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Question: Is How to Get Away With Murder collapsing already? At the end of its first season, I was already weary of the convoluted plot, but given the show is part of Shonda Rhimes’ world, I gave it a second chance. The first batch of the second season was a complete disaster, the twists are so ridiculous that my head hurts just by trying to keep up with who murdered who and who is blackmailing who. This show certainly is not the same quality as both Grey’s Anatomy or Scandal, and not even Viola Davis’s performance is capable of saving this car crash. If midseason replacement The Catch succeeds, do you think that both Shonda and ABC should cut its losses and cancel How To Get Away With Murder before it becomes a joke of a show (as happened with Castle)? Or is it too late already? — David
Matt Roush: I’m afraid that ship has sailed, or in this case sunk. Murder is now looking like a very bad joke, and the more hysterical Annalise becomes, the more I hope for Viola Davis’s sake that they free her soon from this overheated nonsense. I can accept a show where most of the characters are unlikable, but this year they’re downright unpleasant, and the story is so much less engaging than last year’s mystery that not only aren’t I rooting for anyone, I don’t care about what any of them are freaking out about on any given week. Watching this show is murder.