After putting on TV the story of Meredith Grey's, Cristina Yang's, Alex Karev's and other doctors' private (& sexual) lives, setting the action in a hospital of Seattle, the creator of Grey's Anatomy (and its spin-off Private Practice) had launched in 2012 the political thriller TV series Scandal. This autumn, Shonda Rhimes strikes again with a new ABC's legal series: How to Get Away with Murder.
Sunscreen, sandals and summer dresses away, here comes a lot of people's second favourite season: Autumn. For TV series lovers, autumn means the beginning of a new show, a new season, or the realisation that a character or a show is definitely off (Cristina Yang and How I Met Your Mother are last season's most famous examples).
This autumn, after a great promotional campaign, the new ABC's series was finally aired. Starring Academy Award nominee Viola Davis and Afred Enoch (internationally known for portraying Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter saga), How to Get Away with Murder was announced as the new great series... Unfortunately, the trailer sort of ruined the story for the viewers.
The trailer of Rhimes's last creation, though well done and attractive did not serve the show after the first episode. Indeed, along with the realisation that the whole trailer is based on a pilot episode comes this annoying feeling that there is nothing else to see. Moreover, I believe that the show is based on the confusion of the viewers - one object/character per episode to follow during a series of flash-forwards and flashbacks that could help to know if anyone manages to get away with murder. Once the confusion is being understood, the show becomes interesting.
The problem I believe to be the biggest in this show is the story itself. Normal court cases are added on top of one big case they have to deal with as a running story. However it seems that this running case with be solved by the end of season. So what will happen next? Is How to Get Away with Murder a one-season-only show? Is it going to follow her students in the following years or change the whole crew (in a Skins way)?
Although, the first couple of episode might make you want to quit watching the show, the good production of images and the curiosity will help you to get going. And who knows, in the end, you may know How to Get away with Murder…
Let's end this post with a two-minute fashion point:
So far, the stylists of the show have made a great job in the choice of clothes for the cast. I do believe they found the perfect wardrobe (tight formal dresses/skirts, with a perfect touch of leather and many (too much?) pieces of jewellery) for the main character - portrayed by Viola Davis - who is supposed to represent the very example of a powerful and independent woman, but you can cross the line and become a dominating woman.
The other character also have the perfect wardrobe to match their personalities. For example, when his "student-colleagues" are wearing formal and neutral suits (white, black and grey as predominant colours), the character portrayed by Alfred Enoch - an outsider who managed to get inside - is wearing colourful shirts when outside of the Court and neutral suits when attending a court case (or how to express with clothes that the outsider become an insider).
The only problem they seem to have is for Katie Findlay who plays Enoch's mysterious neighbour. I reckon that adding piercing and skull on a T-shirt does not make one become mysterious. I would say that it makes her character become more ridiculous than mysterious.
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So far, the stylists of the show have made a great job in the choice of clothes for the cast. I do believe they found the perfect wardrobe (tight formal dresses/skirts, with a perfect touch of leather and many (too much?) pieces of jewellery) for the main character - portrayed by Viola Davis - who is supposed to represent the very example of a powerful and independent woman, but you can cross the line and become a dominating woman.
The other character also have the perfect wardrobe to match their personalities. For example, when his "student-colleagues" are wearing formal and neutral suits (white, black and grey as predominant colours), the character portrayed by Alfred Enoch - an outsider who managed to get inside - is wearing colourful shirts when outside of the Court and neutral suits when attending a court case (or how to express with clothes that the outsider become an insider).
The only problem they seem to have is for Katie Findlay who plays Enoch's mysterious neighbour. I reckon that adding piercing and skull on a T-shirt does not make one become mysterious. I would say that it makes her character become more ridiculous than mysterious.
