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How To Get Away With Murder is a legal drama starring Viola Davis, which aired on ABC from 2014 to 2020 for six seasons.Professor Annalise Keating (Davis) is a highly regarded practicing attorney and law professor at the prestigious Middleton University Law School. She has a notorious reputation for being a very strict, very cruel teacher among her students. Unlike other professors, she teaches her students how to practice the law and defend their clients no matter what they need to do. Along with teaching the class, she also employs several students from her class as assistants in her firm — and in the near-future, the students are subsequently involved in a murder. The story is told with parallel story lines — the first starts several months in the future, and the second starts when the class first begins, to tell the audience How We Got Here. The pattern continues each season with a present-day plot and a flash forward, generally converging in the midseason finale, though flashbacks after that point continue to reveal new information about the season's mystery.Shares a similar soapy focus with Scandal and Grey's Anatomy, which is reasonable considering they are all produced by Shonda Rhimes. | |
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Dropping the Bombshell | |
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Dropping the Bombshell: While trying to provoke him into shooting her, Annalise drops a major one on Wes: Rebecca is dead. Laurel keeps asking Frank to tell her more about himself. She wasn't exactly expecting him to confesses that he killed Lila. Laurel, in a moment of Alcohol-Induced Idiocy, admits to Annalise that Frank killed Lila. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The Keating Five are more often than not insulting and attacking each other, but they have their moments of when they truly care about each other, such as when Michaela asks Connor to stay at Middleton because she needs him or when Laurel takes the blame for when Wes shoots Annalise. | |
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Happy Marriage Charade: Annalise and Sam initially seem happy together, but the first episode reveals Annalise is cheating on Sam and is immediately suspicious that Sam may have cheated on her with the dead girl Lila Stangard—it wouldn't be the first time he cheated either. By episode nine, their marriage is Deader than Dead... literally. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Its name is How To Get Away With Murder after all. Except for Annalise. After the third season premiere where it's revealed that one of the characters will die, creator Pete Nowalk stated that as the main character, Annalise is by default safe. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Invoked. Word is leaked that Rebecca and Griffin slept together on the night of Lila's murder, which makes Rebecca look more suspicious. To save Rebecca's reputation and stop Griffin from getting a plea deal, Annalise gets Rebecca to claim that she was actually raped. | |
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The Artifact: The trophy is what sets off the entire plot line, and even ends up as the murder weapon used to kill Sam, but by late season 1, the main characters pretty much forgot they were supposed to be fighting over it and Annalise forgot she was supposed to give it to someone. When Annalise mentions the trophy in season 2, she says is in a box on the basement. Somewhat justified as not only the group has way more important things to deal with than getting good grades and nobody wants to keep such incriminating evidence. By late season 2, the protagonists don't even act like students anymore, and the class setting rarely even appears. This is deconstructed in season 3, when it's revealed the Keating 5 have some of the worst grades in their class. By season 4, Michaela is the only who has managed to raise her grades far enough to get post-graduation job offers from respected law firms. She also seems to be the only ones serious about being lawyers after graduation and the others are just going through the motions. | |
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Heroic BSoD: Wes experiences this after learning that Rebecca is dead, shooting Annalise, and hearing her utter his former name, Christophe, meaning she knows something about his past. | |
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Situational Sexuality | |
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When Michaela finds out that her fiancé Aiden used to be in a relationship with Connor despite never bringing him up alongside his list of (female) exes, she accuses him of being gay and he denies being so, claiming it was a case of Situational Sexuality. Bisexuality is not considered an option by either party. Oliver later raises the idea of Aiden being bisexual, but Michaela quickly shoots this down and Aiden is basically never mentioned again. This is walked back somewhat in 5.02 ("Whose Blood is That?"), when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy," and while Michaela objects to it being mentioned, she doesn't insist Aiden was gay. In 5.10 ("Don't Go Dark on Me") Michaela herself refers to Aiden as bisexual. | |
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Darker and Edgier: The second season, compared to the first, is way more heavy in drama, backstory, such as Bonnie being raped as a child, Wes's mother killing herself and Annalise losing her baby, and thriller. This time's murder mystery is way more complicated and involves way more people. Not too mention, the body count went from three; Lila, Sam and Rebecca to nine; the Hapstall parents, the aunt of the family, Sinclair, Asher's father, Caleb, Wes' mother and Annalise's baby (though through a flashback) and Wallace. | |
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Conflicting Loyalty: Despite being a detective with the Phillidelphia PD, Nate is more often than not breaking the law for Annalise. | |
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Sorry, I'm Gay: Connor tries this in "It's Called the Octopus" when invited to a sex party. The lady just smiles and tells him that that's perfect, since he's just her husband's type. Happens to Michaela once, too, when she tries to pick up a man at a bar shortly after breaking up with Aiden. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy | |
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Laurel, in a moment of Alcohol-Induced Idiocy, admits to Annalise that Frank killed Lila. | |
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Four-Philosophy Ensemble: After Sam's murder in Season , the Murder four (Connor, Michaela, Laurel and Wes) became this: Connor is the Pessimistic one as he grew utterly paranoid and imagines Zany Scheme involving Annalise against them Michaela is the Cynic one prioritizing in mind her future and her wedding to outcome the trauma Laurel is the Realist staying down-to-earth and acting more normally than the other three Wes is the Conflicted one tormented between his actions and his beliefs and his sense of justice. | |
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Unexpected Positive: In the episode "It's All My Fault", Connor and Oliver are getting back together after a bad breakup. Oliver wants Connor to get an HIV test before they have sex again and decides that it would be romantic to get tested together. Connor works himself into a panic over all of the risks he's taken. Connor tests negative. Oliver tests positive. | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Season one: one flashforward shows Wes telling Rebecca on the phone, "We're going to protect you," indicating that Rebecca was the one who killed Sam. What Wes actually meant by that was that they would protect her after she broke into Sam's house, which subsequently led to his death. Season two: Bonnie appears to have thrown ADA Sinclair off of the roof of the Hapstall Mansion to her death. In actuality, Asher, who was revealed to be standing behind Bonnie when Sinclair's body was thrown down in the midseason finale, was the one who killed Sinclair by running her over with his car. Season three: The big season mystery was who died in the house fire, with one character revealed to be safe every episode and by episode nine, it's down to Nate and Frank. So who does it end up being? Wes. Turns out the scene that was supposed to mean he was alive was from earlier that day. To make matters worse, the green-blue lighting totally threw us off! Season five: Frank shows Annalise Gabriel's DNA test, which crushes Annalise, seemingly confirming that he is her son. In reality, the DNA test showed that Gabriel is Sam's son from his first marriage. | |
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Title Drop: Once in the page quote from the pilot, and again when Annalise is describing her plan to get their client off. The episodes also get their titles from spoken dialogue. | |
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Railing Kill | |
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Railing Kill: Subverted. Michaela thinks she killed Sam when she threw him over the railing. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Annalise's plan to frame Catherine in "What Did We Do?" requires her being shot in the leg to make it look convincing. After failing to emotionally blackmail anybody to do the deed, she admits to Wes that Rebecca has been dead the entire time, and that he should do it, and she deserves it. Wes agrees that she deserves to be shot - and he fires into her stomach. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: In 5.15 "Please Say No One Else is Dead", the episode closes on Annalise repeatedly screaming Laurel's name after she suddenly vanishes without a trace. | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Nate. Lampshaded by Annalise's deeply religious mother when the two meet in 2.15; not only does she openly tease him about his sex appeal, later she crosses herself and begs Jesus' forgiveness for what she's thinking when looking at him through a window. And further by the women in Annalise's beauty shop in 3.5. Wes, Frank and Connor also qualify having all been given various Shirtless Scenes as well | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Frank kills Bonnie's father by pumping nitrogen sulfate into his lungs. Ouch. But he deserved it since he was a pedophile who abused Bonnie when she was a child. | |
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Compromising Call: Subverted in the first episode. In one of the flash-forwards, Wes, Connor, Michaela and Laurel are hauling Sam's corpse into the woods when Laurel gets a call from Frank. A nearby couple hear her phone ringing and decide to leave instead of investigating further. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: The deaths on Season 2 are more graphic and bloody, add Annalise in a pool of her own blood after getting shot on season 2's premiere. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The so-called 'immunity idol', a small statue Annalise gives to a chosen student (Connor in the pilot, but it's taken from him and given to Asher, then Wes, then Asher again, then stolen by Michaela) as a reward for helping out the most with her case, which can be invoked at any time in the future to get out of any exam the bearer wants. It is also the weapon used to kill Annalise's husband. In a Wes/Rebecca post-coital scene in season 1, he casually mentions that his mother was a Haitian immigrant. What seems like a modest and insubstantial character moment, revealing something about his past to Rebecca, ends up being the basis for pretty much the entire second half of season 2 and a good chunk of season 3 as well. | |
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Therapist in Therapy: Isaac Roa, a psychiatrist Annalise sees in season 4, also sees his ex-wife Jacqueline for his own therapy. And yes, the fact that that's a conflict of interest is brought up. | |
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Aborted Arc: The whole thing with Asher suspecting that his father did not kill himself, but was murdered. | |
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In their Four Man Band, Wes is the Only Sane Man, Laurel is the Butt-Monkey, Connor is the Casanova Wannabe, and Michaela is The Smart Girl. | |
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Crime After Crime: The show pretty much runs on this. Every character is sooner rather than later a murderer, a murder accomplice, committing crimes to cover up the murder, framing somebody else for murder, framing themselves for murder, committing crimes to get out of said framing or otherwise doing very bad things to hide a very bad thing they did in the past. And since the web of lies is ever expanding in severity and number of people involved, every time there's more people willing to do worse things to get out of trouble. | |
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Annalise was sexually abused by her uncle before marrying Sam, and she carries on an affair with Nate. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Wes' dad, who he finally meets in the second season finale... which is immediately followed by his father getting shot and killed. | |
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Parental Abandonment: Asher's mother disowns him in the wake of his father's death because she thinks it is his fault. | |
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Guile Hero: As a matter of course with defense attorneys (and their students), several characters are or aspire to this. Michaela and Connor use lies and sex (respectively) to help Annalise with the first case; in the flash-forward, Michaela also manipulates a cop out of investigating the suspicious rolled-up rug hiding a body the four were transporting. | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal: Bonnie tearfully convinces Frank to put down the gun. At the same time, inverted by Annalise, who urges Frank to kill himself. | |
