A Dose Of Reality In Week Four Of 'How To Get Away With Murder'

What moment had columnist Alex Rich saying, “that is exactly what law school is like”?

You guys, I think I have a problem. I think I am starting to like “How To Get Away With Murder.” Yeah, I know what I’ve said about the show in the past. And it’s still all true. Truth time: a basic girl who once dated a law student for all of a week probably has a better grasp of what law school is actually like than the writers of this show. It is kind of like eating a fluffernutter sandwich, it’s sticky and too sweet and is only barely classified as a food stuff but, man is it tasty. Who cares that your teeth will ache from the sweetness and your stomach will protest for hours after it’s finished? It is good going down. So is HTGAWM. It’s outrageous and unrealistic but I have fun screaming at the TV and scornfully glaring at anyone who dares to interrupt.

So what crazy hijinks are the gang getting into this week, what moment had me saying, “that is exactly what law school is like,” and what are the final nine words of the episode ABC kept teasing all week?

The narrative continues to follow a time-splitting arc, with the events surrounding the murder of Mr. Viola Davis, Sam Keating, and its subsequent cover-up taking up half the narrative and the cases and law school tribulations of “seven weeks ago” the other.

The most realistic subplot happens in the flashback to simpler times, when the gang were mere law students and not yet murderers. Even though most law school classes have done away with midterms, it’s a month into the semester and there’s a torts exam coming up. And man, Michaela is FLIPPING HER SH!T. Apparently she’s caught on that doing the work of an associate (for free) is really cutting into her studying time. Though she’s being flippant when she throws out the remark that no one is naturally good at torts, the point is real: 1Ls are thrown into an academic world that is radically different than the undergraduate studies at which they excelled. So it makes total sense that the crazy gunner in Michaela spends most of the episode trying and failing to get someone, anyone, to share a torts outline in scenes that are reminiscent of the movie The Paper Chase. Michaela does freak-out mode well and it rings true that the associates at the Keating law firm refer to her as the “shooting star,” a reference the audience understands is more for the inevitable fall than the meteoric rise. Ooh — FORESHADOWING.

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