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How To Get Away With Murder 2x07 "I Want You To Die" RECAP
On another Famke Janssen-less episode last week, it turns out that Catherine might actually get framed for the murder of Emily Sinclair and the shooting of Annalise Keating. Frank left her in the middle of nowhere. In the flashback to present time, Wes hates Annalise for not telling him the truth. Annalise responds to this criticism by telling him more lies. We also learned our favorite IT guy Oliver doesn't even cover his webcam, because the new suspect for Catherine and Caleb Hapstall's parent's murder Phillip was watching and listening to Connor and Oliver talk. Also, Asher is officially the worst because guess what happened at Trotter Lake? Gang rape. I mean, I saw something like this coming, because frat boys on television never have morals or anything, but still.
But guess what happens this week? Famke Janssen comes back. That's right, it's no longer Adam and Eve. It's Annalise and Eve!
I tried a new format this episode that gives a basic recap of each character's storyline for the week. If you could give me some feedback and let me know how you feel, I'd love it. And I'd love you. For like, ever.
Annalise (and Eve): There's just something fantastic about Eve. She's like a light on this depressing show. A bright, beautiful light.
This week, she might have to defend Annalise and Nate because Emily wants to get Nate's dead wife's system tested for drugs. Annalise and Eve get into a car and plan on/joke about running away together and starting a practice in Paris. Spin-off series, please?
Eve crossed the nurse in Nate's evidentiary hearing. Obviously, Annalise was like, "wth eve?" in the bar. Eve gets her to order mozerella sticks and onion rings, which means Annalise is loosing up. I mean, hasn't every single time Annalise loosed up so far in this series been a result of Eve?
Eve won the evidentiary hearing after Nate tampers with shit.
Annalise and Eve drink wine at the end of the night and crack jokes about Sam. Then Eve asks about Wes and asks if he's the one she's protecting. Annalise says he is, and then Eve says she's a good person for defending Dean Thomas.
Bonnie: Bonnie is obviously very pissed off that Asher let his dad defend the rapists who raped Tiffany from Trotter Lake. Bonnie stills saves his ass at the end of the day. She gives him the, "Reasons why you suck" speech after Asher tries apologizing about the gang rape that he wasn't apart of.
Bonnie confronts Annalise at the end of the episode for telling Asher that her father molested her. Little ol' Paris Geller gives her the "Reasons why you suck" speech, because everyone on this show needs that speech from Paris Geller. Annalise tells her that everything good in her life is because of her. Bonnie tells her that she wants her to die.
Connor (and Oliver): Oliver gets a job at Annalise's place. Connor tells him that he's in danger, and obviously the guy you're playing naked twister under the sheets matter to you. Oliver says he's a big boy and just wants to feel the thrill of an average 00's thriller. Annalise also thanks him for saving their asses from case to case. Oliver doesn't understand why Connor thinks she's so mean, which is the exact thing that happened with me with my 8th grade reading teacher. There was never any reason that coloring page should have been worth half of our grade, you tool!
Oliver says he's going to make Connor go out on a coffee date with Phillip. Connor tells him not to have such low self-esteem. And Frank says Quote of the Night 1: "I'd spank you before Walsh." Hand went over mouth giggling at that one. It's nice to know that Frank would rather play naked Twister under the sheets with Oliver, because that means that Oliver is worth something to Frank. And you know what happens to the people who are worth something to Frank. He's like the demonic version of a guardian angel.
Anyways, Oliver messages Phillip back and it's really scary. Not necessarily because I think Phillip is some psycho killer (don't judge a book by its cover- I mean at the very least he could have been involved in Trotter Lake) but because socializing in general on dating sites are really, really scary. Phillip could have ended up sending a billion images of his dick from various angles!
Connor goes on a date with him, and I take it's the first time Connor's been stood up in his life. Well, you know what? Phillip didn't stand up Oliver, because he goes into the apartment and makes the poor boy drop his groceries all over the floor. Which I understand, because How To Get Away With Murder's version of Huck from Scandal's voice would make me piss myself too.
Laurel: Laurel and Frank start making out in Annalise's house, because sometimes work gets too hard so you have to make someone else hard to make your work life a much better place. Annalise walks in. Michaela tells her that she's setting feminism back a few years because she's spending all her time making out with that one guy from Buffy. Annalise doesn't even let her talk, even though Laurel is a thoughtful, gentle soul totally capable of murder who needs time to plot and plan and think. Nobody understands Laurel! She just wants a nice Italian man on her body at most times.
Laurel actually solves their case this week by flirting with the doorman. She brings him to court and uses the fact Sharon the ex-wife is never home and is probably out screwing the prosecutor. Laurel has sexual intuition, guys.
