AVClub: It’s getting increasingly difficult to separate the good from the bad when it comes to How To Get Away With Murder. When it comes to really small details, this show can be incredibly smart and subversive, allowing its characters to talk about race, sexuality, and gender in a way that makes the conversation personal. Most legal dramas only touch on issues of identity in broad strokes, making them more like plot devices than just reflections of the characters and their experiences. The Good Wife, for example, is stuck in a hiring discrimination storyline this season that carries very little weight. How To Get Away With Murder doesn’t treat racism like a storyline. It makes it a lived reality for its characters, allows racism to insidiously sneak into different corners of the show in a way that reflects real life. A flashback in tonight’s “It’s A Trap” shows an older white man telling Annalise he only hired her because he thought having a woman of color represent his son would be the best way to swing the jury. He cautions her against losing: “Don’t give your people a bad name.” The moment doesn’t really have a major impact on the actual plot (ahem, plots, so many plots) of the episode, but it’s a very honest depiction of the burden placed on people of color to be representatives of their entire race. In the client’s mind, if Annalise fails, it means all Black women who are lawyers fail. It’s fucked up, and How To Get Away With Murder never shies away from harsh truths when it comes to sexism, racism, and heterosexism.
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