“How to Get Away With Murder” Recap 1.02

by Steven Frank | October 3, 2014Welcome to another recap of How to Get Away …

… with MURDER!!! [Meaning “MURDER” in a blood-red drippy font.]

Or as I like to call it, “How to Get Away With Gay Sex In Every Episode.” Because YES! It happened again. And it was sexxxxxy. More details on that in a moment …

But first, Professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) kicks off this week’s totally informative, crucial-for-understanding-the-law lecture with a talk about how everyone lies always and you can’t trust anyone ever, even if it’s your classmates or spouse. Such an inspiring teacher! A real Dead Poets’ Society mentor there, amIright?

As she talks about how you never know what’s going on beneath the surface with people — what skeletons they might be hiding — she and the camera glare individually at her five pet students. I like this because it indicates we’re going to be learning more about each of them and it’s likely to be surprising, juicy stuff.

Which is a relief because so far they’re all right out of the Breakfast Club school of character types, a problem that’s reinforced by the nicknames that are thrown around for some of them. Like Annalise’s asshat associate Frank (Charlie Weber) calls Michaela (Aja Naomi King) “Prom Queen” and calls Asher (Matt McGorry) “Douche Face.”

There’s no nickname yet for our boy Connor (Jack Falahee), but I’m sure we can come up with one on our own. “Cocky”? “Rimshot”? Thoughts?

Anyway, behind his back, they all call Wes (Alfred Enoch) “Waitlist” as they discuss how they’re mystified why Annalise is so interested in him given he’s such a dimwit. Asher, living up to his nickname, speculates that Wes is Annalise’s long lost adopted son, and thankfully Michaela calls him out on just how racist that is.

But there’s no denying that Annalise has a keen interest in young Wesley. Not only is her own nickname for him “Puppy,” but in her scenes alone with him she immediately falls into this Mrs. Robinson “I think you’re trying to seduce me” mode that is very strange. She’s clearly manipulating him, but it’s not clear just how or why.

Meanwhile, that mousey girl Laurel (Karla Souza) asks Annalise’s associate Bonnie (Liza Weil) if the only reason she’s on the team is because lecherous asshat Frank specifically picked her, presumably for the grossest possible reasons. And, hilariously, Bonnie’s response is, “I may look nice but that’s only my face.” Don’t worry, Bonnie. I never for a second thought you were nice. But you’re proving capable of throwing Drag Race-quality shade, which is so much better than nice. Don’t change a thing.



Bonnie blows Laurel off with a warning that her time would be better spent trying to make an impression on Annalise. (Later, a conversation between Frank and Bonnie reveals he DID personally pick Laurel but Bonnie herself has some suspicious motives going on as well.)

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