Tuesday, October 29, 2019

My Review of How To Get Away With Murder's 6x05: "We're All Gonna Die"


Written by Sara Rose Feinberg
Directed by Felix Alcala

Bonnie (to Annalise): "He was saying Laurel to you because you helped her disappear."

Ah, yes, of course Annalise helped Laurel disappear or at least that was what Xavier was trying to get Frank to believe between the beatings the latter endured this episode in flashbacks. Needless to say that while frank certainly had a rough time, he did make it out of the episode alive and even admitted his feelings to Bonnie.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Maybe frank does genuinely have feelings for Bonnie, maybe it's something else but can we please put this Laurel plot to bed if Karla Souza isn'r returning at all? There's enough going on at the moment that I'm not really sure we need more of the Castilos of it's not needed for this final season.

Between Frank getting his beatings, Annalise found herself a little strapped for cash from her secret account and she decided to turn in a favour from Solomon and the latter did not seem pleased with having to pay Annalise. Then again this wasn't the first time he found himself having to pay out as things soured with Michaela a little quicker than expected.

I did like Michaela's scenes with Solomon this week and while I wasn't surprised that the latter would disappoint her further, I was surprised that it happened so fast. Michaela had some great moments in this episode along with the way she was able to read Asher's sister as well.

Speaking of Chloe - I can safely say that I don't like her. She seemed to have no problem with undermining Asher at every turn and planting down in the friendships he's built over the last few years and I wouldn't be shocked if Chloe and the mother had their own reasons for getting Asher away from the rest of the Keating gang so to speak.

Then there's Tegan. In flash forwards we learned that she was alive and well and not the informant while in the present day, she had some wonderful scenes with Annalise and her ex-wife. I have to admit that Cora did come across as a bit cold during the divorce proceedings and I'm not looking forward to the inevitable team up with Cora and Nate, mainly as the latter's vendetta towards Tegan has gotten as tiresome as Gabriel blaming Annalise for his father being a cheater and so on.

- No main case of the week but we did have Robert send Annalise some flowers and Tegan didn't exactly hold back on her jealousy there.
- Oliver admitted to helping Frank find Laurel and there's growing conflict with him and Connor.
- Theories on who took Annalise's money anyone? Gonna go with Xavier for now.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.

We're All Gonna Die is something of a step up from the previous few episodes. It's nice we're ruling out various people in the flash forwards and the conflict with Connor/Oliver is interesting enough. There was a large emphasis on Tegan, which also helped this one.

Rating: 8 out of 10

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