Watching
The play revolves around a disappearance: Laila, a college girl, disappeared a few days after she was found tossing her body in the water tank of the sisterhood dormitory. Who was the murderer? The seemingly simple case led to the eye-popping story: teacher-student relationship, extramarital affairs, interest struggles, serial murders...and thus showed us an elite group led by excellent defense lawyers. The composition of this group is quite special: Anna Liss, a successful defense lawyer, a respected university professor, a strong woman with a happy life, appeared in the image of a deified savior, most of the time everyone The life-saving straw in the eyes. The group members are even more diverse, including blacks and whites; there are two generations of arrogant officials and two generations of rich people, and there are excellent students who work hard to get out of poverty on their own; there are brides-to-be who are about to enter the palace of marriage, and some are unscrupulous to achieve their goals. Homosexuality. Watching them work together is like watching a micro-society. Cooperation and conflict continue. After the incident, different people's reactions — firmness, hesitation, questioning, and even almost leaving to the police station to surrender — let everyone understand: everyone does The different choices are completely determined by his growth environment. Just like when Wes defended Rebecca at the end of the season, “Anyone who grows up in an environment like her will become like this. People use you. You think everyone in the world will destroy you, so you will be Others hurt you before they hurt each other." Similar backgrounds resonate more. Perhaps this is why after countless deceptions and doubts, he still believes that Rebecca is not the real murderer.
From the perspective of plot, this season can be divided into two parts: the first part is from S1x01 to S1x09, which mainly introduces everyone's background and the murder of Sam and Laila; the second part is the final episode of S1x10 to S1x15, and more about the group. Everything that was done to help Rebecca get rid of crime, when everyone finally believed that the real culprit was Sam, the ending came to a big reversal. The first part uses flashbacks to combine the current timeline with the chaos of the night Sam was killed. It felt fresh at first, but later I felt that there were too many repetitive pictures and stories, and a little aesthetic fatigue. Fortunately, this method is not used in the second part to continue, otherwise I believe that more audiences will feel bored.
The two-episode series at the end of the season began with an unusual love story: a priest killed a fellow pastor who abused a child, but repeatedly revised his testimony in court until he took the initiative to plead guilty and go to jail, all because of a woman he loved. I always feel that in many cases, the screenwriter’s ending of this love story is to emphasize that the entire first season is actually "love" throughout the whole play: student Laila falls in love with her teacher Sam, steals the forbidden fruit, accidentally becomes pregnant, and is killed. ; Wes couldn’t help but fall in love with his neighbor Rebecca, and even the other three members of the group were involved in the whole incident; Annalis loved her lover Nate deeply, and in the eyes of outsiders, she was almost cruelly planted and framed to make him enter. Sentenced in prison, in fact, he secretly tried his best to help him get rid of crime... There is also Cornell and Oliver's same-sex love, and so on. This seemingly intense and cruel American drama is actually inextricably linked to love.
I believe that the phrase "Don't be" when Annaris was sitting in the dark at the end of the first part surprised many people. At the end of the season, the ending was pushed to a climax step by step with countless reversal plots: Rebecca Card "disappears", Laura has been hiding Michaela's ring, Oliver got AIDS, Frank is the real murderer who killed Laila, and finally ended with a shocking scene: Rebecca fell in the basement, dying. When everyone thought that all of this could end with Sam as the murderer, it was actually the beginning of other suspicions. Who did Rebecca text to? Which lawyer does Annaris ask Nate to call for help? Did Sam send Frank to kill Laila? Was Rebecca's death accident or premeditated? Will Annalis and Frank face the situation after Rebecca's death alone, or will it involve several other students? ... This American drama, which is called "the greatest suspense", is indeed worthy of its name, and all these problems will only be revealed this fall.
This season can’t be described more appropriately in the words of Annalis:
"You call it crazy, I call it winning." (S1x10)
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