How to Get Away with Murder

Now that the season has made a -very early in my opinion- finale, it might be the perfect time to talk about this show that made the top of my list of things I have mixed feelings about.

How to Get Away with Murder premiered on September 25 2014 and even before they realised the first episode I was very excited about the show - which happens quite rarely on my add. And I believe it's fair to say that I fell in love with the show right after the first episode. The biggest reason on that might be the ammmaazing Viola Davis. She is so ridiculously talented that I am unconsciously divinise the woman from time to time.

For those of you who have never seen the show before it's about brilliant defines lawyer (Davis), who teaches a class in a law school called How to Get Away with Murder and somehow she and her top students who find themselves in the middle of their own murder plot.

Even though the show is broadcasted on ABC, it has broke off of the general family friendly frame of ABC and set it's own path which I admire about the show. They were never afraid of graphic depictions of violence or openly gay interactions -and by interactions I mean mostly actions.

The show has concluded it's first season just last night and there still might be people who have not seen the show yet but planning to; that's why I promised myself that I'm nor going to get into spoilers as much as possible. And again that's why I am going to talk about one of the most important things for me in a TV/movie production... Acting.

There are three people I am specifically going to talk about and of course I just have to start with the spectacular, talented, beautiful, perfect Viola Davis (told you I divinise the woman).

How do you even begin to talk about Viola Davis? She began her life as the second youngest of six children of a horse trainer and a maid. She describes herself as having "lived in abject poverty and dysfunction" during her childhood. Despite all that after she fell in love with acting at high school years, she graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School in New YorkCity, she appeared on Broadway and received a Tony award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, was nominated for 3 Golden Globes and has 2 Academy Awards nominations. And now she is portraying Annalise Keating in one of the most popular shows and definitely the most radical show of this year. Anyone who is not convinced just go watch Doubt (2008) and The Help (2011).

Now I am going to talk about the second lead on the show who I have never felt the need to make a research on before I've decided to write this piece and now I am in deep shock with the information I've found. 

Alfred Enoch, is portraying Wes Gibbons, the unexpected top student of Annalise Keating and even though I can't say anything bad about his acting or about anything about him truly, until this point he has always failed to attract my true sympathy. And now that I've found out not only he is originally British (yup!) also is the son of William Russell, one of the very first companions of Doctor Who back in 1963. He was also an actor in Harry Potter and Sherlock? Okay, I need a break! 

(This whole breakdown of mine may and must sound very ridiculous to you; because I forgot to let you know that I am British obsessed and the biggest Doctor Who fan I know.)

And finally, a person that deserves one of the biggest tributes, Jack Falahee. 

In my humble opinion, Falahee's character Connor Walsh is the most radical part of the show. Connor Walsh became the very first gay character on network television whose sex life isn't depicted allusively but has been portrayed with the same sensuality of the straight sex scenes. What fascinates me the most was how Falahee's responds to this sudden interest, especially concerning his real life sexual orientation. 

Right after the very first episode was aired, the media has been after Falahee to receive a comment on his characters sexuality and to find out whether he is into girls or boys - or both. And despite all this pressure from the media, Falahee still supports that the thing that matters is how you feel about someone rather than how you feel it for. Even though I'm dying to find out the actors interests - for some reason- I don't think that I could respect someone this much.

Now that we covered the non-spoiler part...

HERE'S THE SPOOIILEERSS:

What A Season Finale! I have been speculating the whole season as every other fan and I had everyone cross my mind from Annalise herself to Bonnie. But Frank? I really really didn't see that coming for some reason. The reason might be that he is one of my favourite characters in the show and knowing that he was the one who killed -at least physically- Lila didn't make me disfavour him at all. 

What is great about the show is even when we know that the major crimes were committed directly from the hands of only Frank and Wes, no one and and really no single person in the show is really innocent. Big or small everyone has a contribution in a crime committed during the series. It is going to be kinda deep but the show forces us to think of us in real life. Is anyone really innocent? 

Apart from all this I was very curious about how they were going to keep the pace of the show in the second season since obviously the real killer of Lila was going to be exposed at the season finale. I had my doubts and they certainly didn't disappoint me. 

Let's just hope that the well deserved success of the show continues in the next season.

And thank you for reading my humble opinion.