REVIEW: How to Get Away with Murder, Episode 405
How to Get Away with Murder continues this new season with its fifth episode, entitled “I Love Her” and it focused on the relationship between Bonnie and Annalise.
Not all episodes of this show have flashbacks, but when they make them, they are usually great, and this time was no different. We saw how Annalise met Bonnie, and it really was in surprising circumstances. Who would have guessed they were “enemies” before all of this? Annalise eventually found herself in a hard situation, not knowing if she should keep working for her jerk and totally guilty client and have a great future ahead of her (professionally anyway), or drop him and do the right thing. I don’t think it was much of a surprise at all that she fired herself and went to help Bonnie, but it was still nice to watch them start bonding. It was even better to know that Annalise was the one who convinced her newest friend to become a lawyer. Who knew that two women who found themselves in opposite sides of the same game would become good friends and mold each other’s lives, right?
Even though they really are friends, as I just said, that is definitely not what it looked like for most of the episode, because they found themselves in the opposite sides of the same game again. Annalise continued to work in her class law suit, by starting to gather signatures from some of Virginia’s old cases. She pretty much gave the same speech to all of them, but because it was working, why would she change it? She even made some new friends out of old enemies, and close to the end of the episode she got all 40 signatures she needed. Even though it didn’t last long, it was still amazing seeing her happy, because that hasn’t happened in a while.
While Annalise was working on her signatures, Bonnie was trying to find out a way to end her class action suit. She didn’t get many luck in the beginning, but she eventually found something which helped her, and started offering Annalise’s new cases a better deal, making them withdraw from Annalise’s side.
In flash forwards, we also saw Bonnie with Isaac, and these were really some great scenes. Hopefully, that will make Bonnie change her mind. I am not saying she needs to help her friend, since they have very different jobs now, but she should at least stop trying to ruin it. But it was still so satisfying for some reason seeing Bonnie say “I love her” repeatedly, because we all know that is what they feel for each other (especially after the flashbacks of this episode) even though they never admit it. This scene was yet another proof that the cast of this show is really fantastic. Always has been, always will be.
At the same time, Connor was definitely feeling down, probably still thinking about what his father told him in the previous episode, and he almost cheated on Oliver. I am very glad this didn’t happen, of course. I think Connor obviously loves Oliver very much, he simply has been feeling down lately, with dropping school and all that. But happily, instead of going to this other random guy, Connor went Annalise’s hotel room. This was after she felt the loss of a lot of signatures, so she wasn’t very happy either. In a really great moment, Annalise invited Connor to join her in the law suit. I was really happy when this happened, not only because we will get to see Annalise work with one of the Keating 4 again, but also because this may be exactly what Connor needs to get back on track: a motivating job to do.
In the meantime, Michaela and Oliver continued their mission to search in Tegan’s files for something on Laurel’s father. It took them some effort to find something, but not too much. After all, this is Oliver we are talking about. They did find something very interesting, which they will certainly use. What I didn’t like about this was that Michaela has been lying to Asher. Before the episode ended, I was not very happy with how they have been sidelining him since pretty much since the beginning of this new season, but now I think we will start seeing a lot more of him. This because he found out Michaela is up to something. I bet he will think about everything except for the actual truth, but that still means he will be back. Another thing that made me realize this was the very last second of the episode, when we found out, through flash forwards, how he is the suspect in whatever happened at Michaela’s new firm.
This was, as always, a great episode. I really liked the Bonnie/Annalise connection scenes, and it was even greater they made it stronger and still not put the two of them in a lot scenes together. The new mystery is getting very weird and also very close, so I really can’t wait to watch more. I am giving this episode an 8.6/10.
Next episode is entitled “Stay Strong Mam”, and in it we will finally know a few things more about Isaac’s past, so stay tuned.