I recently decided to start watching How to get away with murder, and here are my thoughts on it so far. If you haven’t seen this show (and want to) please skip this post.
When you first start this show, it’s all OMG! and OMG! and OMG! It pulls you in right away!! The first season is a twisted web of back stories and flashbacks and everything mingled in together. At first, I was intrigued by this. But that I just got super annoyed! Like ok, I get it, you’re trying to be all dramatic, but just SHOW ME WHAT HAPPENS AND STOP SHOWING ME THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER ALREADY OMG!!!
But it was still really good. I was hooked. So hooked that I’d watch so many episodes in a day (usually on my days off) that I’d have crazy HTGAWM filled dreams. But ya know, those weren’t always that horrible:
But then something happened. Somewhere around the end of season one, the start of season 2, the show started to repeat. The stupid flashbacks were appearing again, in that super annoying way where you get a dead body and then spend 15 episodes getting 2 minutes of what actually happened that night to get the dead body. Like, come on!! Sure, use that tactic once and then drop it. It’s not cool anymore. It was hardly cool the first time, but the show was so fresh and new that I put up with it.
And then there are all the other murders. Basically, when I see a new character that isn’t part of the lawyer team, I know they are either going to die or be part of a new murder. And I’m usually right. It’s so predictable now.
And I swear to glitter and hippos and unicorns, if I see one more person ugly cry with snot coming out of their nose, I’m going to THROW MY COMPUTER AGAINST A WALL! Enough already!!!
And I’m not even finished season two.
Here’s my thing: this show started off amazing! I was so captivated by it! But I feel like this is one of those shows that needed to be a movie. Just like Lost. With Lost, a friend gave me the first two seasons on DVD and then I started watching it on TV. But after the 3rd or 4th season, I gave up. I was bored. They are still on the stupid island, and the plot lines are just getting more and more ridiculous. This is how I feel with HTGAWM. The plot lines are just getting way too unbelievable.
Maybe the problem is that I’m watching it all at once and not once a week like the creators intended? But even when I take a few days break from it, I still get into this “ugh, seriously?” mode while watching it. I’m not sure how much longer I will stay invested, but for now, I’m still watching. I’m hoping it gets better.
I felt the same way about How to Get Away with Murder. I started it when it first came out (as a huge Shonda Rhymes fan, I was so excited) and I thought season 1 was fantastic, but then season 2 was not so fantastic, and then season 3 just lost me – I think that is the season I gave up on. It just got too weird and boring and not intriguing at all anymore.
Ugh and I hate talking about Lost. I get so infuriated lol! I loved season one and two and even enjoyed a little bit of season three, but then it just forgot it’s storyline. I did finish it, because I had already invested so much, BUT How to Get Away with Murder isn’t worth it, if you ask me.
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Ohh goodness I am so glad someone agrees with me! I’m usually the only one who thinks this way about shows like this haha!!
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I watched all the seasons to date, but after the third one I was so disengaged from it… I just put it in the background and then scroll on Instagram! 😂 It’s not that it’s bad… It’s just way too long and twisted. I don’t think I’ll watch the other seasons if they make more.
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Haha!! I do the same thing! Except I scroll through Pinterest of buzzfeed lol
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I had to take Pinterest off my phone… Too much potential for distraction, haha!
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Haha!! It’s a big distraction for me too but I’ve made some changes in my daily routines to make it less tempting
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I did too. I try to keep my phone in a drawer in my bedroom during my ‘out of office’ hours. I find it hard though!
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Oh yes it’s so hard!!
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Like you, I loved this show starting out. I made it to about midway through the second season and I just dropped it. Completely lost interest. I don’t even think I stuck around to see whatever mystery was unraveling.
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I’m kind of at that point too! Haven’t watched it in a few days and I don’t have much interest in watching more right now lol
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Sorry you’re not enjoying it like I thought you would! I think watching it all at once has brought on these concerns. I’ve watched it on TV once a week since it came out and can’t relate to any of what you said haha
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Lol I wasn’t looking forward to the expected disappointment that you would have over this post. I’m sure the binging has contributed to a lot of what I’m feeling. But also, all the snot! Paul!!! It’s just too much snot!!!!
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LOL I don’t know what to say to that. Mucus doesn’t take a vacation!
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This is unacceptable! You must always know what to say! And it needs to take a vacation. A loooonnnggggg vacation
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Fella and I watched season 1: loved it. Watched 2 episodes of season 2 and called it quits. I feel like they should have just made it a movie instead of a tv series.
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Yes!! Totally should have just made the movie!! I just finished season 2 and haven’t really had any desire to go back and watch more.
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I didn’t start this one and now I’m glad. I watched Lost but gave up somewhere along the line for the reasons you guys have said. I hate shows where you start to get frustrated. Build the tension but then give some answers, otherwise you lose me.
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They do eventually get to answers but then it just kind of spiralled out into insanity and snot lol now whenever I try to watch an episode all I see is the snot haha I just can’t anymore
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