How To Get Away With Murder: First, don’t hire these lawyers.
The latest hit from super-producer Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy) promises to teach us How To Get Away With Murder and then throws in needless complications to make sure we flunk the course.
The first question we might ask of the series is, “Whose murder?” This show does not stint on corpses. Is it the week’s high-profile case being handled by hotshot attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Davis)? Or the murder of sorority girl Lila Stangard, which seems to have been committed by everyone on the University of Pennsylvania-like Middleton campus?
Or is it the murder we keep catching glimpses of in flashbacks that may trigger seizures? This last one is presented like a coy, spastic striptease; by the time we have all the facts our eye muscles could bench-press law books from all the rolling exercise. I suspect that if events unfolded in chronological order instead of arbitrarily flashing forwards and backwards, this show would be a routine murder mystery.
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