It’s your very last chance to learn How To Get Away With Murder
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, May 13. All times are Eastern.
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How To Get Away With Murder (ABC, 10:01 p.m., series finale): Who murdered? How did they murder? Why did they murder? Will they murder again? What is murder, really? And how, pray tell, does one get away with murder?
It’s possible that How To Get Away With Murder will answer only a few of these questions (we’re definitely going to learn who killed Annalise, and why.) But that’s okay! How To Get Away With Murder was always at its best when it was focusing on the characters, not the procedural stuff, and at the eleventh hour, it seems to have returned to that most reliable well with a vengeance. Here’s Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on the penultimate episode:
Introducing a brand new storytelling device during the penultimate episode of a six seasons-long series is a bold move, but How To Get Away With Murder loves to go big, especially when it has backed itself into a narrative corner. The show is undeniably good at blowing shit up. And it does so spectacularly in this episode. But with explosions come debris, and that’s the part that How To Get Away With Murder has difficulty dealing with.
As for that brand new device, we’re suddenly let into the inner thoughts of none other than our complicated anti-hero Annalise Keating. Her voiceover reiterated the character’s paranoia, ego, feelings of contempt toward the system. The sequence of her trying on different blazers in the beginning and ruling them out because she knows how they’ll be received (reactions that take both the jury’s sexism and racism into consideration) taps into the kind of character intimacy that has been largely missing from the show. The voiceover device is used unevenly, but it’s effective, yielding both humor and tension.