How Not to Get Away with Murder

I wrote last year about How to Get Away with Murder and, well, I was pretty bloody excited about it then. And I stand by that! The mid-season finale, the one where the show killed off it’s main character, Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch), is still one of the most effectively shocking and mind-bogglingly memorable moments in recent small-screen memory. But the second half of the season left something to be desired, with ridiculous plot machinations in order to avoid incriminating one of the other main characters in Wes’ death and having to get rid of them too, and now, with the show returning for a fourth season, it’s becoming clear that while the show made a brave and bold choice in killing off it’s leading character, there’s a reason that other shows don’t do it too – and that’s because it just might not work.

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