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Fall season pick-ups: How to Get Away With Murder, Black-ish.

The US Fall season has its first full season pick-ups for 2014.

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2014-10-11_0035The US Fall season has its first full season pick-ups for 2014: How to Get Away With Murder and Black-ish.

How to Get Away With Murder will have 15 episodes, while Black-ish , also from ABC, will run for 22.

Murder debuted to 14.3 million total US viewers and a 3.9 demo rating. It will air on Seven next year.

Black-ish premiered to 11 million viewers and a 3.3 demo rating.

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  1. But whereas Damages was classy and smart enough to make you think it was believable while you were actually watching it, How To Get Away With Murder is tacky and never really convincing. Viola Davis is also something of a disappointment. Though excellent in a number of movie roles, she’s less than riveting in HTGAWM – though that’s not entirely her fault.

  2. How to Get Away with Murder is excellent entertainment – completely ludicrous, no doubt, but good fun that’s well made and moves quickly.

    It deserves its success and I like that it’s borrowed the plot device that served Damages so well over its five truly excellent seasons.

  3. @OzJay – sadly have to agree. I am enjoying the show so far, but it feels very unresolved. The legal side of the story seems to be there to provide a setting for the more personality-based side, but they just don’t quite come together properly.

    I’ll stick with it though. It’s the sort of show that has the potentially to really take off in season two once the writers have a better idea of which parts work and which parts don’t.

    Scandal has improved massively IMO, especially this season.

  4. I suspect you will only find How To Get Away With Murder “excellent” if you’re among those who find Scandal “believable”. It’s legal plotlines are ludicrously far-fetched (imagine David E. Kelly on acid), it’s so desperate to be edgy and provocative that it quickly becomes annoying, and it features the most thoroughly unlikeable bunch of characters imaginable, up to and including the rude, duplicitous, amoral character played by Viola Davis. In other words, it’s the same again from Shonda Rhimes. I suspect the audience it’s attracted so far has stayed largely because of the series’ mystery hook, but I’ll be surprised if many stay the course of another 15 episodes.

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