How to Get Away With Murder season 2 had its mid-season finale and everything went down with a bang.
In an over-the-top series, How to Get Away With Murder just topped itself. Everything is usually bat$#i+ insane on How to Get Away With Murder, but to use that term right now would be an insult to the bats. It was that utterly melodramatic.
The Hapstall situation
Caleb contends he knew nothing about the gun. When Annalise arrives at the mansion, she lays down the law. Either Caleb or Catherine is guilty. Annalise doesn’t really care which sibling did it, but she can’t represent both of them because it’s a conflict of interest. In the end, she’s down for representing Caleb, and doing everything in her power to make Catherine look guilty as hell. For starters, this entails Frank tracking down Catherine at a hotel, and evolves into him drugging her, kidnapping her, and leaving her in the woods.
The Sinclair situation
Emily Sinclair has always been a rather a plastic character. This episode, she came off as a petulant middle-schooler who didn’t get elected homecoming queen, instead of a serious lawyer hellbent on revenge. Her first laughable tirade is with Nate, which supposedly results in her filing a harassment suit when he hollers back. As if that wasn’t implausible enough, her next emotional roller-coaster tirade is with Asher, which pushes him over the edge. It’s good news or bad news, depending on how you look at it, but we don’t have to worry about Sinclair anymore since Asher’s response is to mow her down with his car.
The Asher situation
Speaking of Asher, his life is royally screwed up. His mother wants nothing to do with him, and blames him for his father’s death. He’s now the family screw-up, not his sister Chloe (who even knew he had a sister?). Sinclair threatens to reveal all of Trotter Lake and Asher snaps, and not in a just momentary lapse of judgement kind of way. Obviously running Sinclair over was not a great idea, but leaving the car on top of her while he calls Bonnie to help fix the mess, and deluding himself into thinking she might be fine, is pretty messed up.
On top of all this, Asher was pretty out of it at the mansion. He was practically catatonic when he helped to throw Sinclair over the wall. He fell to pieces in the car on the way out, and then he ended up downright chipper, suggesting a car wash. This boy is cuckoo for Coco-Puffs. Bring on the straight-jacket because we are going to need it.
The Nate situation
If ever Annalise had an Achilles Heel, it’s Nate. Somehow Annalise in her own crazy way does everything to protect Nate, as if Nate was ever in any serious danger. The only thing less plausible about Nate is the fact that he is still hanging around Annalise. Run, Nate, run, and leave crazy-sauce behind!
The student situation
It’s a Catch 22 situation. A Mexican Standoff. Being caught between a rock and a hard place. Whatever you want to call it, it comes down to Asher knowing what the the other students did to Rebecca and Annalise’s husband, and they know what he did to Sinclair. They’ll keep quiet, if he’ll keep quiet.
Things deteriorate in the Hapstall mansion as the students break into factions. Michaela and Connor want nothing to do with the Annalise insanity any longer, probably because they have the most to lose with real emotional ties to others who are vulnerable. Wes, ever the eavesdropper, wants Nate around, thinking he’s the only one who can talk Annalise down. Laurel is scarily turning into someone for whom the ends justify the means. She’s the mini-me version of Annalise. Asher, poor Asher, is practically rocking back and forth in a corner and sucking his thumb.
Bonnie and Frank
Why do they work for Annalise again? Even they aren’t sure anymore. They are both racking up bodies and cover-ups. What exactly does Annalise have on each of them?
The Annalise situation
Annalise’s warped plan is to make it all look like Catherine not only killed her parents and aunt, but also killed Emily Sinclair and wounded Annalise. This will supposedly exonerate everyone? It’s more likely that it’s going to drive the students to become alcoholics or meth addicts.
Annalise’s plan goes wrong in a big way after she attempts of goad Connor and Michaela into shooting her. They resist, and attempt to leave. Then she moves on to Wes, who initially also resists until she admits to him what happened to Rebecca. A cold-blooded Wes then shoots Annalise. Only Wes doesn’t shoot Annalise in the leg like she planned, but in the stomach, a potential death wound. Even the calculating Laurel is horrified.
The connection
A delirious Annalise starts mumbling, “Christophe, Christophe” and it’s not like she’s hankering to watch Frozen on Blu-ray. Apparently, Wes was named Christophe in his youth, and he found his mother’s dead body. Annalise knows this because somehow she and Eve were lawyers involved with the case.
Now we have a whole three months to speculate what happens next when How to Get Away With Murder returns on February 11, 2016.
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