How to Get Away with Murder came back from its winter hiatus with the lives of Annalise and the students crazier than when we left off.
We knew things wouldn’t be the same after Annalise was shot, but we didn’t realize how much things would change in the two week time gap between when Annalise was shot and when the events of episode 10 picked up.
Best Crazy Sauce Moment
The ongoing saga of the crying baby, hands down, wins as the best crazy sauce moment of the episode. It’s hard to say what’s more out there: the fact that Annalise hallucinated the baby, the fact that the baby might be a flashback to baby Wes/Christophe, or the fact that it could have been Annalise’s own biological child.
Beyond all of the above, as if all of the above wasn’t enough, Bonnie lets it drop that the imaginary baby thing has happened before. Of course, what you do when your boss is imagining crying babies brought on by a Vicodin high is to then spike your boss’ strawberry ice cream with more Vicodin.
We are still wondering how much of the baby thing was a flashback vs. hallucination. Plus, how do Wes and his mother fit into all of this?
Snarkiest Exchange
There were a lot of good one-liners this episode, but some of the very best material went down in Oliver and Connor’s apartment. We totally called it when we said that Asher wasn’t going to be the same guy now that he killed Emily Sinclair in cold blood. Asher is now spiraling downhill in an alcoholic haze of hard liquor in coffee cups. He’s trying to forget what he did to Emily and pursue his father’s murderer, if in fact there even is one.
“Congratulations on getting out of bed, whiskey helps,” was just the start of the alcoholic snark. Poor Connor and Oliver took the brunt of it all. Too bad that no one ever told them how no good deed goes unpunished.
Best Death Glare
Catherine Hapstall totally laser-eyed Annalise the entire time she was on the stand. If looks could kill, Annalise would have bled out on the stand from Catherine’s glare of seething rage.
Voice of Reason
Who would have thought that Laurel would become the voice of reason, as much as there can be reason in the crazy world of Annalise. Laurel was the total fixer and master manipulator. She played nearly everyone from emo, in-bed-with-dodgy-facial-hair Wes to Michaela, who now thinks Laurel pulled the trigger. She even managed to get Annalise off the pain pills and into court to testify.
Unfortunately, the downside of all this scheming is that it eats away at you. Laurel started to crack by the end of the episode, and Frank was there to pick up the pieces. The question is, is this a good thing or bad thing? We aren’t sure.
Ships Ahoy
Colliver, as usual, was completely adorable. They are trying to be supportive friends while bickering like an old married couple. At the same time Ollie is his usual trying-too-hard dorky, foot-in-mouth self, and Connor was Mr. Keep Ollie in the Dark.
Nate and Annalise had a great moment where Nate let Annalise know he had her back. It was more than just gratitude. Nate confessed, “I want to know you, I do.”
Caleb and Michaela are definitely a thing of the past. There’s no coming back when someone tells you, “You all belong in hell.” Hope she enjoyed those orgasms while they lasted, because there aren’t going to be any new ones, at least not delivered by Caleb.
Flaurel continues to sail on. It was a first for that ship with Laurel being as vulnerable as she has ever been with Frank.
Sure Didn’t See that Coming
Annalise was as crazy as a fox on the witness stand. Even though we thought she was losing it on the stand, she was in total control the whole time. She managed to clear Catherine Hapstall, clear herself, and implicate Phillip. It was one giant manipulation.
As Annalise explained to Caleb, it’s all about giving the prosecutor the villain they want. It’s the image of who they want put away. Annalise summed up her theory by stating, “No prosecutor wants to take down Patty Heart. They want to take down her kidnapper.”
Crack Theory for Next Week
Given the last moments of the episode, we are going to guess that Wes finally cracks. We are going to hear about his early life, how Annalise and Eve got involved, and how Christophe became Wes. Our crack theory is that Annalise lost her baby shortly after he was born and she conspired to adopt Wes, thinking his mother unfit in some manner. Maybe she and Eve caused the mother’s death. Wes will find this all out and the first student to take his own life won’t be Asher; it will be Wes.
How to Get Away with Murder is back next Thursday at 10:00/9:00c on ABC.