'Amazing': 'How to Get Away with Murder' series finale leaves fans pleased, teary-eyed
Spoiler alert! This story contains details from the series finale of "How to Get Away with Murder."
Class with professor Annalise Keating has been dismissed.
ABC's "How to Get Away with Murder" concluded its six-season run Thursday, providing viewers of the drama starring Academy Award winner Viola Davis with a major flash forward in the show's final minutes, which also included a funeral and three slayings.
As for how the characters ended up, Annalise (Davis) wins her murder trial following a powerful closing argument about removing her mask. "Who I am is a 53-year-old woman from Memphis, Tennessee, named Anna May Hartness. I’m ambitious, black, bisexual, angry, sad, strong, sensitive, scared, fierce, talented, exhausted," she tells the jury, who finds her not guilty of multiple murders. "And I am at your mercy.”
But she loses the two people closest to her, Bonnie (Liza Weil) and Frank (Charlie Weber), after a shooting on the courthouse steps.
More about Viola Davis:Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue explore 'secret sauce' of marriage with celeb couples in new book
As for Annalise's funeral the show teased all season? That was real, but it's part of a flash-forward to the future decades later.
During a eulogy at her funeral from Eve (Famke Janssen), Annalise is shown through the years attending her mother's funeral, dancing with Tegan (Amirah Vann) and walking on the beach. Connor (Jack Falahee), who goes to prison for five years as part of his plea deal for testifying against Annalise, ultimately stays together with his husband Oliver (Conrad Ricamora). We see the two of them at the funeral together.
Michaela (Aja Naomi King) becomes a judge, Nate (Billy Brown) opens the Lahey Justice Center, and the son of Laurel (Karla Souza), Christopher, grows up to look exactly like his late father Wes (Alfred Enoch, who returned to play his adult son in the flash-forward. Enoch's Wes died in a 2016 episode, though he appeared on later shows). Christopher becomes Annalise’s mentee and ends the episode teaching the same class at the same law school where Annalise taught, Middleton University.
Twitter users celebrated the full-circle moment.
"Props to the writers of How to Get Away With Murder for having a consistently good series from the first episode to the last," one person wrote. "Not many shows can claim that. What an amazing end to an amazing series. The final scene being an iconic moment to remember!"
Props to the writers of How to Get Away With Murder for having a consistently good series from the first episode to the last. Not many shows can claim that. What an amazing end to an amazing series. The final scene being an iconic moment to remember! #HTGAWM pic.twitter.com/cjwRzsmaXs— Muiz (@marvellousmuiz) May 15, 2020
