How to Get Away with Murder

How to Get Away with Murder has 6 seasons and 90 episodes in total — only 2 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes if you watch it non-stop!

I think this series has a perfect structure — each episode starts and ends with a hook for the next one, so it just sucks you in without you even noticing. It was really hard for us to stop watching and go to sleep. It felt almost like an addiction!

HTGAWM is an interesting, smart, gripping — I’d even say absorbing — series. The visuals and plot are great, and some of the plot twists are genuinely mind-blowing. The characters are well-written too: not just good or just bad, but complicated and interesting to watch.

This series is where my love for Viola Davis started, because her performance here is something else. The way she portrays her character — strong, fierce, intelligent and tough, but at the same time tired, lonely and drowning in guilt — is just brilliant. A couple of scenes almost made me cry, especially the one where she removes her makeup in front of the mirror. And I’m not surprised that scene was Viola’s idea.

The way Viola’s character goes through her own traumas and battles is so real and raw that no matter what she did or how wrong it was, I was sympathising with her the whole time and hoping she’d be okay by the end. I connected with this character from the very first episode to the very last. Just brilliant work!

And literally everything she’s in just gets better: Doubt (2008), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Help (2011), Prisoners (2013), Widows (2018), The Unforgivable (2021), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and so much more.