Laurel confronts Annalise outside of the courtroom, and asks why Annalise never talks to her. Annalise says that it's because she never has to worry about Laurel. Please. I've rewatched the series 5 times for the sole purpose of investigating Laurel.
Later on in the episode, when Connor is out on his date with Phillip, she calls Mama Annalise to tell her that they're making Connor do dangerous things. Obviously, Mama Annalise wants to kill them all for letting him do that.
Frank: Annalise tells Frank if he wants to help her, kill Emily Sinclair. Frank gives the, "I'll consider it" look. Frank makes out with his girlfriend. Also, we learn that if Frank had to pick between sending a dollar store Valentine's Day card to Connor or Oliver, he'd pick Oliver. I'd probably also pick Oliver, because I know that Connor would prefer his card with a few crude things I could never do. Oliver, on the other hand, would appreciate the thought.
Michaela: Apparently, Caleb and Michaela have moved up to the, "calling you while I'm working" stage. Which is adorable, by the way. Absolutely adorable. Please don't be a murderer, or gay, Caleb! Michaela deserves a nice boyfriend. Michaela still wins Outfit of the Week for like the umpth time in the series's history. Okay, I really didn't like that one pink shirt in last episode, but you get my point! Michaela has a killer (no pun intended) sense of style and I love her to pieces. There wasn't much of her this episode, though, but I still have to dedicate a paragraph to remind my readers that I just really, really love Michaela Pratt.
**Annalise and Michaela kind of match. Proof:
Wes: Wes got put on the Nate Lahey evidentiary hearing case after Asher asks if he's an expert on suicide after they start talking about the client of the week's victim. Bad, bad choice of words. Annalise puts him on the case, and Eve loses the case. Which means the whole Paris practice thing made her so happy she was willing to lose Nate's case. But guess who didn't lose that case? Eve. Because she is just as great as Annalise, except her life doesn't consist of a metaphorical darkness that slowly kills her inside.
Wes still has the gun by the end of the episode. Boy, you better put it down! It's no fun playing with guns!
Catherine and Caleb Hapstall: Neither of them were even in this episode. I bet they'll be back next episode, but guess who isn't watching the next episode on time? This girl.
Asher the Horrible: Okay, so Asher might not have gang raped a girl, but his friends still did. And that's a kind of problematic that I don't want to accept in my life. I'm fine with Frank murdering a girl, but I don't have to be okay with Asher's fuckboy friends of a different kind. Tiffany (the Trotter Lake girl) has to live with that memory every single day of her life. Lila is probably in Heaven wondering why the hell she risked her life to date some guy with the personality of a wet crouton shaking her poor little head.
Asher got mad that Wes and the Accomplices + Oliver were watching the Official Fuckboy Chronicles (aka the Trotter Lake video) and Bonnie came in to save the day. Asher fucks up everything and tells her that he knows about the video. Really, Asher? Really?
Nate: Emily wants to get Nate's dead wife tested for drugs in her system. They don't win the evidentiary hearing, and actually test his wife. But because this is TV Law, Nate got away with messing with the evidence and was found innocent. You know what I realized? Nate goes through so much shit on this show, and half of it has to do with the fact he can't stay away from Annalise and Co.
I mean, it's bad enough your wife was suffering, but to get murder pinned on you? Nate is a saint. Unless he got someone to shoot Annalise. Then he most certainly is not a saint.
Annalise's Client of the Week: Her client pushed a guy to suicide. Specifically, he drove his ex-wife's love of her life to suicide. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this season, it's really, really hard for me to want these clients to be found innocent. Except for Catherine and Caleb, for obvious reasons. He wouldn't accept going to prison for two years.
Marco (the guy who had committed suicide) was an alcoholic. He went to AA meetings. Annalise uses this for her case and says that alcoholics are more likely to have clinical depression. But Marco calls in to 911 and says that he's going to kill himself of Annalise's client.
The ex-wife and the prosecutor are having sex. Laurel just knows it. She has the, "Are they fucking" senses, and you know what? I trust her. And Annalise knows that she has this sense, because she knows all. Annalise suggests that the prosecutor was the one who lead poor ol' Marco to suicide.
Quote of the Night no. 2: "You're a stalker, you're pathetic, and you're fired," Annalise said to her client after he says there's still a chance that him and his ex-wife will get back together after the prosecutor was found guilty.
Flashforward: Michaela tries getting Connor to stop. Laurel is watching and asks Wes what to do. Wes is holding a gun. Apparently, the gun is the same one Levi left. Bonnie apparently pushes Emily off the ledge. What in Sam's hell is going on in this freakshow
Next week is the week before we find out who shot Annalise, and I will be out of town the day it airs. Of course, I'll still come back and recap, but I'm just letting you know I'll be a day late.
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