TV Series: Murder in the First

After watching the amazing How to Get Away with Murder, I continue on the murder theme and started watching Murder in the First. To be honest, I am not impress with the series.

The shows followed the homicide unit of SFPD and revolves around one major case throughout the first season. There are only 10 episodes in the first season but it still made me think that it is too long. There are not much going on in the one big case throughout the one season. Most of the details are told in the first few episodes and I think the show drag on too long on the trial making it dull to watch especially near the end. The only reason why I endure the show to the season finale is to see how the case unfold and it ended too abruptly in my opinion.

The main focus of the show is the investigation on the murder, which I quite enjoy in the beginning, but there are also a lot of side lines include in the plot that are either not being elaborated enough or just simply not necessary. For example, the romance between the two lead characters are way too cliche. Partners do not always have to be romantically involved with each other. This romance part also seems too out of the blue without much development in the beginning. I just do not found the necessity for the romance to be in the story line.

The show was being renewed for a second season but I do not think I will continue watching it as I think there are better alternative short series like this.

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TV Series: How to Get Away with Murder

I don't even know how to begin describing how much I love this series. It has been a while since I discover a show that is so addictive and I had to marathon it just to found out what happened. I watched episode 6 to 15 in a row til 5 am in the morning. I was really sleepy but I could not stop until I get to the end of it. I think this shows how good a series is.

The show is about a law professor and her five students entwined in a murder of a local student. The way the show was cut was very intriguing. It showed clips of flashback of the murder in every episodes and you have to keep watching in order to know what exactly happened that day. The shows also offered a lot of twists that gave me a lot of 'wow' moments. You just cannot tell who was lying and who was not and things happened when you least expected. There were cliffhanger in every episode that just makes you want to keep watching.

Another thing that makes the show so good is the lead actress, Viola Davis. The lead character Annalise Keating was a very complicated character, there were a lot of different sides of her that was shown throughout the series. In the beginning of the season, Annalise was shown as a brilliant, independent, charming professor. But in the later of the series, you found out that there were a lot happened in her childhood that made her behaved the way she behaved. And there were another side of her that she only show to close people in her life. She was such a complicated character that Viola Davis nailed it with her incredible acting skills. She is one the main reason that the show is so amazing.

Before starting the series, I heard a lot of great things about the shows and had very high expectation for it and it lives up to my expectation. Actually, better than what I expected. I highly recommend this show if you have not watch it and I cannot wait for the next season to come out.

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