Season 5

Season 5
Season	5
Episodes	15
Airdate	September 2018 - TBA
Premiere	"Your Funeral"
Starring	Viola Davis - Annalise Keating Billy Brown - Nate Lahey Jack Falahee - Connor Walsh Rome Flynn - Gabriel Maddox Aja Naomi King - Michaela Pratt Matt McGorry - Asher Millstone Conrad Ricamora - Oliver Hampton Karla Souza - Laurel Castillo (unconfirmed) Charlie Weber - Frank Delfino Liza Weil - Bonnie Winterbottom
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This page is dedicated to the fifth season of ABC's How to Get Away with Murder. The series was renewed for a fifth season on May 11, 2018, by ABC.

Storyline Information

• Showrunner Pete Nowalk promised flashforwards that will be “twisty, and more fun... They’re a different tone, and it’s something that we’ve set up."
• A possible wedding for Connor and Oliver.
• More flashbacks involving Sam and Annalise's marriage.
  • These flashbacks may also include Bonnie and Frank.
• Annalise's class action lawsuit storyline will continue. "Some" of the season will be looking at the retrying of the cases involved in her class action.
• The scratches on Laurel's arm will be explored.
• When the series returns, the Keating 4 will most likely have started or are starting their third year at law school. Nowalk then went on to say that they might have even finished their third year; subsequently, he is unsure how large (or short) the time jump will be.
  • Nowalk doubts very much that Annalise would return to teaching.
• The origins of Gabriel Maddox won’t nessosarily be answered at the start of the season. Nowalk teases that he wants the audience to get to know the character before [we] learn his origins.

Cast

For a breakdown of the characters' appearances, check here.
For a list of all of the cast and crew members, check here.

Starring

• Viola Davis - Annalise Keating
• Billy Brown - Nate Lahey
• Jack Falahee - Connor Walsh
• Rome Flynn - Gabriel Maddox
• Aja Naomi King - Michaela Pratt
• Matt McGorry - Asher Millstone
• Conrad Ricamora - Oliver Hampton
• Karla Souza - Laurel Castillo (unconfirmed)
• Charlie Weber - Frank Delfino
• Liza Weil - Bonnie Winterbottom

Guest Starring

• Tom Verica - Sam Keating
• John Hensley - Ronald Miller

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Airdate	Viewers (mill)
1	"Your Funeral"	Stephen Cragg	Pete Nowalk	September 2018	TBD

Notes and Trivia

• Continuing with TGIT, How to Get Away With Murder will air once again on Thursdays at 10pm.
• According to Pete Nowalk's Instagram story, production on season 5 begun around May 14, 2018.
• Filming is set to start on July 9, 2018, according to a source from Conrad Ricamora.
  • However, another source said that filming wouldn’t begin until July 19, 2018 and conclude on February 15, 2019.
• It is currently unknown whether Karla Souza (Laurel Castillo) will return to the show or if she does in what capacity after the birth of her first child on April 19, 2018. This is because they will have started filming in July 2018, just 2 months after the birth. However, there has been no news of a kind of departure, so it can be assumed that she is set to return in season 5.
• Rome Flynn, the actor who portrays Gabriel Maddox, was promoted to series regular this season after his initial guest appearance in the Season 4 finale, "Nobody Else Is Dying".
  • He is also the first cast member to be promoted to series regular since Conrad Ricamora's (Oliver Hampton) promotion in Season 3. This gives a total number of overall main cast members over the 5 seasons of 12.
• According to Conrad Ricamora's instagram, he, and presumably the rest of the cast, received the script for the first episode on June 29, 2018.
• Dispite Shonda Rhimes not paying as much attention to the show possibly due to her move to Netflix, meaning that she hasn’t taken part in the "day-to-day operations of the show for a while," she will remain as an executive producer for it’s fifth season.