How To Get Away With Murder Season Finale Review: Nobody Else Is Dying (Season 4 Episode 15)

On the season finale of How to Get Away With Murder Season 4 Episode 15, “Nobody Else Is Dying,” everything regarding Wes’s death in the last two seasons ties up in a nice, neat bow.

Baby Wes is with Laurel and the Keating Cult, the man who killed Wes gets his just desserts, Simon is no longer a loose end, and finally, our favorite characters get a happy ending. Although, telling by that ending scene, this happiness won’t last very long.

It’s nice to finally have a victory on the show where Annalise can simply be happy. Obviously, this can’t and won’t last long, but it’s still wonderful to see the Keating 5 smiling and Annalise finally getting the recognition she deserves after her win in the Supreme Court.

I want to package this feeling and keep it forever!

However, that’s nearly impossible with all the burgeoning questions the season 4 finale leaves us with. Just so we can keep track of these haunting questions, let’s make a list:

1. Is Laurel’s mother dead?
2. Follow-up: did Laurel kill her?
3. Is Wes really dead?
4. Follow-up: did Laurel’s father really kill him?
5. Are Asher and Michaela broken up for good?
6. Follow-up: will dark Michaela stay?
7. Is Bonnie’s baby still alive?
8. Follow-up: is that baby Gabriel Maddox?

I do think Laurel’s mother is as cold as her treatment of Christophe when he needed help. However, I doubt Laurel killed her. As Michaela astutely suggests, Laurel may have compulsive disorders but she’s not a murderer.

Like I say in my  review of How To Get Away With Murder Season 4 Episode 6, “Stay Strong Mama,” I strongly believe Laurel stays constantly guilt-ridden throughout the season because she knows Wes was a good person, who loved her, and did not deserve to die because of her.

That guilt eats at her throughout season 3 and ultimately drives her throughout season 4 to be reckless.

The depressing knowledge that Wes is truly dead after the How To Get Away With Murder writers hinted that Christophe may be alive for the entire season angers me but most signs lead to that conclusion. The silence from Laurel’s father when Annalise outright tells him she knows he killed Wes basically confirms it.

So, it turns out we did get the answer to who killed Wes at the end of the last episode. Although they never explicitly show Mr. Castillo calling in the hit, he’s the last one who had the power to execute Wes the day before Wes dies.

This news acts as an annoying conclusion that makes the whole hot-potato game of “Who Really Killed Wes?” in the entire second half of season 4 pointless.

As I explain in my review of How To Get Away With Murder Season 4 Episode 14, it would have been a lot more interesting and rewarding if the real murderer turned out to be a big-bad who trumped Mr. Castillo and Denver in power and villainy.

Oh well, I guess. When you string multiple narratives through two seasons to answer one question, they can’t all be home-runs. Although the identity of the true killer may be a dud, the temporary Asher and Michaela break-up seems like it will shape into an amazing character arc for Michaela.

Annalise: You’ve been trying to become me this whole time and now you’ve done it. You must be proud.

Michaela: I’ve become me.

We know this isn’t true, although this entire season slowly builds up Michaela’s transition from morally light-grey to morally charcoal grey. Getting Simon deported did not act like a surprising twist for me. I knew she would call ICE on him the moment Annalise uttered, “You’re no me,” to Michaela in the parking lot.

This entire season Michaela has had to question who she has become.

After Annalise tapped out, Tegan, her new mother-figure, rejected her, and the prospect of her losing her self-defining career in a bloody accident that left her as the only person with the will and the stomach strong enough to temporarily save everyone, Michaela was bound to go dark. It was just a matter of time.

It just happens sooner rather than later because the man who was her rock and saw the best in her, Asher, affirmed her doubts that she is just a power hungry, social climbing… well, bitch.

I hate the person she has become but I’m excited to see her character development over the next season. Now that Annalise is on her new path to enlightenment, the Keating 5 do need a new temporary enforcer, especially on the heels of that last minute twist at the end.

Gabriel Maddox is entirely too old to be Annalise’s child; however, he’s around the perfect age to be Bonnie’s missing baby from her pregnancy at 15.

This new information sheds a new light on How To Get Away With Murder Season 4 Episode 5, “I Love Her,” where we spend the entire episode exploring the trial that outlines Bonnie’s abuse, her pregnancy, and most importantly, how she never got to the child her father told her had died.

Who raised the child and how did he find his way to the Keating 5, Bonnie, and Frank? He seems like a smooth-talking, narcissist and I doubt he’s returned to see his long-lost mother for sentimental reasons.

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

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