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Mortal Wound Reveal: In 6.15 "Stay", after Frank dies from several gunshot wounds, Bonnie realises she's been hit too, and dies in Annalise's arms. | |
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Frame-Up | |
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Frame-Up: How do you think they get away with murder? In the first season, Annalise frames Nate for Sam's murder. In the second season, Annalise and co. plan to frame Catherine for Asher's murder of Sinclair. In the third season, Charles Mahoney, the son of the deceased Wallace Mahoney is framed by Annalise and co. to protect Wes. Subverted in the fourth season. The gang plans on initially framing Teagan but later decide on Simon for leaking the Antares files, but he accidentally shoots himself in the head. | |
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Suicide, Not Murder | |
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Suicide, Not Murder: A series of flashbacks in season 2 revolve around Annalise, Eve and Wes' involvement in Wes' mother's death. At the end of 2.13 "Something Bad Happened", it's revealed that the victim committed suicide. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: A retroactive example, but it's ironic in hindsight that the take-charge, morally flexible Type A's Connor and Michaela lose all composure when the murder occurs, whereas Wes and Laurel stay relatively cool-headed. After accidentally driving a suspect to suicide in 1x04, Connor spends the rest of the episode looking noticeably shaken. It's the first time he shows genuine regret over his actions since the start of the series, and also foreshadows his breakdown after the murder. In the same episode, manchild Asher figures out the conspiracy, right down to who did what and when. He also figures out in a later episode both that DA Sinclair has bugged Annalise's home and that the bug is located inside of a pen given to him. Wes is good at putting connections together quickly. For example, in "It's All Her Fault", after Rebecca gets arrested and he sees a news program talking about her history of drug convictions, he instantly realizes that she used his bathroom to get high and also to hide something, which he discovers easily. It turns out to be Lila Stangard's mobile phone. Connor is largely portrayed as self-centered. However, he takes Asher in for a while when Asher is disowned just after his father kills himself, and even though Connor hates video games, he suggests playing them in an effort to cheer up Asher because he knows Asher likes them. | |
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Shower of Angst | |
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Shower of Angst: Bonnie has one after she learns that Annalise told Asher that Bonnie was raped by her father as a child. Bonnie has another one after she sees her father's body and meets up with Frank, who killed him. Annalise has one after she manages to resuscitate Laurel's premature baby, only to learn that Laurel's father has tampered with her medical history and successfully seized custody of him. | |
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Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress | |
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Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Downplayed. Michaela douses her $25000 Vera Wang dress from Aiden with ketchup. | |
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Elevator Failure | |
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Elevator Failure: Laurel is going to Annalise's hotel room when the elevator malfunctions and to make matters worse, she's forced to give birth in it. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Asher: "Doucheface." | |
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Coming and Going | |
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Coming and Going: Wes and Rebecca have sex in "He Deserved to Die" — and the scene in which they do it is juxtaposed with the exhumation and second autopsy of Lila's corpse, seen in loving detail. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: The main student characters are all first-year law students. In the United States, first-year law students aren't allowed to work more than twenty hours per week if they're full-time students — it's a rule in place by the American Bar Association to allow the students to focus on their educations. Obviously though, following that rule would lead to less drama for the show, so Tropes Are Not Bad. Note also that judges in the show very rarely stop the attorneys in their courtrooms from making long-winded speeches and berating witnesses during questioning, or directly imploring the jury in the middle of making objections. These things aren't allowed in a real courtroom to preserve decorum, but would not make for exciting television. Something else that wouldn't make for exciting television: because of (relatively recent) changes to the rules of discovery, the vast majority of surprising revelations about witnesses and evidence are uncovered before trials start. However, the discovery of a witness' eyesight disability is much less exciting to find out about through reading a medical insurance form than by having one of the characters con an optometrist out of the information. Related to the above, the season-arc cases — the Lila Stangard and Hapstall cases — are handled fairly realistically. Discovery is shown and discussed, and progress in the proceedings is handled in fits and starts through pretrial hearings and oral arguments. However, less realistically, the cases of the week are usually taken, investigated and resolved within a few days with a surprising revelation. | |
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TrailersAlwaysLie | |
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Trailers Always Lie: The line "Are you color-blind?" in the trailer seemed like a racially charged question based on the little context it was presented with. In the pilot, Annalise is asking if the woman is literally color-blind. The witness' aggressive "Yes" in response isn't a defensive reaction but an angry admission. | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: In "It's Called the Octopus", the case of the week involves a woman killing a man mid-coitus at a sex party, due to him mixing Nitroglycerin with viagra. Most of the Keating 5 find it hard to take it seriously. | |
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Inheritance Murder | |
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Inheritance Murder: What the prosecution suspects of the Hapstall siblings' involvement in their parents' deaths — they're adopted, and may have been after the billions they would have inherited. In the second season finale, this is revealed to be true for Caleb — Catherine's innocent. | |
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Title-Only Opening | |
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Title-Only Opening | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: During flashbacks from the second season, a young Wes goes back and forth from having a Haitian accent to having an American one. | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: Ronald Miller in season 5. He's offerred a bribe from Xavier Castillo to get Nate Lahey Sr. killed during a prison transfer, with the motivation being that it would torpedo Annalise' Supreme Court win and potentially keep her out of his hair permanently. He refuses, even moving the prison transfer up so that he would be safe. This turns out to be exactly what Xavier wanted, and enables him to arrange his murder anyway. The evidence is enough to convince Nate and Bonnie of Miller's direct involvement and gets him killed because of it. | |
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Foreign Cuss Word | |
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Foreign Cuss Word: Averted, when Laurel has a Foreign-Language Tirade, she says "No manches, vete muchÃsimo a la fregada", which roughly translates to "Are you freaking kidding me? Go screw yourself!". | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: "Skanks Get Shanked" focuses on a possibly-sociopathic teenage girl and her murderous clique. | |
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Kill the Ones You Love | |
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Kill the Ones You Love: After being beaten nearly to death by Nate, Bonnie smothers Miller, her boyfriend, with her fingers. | |
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Preppy Name | |
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Preppy Name: Discussed by Annalise's mother. She refers to Annalise by her biological name, Anna Mae, and when Annalise asks her to stop, she criticizes her for choosing such a posh name. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: When Professor Keating asks her students to come up with strategies for her attempted murder trial, the students go to great lengths to impress her with fancy legal arguments. When they are done, she explains the strategy she actually plans to use: attack the prosecution's case and create reasonable doubt. The goal is to get her client acquitted and not to create new legal theories. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: All of the Murder Four, especially Connor, who occasionally thinks Annalise—the one who has been orchestrating the murder cover-up to protect them—is going to turn on them. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Annalise offers Wes a job in the pilot after giving him a speech which can be summed up as follows: side with morality and turn down the job, which will probably end with Wes in a career path he hates and living a life he also hates; or shed his morals and accept the job, which will involve condoning, turning a blind eye to and possibly getting involved with some very illegal/amoral things, but, as Annalise puts it, he can 'become someone you actually like'. Wes takes the job. | |
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Zany Scheme | |
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Connor is the Pessimistic one as he grew utterly paranoid and imagines Zany Scheme involving Annalise against them | |
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I Die Free | |
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I Die Free: In a flashback, an illegal immigrant woman kills herself to escape her employer's control and his threat to her son. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Also from Season 3, Annalise has an awesome moment where she convinces a belligerent client responsible for killing two women to take the plea deal of just three years in prison, using a slap and a summed-up "Reason You Suck" Speech. Come next episode, her license has been suspended because someone leaked security footage of her physically assaulting a client. | |
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Anorgasmia | |
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Anorgasmia: In "It's Called the Octopus", it's revealed during a Keating 5 scene about sex that Michaela never had an orgasm (even during her relationship with Aiden), and the others see it as an explanation on why she's so high-strung. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
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In a conversation with her mother, Annalise is revealed to have been molested by her uncle, which her mother knew of but didn't stop. Annalise is understandably quite upset by this. However, it turns out that her mother actually killed him for this and made it look like an accident. Her mother reveals that she had been raped by several men on different occasions in the same conversation. She appears to think Annalise should just suck it up as she did, and not be affected by this (or so she acts at first, anyway). | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Annalise is quite capable of being one. In one scene, she uses different techniques to manipulate Connor, Wes, Michaela and Laurel into doing what she wants—she succeeds too, although maybe more than she intended. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The series finale. Annalise wins her case, but sees Frank and Bonnie die before her eyes after Frank kills the Governor. But because she no longer has to worry about her or Jorge Castillo coming after her, she's able to live a happy life with Tegan and die peacefully of old age, eulogized by Eve. Frank and Bonnie are killed when Frank assassinates the Governer and the two are caught in the crossfire. Michaela is one day sworn in as a judge and is hinted to have married and had children and grandchildren, but has lost touch with all of her law school friends after betraying them one too many times to save herself and is implied to be all alone, at least in the friends department. Connor and Oliver were separated for five years when Connor went to prison, but are back together in old age and attend Annalise's funeral. Laurel is able to raise Christopher peacefully after having her father killed. Christopher grows into the spitting image of his father and eventually takes over the same class Annalise taught in life. | |
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Keeping Secrets Sucks | |
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Keeping Secrets Sucks: Every character can speak from experience. | |
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Never the Obvious Suspect | |
