Posts tagged: “How To Get Away With Murder”

My scribbled notes for Shonda Rhimes shows are always so crabby. Like, for Scandal: "Flashback to her explaining the idea UGH WE KNOW WASTE OF TIME." And this episode had "COME ON" written all over the place. We begin with them zooming in on Lila'

It's episode seven out of 15 for this show, and I'm already REALLY getting weary of green-tinged flashbacks and MUUURDER. Which is not a great sign. Rebecca Sutter is also tired of it all, but that might be because this pork blood facial she tried

This week, Asher gets the spotlight, and a chance to do something other than mugging. He is kind of the annoying baby brother of the Pretty Little Lawyers: jumpy and nipping at your heels, all bluster and peacocking but really just a kid who wants someone to acknowledge him as

Every episode of this show begins with footage of the bonfire on The Night Of The MUUURDER With Which People Hope To Get Away. It's all very similar b-roll and atmospherics of crowds partying and fire burning things, cut together in that quick Shondaland style. I wonder

Jessica and I recently concluded that Viola Davis's performance is accomplished, yes, but also extremely curious -- because she's so AGGRAVATED-seeming all the time, as if she read the script and went, "Ugh, Annalise clearly hates all these morons." Between that and the way

I wonder if the network gave notes after last week that there wasn’t enough actual real authentic legal procedures, because after The Great Missing Objections Scandal of 2014, the word “OBJECTION” was blurted out all over the place this week. If true, this makes you wonder why they didn’

Well, this show took a nosedive in quality. I thought this hour was a hot mess. While I can't pretend to know all the ins and outs of the legal world, or the courtroom, I have watched a lot of The Good Wife, so I plan to object

Or as I call this show, Pretty Little Lawyers. Why? Because it feels EXACTLY like embattled ABC chief Paul Lee taking his biggest hit at ABC Family and greenlighting a grown-up version. Right down to the cluster of liars being at the mercy of a person whose initial is