Drama

The opening scenes of this Shondaland drama are enough to hook anyone. With many parallels to Netflix's "Elite," fans of one of these two shows will easily be pulled into the other.

The series opens relatively harmlessly: students at a Pennsylvania college are celebrating the upcoming annual football game against their rival university. There's drinking and laughing, as well as a massive bonfire that towers in the center of the festivities. In the woods just on edge of campus, four law school students have a much more pressing issue on their minds than winning the game: what should they do with the body? Whose body? Who are these students? Instead of answering these questions, the story rewinds several months.

Best-of-the-best defense attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) walks into a crowded lecture hall on the first day of Autumn classes. While defending clients in court, she also teaches a cutthroat class, affectionately dubbed "How to Get Away with Murder." The top four students in her class are given the chance to work for her, helping to defend people in the cases currently plaguing their Philadelphia community. Rather than four, the Keating Five is assembled: Michaela Pratt (Aja Naomi King), Wes Gibbons (Alfred Enoch), Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee), Asher Millstone (Matt McGorry), and Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza). Together, the top of the class compete against the prosecution, as well as each other: a trophy is gifted to the best student and taken away at will by Annalise, granting the winning student the chance to get out of an exam.

When a student in a Middleton sorority's body is found in a water tank, the connections between her murder and that committed by four-fifths of the Keating Five begin to unravel. The missing link between the two deaths could put the Keating Five-- as well as Annalise Keating-- in over their heads.

Lauren Bayerl

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