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Never the Obvious Suspect: Season one: Everyone is deadlocked on either Sam or Rebecca killed Lila. Who is it? Frank. Season two: While he is being tried for murder, Annalise and co. seemingly rule out Caleb as a suspect in the Hapstall murders and turn to Catherine and her brother Phillip. It ends up being Caleb anyway. Season three takes a different approach. Rather than being which of the two is the killer, the question is which of the two—Frank or Nate as of the midseason finale—was killed. So who died, Nate or Frank? Trick question: Wes. | |
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Found the Killer, Lost the Murderer | |
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Found the Killer, Lost the Murderer: Inverted in the episode "It's All My Fault". Sam Keating, who was killed in self-defense by the student protagonists, is definitely The Murderer. The Killer, Frank Delfino, remains at large as only The Killer, The Murderer and the audience are aware that there was anyone else involved. As of the second season, Laurel knows about Frank killing Lila. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Connor and Oliver get a few thanks to their sex scenes. Both Wes and Asher get some in episode 6 and 9. Frank and Sam are both seen shirtless on phone screens. Nate is almost always shirtless. | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means: Bonnie's reason for killing Rebecca. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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In 1x04, the client, Marren, is a take-no-prisoners woman with healthy sexual appetite in a male-dominated field, like Keating. She's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, also kind of like Keating. She's a lot nicer to her subordinates than Keating is, though, and while Keating is well-groomed, she's less well-polished. She's also a foil to Connor. Both like sex but not so much long-term relationships. Both are charming and charismatic. Both can be jerks to people. And like Keating, he's better-groomed than she is. One major difference is that when their efforts combine to drive a suspect to suicide, she doesn't lose a wink of sleep, whereas he spends the night in My God, What Have I Done? mode, getting intoxicated. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: The Hapstall mansion, which, per Caleb, has an area of over 30,000 square feet. | |
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Obnoxious In-Laws: Michaela's future mother-in-law thinks she's a Gold Digger, absolutely hates her guts and doesn't hesitate to show it, and threatens to call off the wedding if Michaela doesn't sign a prenuptial agreement. Hannah Keating, Sam's sister. From the get go, she is insistent that Annalise was the culprit behind Sam's murder. | |
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Evil All Along | |
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Evil All Along: Frank. The whole time Annalise, Bonnie and the Keating Five were searching for Lila's killer, he was right under their nose. In the second season, Caleb, after episodes of being virtually eliminated as the suspect in the Hapstall murders and gained everyone's trust (he even dated Michaela!), is revealed to be the killer. Laurel's father, who was revealed to be behind Wes' death. In the fifth season, The Governor and Xavier Castillo. She makes nice with Annalise after the Supreme Court win, only to have Nate's father killed by Xavier's henchmen. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: At least once per season. Accidentally killing Sam breaks Wes, Laurel, Connor and Michaela, especially the latter two. Killing Emily Sinclair briefly broke Asher, although he seems to have since recovered. Having to nearly shoot Annalise breaks Connor and Michaela again. All of them are broken as a result of Wes' death. Oliver, virtually the only one that was still okay, is broken by seeing Simon's prone, gunshot body. | |
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Taking the Heat | |
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Taking the Heat: Wes tells Annalise that he'll confess to murdering Sam and Rebecca, though he only killed the former. | |
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Grand Romantic Gesture | |
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Grand Romantic Gesture: Oliver serenades Connor at their wedding, singing "All of Me" by John Legend. | |
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Repressed Memories: Wes doesn't recall much of the circumstances behind his mom's suicide, as at one point, he thought he murdered her. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Why is your penis on a dead girl's phone?" The trailers for the episode even advertised that the last nine words of the show would make your jaw drop. "He Deserved to Die" ends with Bonnie dropping another bombshell line that Lila Stangard was six weeks pregnant before she died. In the first season's winter finale: In "Best Christmas Ever" a potential client comes to Annalise's house and is met with a good deal of justified suspicion, with Annalise and the kids believing her to be some sort of journalist—that is, until she unveils the gem, "My husband has two women locked in the basement." Cue stunned silence. Annalise goads Wes into shooting her by telling him that Rebecca is dead, and has been dead for the entirety of the events that have taken place in the second season. Frank says three little words to Laurel that turns their relationship upside down: "I killed Lila." A flashback to 2005 shows Annalise speaking with the father of her then-client after Rose (Wes' mother) has committed suicide and she realizes why she did it: "She was afraid of you because you raped her." And then her revelation to Wes that that rape resulted in him. In the third mid-season finale, Nate reveals to Annalise that "Wes was already dead... before the fire" that burned down her house. Laurel's baby's cry after Annalise performed CPR. | |
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Wham Shot: The reveal that Annalise saw Wes attempting to take the trophy that he just used to kill her husband casts all the flash-forwards in a completely different light. The first season finale shows us the details surrounding Lila's death, including showing her asphyxiation and then panning up to reveal Frank as her killer, apparently on Sam's orders. The final moments of the first season finale show Rebecca, apparently dead, hidden under the stairs in Annalise's basement. The final moments of the Season 2 premiere skip ahead two months later, and show Annalise in the Hapstall mansion, apparently shot and bleeding out. In the last moments of "What Did We Do?", a flashback shows a young Wes speaking with the police about his mother's death. Pan outside the room to Eve and Annalise, who are implied to be responsible for it somehow. The flashback of the following episode shows how Annalise met Wes and his mother, also revealing her to be heavily pregnant at the time. This puts Annalise's hallucinations about the baby boy in her house in a new light. Episode 2.12 ends with a young Wes, standing over his mother while she bleeds out from a knife wound that he apparently inflicted on her. Episode 3.01 ends with a flash-forward of Annalise wailing as her house burns down and an ambulance carts an unidentified body away. Episode 3.03: There was another person in the fire that gutted Annalise's house, and they're alive. The next episode reveals that the person is Laurel. Oh, and she's pregnant. Episode 3.05: A person was killed in the fire, and that person was male. Episode 3.07: Wes provided evidence against Annalise in exchange for immunity. Episode 3.09: The coroner lifts the sheet, revealing Wes, who is horribly burned. Episode 4.12: Annalise goes to a lecture hall to seek the only woman with the smarts, power and ruthlesness to help her: Olivia Pope. Episode 5.14: Laurel reaches into the gift bag delivered to her door and pulls out a large clump of red hair, with some flesh still attached. She identifies it as her mother's. | |
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Like Parent, Like Spouse | |
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Like Parent, Like Spouse: Ultimately defied. Laurel is not happy when she realizes that Frank is just like her father, with whom she has a very strained, unhappy relationship, so this is part of why she leaves him in Season 2. | |
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Post Humous Character: Lila. We gain a greater insight into her character and the background of her death from flashbacks. | |
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Experimented in College: Michaela's fiancé experimented with Connor in boarding school, and Connor won't let her forget it. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: Annalise does this frequently, usually with vodka. She finally admits she has a problem in Season 3. | |
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Rape as Backstory | |
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Rape as Backstory: In a conversation with her mother, Annalise is revealed to have been molested by her uncle, which her mother knew of but didn't stop. Annalise is understandably quite upset by this. However, it turns out that her mother actually killed him for this and made it look like an accident. Her mother reveals that she had been raped by several men on different occasions in the same conversation. She appears to think Annalise should just suck it up as she did, and not be affected by this (or so she acts at first, anyway). Implied for Bonnie in her monologue to Rebecca before she kills her. Later confirmed when Annalise shows Asher the tape of Bonnie being raped by her father. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: A flash-forward in Season 4 shows forensics investigating Annalise's hotel suite and the elevator outside. There is blood everywhere and a bloody knife nearby, implying someone is going to get stabbed in that elevator. Come episode 8, it's revealed that the blood is from Laurel having a traumatic premature birth; Annalise uses the knife to force the elevator door open and cut the umbilical cord. | |
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Love Father, Love Son | |
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Love Father, Love Son: The victim in "He Has a Wife", who passed an STD on to the defendant's husband and son. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first scene of the third season ends with Wes looking back before leaving the police station. The last scene of the third midseason finale (where Wes dies!) ends with Wes looking back before leaving the police station. The series opens with Wes arriving at his first day of Annalise's class, and ends with Wes's son Christopher, played by the same actor, entering the classroom and making the same introductory speech that Annalise did. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival: Averted with Annalise and Sam's baby. He is stillborn. Played straight with Laurel's baby. After Annalise performs CPR, he survives. | |
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Coolest Club Ever | |
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Coolest Club Ever: The nightclub Annalise takes the gang to in the second season premier. | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Annalise tells Bonnie that now that she's killed Rebecca, she is no better than Sam. | |
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Mommy Issues: Wes. His mom killed herself and at one point, he thought he murdered her. | |
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No Bisexuals | |
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No Bisexuals: When Michaela finds out that her fiancé Aiden used to be in a relationship with Connor despite never bringing him up alongside his list of (female) exes, she accuses him of being gay and he denies being so, claiming it was a case of Situational Sexuality. Bisexuality is not considered an option by either party. Oliver later raises the idea of Aiden being bisexual, but Michaela quickly shoots this down and Aiden is basically never mentioned again. This is walked back somewhat in 5.02 ("Whose Blood is That?"), when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy," and while Michaela objects to it being mentioned, she doesn't insist Aiden was gay. In 5.10 ("Don't Go Dark on Me") Michaela herself refers to Aiden as bisexual. Zigzagged with Annalise, who was dating and sleeping with Eve before leaving her for Sam; she reconnects with Eve as well in Season 2. In the past, she was not as comfortable with her sexuality as she seems to be in the present. Annalise and Eve's previous relationship was derailed when Annalise became concerned with the idea that she was a lesbian; she went to Sam shortly afterward, implying that it had something to do with this concern. Further, Eve seems convinced (at least in the flashbacks to ten years in the past) that Annalise is actually a lesbian in denial. In Season 3, two men hit on Eve and Annalise at a bar; Eve says that she's a lesbian, whereas Annalise says "It's complicated." In 6.11 "The Reckoning," Annalise's mother asks if she's a lesbian, Annalise says "I don't know," and Ophelia has difficulty accepting that answer ("How can you not know? Either you like ladies or you don't"). Finally, in 6.14 "Annalise Keating is Dead," she openly self-identifies as bisexual. Played straight with Connor's father Jeff. He was married to Pam for 20 years and had a son with her, but both he himself and other characters refer to him solely as gay after coming out. It does sometimes happen that way in real life. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: In the season one finale episode titled "It's All My Fault," Wes tearfully takes the blame for everything. | |
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Competition Freak | |
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Michaela is probably the closest example of this trope being a mix between a Competition Freak and a Control Freak with a tendency to show how smart she is. | |
