Friday, November 20, 2015

How To Get Away With Murder

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS
Crazy thing happened last night. The winter finale of How To Get Away With Murder. At the end of season one, we found out who killed Sam Keating (Wes) and during the winter finale it all came together and we found out #whoshotannalise.
But either way the winter finale of How To Get Away With Murder is totally messed* up. Now every main character on this show is either dead (killed by one of the main characters) or a straight up murderer/killer. I'm not really sure how I feel about this. Asher killed Sinclair, Bonnie killed Rebecca, Nate killed his wife, Wes killed Sam and shot Annalise, Michaela, Laurel, and Connor all helped Wes dispose of Sam's body, Frank has killed god knows who, and the topper is that Annalise has been help everyone cover up their tracks and not go to jail.
At first I was really intrigued with this show. I mean who doesn't want to know "how to get away with murder," but after watching this first season and a half it's gotten completely ridiculous. These people are supposed to be lawyers fighting for justice, but they're going around killing people! From my point of view this show has become completely unrealistic. The police would have to find finger prints, shoe tracks, or just something that would tie this group to one of the murders they have committed.
How To Get Away With Murder is just one of those shows that you give up. It's like a car crash. You really want to look away but you can't. The winter finale made me really uncomfortable because we pretty much see Annalise go completely nuts/bonkers/crazy/choose your own word. Throughout the episode we see her just break down at the camera pans around her in a circle. Then she shuts down her emotions and deals with the body of Sinclair. By the end, in the last scene, she baits everyone who dealt with Sam's body, Michaela, Wes, Connor, and Laurel, to shoot her, so that they can acquit Catherine Hapstall, for a murder case they have been backing. This scene is the most powerful one of the entire show in my opinion because Connor and Michaela don't want to take part in the murder but Annalise just drags them back in by baiting them. This had me shocked because you saw the good in them being overpowered by Annalise and you just want her to get shot already.
 Finally, Annalise makes Wes shoot her by telling him that Rebecca was dead the whole season. We already knew this since the premiere of season two but Wes didn't know and had been searching for her, thinking she bolted. But instead of shooting Annalise in the leg like she wanted, he shot her in the stomach, a place that could get her killed. This was forceful because you saw the "good" go out of Wes's eyes when he shot her. Almost as though he wasn't him for a second, just like Asher when he killed Sinclair.
Anyways, if you haven't started watching How To Get Away With Murder, I recommend it but be weary at the same time because once you start it's hard to stop.
*A very different word could be used here

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