Viola Davis plays a prestigious law teacher and attorney ("Annalise Keating") who takes 5 students under her wing as interns to help her on cases (Wes, Asher, Michaela, Laurel, and Connor), they work alongside her assistants, Frank and Bonnie. Every episode they tackle a new case, the entire plot however revolves around the murder of a girl named Lila Stangard (whose body was found in a water tank).
One of Annalise's pupil's, Wes, befriends Lila's former roommate and BFF, Rebecca, she later becomes his GF.
It is later revealed through Rebecca and photographic evidence that Annalise's husband (Sam Keating) was having an affair with Lila Stangard [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmDLsbK2Zs] (it should be noted that Annalise herself was also having an affair with a police officer named Nate) and at the time of her death she was pregnant with his child. Sam is now enemy #1 among Annalise, her stuents, assistants, and Rebecca, everything points to him as Lila her killer.
One night Rebecca goes to Annalise and Sam's house to gather more evidence against Sam. Annalise isn't home, only Sam is. Sam begins to attack Rebecca and then Wes, Laurel, Connor, and Michaela show up to help. Wes ends up killing Sam and they all chop up, burn, and hide his body, now they're accomplices to murder. In this same episode it is revealed that Annalise is fully aware that her students killed Sam and is even happy about it.
The next few episodes are spent with Annalise trying to clear her name (as she is the prime suspect in Sam's disappearance/murder all the while protecting her students so they don't get caught.) She ends up pinning the murder on the police officer she was having an affair with, Nate. Throughout the series, Wes notices deep scratches on his apartment wall, he finds out that the person who used to live there was one of Rebecca's old friends named Rudy Walters. He asks Rebecca about Rudy and she lies and tells him he ran away. Wes does his own research and finds out Rudy is in a psychward. Wes and Laurel go to visit Rudy. Rudy is crazy as hell and can barely talk, they take notice to the scratches on his room wall as well. Wes shows him a picture of Rebecca and asks if he knows her. Rudy says, "wet" in reference to Lila her body being in a water tank.
Now it seems that Sam wasn't the one who killed Lila afterall and Rebecca has been playing everyone the whole time.
Name me 1 black folk who is SO into Friends for every 10 white people than I will take your word for it. It WAS for corny white people and it will remain in bland white territories.
It has some enjoyable moments and I guess the whole mystery thing is worth watching until it unfolds but the constant twists and turns and gay sex!!!11 are simply not enough to cover up the fact of how many cliches, bad writing and lack of character development is there. The idea is great but it just feels so rushed.
This is basically this years Coven in terms of ATRL hype, at least people finally understood how ****** that was