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Oh, and X Dies | |
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Oh, and X Dies: Largely the premise of the series, as you discover early on in the season who was killed, with the episodes leading to the mid-season finale slowly showing some of the circumstances around the murder and the mid-season finale fully explaining what happened on that night. With Sam, who was revealed to be the dead person whose death the Murder Four were covering up in the first episode. Subverted in Season 2, as Annalise survives. The second half of Season 2 also displays this trope, as the flashbacks show the events leading up to Wes's mother's suicide. Averted in the third season. The who is not told, nor is the why, and the how appears to be by a fire, but later revealed not to be. The who—Wes—is eventually revealed in the third midseason finale, but now that leaves who killed him, how did he die and why did he die. | |
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Time Skip: There is a two-week skip between the winter finale and spring premier of the second season. There is a three-month time skip between the second and third season. | |
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Crossover Couple | |
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Crossover Couple: Michaela and Marcus from Scandal work together on a case and ultimately hook up in Marcus's car. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: The first season ends with the shot of Rebecca's dead body and the long awaited reveal of Lila's killer. The second season ends with Frank gone missing and Wes' father, Wallace Mahoney, shot dead in front of him. The fifth season ends with Governor Birkhead publicly dismissing the allegations against her and pointing the finger at Emmett, who appears to go into cardiac arrest. While Annalise's back is turned, Laurel vanishes without a trace and Christopher disappears from the house under Connor, Oliver and Asher's watch. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Keating Five mostly in the earlier seasons. Goofy Asher is sanguine, bossy Michaela is choleric, brooding Connor is melancholic, grounded Laurel is phelgmatic and Wes is eclectic as the outsider of the group. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Whoever's behind the soundtrack seems to really like IAMX. | |
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Facial Horror | |
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Facial Horror: Half of Wes' face is severely charred following Annalise's house exploding. | |
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Childish Older Sibling | |
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Childish Older Sibling: The relationship between Asher Millstone and his older sister Chloe falls into this. While Asher is very immature and silly himself, he nevertheless is capable of being serious and responsible when required, is a (mostly) functioning law student and has a hidden caring side to his personallity. Chloe meanwhile is dim, flightly, bratty, whinny and irresponsible, to the point she can barely function in life without her families money to support her. | |
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Beardness Protection Program | |
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Beardness Protection Program: Frank shaves his iconic beard to go on the lam after being implicated in a murder. | |
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The Unfair Sex | |
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The Unfair Sex: Lampshaded by Sam. The whole time Annalise was accusing Sam of being a cheater and berating him, Annalise was off having an affair of her own. | |
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Death by Falling Over | |
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Death by Falling Over: Wes suggests covering Sam's death by claiming he fell while drunk. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: As per its Jigsaw Puzzle Plot, the series has many reveals both large and small spread throughout each season. | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
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Ivy League for Everyone: Laurel went to Brown University for undergrad, but went to the fictional Middleton University along with the rest of the Keating Five for law school. The university's prestige is pretty ambiguous, but if an Ivy League student goes there for grad school, it's gotta be good. Connor gets into to Stanford Law School, despite the fact that he's in the bottom ten percent of his class. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: When ADA Sinclair taunts him for his father's death, Asher runs her over, killing her. Ignoring all the begs and pleas surrounding him, Wes shoots Annalise in the abdomen when he finds out that she knew that Rebecca was dead. Nate nearly beats Miller to death when he learns that he allegedly had his father killed. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Asher's last name, Millstone, evokes a particularly well-known Bible verse, Matthew 18:6: "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." Popularly, a "millstone" is generally known to be shorthand for a burden that drags people down. Asher's conduct presents serious problems in both seasons — his possession of the "immunity idol" trophy and general frat-boy behavior contribute to the events in Annalise's office on the night Sam is killed, and his killing ADA Sinclair sparks the events at the Hapstall mansion that culminate in Annalise being shot. | |
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The Scream | |
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The Scream: Annalise lets one out when she finds Sam's dead body. Wes and Annalise scream in the woods to let their frustrations out. Oliver shrieks "OH MY GOD!" after seeing Simon's body. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Wes's father walked out on them and his mother was Driven to Suicide, and he was at least present in the aftermath. It gets even worse when in Season 2 it's revealed that Wes' father was actually his mother's employer, Wallace Mahoney... and her rapist. And it gets worse again. Wallace Mahoney actually wasn't the one who raped and impregnated Wes' mother. He was covering up for his son, Charles Mahoney. | |
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Sexiness Score | |
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Sexiness Score: In "Always Bet Black", Michaela's douchebag client Toby hits on her by telling her she's a "9", which creeps her out and angers Asher who is dating her at the time. | |
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Luke, You Are My Father | |
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Luke, You Are My Father: Wes approaches Wallace Mahoney to tell him that he thinks he is his son. | |
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot | |
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: The flash-forwards of the first eight episodes aren't shown in chronological order and only show bits and pieces at a time, leaving it to the viewer to try to make sense of the night of the murder. | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish | |
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Viewers Are Goldfish: At the end of the pilot, with the Wham Shot that the Keating Five are burning Sam's body, it then flashes back to show him talking to Annalise again, in case the viewers might have forgotten who he was since he was shown in the previous scene. | |
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Suicide by Cop | |
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Suicide by Cop: Annalise tries to force one of the Murder Four to shoot her in the leg, a non-fatal injury, but she actually wanted to die from it. | |
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In-Series Nickname | |
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In-Series Nickname: Virtually every character has won (the majority of them given out by Frank). Annalise's mother, along with everyone from her hometown, still refer to her as "Anna Mae," her biological name. Sam calls her Annie. Wes: "Puppy" and "Waitlist." Laurel: "Wallflower." Asher: "Doucheface." Michaela: "Prom Queen" and "Shooting Star." Connor: "Hair Gel." Frank: "Beardo" and "Franky D," given by Asher. Bonnie: "Ice Cold" and "Bon Bon," also given by Asher. | |
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Once More, with Clarity | |
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Once More, with Clarity: The flash-forwards sometimes lend themselves to this, with certain scenes recurring in part or in full to highlight new revelations and character motivations. A particularly striking example is Rebecca's confession in Episode 7, in which she rationalizes killing Sam as self-defense. It becomes clear when we see the scene again in Episode 9 that she is speaking hypothetically about what she will say to protect Wes if they are caught, as he was the one who actually dealt the killing blow. In the last few minutes of the Season One finale after learning Frank killed Lila, we get flashbacks to several hints that Frank is a hitman, among his other nebulously defined less-than-legal talents. A brief flash-forward shows a distraught Asher at a police station saying he wants to make a statement, with the implication that he's about to tell on the rest of the cast to the police. A later episode reveals that he actually wants to make a statement saying he believes his dad was murdered and it was only made to look like a suicide. We see ten-year-old Wes standing over his mother's body with a knife in his hand, Annalise running out of the apartment, and Wes being questioned by police. Later, we see that his mother actually did commit suicide, and the flashbacks illustrate the circumstances of this act rather than imply that Wes killed her. One of season 3's flash forwards shows Wes negotiating immunity for testifying against Annalise on the day of the fire, seemingly confirming he is not the one under the sheet. Episode 9 reveals that Wes is actually the one under the sheet, and he left that particular meeting before finishing negotiations, the meeting itself happening well before the fire. In 4.08, when Laurel begins to prematurely give birth, it cuts back to the scene where Laurel wrestled Frank off of Connor from the beginning of the episode; this time we are shown that Frank accidentally hit her in the stomach as he let go. | |
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Academic Alpha Bitch | |
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Academic Alpha Bitch: Michaela is probably the closest example of this trope being a mix between a Competition Freak and a Control Freak with a tendency to show how smart she is. Next to her, Connor as a male example. As Laurel said, he's at the top of the class and often mocks of Wes calling him "Waitlist" and of Asher for his foolish nature calling "Doucheface" (alongside with Frank). | |
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Saved by Canon | |
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Saved by Canon: Season 3 starts showing that someone in the main group dies in the fire on Annalise's house, but each episode's final flash-forward shows someone of the group that has survived: In episode 1: Annalise. In episode 2: Oliver. In episode 3: Bonnie. In episode 4: Laurel, who is pregnant and severely injured from the fire. Meggy is also shown to be alive. In episode 5: Michaela; it is also revealed in this episode that the victim is male, but that's fairly useless information as the only remaining possibilities all *are* male. In episode 6: Asher. In episode 7: Wes (which is later subverted in episode 9). In episode 8: Connor. In episode 9: It's a bit different, as this isn't the big cliffhanger ending for the episode, but the episode spends a lot of time hinting that Nate is the one who died. The big reveal happens moments after he is shown to be alive and well. Season 5 uses a very similar technique with its flash-forward story. Episode 1 starts with a POV shot of someone bleeding heavily outside in the snow by a large tented area (later revealed to be Connor and Oliver's wedding reception, as baby Christopher watches on. Each episode reveals someone not to be the bloody party. In episode 1: Bonnie, who smothers the bloody person. In episode 2: Laurel and Michaela. In episode 3: Connor, who has facial bruises from a fight (later depicted in episode 7). It's also shown that Bonnie has posession of Nate's cell phone. In episode 4: Annalise, who collapses sobbing at her house. In episode 5: Asher, as well as Connor's mother Pam, as the two are discovered in a sexually compromising position. In episode 6: Ron Miller (later subverted). In episode 7: No new suspects are eliminated, but Bonnie is revealed giving instructions to another unseen party to leave the scene with the bloody (and now clearly dead) original individual. In episode 8: Miller is revealed as the bloody, dying person and Nate as the person who beat him bloody. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Wes and his neighbor Rebecca. They are shown to be a couple at the time of the murder and Wes apparently recruited the other law students in protecting her from something. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Between Catherine and Caleb Hapstall. Sam and Hannah Keating. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Annalise says this in reference to Wes and Laurel stepping up their game in "It's All Her Fault". | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: As if Annalise wasn't having a terrible day already with: 1) Catherine—her client in the Hapstall murders—going missing after being accused by her brother of killing their parents; 2) Asher's father committing suicide because of what Annalise did; 3) Nate on the brink of losing his job for tampering with Philip Jessup and threatening ADA Sinclair, things become remarkably awful when she is 1) forced to cover up ADA Sinclair's death after Asher ran her over; 2) realizes she needs one of the Murder Four to shoot her in the leg to make the frame-up seem believable; 3) ends up getting shot in the abdomen by Wes on purpose. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In complete Brutal Honesty, Sam dishes a painful one out to Annalise. | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The opening scene in the law lecture for basically all the characters. Wes doesn't even realize there's assigned seating and is hopelessly confused, Michaela rebuffs his friendliness and tells him she's engaged, Connor tells him it's too bad he struck out, Asher brags about interning for a Chief Justice, Laurel helps Wes when he struggles with Annalise's question, and Annalise opens the lecture by calling on random students and ripping into them if they can't answer her. | |
