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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.[3]
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."[4]
- Nowalk later states that this flashforward will also be a party and that "something bad happens there."[5]
- A wedding for Connor and Oliver.[4]
- More flashbacks involving Sam and Annalise's marriage.[4]
- 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.[7]
- The scratches on Laurel's arm will be explored[8] and we will get an answer to the Sandrine question in the premiere.[5]
- The origins of Gabriel Maddox won’t necessarily 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.[8]
- Laurel will be in this season, even though Karla had a newborn a few months ago.[9]
- According to an article when Amirah Vann was promoted, her character Tegan Price, will make the character's lives more complicated.[10]
- Emmett Crawford will play a major part in Annalise' "new life," following her Supreme Court victory.[11]
- Annalise will return to teaching but at her own legal clinic[12] and the series will revisit a Case of the Week format.[5]
- The Keating 4 will be in their third year of law school and they will be able to "try their own legal cases and be lawyers in the courtroom."[5]
- Now that Michaela and Asher have split up, seemingly for good, “there’s still [Scandal‘s] Marcus on Michaela’s mind,” Nowalk says. “We’ll find out what happens [between them] early in our season.”[5]
- Connor's sister Gemma Walsh will be attending the Coliver Wedding.[13]
Season Summary
Overview
Season 5 picks up after Annalise’s (Viola Davis) class action victory in the Supreme Court, with Michaela (Aja Naomi King), Connor (Jack Falahee), Asher (Matt McGorry) and Laurel (Karla Souza) moving on with the next chapter of their lives. Per ABC’s logline: a new mystery involving one of their own will unfold, as relationships are fractured and new secrets are exposed.
Created and executive produced by Peter Nowalk (Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy), How to Get Away with Murder stars Viola Davis as Professor Annalise Keating, Billy Brown as Detective Nate Lahey, Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh, Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt, Matt McGorry as Asher Millstone, Karla Souza as Laurel Castillo, Charlie Weber as Frank Delfino, Liza Weil as Bonnie Winterbottom and Conrad Ricamora as Oliver Hampton. Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Stephen Cragg serve as executive producers.[14]
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 (3/15)
- Billy Brown - Nate Lahey (3/15)
- Jack Falahee - Connor Walsh (3/15)
- Rome Flynn - Gabriel Maddox (3/15)
- Aja Naomi King - Michaela Pratt (3/15)
- Matt McGorry - Asher Millstone (3/15)
- Conrad Ricamora - Oliver Hampton (3/15)
- Karla Souza - Laurel Castillo (3/15)
- Amirah Vann - Tegan Price (3/15)
- Charlie Weber - Frank Delfino (3/15)
- Liza Weil - A.D.A. Bonnie Winterbottom (3/15)
- and Timothy Hutton - Emmett Crawford (3/15)
Guest Starring
- John Hensley - Interin D.A. Ronald Miller (3/15)
- Tamberla Perry - Theresa Hoff (3/15)
- Tom Verica - Sam Keating[4]
Episodic Cast
- Mimi Rogers - Natalia Wright
- Amato D'Apolito - Richard Summers
- Lawrence A. Mandley - Quentin
- Rif Hutton - Priest
- Molly Hagan - A.D.A. Nancy Montoya
- James Allen McCune - Josh Bathurst
- Ramona DuBarry - Nanda Hashim
- Deborah Geffner - Jillian
- Matt Orduña - Mitch Donaldson
- Rachae Thomas - Liz
- Mark Harelik - Niles Harrington
- Rondi Reed - Judge Victoria Harper
- Dendrie Taylor - Eileen Colterman
- Alyson Reed - Panel Judge 2
- Elisa Perry - Doris Reid
- Liz Burnette - Bethany Harrington
- Kim Estes - Panel Judge 1
- Atkins Estimond - Otis
Co-Starring
- Jasmyne Jones - Baby Christopher (3/15)
- Adrianna Jones - Baby Christopher (3/15)
- Jessica Marie Garcia - Rhonda Navarro (2/15)
Crew
Writers
- Peter Nowalk ("Your Funeral")
- Sarah L. Thompson ("Whose Blood Is That?")
