Shonda Rhimes’ Crime Series Leaving Netflix Soon, It’s Your Last Chance to Watch It
Missed this hit ten years ago? Now is the best time to correct that mistake.
Shonda Rhimes is one of the leading showrunners in modern television. She has created such hits as Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. Rhimes is equally at home with stories about ordinary people (doctors and firefighters) as she is with stories about unusual professions (a political crisis manager, for example).
In 2014, she proved her mastery of dramas about lawyers with the release of How to Get Away with Murder, which has been picked up for a total of six seasons.
What is How to Get Away with Murder About?
Annalise Keating is an experienced lawyer whose criminal law course at Middleton University always "sells out." The reason for its popularity is simple: she focuses on courtroom practice.
Her classes use only real cases from Keating's clients, and every student has a chance to influence the outcome of an ongoing trial. Future lawyers skip other classes, stay up all night, and cheat. They are willing to do anything to get the teacher's attention. The best students do an internship in Annalise's office.
This year she decides to give a chance to five ambitious young people. However, at the end of the semester, this group will hide a body on the night campus. Viewers will have to figure out who was killed and who is the killer.
Annalise Keating is Viola Davis' Best Role
Annalise Keating is played by Viola Davis, an actress with an impressive track record. In 2009, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Doubt. Later she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in The Help. In 2016, she received the coveted statuette for her supporting role in Fences.
Her character, Annalise Keating, is a formidable but sometimes vulnerable legal hawk who is willing to go to great lengths to achieve her goals, some of which are not always noble.
The role of Annalise earned Viola Davis an Emmy Award. The actress became the first African-American to win the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
How to Get Away with Murder is Leaving Netflix
And yes, all six seasons of How to Get Away with Murder will soon be leaving Netflix – on October 1st.
But the good news is that you have just enough time to get to know the biggest crime hit of the 2010s and dive into the pool of intrigue and unexpected plot twists, because it is definitely worth it.