This whole recap should just be quotes from Cicely Tyson’s starring role as Annalise’s mother Ophelia. If we thought Annalise was a firecracker, we knew nothing until we met her mother. In the first five minutes, we see where Annalise gets her strength, practicality, vulgarity, straightforwardness, protective streak …. and murderous tendencies, but we’ll get to that later.
The episode opens with Nate being taken to jail, (no one was mad about that surprise nude scene) and Annalise curled up in bed. Her mom shows up to the rescue, but turns out to be the visitor from hell for the catatonic Annalise.
A smattering of Cicely Tyson’s lines, as promised:
“Don’t you know a VIP when you see one? Your boss came out of my v and her daddy’s p.”
“Your lowcal, sorry-ass husband who I said don’t marry couldn’t keep his peen in his pants and went and slept with a white woman. Then the fool goes and kills the white woman when he finds out she has his bun in her nasty oven. Then after that, your ex-police boyfriend kills the no-good husband and gets himself arrested. And you now ain’t got no husband, ain’t got no boyfriend, and you holed up in this bed like the Queen of Sheba.”
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So a few things here: we’re finally going to find out who killed Lila Stangard and someone’s going to die in the two-hour season finale. To start — our money’s on Bonnie or Nate having something to do with Lila’s death. Bonnie has that dental equipment salesman run-in to consider, and Nate has something up his sleeve. Rebecca will be tangentially guilty, of course, but this show is too twisty to have her be the only one guilty of Lila’s death.
As for the impending death, hopefully we’re wrong in our prediction that Bonnie or Asher dies as we’ll be devastated to see them go. But killing off Rebecca would tie up too many loose ends, and Bonnie had one helluva an episode for a final salvo before she gets axed. As for Asher — he’s Asher. He seems like he’d accidentally get killed.
The biggest question at the end of this episode is how this show could possibly top it in the season finale next week. Bravo Shondaland, bravo — we truly are on the edge of our seats.
The season finale for “How to Get Away With Murder” will air Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT on ABC.
