Saturday, February 09, 2019

My Review of How To Get Away With Murder's 5x12: "We Know Everything"


Written by Michael Russo & Sarah L. Thompson
Directed by Jennifer Getzinger

Frank (to Nate): "There's a world in where you're okay with what you did."

Another week, another good but not too exciting episode. This time around, it seems that Gabriel being arrested had something to do with his protesting past before quickly turning into the FBI's desperate attempts to get him to be a mole on Annalise. Predictable and also a little on the disappointing end of the scale.

The back and forth with Gabriel, Annalise and the Keating lot got a little tiresome in the episode, even if they all had points when it came to tearing lumps out of the others. The Keating do have the right not to trust Gabriel as does Annalise, given the way in which Gabriel confessed about being Sam's son.

Saying that, Gabriel himself is allowed to want answers about what happened to his father and given that no-one is willing to tell him the truth for obvious reasons, it's not surprising that he had been working with Miller. As for his double agent thing with the FBI, that can only go badly wrong for him in the remaining three episodes of the season.

Speaking of the FBI - that agent really does have it out for Annalise, huh? Well, she's hardly the first but this episode she did spend most of her time working both Gabriel and Tegan as sources to get something on Annalise with the latter only being too aware that both could pose a potential threat to her. I did like however that Annalise vouched for Tegan, even if it meant attracting Emmett's suspicions as well.

As for the rest of the episode, the gang almost thought they were free from suspicion until an Instagram photos courtesy of Connor's mother showed both Nate and Miller arguing with each other while the latter's body was finally found and Bonnie also had some quality time with Miller's mother. It did seem this week that Bonnie was handling things better, even if her and Annalise clashed over trusting Miller and Gabriel respectively.

- Looks like Michaela is going to go there with Gabriel again, while the show keeps alluding to both Emmett and Tegan being into Annalise.
- Nice that we got some bonding scenes with Nate and Frank in this episode but the moment where Annalise blew up at them and Bonnie felt a bit off to me.
- Standout music: Nice use of Placebo's version of Running Up That Hill.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode more or less left off.

We Know Everything was a decent enough episode but like last week, was lacking a little. At this rate, I'm not too bothered how this whole Miller death story is going to be resolved. I think compared to past fall outs from the big mystery death, this just hasn't been as compelling to watch.

Rating: 7 out of 10

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