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'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain | |
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'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain: Simon is shot in the head, and seems to lose a lot of blood from having laid there without any medical attention for some time, in addition to flatlining at least once on the operating table, but still survives. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The show begins with four law students discussing, well, how to get away with a murder they've committed. The show then takes us back three months to introduce us to them while also flashing forward to their efforts. The ninth episode merges the two timelines. This format is followed again in the second and third seasons. | |
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Driving Question | |
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Driving Question: Each season has several, mostly based around the flashforwards. They generally follow a pattern of one lasting the whole season, one being resolved halfway through and giving rise to another, and another occuring right in the finale as a cliffhanger. Furthermore, the entire series asks whether the cast will get away with murder. By the end of the series: Annalise, Laurel, Michaela, Oliver, and Nate are implicated but acquited; Conner does time but is released; Wes, Asher, Frank, and Bonnie all die. Season One: Who killed Lila Stangard? Answered in the finale: Frank, on Sam Keating's orders. Why did the four law students murder Annalise's husband? He attacked them after Rebecca found information linking him to Lila's murder. The answers in the finale also give rise to a new one: Who killed Rebecca? It was answered in the next season premier: Bonnie, to keep her from talking. Season Two: The case of the season is who killed the Hapstalls? Their son Caleb, revealed in the finale. Who killed Emily Sinclair and who shot Annalise? Also answered by the midseason finale as Asher and Wes respectively. But the latter is replaced by a major new one: what did Annalise and Eve do to Wes' mother? This was in turn answered at the end of the season ( they asked her to be a witness against Wallace Mahoney, but ultimately she took her own life out of fear. It also leads into who shot Wallace Mahoney? Season Three begins with a whole new set of questions. Who is harassing Annalise on campus? Simon Drake. More importantly, who burned her house, and which of the cast got consumed by the flames? The mid-season finale answers this and leaves two major questions: Who killed Wes and how did he die? This was answered in the finale, but left the mystery of why Laurel's father wanted Wes dead. This was answered pretty nonchalantly in 4x06— Antares was going public, so Jorge had Wes killed because Antares' reputation would have been damaged had Wes confessed about Sam and Rebecca's murders. The main mystery throughout the first half of season four involved a series of flashforwards that featured too many different things to be explained as one main question; instead the promotional materials used the question of "what happened that night?" Although, the first flashforward arguably set up the mystery of where is Laurel's baby? It was only in the final moments of the midseason finale that we knew definitively that the baby was even alive. Season 5 gave us a new mystery: who died at the wedding? DA Miller, who was framed for Nate Lahey Sr.'s murder. We also drive further into our main character's back stories with the follow-up questions: Who is Gabriel Maddox? Sam's son before Annalise. And what happened to Bonnie's baby? They were taken by her sister. The last season sets up plenty despite it's short episode count. What happened to Laurel and Christophe in the previous finale? They fled to avoid the FBI. How did Annalise die? Old age. The flashforwards took place decades in the future. Who is the FBI's mole in the group? Asher, revealed in the midseason finale. Of course that leads into who killed Asher? The FBI themselves, to cover their own backs. It also asks how Wes is still alive. He's not—just like Annalise's funeral scenes, these take place far in the future and who audience's were led to believe was Wes is actually Christophe. The finale itself manages to have one self-contained within the last episode: who killed who at Annalise's court case? Frank arranges Jorge Castillo's death and killed Governer Birkhead but he and Bonnie were caught in the crossfire. | |
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Sympathetic Murderer | |
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Sympathetic Murderer: Wes. He killed Sam because he attacked Rebecca. Asher. He killed Sinclair after she taunted him for his father's suicide and he's visibly scarred by it. Frank. All of his murders have been in one way or another justified. Averted with Bonnie. Annalise is extremely upset with her for killing Rebecca, especially because it was avoidable. But later in Season 2 it's revealed that Bonnie was raped by her father as a child which may make the character more sympathetic. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Wes's father walked out on them and his mother was Driven to Suicide, and he was at least present in the aftermath. It gets even worse when in Season 2 it's revealed that Wes' father was actually his mother's employer, Wallace Mahoney... and her rapist. And it gets worse again. Wallace Mahoney actually wasn't the one who raped and impregnated Wes' mother. He was covering up for his son, Charles Mahoney. Laurel's father is mentioned in dialogue to not be a good person, although how exactly is not made clear. Asher's father rose to power by screwing over an innocent man, and is a notably corrupt judge. In the aftermath of his father's suicide, his mother tells him she doesn't want anything to do with him. Michaela's father Solomon slept with his client's wife. By the time he tracks her down she is already graduating high school but he tells Annalise to look after her. Connor mentions he has a boatload of Daddy Issues, as his father seemed to have left him in boarding school. He seems to be on good terms with his sister, at least. Annalise was sexually abused by her uncle before marrying Sam, and she carries on an affair with Nate. Bonnie is also a child sexual abuse survivor. Frank tried to kill his father when he was 13. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law There are a lot of things, for example, change of lawyer in the middle of the trial as in season 5, only for "drama effect". | |
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First-Episode Twist | |
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First-Episode Twist: Wes, Laurel, Michaela and Connor are all somehow involved in Annalise's husband, Sam Keating's death. | |
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Foreign-Language Tirade | |
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Foreign-Language Tirade: When Frank calls Laurel, her being in an extremely disraught state because of him, she doesn't pick up and instead screams at the phone in spanish. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Annalise because Sam himself is not only a cheater, but because he also hired Frank to kill his mistress when she gets pregnant. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Early in the episode "Hello Raskolnikov", D.A. Wendy Parks tells Annalise "Be careful who you show your crazy to" after she tries to get the charges against Rebecca dropped by throwing Sam under the bus. By the end of the episode, Annalise succeeds. | |
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Brainy Brunette | |
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Brainy Brunette: Laurel graduated top of her class at Brown. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Connor tries to resuscitate an (unfortunately already dead) individual by using CPR, but panics when he feels a bone crack during chest compressions and is horrified to think he may have accidentally killed the individual. Breaking bones is actually a very common result of CPR performed normally. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: The final season indicates that Annalise was murdered with flashes of her funeral where a still alive Wes is in attendance. In the series finale, it's revealed instead of present-day the funeral is about 30 years in the future as Annalise died of old age, and it's not Wes at her funeral but Christopher grown into the spitting image of his late father. Even the finale episode itself could be described as this, with the glimpses we see of both events spoilered out in this entry strongly suggesting they happened as direct results of one another (not the case). | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Discussed. All of the main characters have done objectively bad and/or illegal things, and frequently we see and hear them express guilt and angst over it (a season 3 episode is outright titled "We're Bad People.") The most pointed example is Annalise, upon an offer from a priest client to hear her confession, telling the man of the cloth "No god should forgive me for all the bad things I've done." | |
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Do Wrong, Right | |
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Do Wrong, Right: In the second case, Annalise eventually gives the Refuge in Audacity defence that her client could not have murdered his second wife because he is a seasoned hunter and would not have been so sloppy about it, with the main point of reference being his admission that he killed his first wife (for which he was acquitted — hurray for double jeopardy) with exactly the level of professionalism and anatomical knowledge one would expect from someone who's been killing things since they were a child. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: Aside from the flash-forwards alternating with present-day scenes, the flash-forwards themselves aren't neatly chronologically ordered as they tend to focus on individual characters. | |
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Mystery of the Week | |
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Mystery of the Week: The murder cases Annalise takes on. Although, as of the second half of the third season, they have became less frequent. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: "Kill me. Kill me. Kill me." What happened the night of the bonfire is finally revealed. Wes kills Sam after Sam attacked Rebecca. While Wes is on his way to get the murder weapon—the trophy—from the scene of the crime, Annalise is there and it is revealed that during the entire time the Murder Four are orchestrating the cover-up, it was on orders Wes got from Annalise. "It's All My Fault," the season one finale. Frank killed Lila on vague orders from Sam. After being tied up in the basement, Frank and Annalise find Rebecca dead. Oh, and Oliver learns he has HIV. "What Did We Do?", the second season winter finale, turns almost everything about the show on its head. Catherine is working with Phillip to some degree and may have murdered her parents, Emily Sinclair is closing in on Annalise's case, and Asher's father commits suicide. Emily summarily taunts Asher about it, since she is partially responsible for the smear campaign that led to it, and he kills her. Confronted with all of these at once, Annalise panics and tries to pull together a plan to frame Catherine for everything and keep everyone safe. The last step, however, is shooting her in the leg so that it looks realistic. After trying to emotionally blackmail her students, each one no longer wanting anything to do with her, she convinces Wes to do it by admitting that Rebecca has been dead the whole time. Wes agrees to shoot her — but shoots to kill, and prepares to finish her off when he hears her whisper a name: "Christophe". Cue flashback, as a young Wes/Christophe speaks with the police about his mother's death. Outside, Eve and Annalise are watching in shock, and Eve asks Annalise the titular question. "Who's Dead?" the third mid-season finale: Two words: Wes dies. "He Made A Terrible Mistake" and "Wes," the penultimate and ultimate episode of the third season drops a load: Connor confesses that he was at Annalise's house the night of the fire, but he ran out just as the house exploded when he noticed a gas leak; Wes was not the son of Wallace Mahoney, but of Charles Mahoney's. The charges against Annalise and Frank are dropped after Annalise hands over evidence on her phone that proves Wes killed Sam and Rebecca and then killed himself; Oliver asks Connor to marry him; and the biggest of them all: Wes was killed by a hitman on orders