shows have changed their modus operandi (cough *Blacklist* cough; doesn't mean it's not good because it is still really good), others have stayed the course giving us the good twisty, drama we all want. How To Get Away With Murder fits squarely in the latter category.
Opening
with the flashforward of Annalise's possible death after being shot
or stabbed in the house of her rich clients, the kids sans-Asher as
usual, hopped into the cop's car after he found them on the side of
the road. This only after they fled the scene from the mansion where
they left Mrs. Keating to die in a pool of her own blood. Who shot or
stabbed her is still up for debate and will remain so for much of the
season as did her husband's murderer last season. What they have
given us as viewers is the fact that her cop ex-boyfriend who she
tried framing for Sam's death is now on the kids' side. Not only does
he help with their escape in the flashforward, but he also helps Wes
find the dead girl that Bonnie killed on the first episode of this
season/season finale of last season weeks prior to Annalise's
life-threatening injury. Does he believe Annalise killed Rebecca? I'd
actually say the jury's still out on that, but he does think
something suspicious is going on.
Speaking
of Nate, his dying-in-a-hospital wife gets the courage to call her
husband's mistress and invite Annalise in for a bedside visit. Is
this to yell at her and curse her out? No, actually she wants to ask
the woman a very important question: will Annalise help her commit
suicide. Just a few pills stolen by her guy Frank and she'd slip off
into oblivion. As much as it looks like she considers it throughout
the episode, even daring to zone out a few times and get sloppy on
her current case, Annalise doesn't take the woman up on the offer.
Too smart for that, she surely knows that not only would it be
morally and ethically wrong but if she did get the pills, she would
only be showing that both her and her main grease guy Frank are
capable of heinous crimes such as murder. She even goes so far as to
tell the cop about the proposal, not that they're on the best of
terms.
Speaking
of her current case, it was juicy. A teenage girl convicted of
killing her best friend in a brutal stabbing attack, the girl poses
the murder as something she was peer pressured into doing by two
other popular girls. A classic case of in-crowd syndrome, the two
girls grew up together and were like sisters until the dead one
started being noticed by the "popular girls." A kind heart,
she dragged her best friend along with her but didn't realize that
her BFF would be so obsessed with trying to fit in with the cool
crowd that she would become a life-model robot, bending to the will
of her feminine overlords regardless of what they said. The group
started to turn on the dead, kind girl and pressured her manipulated
BFF into stabbing her over 50 times somewhere in the woods.
One of
the few people not distracted and with good sense working the case,
Laurel suspects the girl of lying. She confiscates her phone to
reveal a few videos in which the girls bragged about killing the
fourth girl, Annalise's client even going so far as to suggest their
next victim, a teacher who gave her a C. Still loving their daughter,
her parents order the recording buried by Annalise but only after
Connor has already sent a copy of the recording to the prosecution.
His conviction: he's tired of seeing murder treated as if it were
normal. The recording coupled with the testimony of one of the girls
makes the accused flip out and scream in the courtroom how both of
the so-called popular girls were basic 'B's that weren't worth
anything before she made them interesting. She was the mastermind
behind the crime the entire time (did that just rhyme? Ooo, I think
I'm still doing it. Aww, I lost it. Never mind).
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| No, we aren't sleeping together. |
One of the few cases
Keating actually loses, she gets good news on the other overarching
case of the season with the adopted siblings suspected of offing
their parents. In what is only legal incest (not the real
thing. Damn that sounds creepy. Uck!), the two adopted siblings were
accused of having an affair. Annalise sent Michaela to test the boy
to see if he showed any interest in her, though only bisexual, gay
and agenda-plying men have ever looked her way. The good news comes
when the young woman admits she is a virgin which they then have
proved by a doctor. But for every one good thing, Annalise has a bad
thing follow. She sees Wes and the cop speaking in the parking lot.
Wes thinks he found Rebecca's body in a cemetery where Frank's
brother works as groundskeeper. Only the fourth episode of the season
and there's been more scheming, plotting and backstabber-y than you
could brandish a gun at.
If
you’re looking for Halloween scares check #AFuriousWind,
#DARKER,
#BrandNewHome
or
#ThePowerOfTen.
For those interested in something a little more dramatic, check
out #TheWriter.
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Until next time, “It's taken some
work but I finally have 'em, the worst of the worst."
P.S.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen and nerds everywhere, their are only five
and a half months left before Batman V. Superman comes out which
means we can officially start the countdown for Suicide Squad also.
And although that's not a good sign-off for me every time, it
reminded that Will Smith and Viola Davis are in that movie. Yeah!
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