Thursday
night television:
Premier of How To Get Away
With Murder.
Sensational. Granted I
have not viewed a lot of network drama (working, bed by 9 pm, did not
want to stay up until 10 pm thank you and technophobe regarding any recording device) but this ABC show is killer
in several ways.
Lawyer teaching Law 101,
has about 100 students in her class. Simultaneously she is trying a
murder case. PA accused of giving her demanding boss an aspirin to
which he is allergic and dies. She was also his mistress. The
victim has a wife, there is a partially incapacitated senior partner.
We also see flashes of what looks like members of the professors
class reenacting a murder, plotting how and why and where to dispose
of the body. Back to class; she challenges everyone to guess her
method of attack as the defense lawyer in the case now on trial. The
winner will get immunity from any test at any given time during the
course of the class. The one poor student who didn't get the email
about the assignment gets to go last in the guessing contest. And
during all of this there is a missing female student, searches are
on.
As the trial unfolds
various students scurry around trying to find holes in the evidence.
One girl scurries into the courtroom and whispers into the lawyers
ear. Defense then pillories the witness by tricking her into
admitting that she is color blind (was the pill the same yellow as
the prosecuting attorney's shirt? Yes, um that prosecutors shirt is
blue) and she could have mistaken the yellow aspirin for the blue
anxiety medication.
That evening our last to
argue student is flipping through a law book and discovers what he
thinks is a pertinent point of law. He dashes to the professors
house, finds the door unlocked and calls out to her and goes into the
bedroom and interrupts an intimate moment with a man who quickly
leaves. Student backs up to leave and professor asks him why he is
there. He says he found where a discredited witness could allow the
defense attorney to call to end witnesses and potentially go to jury.
She tells him that won't work because anything coming after that
will taint any cross examination. Sorry about the interruption.
Next sorty into
discrediting the witnesses is one of the other students, very good
looking gay guy, tracks down good looking IT guy who works for the
victim and romances him to reveal an incriminating email. I must say
the homoerotic romance was hot. Hoo boy!! Now since the email is illegally
obtained, how to introduce this. Get creative. Email introduced as
legitimate discovery document. Prosecution objects because it was
not in original discovery. This forces judge to allow this. (Now I
must say that this could have gone badly, the judge could have called
counsel to the bench and declared a mistrial, end of show. Just pointing out holes here.)
Third bit of evidence to
be discredited is security video tape of accused purchasing some
aspirin shortly before death of victim. Defense calls in a detective
from Philadelphia branch and swears him in (turns out the guy is the
one in her bedroom that junior interrupted and a gorgeous black guy!)
He glares at her. She glares at him and asks him if in his
experience did he have knowledge that any video tape had every been
tampered with? Yes. Thank you officer, you are dismissed.
At a college get
acquainted meeting the law students are chatting and meet another
a typical suited middle aged white professor who is there with his wife to meet and greet. He is the
defense attorney's husband, eye brows raised, he was not
the guy in the bed room!
Fourth happenstance,
second girl student is in courtroom bathroom and sees the accused
seeing the victims wife who pats her on the shoulder. Second girl
scurries to defense attorney's secondary team who poo poo this as
inadmissible. The secondaries have their own story line of shiftiness and smarm.
About three quarters of
the way through the program, because of all this discrediting of evidence and testimony, the
trial does go to jury and the accused is acquitted. Yay pizza is on
me moment!!!
Then the missing students
body is discovered in a sorority house water tank on the roof. The
professors husband is watching this on TV when his wife comes in and
he comments, “They found my student.” They both comment about the
poor parents. She then says, “I bet the boyfriend did it.”
Hmmm, could she be thinking that her husband might be involved?
Last scene shows the
students assembling to burn their body. As the flames leap up we see camera close
up of real guy rolled up in the rug. WTF?!
There are OTHER plot
twists and turns developing as we speak, very impressive. Please ABC,
keep up the high quality of writing and production or lose to
Thursday night football. All you Thursday night football peeps need
to record this show. You just gotta!!!
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