from... Laurel's father. "Live. Live. Live." Connor negotiates with the group that he won't tell Annalise about their plans unless things go awry. They do. Simon admits that he's gay to Oliver and professes his love for him. Oliver and Laurel get the Antares files with Teagan's key card, while Frank uploads evidence onto Simon's computer suggesting he was doing some digging on Antares to paint him as a whistleblower. As Oliver is searching for Simon to plant the key card, Simon walks in on Laurel, Asher and Michaela talking about their plans to frame him. He finds Laurel's gun in her bag and accidentally pulls the trigger, shooting himself in the head. The police arrest Asher. Connor leaves Michaela an "I told you so" voicemail, thoroughly detailing their plan and mentioning Laurel's baby, while Dominick overhears. After Connor tells Annalise the fiasco going on, she orders Laurel to come to her hotel room. In the elevator, Laurel gives birth at just seven months (after being accidentally hit in the stomach as Frank was strangling Connor) and passes out. Simon dies on the operating table, while Laurel's baby lives after Annalise performs CPR. "He's Dead," the fourth mid-season premiere. Laurel's father is given custody of her child after he fabricates Laurel's medical history to show a history of mental illness and drug abuse. The police release Asher from custody, citing a lack of evidence. Oliver and Michaela tell the police that Simon killed himself because he was worried about his DACA status only to learn that Simon actually survived the shot. The hard drive containing all of the files on Antares is missing. Frank kills Dominic while trying to extort the whereabouts of the hard drive. He finds a voicemail on Dominic's phone from Wes from the night he died telling Dominic that he's in trouble. "I Want to Love You Until the Day I Die," the season five fall finale. Connor and Oliver get married. Nate finds a photograph of Miller using a payphone and assumes that Miller had his father killed, leading him to beat him nearly to death; Bonnie finishes the job for him. Frank finally reveals to Annalise that Gabriel is Sam's kid from his first marriage. | |
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Cranky Neighbor | |
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Cranky Neighbor: Rebecca. When Wes asked her to turn down her music so he could study, she bluntly tells him no because the last law student who lived in his apartment had "crazy-loud rabid sex" and slams the door in his face. | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Almost the entire cast puts their hands on the gun used to murder the Hapstalls over the course of the episode it's discovered. Wes stashes it in a pool to destroy the prints and DNA evidence after he uses it to shoot Annalise. Christophe pulls the knife out of his mother's neck after he finds her bleeding out. Asher picks up the gun Simon had just accidentally shot himself with. He admits he did this to the police, because if he lied and they found his prints on the gun, it would cast doubt on the story he, Michaela and Oliver told the detectives. | |
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Bloody Handprint | |
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Bloody Handprint: Laurel's in the hotel elevator. | |
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Heads or Tails? | |
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Heads or Tails?: In the first scene of the series, Wes is flipping a coin to decide whether or not the students should go back to the scene to get the body. However, despite landing Tails, Wes lies and claims that the coin landed on Heads. The scene puts a lot of emphasis on the coin flip itself, and this shot is used frequently in the montages used before the flash-forwards. | |
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Five-Man Band | |
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Five-Man Band: Although their characters are much more complex than the roles of a Five-Man Band, Wes, Laurel, Connor, Michaela and Asher, who make up the Keating Five, are effectively one of these, where Wes is The Hero (his point of view is more significant than the others as well as his bond with Annalise), Connor is The Lancer (the typical snarky antihero) , Michaela is The Smart Girl (study-oriented, book-smart), Asher is The Big Guy (impulsive, hot-headed), and Laurel is The Heart (good-natured and eventual Love Interest of Wes). Following his death, Wes is replaced by Oliver, though Oliver acts more as The Heart of the team, and Laurel acts as the new leader. | |
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Burner Phones | |
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Burner Phones: Wes buys one to talk to Rebecca the night of Sam's murder. Everyone starts using them when Sam's body is found. Annalise has one to talk to the hit man she hired to kill Frank. In season three they use one to undermine Charles Mahoney's alibi by getting it to him in jail and then calling it from his alibi witness's house. Connor finds DA Denver's, confirming his involvement in the framing of Annalise | |
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Questionable Consent | |
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Also discussed in the case of a client who was revealed to have slept with and impregnated his teacher, whose unborn baby he was now stealing money for. Some of the Keating Five don't see it as a big deal, while Asher and Michaela stand firm that not only was he underaged, but his teacher knew he was vulnerable from a history of abuse and took advantage of him. Averted on the whole in that Bonnie leverages this angle to get the client out of jail time. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Connor throws up into Annalise's kitchen sink after looking at Sam's dead body. Annalise throwing up in the toilet after a drinking binge in "It's About Frank." | |
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Not Me This Time | |
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Not Me This Time: The client in the second episode didn't kill his second wife. That was his daughter. His first wife, however, he did kill, but was acquitted. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: The earliest hints towards Annalise's alcoholism are more apparent on a rewatch. How Annalise treats Wes makes much more sense on a rewatch because you already know she feels guilt for her hand in his mother's suicide, and has been watching out for him ever since. Laurel's disappearance at the end of 5.15 makes much more sense once you know she wasn't kidnapped, but ran away. No one on the crowded street saw her being taken because she wasn't; she just walked away while Annalise was distracted. | |
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Addled Addict | |
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Addled Addict: Annalise, who is ultimately forced to attend AA meetings to help her addiction. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In 3.09, Connor has a noticeably stoic reaction to the news that Wes is dead. Four episodes later it's revealed that he went to the house before Laurel and found Wes' body, but fled when he saw the gas line had been cut. At the start of 4.08 "Live. Live. Live.", Annalise briefly has trouble getting the elevator door at her hotel to open. At the end of the episode, Laurel gets stuck in the same elevator, right as she goes into premature labour. | |
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Death by Woman Scorned | |
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Death by Woman Scorned: Hannah Keating, Sam's sister, thinks Annalise killed Sam because he was cheating. | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
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Secret-Keeper: Wes somehow ends up being this for Annalise, and he has more than his fair share of secrets to keep. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: The title of the second season winter finale is "What Did We Do?", spoken by Eve to Annalise concerning Wes' mother. Asher upon the realization that he killed Emily Sinclair. Bonnie when she discovers Miller, who she killed, wasn't responsible for Nate Lahey Sr.'s death after all. | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Pretty much the scenario resulting in Simon getting a serious dose of lead poisoning. | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
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Double-Meaning Title: It refers to both literally and metaphorically "getting away with murder". A lot of the things done on the show are morally dubious if not outright illegal. Lampshaded by Connor's sort-of boyfriend, who says he spends more time breaking the law than practicing it. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: A subtle but surely intentional (and a bit funny) example. At the tailend of 2.08 ("Hi, I'm Philip") there's an extended montage of four couples — Annalise/Nate, Laurel/Frank, Connor/Oliver, and Michaela/Caleb — having passionate sex, which abruptly concludes with a shot of Wes looking very bored studying some papers. | |
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The Un-Twist | |
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The Un Twist: The first thing we learn about Wes' mother is that she killed herself when he was a child. When we learn halfway through the second season that Annalise and Eve knew Wes' mother from that time, we're led to believe that they are responsible for her death and that she died another way. While they were responsible for the events that led to her being Driven to Suicide, ultimately Wes' mother killed herself just like he said she did. | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Bonnie, in Annalise's arms. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Due to our heroes being not-necessarily-on-the-up-and-up defense attorneys (and their students), Annalise winning the first and second cases of the series means that less upstanding people get off the hook. The students themselves, but this is deconstructed. While they are able to escape punishment thanks to Annalise and dumb luck, the emotional guilt heavily weighs on them. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: As cynical as some of the law students may seem, quite a few look shocked and horrified when Annalise starts showing them photos of a real crime scene, complete with photos of the murder victim (who was stabbed to death, leaving a lot of blood and gore), without any warning whatsoever. The main five all seem a bit disturbed and disconcerted when they end up at that same crime scene (which hasn't been cleaned), and even more so when the victim's husband vividly re-enacts the murder using Connor and a pen on the same bed his wife was killed on. Connor and Michaela both break down after the murder, with Connor becoming a rambling, incoherent mess, whereas Michaela is almost catatonic at one point. | |
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Like a Son to Me | |
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Like a Son to Me: How Annalise describes her and Wes' relationship. | |
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Sickbed Slaying | |
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Sickbed Slaying: Discussed. Nate's wife Nia wants Annalise to do this by way of poisonous pills. | |
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To Be Lawful or Good | |
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To Be Lawful or Good: Annalise offers Wes a job in the pilot after giving him a speech which can be summed up as follows: side with morality and turn down the job, which will probably end with Wes in a career path he hates and living a life he also hates; or shed his morals and accept the job, which will involve condoning, turning a blind eye to and possibly getting involved with some very illegal/amoral things, but, as Annalise puts it, he can 'become someone you actually like'. Wes takes the job. Largely averted (like Oliver said, the Keating Five break the law more often than they practice it), except in one case: in Skanks Get Shanked, Annalise doesn't care that their client is guilty, but Connor does, despite orders to drop it. So he sends the prosecution an anonymous tape of their client confessing to the murder. | |
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Modesty Towel | |
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Modesty Towel: "It's All Her Fault" has Rebecca showing up at Wes's door at 4 in the morning asking to use his shower (hers is broken) while wearing just a towel. She even drops it when the door is still open, causing him to get distracted by her Toplessness from the Back before she closes the door. The visit turns out to be important as she hid a cellphone under his sink before she got arrested. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: In the third Season Finale Laurel holds a gun starts chasing aftersomeon she is convinced is a murderer (with only circumstantial evidence of it). She is forced to give up the chase when she unexpectedly runs into a Childhood Friend, who the audience can recognize as the actual murderer. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Oliver sings "All of Me" to Connor, as Nate disposes Miller's dead body. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Another of the show's similarities to Damages, as each episode (including the pilot, and by extension the series) gets its title from a line spoken in the episode; e.g., It's All Her Fault, Smile, Or Go To Jail, Freakin' Whack-A-Mole. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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In "Best Christmas Ever" a potential client comes to Annalise's house and is met with a good deal of justified suspicion, with Annalise and the kids believing her to be some sort of journalist—that is, until she unveils the gem, "My husband has two women locked in the basement." Cue stunned silence. | |
