How to Get Away with Murder
Pilot
TV Flash files “Pilot” as a desk essential hour — How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 2014-09-25, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 90 in the How to Get Away with Murder guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2014-09-25 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “It's All Her Fault” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pilot”. The pilot buries a syllabus: Nowalk's Shondaland thriller, Davis as network gravity, flash-forward murder boards on night one.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Annalise Keating is a tough as nails Criminal Law Professor and when Wes Gibbins starts his first day at Middleton University, he has no clue what he's walking into. In her class, "How to Get Away with Murder," Annalise challenges her students to solve some of the most difficult criminal cases that her law firm takes on, and in the end, she selects a group of the smartest, most promising students to come work for her. The competition is on and the students will stop at nothing to make sure they get to the head of her class. While Annalise seems to have it all together, we soon learn that her clients' secrets aren't the only ones she's keeping. Meanwhile, in flash-forwards, we learn that the price of impressing Annalise might just be too much for some, when a group of four students, Wes, Connor Walsh, Michaela Pratt and Laurel Castillo get involved in their own murder mystery cover up.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pilot sit in the How to Get Away with Murder guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 90 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did How to Get Away with Murder S01E01 air?
Pilot aired 2014-09-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
The 2014 premiere. Nonlinear murder mystery is the grammar from hour one; skipping ahead dumps you into a conspiracy already in progress.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Annalise Keating's class buries a body, then improvises a life of cover-ups. Peter Nowalk's Shondaland thriller made Viola Davis a network gravity well and the first Black woman to win the Drama Lead Actress Emmy. Six seasons of flash-forward murder boards and Keating 5 loyalty tests. Pulp academia with awards heat — twists first, tastefulness never.
Somebody already buried the body; the group chat is on the board. Peter Nowalk's Shondaland thriller premiered on ABC September 25, 2014: brilliant defense professor Annalise Keating and her students improvise a life of cover-ups, flash-forward murder board as house style. Viola Davis as a network gravity well — the first Black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The Keating 5 — Wes, Michaela, Connor, Laurel, and company — learn law and loyalty the hard way. (From here: mild. The…
Filed against
- Viola Davis as Annalise Keating
Viola Davis’s Annalise Keating made How to Get Away with Murder a network gravity well — a class that buries a body, then improvises a life of cover-ups. Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, flash-forward murder boards, Keating 5 loyalty…
- Billy Brown as Nate Lahey
Billy Brown’s Nate Lahey stood in How to Get Away with Murder’s blast radius — Annalise Keating’s class burying a body, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as a network gravity well, six seasons of flash-forward murder boards…
- Alfred Enoch as Wes Gibbins
Alfred Enoch’s Wes Gibbins entered How to Get Away with Murder as Keating 5 conscience — Annalise’s class burying a body, flash-forward murder boards, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as network gravity. Six seasons of…
- Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt
Aja Naomi King’s Michaela Pratt hustled through How to Get Away with Murder’s Keating 5 — Annalise’s class burying a body, flash-forward murder boards, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as a network gravity well. Six seasons…
- Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh
Jack Falahee’s Connor Walsh made How to Get Away with Murder feel like a cover-up with cheekbones — Keating 5 loyalty, flash-forward boards, Shondaland thriller as a 2010s network gravity well. Ambition in a tailored risk. TV Flash files…
- Karla Souza as Laurel Castillo
Karla Souza’s Laurel Castillo survived How to Get Away with Murder’s Keating 5 — Annalise’s class burying a body, then improvising a life of cover-ups, Peter Nowalk’s Shondaland thriller, Viola Davis as a network gravity well. Six seasons…