How To Get Away With Murder Review: Go Cry Somewhere Else (Season 3 Episode 12)

The kids are alright.

On How to Get Away With Murder Season 3 Episode 12, “Go Cry Somewhere Else,” Bonnie refuses to give up fighting for Annalise and Michaela officially accepts her role as den mother pro tempore.

Firstly, let’s start by removing the “case of the week” and “character of focus” categories from my reviews. With the death of Wes, How to Get Away With Murder is in a new era and has abandoned any pretense of being a typical courtroom drama.

For three years (and even longer with flashbacks included), Annalise’s life has been spent jumping over one hurdle after another, surviving the fight one day to move on to the next. It’s no wonder she almost gave up.

But now she’s reached the absolute end.

Her home and her career have both gone up in flames. Professor Annalise Keating has been sent up the river for the murder of one of her own students and if we thought she had trouble finding either a courtroom or a classroom that didn’t hate her before, finding one after [if/]when her conviction is overturned will be a hell of a lot more difficult.

At this point, it seems her only option is to start over.

Before she can do that, however, she has to get her head back in the game, and who better to bring her back to sanity than her own mother?

In the How to Get Away With Murder season two finale, Cicely Tyson nursed a wounded and wandering Annalise back to health during the height of the Hapstall hootenanny, helping her find the closure she needed to get back to work.

This season, we are again blessed with a visit from the baddest mother(shut yo mouth!) who is unfortunately losing a bit of the gleam in her eye but absolutely none of her shine. Thanks to her very own mama ex machina, Annalise snaps out of her spiral of self-pity and formulates a plan to do for herself what Bonnie has been unable to for the past month.

Sorry, Bonnie. You did put up a fight, I’ll give you that. Despite the disparagement and discouragement from Annalise, Bonnie never once gave up and still managed to coach “the kids” from the sidelines, even if she was unable to run the plays herself.

You deserve a break. Everyone does.

Speaking of, it’s a rare moment of beauty when Annalise refers to “the kids” and desperately hopes they aren’t coming to her hearing. Despite everything, she still views herself as their indefatigable mentor.

So, it should come as a source of pride to her when it turns out they are all doing just fine, with a brand new recruit (okay, not brand new…) and heralded by de facto team mom, Michaela, who doesn’t enjoy her newly appointed position, but handles it with aplomb nevertheless.

Michaela: I’m good at everything I do.

With Michaela as the unemotional emotional center, they come together to coach Oliver on lying to the police with enough grace to keep the cops off his scent for another day.

I daresay the death of Wes has united the Keaterlings more than any of their troubles thus far. They’re leaning on each other, defending themselves against outsiders (welcome back, Simon), and have stopped focusing on their differences long enough that they actually seem to be treating each other as family.

Even Connor—who once threatened to go to the cops at least once per episode—has stopped muttering his ruminations for self-remand (although that may have more to do with Oliver’s now being knee-deep in the drama.)

Meanwhile, Wes’ body has gone missing. On any other show, I’d dare wonder if maybe he didn’t just get up and walk out himself.

It would certainly be a ridiculous double twist and a wholly unfair cheat of our belief systems, but it wouldn’t be implausible and would certainly bring the drama to dizzying, icy, freezing-the-engines level of height.

For now, all we know is that Nate, possibly the last person to see him alive, either moved his body or is being framed.

Huh. Guess we actually don’t know anything.

Great episode that finally gives us a much needed move from the prison setting and increases the stakes for Annalise, who now has someone to fight for.

Murder Mystery of the Week

Where is Wes’ body?

Wayward Case Files

• Who is Wes’ “in case of emergency” contact? I bet the answer is going to floor us.
• I’m glad Cicely Tyson survived 2016.
• The memorial scene where Laurel chews out a stranger for crying reminds me of when Meredith Grey did the same at George’s funeral.
• Simon attacks Annalise’s honor at a memorial. Stay classy, guy.
• Laurel, barefoot and crying, getting angry with a morgue employee actually did more to endear me to the plight of the worker than to Laurel.
• Asher literally poured one out for Wes. This man.
• Michaela wore a headwrap to bed. Fellas and ladies, that’s when you know it’s the real thing.
• Are Conrad and Jack doing okay? The chemistry’s not quite there anymore and I’m not sure that’s just acting.
• Laurel going to Wes’ apartment, I had braced myself for him to come in and tap her on the shoulder. Not because I miss him, but because, again, engine-freezing drama.

What did you think of this episode of How To Get Away With Murder? Do you really think Nate murdered Wes? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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How to Get Away With Murder airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.

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