- Erika Harrison ("The Baby Was Never Dead")[15]
- Maisha Closson[16] ("It's Her Kid")[17]
- Maya Goldsmith[18]
- Matthew Cruz[18]
Directors
- Stephen Cragg ("Your Funeral")
- Mike Smith ("Whose Blood Is That?")
- Valerie Weiss ("The Baby Was Never Dead")[15]
- Cherie Nowlan ("It's Her Kid")[17]
Episodes
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Airdate | Viewers (mill) | ||||||
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1 | "Your Funeral" | Stephen Cragg | Pete Nowalk | September 27, 2018 | 2.93[19] | ||||||
Annalise selects students for her new legal clinic at Middleton and juggles job offers from competing firms, all while the Keating 4 attempt to move on from last semester’s turmoil. And in a startling flash-forward, a new mystery is introduced and it shakes things up for everyone. | |||||||||||
2 | "Whose Blood Is That?" | Mike Smith | Sarah L. Thompson | October 4, 2018 | 3.02[20] | ||||||
Annalise preps to defend her first class action plaintiff and adjusts to the politics of the new job; Frank is suspicious of Gabriel and does some investigating of his own; Asher complicates Bonnie's new life away from Annalise. | |||||||||||
3 | "The Baby Was Never Dead" [21] | Valerie Weiss[15] | Erika Harrison[15] | October 11, 2018[22] | TBD | ||||||
Annalise and Emmett defend a wealthy CEO accused of killing his business partner, while the governor goes after Annalise and puts her new caseload and legal clinic in jeopardy. Bonnie struggles to accept her budding romance, and Asher tries to outmaneuver his old mentor. | |||||||||||
4 | "It's Her Kid"[23] | Cherie Nowlan[17] | Maisha Closson[17] | October 18, 2018[22] | TBD | ||||||
Annalise and Nate try to get Nate's dad a psych evaluation so they can have his murder case retried under an insanity plea; Michaela tries to convince Tegan to give her a chance to earn her trust back. | |||||||||||
5 | "It Was the Worst Day of My Life" | TBA | TBA | October 25, 2018[22] | TBD | ||||||
6 | "Episode 506" | TBA | TBA | November 1, 2018[22] | TBD | ||||||
7 | "Episode 507" | TBA | TBA | November 8, 2018[22] | TBD | ||||||
8 | "Episode 508" | TBA | TBA | November 15, 2018[22] | TBD |
Notes and Trivia
- Continuing with TGIT, How to Get Away With Murder will air once again on Thursdays at 10pm.[24]
- According to Pete Nowalk's Instagram story, production on season 5 begun around May 14, 2018.[25]
- Filming is set to start on July 9, 2018, according to a source from Conrad Ricamora.[26] However, this was proven false when another source said that filming wouldn’t begin until July 19, 2018 and conclude on February 15, 2019.[27]
- 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 3 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.
- During the first episode, "Your Funeral" table read, photos were released of the cast during the table read itself of which Karla Souza can be seen meaning that she is set to return in the same capacity as she normally does dispite her recently giving birth.[28]
- 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".[29]
- 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.
- Amirah Vann made the second actor to be promoted to main cast following Rome Flynn's promotion for season 5. This was announced on July 18, 2018; Vann was an actress who appeared in multiple episodes in the previous season as Tegan Price.[10]
- 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.[8]
- Timothy Hutton was the third actor to made a series regular this season, first announced on July 30, 2018.[14] This brings the total amount to 14, with Hutton being the first addition to the main cast to have not previously served as a guest star.
- Though it was teased by various BTS photos from the cast, it was confirmed via the first episode's ("Your Funeral") press release that director Stephen Cragg has been promoted to Executive Producer alongside Betsy Beers, Shonda Rhimes and Peter Nowalk.[30]