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I Can Still Fight! | |
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I Can Still Fight!: Annalise agrees to stand at trial, despite that it hadn't been even two weeks since she was shot. | |
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You Owe Me | |
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You Owe Me: Sam found out Frank is the reason why Annalise lost her baby and used it as blackmail to get him to murder Lila Stangard. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Bonnie's father not only molested her and her sister as children, but it's later revealed he prostituted them out to other men and sold tapes of them for money. Asher's father is shown as emotionally abusive, and after he commits suicide when his corruption comes to light, Asher's mother blames him for the whole thing and disowns him. | |
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Content Warnings | |
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Content Warnings: Happens in "No More Blood", due to adult content, and especially deserved on "Live, Live, Live.", due to graphic images. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: Arguable. In season 1, Wes mentions to Rebecca that he was born in Haiti and his mom moved them to America when he was 1. When this time in his life is later depicted in great depth in flashback form in season 2, Wes/Christophe is mentioned to be an American citizen, as his mother is at one point threatened with not only deportation but separation from him. No explicit justification for this discontinuity is given. | |
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex | |
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Nearly every episode has at least one sex scene in it. By the time the series is five episodes old, every regular character has either been shown or mentioned having sex (and it isn't too much longer for all of them to be shown screwing). Effectively lampshaded in season 5 when Laurel and Michaela agree to be "fabstinent" (fabulous and abstinent) that they may better focus on their studies and work in Annalise's clinic. It doesn't last. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
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Amoral Attorney: Connor sleeps with an IT employee to get emails about a witness in a case. Michaela lies to several optometrists to uncover another witness's incriminating color blindness. Basically, all the students except Wes and Laurel have internalized this and Annalise encourages it. She's certainly not morally upstanding herself. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Both Connor and Michaela have this status in their promotion (in the first season at least) as Laurel lampshaded the fact they were chosen by Annalise to join the Keating 5 it's because they're at the top of their class.Thoug they become eventually Broken Ace as the dramas continue and they fall in the rankings. Annalise as well as she's considered as one of the best lawyers at Philadelphia. | |
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Violence Is Disturbing | |
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Violence Is Disturbing: The show constantly depicts all violence as completely unglamorous and as utterly grotesque, painful and visceral as possible. Witnessing violence always has a serious effect on those present, regardless of who they are or how much violence they have encountered by this point. Michaela is reduced to a hapless wreck while watching Asher deliver a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Connor and Annalise is clearly severely shaken by witnessing Rose's suicide. Even Frank breaks down in tears after being forced to strangle a hitman. | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard: In-universe and lampshaded. The fact that Rebecca slept with Griffin the night of Lila's murder makes her look bad, but doesn't affect Griffin's (Lila's boyfriend) reputation at all. Annalise is rightfully angry about this and says as much to the judge. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies: The mid-season finale for each season: Season one: Sam. Season two: Emily Sinclair. Season three: Wes. Season four: Simon Drake Subverted in the spring premiere in that not only does Simon survive, but Dominic is the one to whom the title of the episode ("He's Dead") refers to. Season five: Ron Miller. Season six: Annalise The series finale subverts this one, too. The seeming midseason reveal that Wes was alive after all and was at Annalise's funeral was, in fact, a Red Herring; Annalise survived for many more decades, and all the other series regulars were wearing heavy aging makeup; Alfred Enoch wasn't because he was portraying Christopher, Wes's son born after he died. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Laurel/Wes/Meggy, Wes/Laurel/Frank, Laurel/Frank/Bonnie, Eve/Annalise/Nate to name a few. | |
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Five-Token Band | |
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Five-Token Band: Wes and Michaela are both Black. Wes is also orphaned, having grown up in poverty. Laurel is white-passing and Mexican. Connor is gay, and Asher is the lone white, straight guy. | |
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Killed Offscreen | |
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Killed Offscreen: Wes. The details of his death, including the scene in which he dies in, will eventually be revealed in the second half of the third season. | |
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Child by Rape | |
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Child by Rape: Wes. Also Bonnie's child. | |
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Subverted | |
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Sam is thrown over the stairs by Michaela and even starts bleeding from his ear, but manages to survive. This is subsequently Subverted, as he dies when Wes whacks him in the head with the trophy. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Annalise gets very angry in the pilot when she asks Wes a question, he obviously doesn't know the answer, and Laurel steps in to answer it without being invited to. She calls this "taking a learning opportunity away from another student" and tells Laurel in no uncertain terms to never do it again. | |
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These Hands Have Killed | |
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These Hands Have Killed: Asher struggles greatly after murdering Sinclair. | |
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Interrogated for Nothing | |
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Interrogated for Nothing: When the Murder Four begin to become suspicious in Rebecca's involvement in Lila's murder, they tie her up and interrogate her. This is immediately put to stop by Annalise. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: After Asher confesses to Annalise about why he turned mole for Sinclaire, she turns over a file of Judge Millstone's misdeeds to the D.A in order to help a client. Asher's dad disowns him for this, even though Asher had no idea of what Annalise was going to do. And after his father kills himself, his mother makes it clear that she views him as a disappointment and effectively doesn't want to see him again. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted in Season 2, as Annalise survives. | |
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Character Focus | |
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Character Focus: The flash-forwards tend to follow one particular character. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Discussed when the team defends a female nurse charged with the rape of a male patient. Annalise's mother flatly rejects the idea that a woman is capable of raping a man. Everyone else, however, accepts that one can. In this case, though, the charge is false. Also discussed in the case of a client who was revealed to have slept with and impregnated his teacher, whose unborn baby he was now stealing money for. Some of the Keating Five don't see it as a big deal, while Asher and Michaela stand firm that not only was he underaged, but his teacher knew he was vulnerable from a history of abuse and took advantage of him. Averted on the whole in that Bonnie leverages this angle to get the client out of jail time. | |
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Smooch of Victory | |
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Smooch of Victory: Michaela and Laurel kiss after learning they passed their finals. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Oliver wants to get Connor and himself tested for STDs, since Connor was promiscuous before the murder (with over 40 different partners in the course of a year), and he also thinks that Connor is a recovering addict, making it all the more likely that Connor could have caught one. While waiting for the results, Connor is naturally freaking out, especially since he had unprotected sex with some partners before. When he finally gets his results, he is relieved beyond words since he is HIV-negative (although he is aware that he will need to get tested again in 3 months to be 100% sure), and rushes to see Oliver, only for the Nice Guy who doesn't seem to sleep around that much to reveal that he is HIV-positive. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Simon Drake survives accidentally shooting himself in the head. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: After the first murder the students argue at length about everything but working together, because if they don't work together, they'll all go to jail. In the second season's murder, they're more willing to cooperate with each other. | |
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Internal Reveal | |
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Internal Reveal: Rebecca noticing that the wallpaper on the picture in Lila's phone is the same as the wallpaper in the Keating home, revealing to her that Sam Keating is Mr. Darcy. The rest of the cast find out about Asher and Bonnie's relationship a few episodes after it starts in earnest. Annalise tells the truth about the night of the first season's murder in order to force the other students to stay and help cover up another one. Frank confesses to Laurel that he killed Lila Stangard. Overall, the viewer is allowed much more information than the characters, who only receive bits of information and sometimes lies that the characters that do know the truth say. This gets to the point where Bonnie and Annalise are the first characters to figure out that Sam ordered Frank to kill Lila, and that is late on season 2 after the whole case was already closed. None of the Keating Five know that Bonnie killed Rebecca, for example, and they still believe she ran away and is hiding somewhere. | |
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Friendship Denial | |
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Friendship Denial: The Keating Five in the earlier seasons. In the 1.13, when Connor affirms the other K5 (here only Wes, Laurel and Michaela as the four stay more together after Sam's murder) are not his friends, Oliver says "Every minute you're not with me, you're with them. They're your friends." | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In 6.02 "Vivian's Here," Annalise at one point refers to Vivian Maddox as "Aunt Viv" despite her not being anyone's aunt. | |
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Born in an Elevator | |
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Born in an Elevator: Laurel's baby. | |
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Seamless Spontaneous Lie | |
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Seamless Spontaneous Lie: When a campus cop is curious to know why the Murder Four are carrying carpet out of Annalise's house, Michaela steps up and improvises that Annalise wanted them to bring the old rug to the bonfire and finally gets him to back off by pretending to call Annalise. The others are so stunned, even Connor has to ask, "where has that girl been all night?" When Bonnie finds out Asher is working with the DA, she tearfully tells him she killed Sam in self-defense and the story is compelling and completely untrue. | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
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Slut-Shaming: Rebecca is slut-shamed during the Lila Stangard trial. Annalise does this to Bonnie repeatedly after Bonnie secretly meets up with Frank. Annalise assumes they slept together and she's right. | |
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Comic Sutra | |
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Comic Sutra: The episode "It's Called the Octopus" is about a woman killing a man during sex while they were in the "Octopus" position. We never get many details on how it works, other than it was very rough and involved the man getting slapped in the face during it. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: You wouldn't think it would happen given the character's significance, but it did: Wes, as of the season three mid-finale. | |
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Hollywood Genetics | |
