How to Get Away with Murder season 4: On Annalise’s class-action lawsuit

How to Get Away with Murder’s fall finale airs this week, and we’re trying to guess where Annalise’s class-action lawsuit will go next.

For better or for worse, it seems as though we’re stuck with Annalise’s main legal storyline on this season of How to Get Away with Murder centering on her class-action lawsuit. It’s permeated into her personal life, with many characters questioning her motives behind it.

To briefly remind you what the class-action lawsuit is about, it’s about the public defender’s office. Specifically, Annalise is alleging that all of her clients did not receive adequate defense, meaning they didn’t receive their right to legal counsel, meaning they might not have been convicted otherwise.

The biggest question that I still have about this lawsuit is whether or not it’s going to signal a sea change in Annalise’s character. Even now, she’s not really a traditional protagonist — and she never has been. After all, even in just this past episode, she and the DA had a secretary in his office commit perjury. Did the show let it pass without comment? No, but it was the biggest signal yet that despite her desire to help people, Annalise Keating has not forgotten some of her more devious (and illegal) techniques.

What the show may be aiming for is instead moving her into something closer to a more antiheroic build, closer to what she was at the beginning of the series as a whole. Does it necessarily make sense?

We’d argue that it does. Annalise’s therapy sessions have done a very good job of reminding us that she has gone through a lot recently, and after Wes’ death, it might have convinced her that now is the time to get help and to maybe use her skills for something better. As much as she’s still reluctant to go to therapy, she’s also shown concern that she may be negatively affecting Isaac.

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On the whole, Annalise’s class-action suit might not be the best or most interesting plotline for her to follow. There’s really no murder, at least not yet, and it’s not particularly salacious save for the attorney general trying to make it look as though she’s relapsed. But as a catalyst for Annalise’s character arc this season, it’s starting to pay dividends, and we can’t wait to see how it ends up affecting her character in a hopeful season 5 and beyond.