A thrilling beginning to How to Get Away with Murder’s Season 2

Bernice Ng 29 Sep 2015 updated the 30 November 2015 à 19:05

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Viola Davis onstage during the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California for her role as Annaliese Keating in How to Get Away With Murder.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
The full, main cast.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Harry Potter Alumni, Alfie Enoch, began as a sweet, innocent, and simple person, who believes the best in others. And he takes Annaliese Keating's class in Middleton University's law school.
But as the season progresses, he begins to change to someone cold and snarky, but essentially the same, trusting and inately kind person.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Viola Davis as Anneliese Keating, a famous defense attorney. She is intelligent, and sexy, but also very manipulative and throughout the season, has used people for her own gain.
But Annaliese is protective and loyal to the innocent and that doesn't apply to clients only.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt. A very ambitious and elegant young woman with a secret past to hide.
One of the students chosen to work at Anneliese's firm, she has big dreams and high hopes for herself and she will do anything to get what she needs.
She was engaged for the msot fo Season 1 but the post-traumatic stress of the incident they had to cover up destroyed the relationship with her fiance, Ayden, who she found out once was in a homosexual relationship with Connor Walsh.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Laurell Castillo is an undermined, but she is determined to prove herself to Annaliese. She has however, given the team great breaks in tough cases because of her ingeniuty and her ability to see things clearly, but she can be insensitive with her words at times.
She is apparently from a very wealthy Italian family, but has an undesirable relationship with her parents.
She had a brief affair with two men at the same time, one of them being Frank.
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Liza Weil as Bonnie Winterbottom, Annaliese's associate lawyer who is often overshadowed by her employer.
She is unassuming and mousey, and not much is revelaed of her character. While smart, she isn't as powerful or well-reputated as Annaliese, whom she is fiercely loyal to.
She is involved with Asher Millstone, and not much else is known about her personal life. But at the end of season two's first episode, it is shown that she is not as innocent as she seems.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Charlie Weber as Frank Delfino. A well-dressed man who assists Annaliese and Bonnie and the rest with their work and running errands, and sometimes pulling soem strings to get thinsg done.
He is known to have 'connections' in prisons and is trusted wholeheartedly by Annaliese who confides in him and he is revealed to have in connection with Sam Keating, and he had a pivotal role in Lila's death.
Not much else is known about him as of yet.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Billy Brown as Nate Lahey, formerly a police detective. A pawn in the grand plan of Annaliese's plan to cover up the murder of her husband Sam.
Annaliese and Nate were sleeping together on and off throughout the season, but because of her manipulation, he was fired, thrown into jail and then now being tried for murder.
He continously was led to trust and believe that Annaliese had a plan, and now he is on trial for murder, with Annaliese's ex-girlfriend lawyer representing him in court.
A very complicated tapestry, we know.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Matt McGorry as Asher Millstone, a seemingly immature and inappropriate, but well-connected law student, with a rich and high-ranking father who also works in law.
Through the season, he grows to become slightly more mature, and he is also involved with Bonnie.
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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” – Season Two
Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh, a handsome and charming and initally manipulative law student under Annaliese. He attended boarding school, and much like Michaela he does what he needs to, to get what he needs.
He met his current boyfriend Oliver at a bar on the first case he worked. Oliver is an IT guy and helped Connor hack into someone's email, and getting a break in their case.
However, he had many sexual relationships with many other men in the season, and Oliver found out, and ended their relationship, but it was eventually rekindled.
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How to Get Away With Murder is the new show to keep your eyes on, and if you haven’t watched the first season, you have to, you will not regret it.

After a blood-pumping, enthralling and intensely suspenseful first season that started with a thousand questions and ended with just as many, How to Get Away with Murder has begun its anticipated second season. The show was so phenomenal because of the entire cast’s acting, but especially that of Viola Davis, who became the first black woman to win an Emmy this year for best lead actress in a drama series.

The first season revolved around the case of Lila Stangard, the young, beautiful and dead college student, who was also the mistress of Sam Keating. His wife, Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) was a very famous defense attorney at Middleton University. She chose 5 students to work at her firm: Wes Gibbins, Connor Walsh, Michaela Pratt, Asher Millstone, and Laurel Castillo, all talented in their own ways and intelligent beyond all. They work with Frank Delfino and Bonnie Winterbottom, Annaliese’s employee and associate.

Every episode flashes forward and back from present day to 3 months ahead, slowly revealing the cusp of the series. Sam Keating, an adulterer, ends up dead and everyone believes that he had killed Lila, but as the series ended, it was revealed that was not true. The ending of the first season showed Annalise’s attempt to help her interns cover-up Sam’s murder and legally show Sam’s responsibility for Lila’s death; and the events leading up to it.

No spoilers here if you haven’t watched it, but everything is not what it seems. The second season begins with a brand new case of a double murder of a wealthy, old, white couple who have two grown and adopted children of color.

The first episode ends with a flash forward to a eerily-lit mansion of the rich, murdered couple, and Wes running out of it, into the woods, and cuts to the inside, where there is blood splatter on a painting. And lying on the floor is Annaliese Keating suffering from a gunshot wound.

What to expect from Season Two?

What this season will bring, nobody knows yet. But there is a lot of speculation and fan theories about what will happen and we are hoping this will be as good, if not better, than the last. We expect more insights into a few characters and their backgrounds, namely Frank, and Bonnie, because as of now they are still quite mysterious.

Rebecca Sutter, who was accused of Lila’s murder at first, was murdered at the end of Season 1, but why, is the mystery. She had been acquitted of all charges, and was about to start anew. Even though she had lied about a lot of things, she was still innocent.

Her murderer is revealed at the end of the first episode, and it is certainly shocking. There is no known motive as of yet, but something tells us that all will be revealed in time, and that the backstory of the murderer would make all things clear.

As for the current murder case involving the double homicide, things are going to get messy. The team will soon start working closely with the accused murderers, in their house, which is where Wes was seen running out of, and Annaliese lay dying on the floor.

The case will most definitely be won, but what comes after that is unknown. Will it finally be revealed how deep in the conspiracy is Annaleise, or how Frank and Annaliese met. Why does she trust him so much, and what does he owe her? What is Bonnie’s origin story, and who really is Michaela? Will this case be related to each other, and how many layers will it have?

Look forward to this thrilling and intricately mysterious new season that hopefully won’t be the last.

Bernice Ng

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