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Hollywood Genetics: Laurel and Xavier are much lighter than their father. While it's possible one might have their mother's fair looks, two is pretty unlikely given dominant traits of darker hair or skin. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: How Annalise gets the client in "It's All Her Fault" acquitted: her argument is that as the client has been hunting since he was a child, he would know how to kill someone with a knife as quickly and painlessly as possible, unlike the frenzied murder that he's been charged with. Then she plays her trump card: she points to the death of the client's first wife as proof that he couldn't have killed his second wife, because he did kill his first wife and when he did, he made it quick and neat. And the client readily owns up to having killed his first wife, but as he can't be charged with the murder because of double jeopardy (having already been tried and found not guilty), he walks away a free man. In "Smile, Or Go To Jail", Annalise is asked to defend Lila Stangard's boyfriend, who has been charged with her murder alongside Rebecca. Said request comes with a not-so-subtle reminder that the administration has been very lenient and generous to her in the past. Annalise asks for time to consider her answer, and when she delivers it, not only does she not agree to defend the boyfriend, she instead decides to defend Rebecca. | |
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Cry into Chest | |
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Cry into Chest: Annalise to her mother in 2.15, during the "homegoing" ceremony Ophelia arranges for her stillborn grandson. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: The Keating Five. They all insult each other and view one another as competition (Connor and Michaela more so than the others), but have each other's backs during times of need. | |
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Who's Your Daddy? | |
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Who's Your Daddy?: Laurel agrees to use a paternity test to see if Frank or Wes is the father of her baby. | |
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False Confession | |
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False Confession: Frank confesses to murdering Wes to get into Annalise and Laurel's good graces. | |
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Deconstructed | |
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The students themselves, but this is deconstructed. While they are able to escape punishment thanks to Annalise and dumb luck, the emotional guilt heavily weighs on them. | |
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Red Herring | |
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The series finale subverts this one, too. The seeming midseason reveal that Wes was alive after all and was at Annalise's funeral was, in fact, a Red Herring; Annalise survived for many more decades, and all the other series regulars were wearing heavy aging makeup; Alfred Enoch wasn't because he was portraying Christopher, Wes's son born after he died. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Wes' mother was a former client of Annalise's when Wes (then known as Christophe) was a young boy. Ten years later, Wes becomes one of Annalise's law students and an intern at her firm. Annalise knows that his mom was her client, but Wes strangely had no memory of Annalise. Although Wes' mom tries not to get him involved in the trial | |
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Cat Fight | |
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Cat Fight: Laurel and Michaela get into a cat fight because Laurel stole Michaela's wedding ring. | |
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Sex for Solace | |
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Sex for Solace: With Bonnie and Frank. Frank is lonely and Bonnie is depressed and so they turn to each other for some comfort. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Pete Nowalk was originally planning to depict Bonnie as a mama bear, but liked "the darkness" that Liza Weil brought to the character. Ophelia, Annalise's mother, who burned down her own house to catch her daughter's rapist in the flames. | |
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Hard Head | |
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Hard Head: Sam is thrown over the stairs by Michaela and even starts bleeding from his ear, but manages to survive. This is subsequently Subverted, as he dies when Wes whacks him in the head with the trophy. Asher is struck in the back of the head with a fire poker, but is back on his feet within minutes. Unfortunately, he does not survive the several extra hits he takes a few hours later. | |
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Interrupted Intimacy | |
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Interrupted Intimacy: Wes walks in on Annalise and her boyfriend. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: After Michaela pushes him down the stairs, the Keating Four and Rebecca all assume that Sam is dead, until moments later when he gets up and chokes Rebecca. Simon Drake survives accidentally shooting himself in the head. | |
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Normally, I Would Be Dead Now | |
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Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Sam, after being thrown over a flight of stairs. The head trauma definitely should have killed him. | |
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Old Flame | |
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Old Flame: In episode three, it's revealed that Connor went to boarding school with Michaela's fiancé and they were together for a short time. Annalise and Eve. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Annalise asks one of the Murder Four to shoot her in the leg, believing she would survive. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: Frank has a duffel bag full of cash in it, courtesy of the Mahoneys. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Asher's father is a respected judge who has a lifelong habit of documenting all his professional interactions in a journal. He even keeps all his old journals neatly displayed in his study. When a former prosecutor accuses the judge of ignoring a report that a witness in a murder trial committed perjury, Asher does not believe it. However, when he examines his father's journal for that year, he discovers that there is no entry for the day of the incident. This is so out of character that Asher realizes that his father really is hiding something. | |
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Did Not Die That Way | |
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Did Not Die That Way: Wes' mother killed herself when she was 12, but at one point, he starts to think that he killed her, rather. This is Subverted, however, as she did in fact kill herself. | |
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Carpet-Rolled Corpse | |
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Carpet-Rolled Corpse: The body the four students are trying to dispose of in the flash-forwards gets this treatment. | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
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Bound and Gagged: The Murder Four bound and gag Rebecca when they begin to become suspicious of her role in Lila's death. Lampshaded by Connor in season four. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: The show crossed over with Scandal for a storyline in early 2018, which hadn't been established as existing within the same fictional universe until that point. They did share a programming block on Thursday nights, however. | |
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Naïve Newcomer | |
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Naïve Newcomer: Wes and Laurel. The events of the series proceed to kill their naïveté in short order. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Wes opens up to Rebecca using this. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: To be fair, in How To Get Away With Murder you're much better off being locked out than being in. Asher, until he murders ADA Sinclair and Annalise reveals that Connor, Wes, Laurel and Michaela were the culprits behind Sam's murder so that they would agree to helping Asher cover up Sinclair's death. Oliver, but he himself pieces together everything. | |
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Same Race Means Related | |
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Same Race Means Related: Lampshaded. In the second episode, Asher (who is white) wonders if Wes (who is black) is only part of their exclusive "Keating Five" group because he's the secret lovechild of their African-American professor Annalise Keating. Michaela (who is also black) scoffs at the insinuation that all black people must be related. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Bonnie and Frank to Annalise, although they've both done some pretty questionable acts that would also deem them treacherous advisors. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Nia, Nate's wife, asks Annalise to assist her in killing herself so she can escape the pain of her late-stage ovarian cancer. Annalise agonizes over it, even getting some pills, but ultimately refuses to let her have them. Nate eventually agrees to do it. Arguably Bonnie's smothering of Miller in season 5. He was badly beaten, having lost a ton of blood, and she did have other reasons for doing it, but surviving those wounds didn't look likely. Referred to as such in 5.09 ("He Betrayed Us Both") by Nate. | |
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Not Evil, Just Misunderstood | |
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Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Frank. He only killed Lila because he felt that he owed it to Sam after indirectly being the cause to Annalise's miscarriage a decade ago. | |
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Varying Competency Alibi | |
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Varying Competency Alibi: In an early episode, the Keating Five defend a wealthy hunter accused of murdering his wife. The victim was stabbed multiple times and the crime scene was a mess, so the team uses the defense that, being an experienced hunter, their client would've never been so sloppy. Case in point, he was much neater when he killed his first wife! | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Michaela's future mother-in-law thinks she's a Gold Digger, absolutely hates her guts and doesn't hesitate to show it, and threatens to call off the wedding if Michaela doesn't sign a prenuptial agreement. | |
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Clean, Pretty Childbirth | |
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Clean, Pretty Childbirth: Averted by all means. Laurel's birth scene was so gruesome that, in fact, a content warning was played before the scene. | |
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Blame Game | |
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Blame Game: Happens in "Kill Me, Kill Me, Kill Me," when the cast winds up dealing with Sam's corpse, they start bickering about whose fault it was that they got into this mess in the first place. | |
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Dark Secret | |
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Dark Secret: Wes: his real name is Christophe. Bonnie: her father sexually abused her as a child. Frank: he killed Lila and tried to kill his father when he was 13. | |
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Surprise Witness | |
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Surprise Witness: In the pilot, Annalise calls in a detective at the last minute to counter testimony from the prosecution. It's especially surprising for Wes, since Detective Nate Lahey is the man Annalise is cheating on her husband with. It's a surprise for Nate, too — he has no idea what she's trying to do until he realizes she wants him to cast doubt on the incriminating surveillance footage of her client. In another episode, the witness that Annalise plans on calling in ends up testifying for the prosecution. | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery | |
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Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Annalise cheating on Sam is "good adultery", because her husband Sam is bad adultery because he was cheating on her first, and because he hired Frank to kill his mistress. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Subverted. Michaela thinks she's committed this by pushing Sam off the second floor railing in self-defense, but Sam somehow survived that. Subverted again in season 3 when Connor believes he may have killed Wes, as he accidentally broke his ribs performing CPR. However, it's revealed later that Dominic had killed Wes long before Connor arrived. | |
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Skyward Scream | |
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Skyward Scream: Wes and Annalise both let out a scream in the third season premier. | |
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Four-Man Band | |
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Four-Man Band: In the first season, Wes, Laurel, Connor and Michaela are all embroiled in a murder plot and are known as "the Murder Four." In their Four Man Band, Wes is the Only Sane Man, Laurel is the Butt-Monkey, Connor is the Casanova Wannabe, and Michaela is The Smart Girl. | |
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Blood-Splattered Innocents: Sam's blood splatters on Rebecca's face after Wes hits him with the trophy. After accidentally shooting himself, Simon's blood is all over Michaela, who is extremely shaken. | |
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All Gays are Promiscuous: Connor. He also proclaims that he doesn't 'do' boyfriends. Averted by his boyfriend, Oliver, though. Ironically, the one time Oliver decides to have a drunken one night stand, he ends up contracting HIV. | |
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