Saturday, February 28, 2015

(TV) "How to Get Away With Murder" season finale

Getting emotional here, with four of my favorite series airing their season finales in one week ... but this was the one I thought would be most "pee your pants" worthy.  Again, the mystery/court case itself, for Annalise and company - involving a pastor who's killed another pastor many thought were about to expose him - took a backseat to the biggest mystery of the entire season: Who Killed Lila?  Was it Sam, already seen as guilty and even "punished" for the crime?  Rebecca, already acquitted of the murder, but who's told so many lies, you wouldn't believe her if she said she needed to use the toilet?

True to creator Peter Nowalk's word (he also wrote the finale), we indeed found out who the killer was - and they did it right, by showing viewers instead of trying to get us to rely on what anyone said (impossible to do, as we're talking a mega-cast of mega-expert liars, here).  Not sure, for me, if the reveal was a "cheers" or "jeers" moment, but it certainly fit - and though the "shocker" that came after, in literally the final minute of the show, wasn't that big a surprise to me (it was actually what I'd been hoping would happen for many - many - episodes now), it put an excellent cap on everything that left for a very satisfying conclusion ... and, God knows, opened up a hornet's nest of questions already churning for season two.

1 comment:

  1. It was so good, good, great! I loved every single second and had no clue about what was coming!

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