How to Get Away With Murder
ABC | Release Date: September 25, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzSep 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show is fast-paced and unpretentious, and it finds clever ways to deliver exposition that might otherwise be tedious.... [But] It often tries too hard to wow us, when it might have been better off just telling its story and developing its characters. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: For now, it appears to be a whodunit told in flashbacks and an ensemble drama whose ensemble has yet to fully emerge from Davis' formidable shadow. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowrySep 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Perhaps inevitably, with so much going on, the law students sort of blend together in the pilot (a few weeks after watching the premiere, it was difficult to remember who did what), while Davis’ scenes quickly expose sides of Keating that suggest there’s far more to her than meets the eye. Read full review
60
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's all a little pell-mell, but it just about holds together and Viola Davis is ferocious in the lead role. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Murder jumps around a lot, to the point where it’s perhaps too much. Read full review
58
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s straining to be TV’s new obsession, instead of a riveting drama. Read full review
50
The WrapDiane GarrettSep 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: [Davis'] performance is riveting; you can't take your eyes off this powerful creature when she's on the screen. Alas, the students aren't nearly as compelling.... When the action shifts to them, the drama suffers. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzSep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: The series manages to maintain a certain melodramatic tension, at least from the evidence of the pilot, but it could be hard to overcome the sledgehammer cynicism and mess of nefarious plot turns. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: Davis is riveting throughout.... Unfortunately, Murder has a number of flaws. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: It doesn’t offer enough fun to balance out the multiple improbabilities in its storyline, the constant time-shifts, the hard-to-follow scenes in the dark or what we’re expected to accept about the legal and academic worlds. Read full review
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