'How to Get Away With Murder,' TV review
ABC'S latest Shonda Rhimes show might want to take a plea deal.
'How to Get Away With Murder' has a compelling lead actress in Viola Davis and signature Rhimes touches, like cranking the volume on everything up to 11.
But unlike the other Rhimes Thursday shows on ABC, 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Scandal,' 'Murder' doesn't serve up enough juicy soapy fun.
Or perhaps more accurately, it doesn't offer enough fun to balance out the multiple improbabilities in its storyline, the constant time-shifts, the hard-to-follow scenes in the dark or what we're expected to accept about the legal and academic worlds.
Davis plays Annalise Keating, a high-profile defense attorney and law professor who runs her class like Marine boot camp.
She teaches real-life law, which means winning by any means necessary. For a defense attorney, that means sometimes a client gets away with murder.
This lesson isn't lost on five students she chooses to work at her firm: Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch), Michaela Pratt (Aja Naomi King), Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee), Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza) and Asher Millstone (Matt McGorry).
Eventually they get their own murder case, which involves Gibbins' elusive neighbor Rebecca (Katie Findlay) and will play out over many weeks.
Rhimes fans may stick around for this third hour of Shonda. But the first episode presents insufficient evidence to declare it a winner.
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