"How to Get Away" tells the story of a group of young law students who become involved in a murder conspiracy after working as intern for a crime defense professor. This subject is actually not new, and legal dramas have always won the love of American drama production. Whether it is the enduring "Law and Order", "Boston Lawyers", "Litigation Two Heroes" and even "The Good Wife", all have good ratings. The stalks that can be used in legal dramas can be attractive, and these dramas use almost the same. And "How to Get Away with Justice" is not outstanding in any way, but this drama seems to be so inexplicably popular.
In fact, from the very beginning, "How to Get Away with Murder" did not intend to follow the old path of previous American dramas. It took a different path - subversion. The shooting techniques and narrative methods are different, and even other legal dramas are different in favor of justice and victory.
The show begins with the crazy bonfire party at school, the eerie woods, and the tense, endless conversations of a few young people, and then with the toss of a coin, the camera flashes back to three months ago, When this group of aspiring young people first entered school. They were going to take a criminal law class from Professor Annalise Keating, but the black female professor told them from the very beginning that the criminal law class was, in her eyes, how to get away with murder. Professor Keating presented an ongoing case to the students, along with four intern slots. The best performer can get a trophy that can be exchanged for exemption from the exam, thus opening the competition for this group of young people.
This group of young people used various methods to find evidence. The evidence that was legal, illegal and even obtained by some despicable means was brought to court by Professor Keating. She even sent her lover to court in order to win the case. It proves that Professor Keating doesn't care whether his client is guilty or not, and he doesn't care whether his methods are upright or not. And in the meantime, one of the students, Wes, smashed into Professor Keating's extramarital affair. After the case was over, Professor Keating chose an additional person in addition to the original four interns, and this person was Wes. Meanwhile, the sorority of the university discovers the body of Leila, the missing student of Professor Keating's husband.
Next, each episode is about a different case, and the students are still trying to find a way to win the trophy. And Laila's case is still ongoing. The people accused of murder range from Laila's boyfriend to drug dealer Rebecca. Rebecca is Wes's neighbor, and Professor Keating is their defense lawyer. At the same time, Professor Keating also discovered that the relationship between the husband and the dead schoolgirl may not be so simple. As the plot progresses, everyone is slowly involved in the murder case.
The whole series is constantly interspersed with the narrative, and it keeps flashing in until three months later when these young people deal with the corpse. As the flash-in clips increase, we will find that the body they deal with is Keating. The professor's husband, and he was murdered by mistake, the murder weapon is the trophy. Her students destroyed their husbands, and Professor Keating knew all this, but she wanted to exonerate the students.
When you first start watching this show, you may feel confused because of this chaotic narrative style, but when you really stop and watch it, you will find the appeal of this show. Because you will appear in those who may appear when, some chaotic flash into the camera, and slowly discover the ins and outs of the story. You will see that when this group of people is deeply involved in a murder conspiracy, they must live as if nothing happened after killing and burning their bodies, and use the legal knowledge they know to save themselves. This way of filming allows you to look at it from a subjective point of view, feeling the thrill of being nervous about their little bells and whistles and trying to exonerate themselves.
But when everyone thought that everything was settled, the screenwriter made a big reversal, overturning everything before, innocent people were full of lies, the murderer was someone else, and at the end of the play, death was the first The second season leaves suspense.
In short, this is a show that will hook you to continue watching when you start to understand a little bit, and you will be full of curiosity because no one knows what will happen next. Therefore, for those who have watched the first season, the second season will inevitably come a little slower.
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