How to Get Away with Murder is finally back with this season four premiere entitled “I’m Going Away”, an episode which focused a lot on the relationship between Annalise and Ophelia.

Close to the beginning of the episode, Annalise went to her mother’s house for a visit, and I have to say the scenes with the two were great. Both of these actresses are brilliant and they do an amazing job with these characters. Like usually, the scenes with the two were very heartfelt and incredible to watch. It was even funny seeing that, even though she is the one who was mentally ill, Ophelia is still the person who brings balance to the family when things start to heat up. The family started to consider taking her to a Memory Care Center, or at least Annalise and Celestine did, since their dad said he could take care of her alone. At first, Ophelia didn’t like the idea very much, but she later realized it was really for her safety and other people’s.

Even though it seemed like the best thing to do, we realized where Annalise got her stubbornness from: her father. Mac really didn’t like the idea of having his wife away, so in the end, Ophelia continued to live at her old house with him. I really hope none of them live to regret this. Annalise’s mother really needs treatment, and I think it is obvious she won’t have that in her house (or at least never enough to get better). One day she really can end up hurting someone, herself included.

On a related note, it was really not fair for Mac to blame Ophelia’s dementia on Annalise. We are not sure if she is the one causing the “visions”, maybe she is, maybe she isn’t, but if she is, then that is not her fault. Mac really went over the line there. Should Annalise stop visiting her mother just for her not to relive things? What she needs is treatment, and not people who simply ignore her problems or blame them on someone/something else.

Moving on from Annalise (at least for now), Laurel’s father is in town, and I was really surprised they just dropped the abortion bomb like that. Laurel told her father she didn’t keep the baby, like this was the most natural thing in the world. But later in the episode we found out Laurel did not abort, and she really intends on keeping the baby. This was really a relief. Another relief was realizing Laurel knows her father ordered Wes killed. I was wondering throughout the episode when they were going to find this out, but Laurel already did. We don’t know how, yet, and I don’t think no one else knows about it, but the important thing is that she knows, and I am sure she has a plan to make this secret come to light. Maybe she even already started that plan by telling her father she did the abortion.

On happier news (even though it probably didn’t felt like happy news for some people), Connor denied Oliver’s marriage proposal. As I said, this may not sound like happy news for everyone, but it did feel kind of right. Connor does want to get married, and to have children and pets, as he said, but from what I understood, he wants to do this when the time is right, not because one of them is afraid of being murdered or going to jail or something equally as terrible. He wants to get married because they both love each other and because they are in the right place to do so. Plus, married life wouldn’t probably change that much in their relationship, so I am fine either way. As long as they are happy, I am happy too.

The most unfortunate thing is yet to come: Annalise, after being again able to teach, ditched literally everyone. It really sucks this happened, because I love the team working together and being badass, kicking their enemies’ buts. On one hand I understand Annalise’s side of things: she blames herself for Wes’ death, and she realized this kind of tragedy happens around her, so she doesn’t want to be responsible for any other person’s life shattered. On the other, I also understand everyone else’s perspective: they have worked a lot for Annalise and the gratitude they get for all that is a recommendation letter after being “fired” for no reason. I think (and hope) we will see them all working together again not very far from now, but it is definitely not going to be fun seeing them apart while this doesn’t happen.

Lastly and as usual, How to Get Away with Murder introduced us to flash-forwards of 3 months later. We didn’t yet see much, but it is already possible to say that Annalise’s therapist is going to play a major role than he did in this episode. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust him, and I usually tend to trust people, so I don’t think I will be liking him very much. But there is something that left me confused: I read on an article the producer of the show saying that the big question this season is going to be “where”, and it was with this question the episode ended. Is the question “where is Laurel’s baby?” Maybe it could have died, and the question is a totally different “where” but it could also have been taken(?). I don’t know. Looks like we will have to wait and see.

Overall, this was a good start for the season. Could have been a bit better, but it was nice enough. I am giving it an 8.5/10.

The second episode will air next Thursday October 5^th and it is entitled “I’m Not Her”, where I hope we will have a few more answers about the flash-forwards, so don’t miss my review.