With all the new shows that came out this year, How To Get Away With Murder seemed to attract the viewers just by the title. But the title seems to be the only interesting thing about the series. 

How To Get Away With Murder focuses on Viola Davis’s character Annalise Keating, a criminal defense attorney who also teaches a criminal law class at a local college.  Her front of a ‘strong lawyer’ is easily masked by all her minions who make her job almost too easy.

In the first few episodes of the season, Davis’s character picks five random students in her class to come work for her. Students who don’t know anything except how to kiss up to get to the top, do exactly what she asked of them. Work for her, as in do her job until she is needed in court.

With the help of her associates Frank Delfino (Charlie Webber) and Bonnie Winterbottom (Liza Weil,) the five law students basically put puzzle pieces together to try to figure out every case that comes their way.

How they obtain half of those puzzle pieces, however, is illegal. Not only do they hack into people’s computers and steal information, but when things do not go their way, they tamper with the jury or lie to get their way.

The students get annoyingly boring with time, and the minutes tick down until Davis is on the screen again. The Oscar nominee is the strongest actor on the series, and it really shows.

“The thing with Davis, an Oscar nominee and Tony winner, is that she’s almost too good. She demands attention on screen; when she’s delivering a monologue she’s the only thing you can look at,” Michelle Stark, a Times editor wrote in a review.

When the spotlight is on Davis, especially in the court scenes, it’s easy to forget who did all the grunt work and focus on how she will do anything to make sure her client comes off with no reprecussions.

In between all the court cases and relationship drama that is bound to happen in a ShondaLand production, the five law students prove that anyone can commit a violent act.

Nearly every episode starts with a flashback of the students somewhere dark, either in the woods or in a house in the middle of the night right in the midst of a murder scene. They are always freaking out or deciding how to get rid of evidence, and the viewer is always left wondering what in the world is going on.

In the first episode of the season, viewers were introduced to the murder that ties everything together. Lila Stangard, a sorority girl, was found dead, and no one knows who did it, but that does not stop the police from arresting anyone they think had something to do with the crime.

The two murders seem to connect in some way, whether it be the people involved or the reason behind it, the crimes both revolved around each other. Innocent people were arrested in both investigations as well. The only difference is, the second murder too almost as boring as the actors themselves.

Almost every episode is the same: Annalise Keating gets a new client, everyone around her works their butts off to show her that they are worthy, more details about Lila Stangard emerge, and flashbacks to the second murder are shown.

The show is dark and boring, and the only thing that is relatively appealing is trying to figure out the murders, and watching Viola Davis shine on screen. Not only does the show give the public ideas about how to break the law, but it also illustrates how easy it can be to avoid the consequences of breaking it.