How To Get Away With Murder Review
Sara S. Khan
Ms. J. Shaw
English A (1:30)
January 24, 2018
Current popular TV show
Peter Nowalk’s, How To Get Away With Murder is a TV show aired on ABC channel, currently having 3.77 million viewers globally. The story revolves around 6 law students working for Annalise Keating (played by an Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis), a law professor at Middleton University in Philadelphia. The specific settings used in the show form a suspenseful and cold mood. Most of the show is shot in Annalise’s house, the university and often includes some shots of the student’s houses. The six students, Wes Gibbins, Connor Walsh, Michaela Pratt, Asher Millstone and Laurel Castillo, who start ...
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crime in a casual manner.
Firstly, How To Get Away With Murder, has pummeled boundaries when it comes to how diversity, especially in sexual orientation and race, is portrayed on television, it's the single most important and watched show on broadcast television right now. How To Get Away With Murder no broadcast television series is more diverse in prime time than this one. It took on a single season for the show to become a must-see. For the first time, typically marginalized groups are able to watch a series and see characters like them, not only just existing, but acquitting in all complicated, sexy, fascinating way that white and straight characters have been doing for years now. A scene which had the audience stunned was when Annalise Keating in a moment of emotional nakedness, removes her wig and makeup, exposing her natural face and hair, something an actress of color have never done before on television. Another scene which had the audience going “Oh My God,” ...
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