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Listen, Whatever That Series Finale Was, I Ain’t Do Anything To Deserve it I’m going to tell y’all straight, I’m going to try my best to be spoiler free. I’m not sure if I’m going to be successful but these writers done broke my heart for no reason. How To Get Away with Murder created a beautiful time in television. We saw a wondrous black woman, Viola Davis, as a dynamic protagonist. It was easy to admire Annalise Keating; her imperfections made her more daunting. We saw her relationship to grief, love, protection, motherhood; How To Get Away with Murder gave me dreams about writing a character with layers like that… and yet. Why they do the finale like that? I’m trying not to make this a rant, I really am. But we need to talk about how I was with the whole series until the last 12 minutes. The last two episodes needed to be stretched out, rewritten, just lord… via GIPHY Okay so we know that everybody from the main group (Oliver, Laurel, Frank, Bonnie etc.) got some form of guilt. Whether it is murder, hacking, or trying to break into somebody’s house, all of them need to go to jail. So this is why we are here on this trial. Except the problem is, this trial pushes Annalise to take the blame for everything. In these final episodes I was grateful to see how each character maneuvered through their grief. Death has never been an easy burden to hold. Each death within the series came with bitterness pushed to the side in order to avoid legal repercussions. Now we see the rem…
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Khadjiah Johnson
Khadjiah Johnson is a Caribbean-American writer and humor advocate who uses poetry and comedy as a leverage to empathize and uplift. Her work has taken her to Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, BET,…
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