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* StringTheory: Telesco creates one of these for "Operation Bonfire" late in season 5.
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* StringTheory: Telesco creates one of these for "Operation Bonfire" late in season 5. It incorrectly identifies Oliver as one of Annalise's students.
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* StringTheory: Telesco creates one of these for "Operation Bonfire" late in season 5.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Wes, Laurel, Michaela and Connor are all somehow involved in [[spoiler: Annalise's husband, Sam Keating's death.]]
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: Wes, Laurel, Michaela and Connor are all somehow involved in [[spoiler: Annalise's husband, Sam Keating's death.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: The final season indicates that Annaliese was murdered with flashes of her funeral where [[spoiler: a still alive Wes]] is in attendance. In the series finale, it's revealed [[spoiler: instead of present-day the funeral is in the far future as Annaliese died of old age and it's not Wes at her funeral but Charlie grown into the spitting image of his late father]].
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** Season six: [[spoiler:Annalise]]
*** [[spoiler:The series finale subverts this one, too. The seeming midseason reveal that Wes was alive after all and was at Annalise's funeral was, in fact, a RedHerring; Annalise survived for many more decades, and all the other series regulars were wearing heavy aging makeup; Alfred Enoch wasn't because he was portraying ''Christopher'', Wes's son born after he died.]]
*** [[spoiler:The series finale subverts this one, too. The seeming midseason reveal that Wes was alive after all and was at Annalise's funeral was, in fact, a RedHerring; Annalise survived for many more decades, and all the other series regulars were wearing heavy aging makeup; Alfred Enoch wasn't because he was portraying ''Christopher'', Wes's son born after he died.]]
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** The series opens with Wes arriving at his first day of Annalise's class, and ends with [[spoiler: Wes's son Christopher, played by the same actor,]] entering the classroom and making the same introductory speech that Annalise did.
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* HollywoodGenetics: Laurel and Adrian are much lighter than their father. While it's possible one might have their mother's fair looks, two is pretty unlikely given dominant traits of darker hair or skin.
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* LatinoIsBrown: {{Zigzagged}}. Laurel is Mexican-American, with a light complexion, but her father has black hair (that's graying) and olive skin. Her brother Adrian has very similar looks to hers.
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** Season 5 gave us a new mystery, Who died at the wedding? We also drive further into our main character's back stories with the follow-up questions: Who is Gabriel? And what happened to Bonnie's baby?
** The final season has to answer what happened to Laurel and Christophe? How did Annalise died? And lastly who is the mole? The midseason finale hit us with [[spoiler: Who killed Asher? And Is Wes alive and how?]]
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* ChildishOlderSibling: The relationship between Asher Millstone and his older sister Chloe falls into this. While Asher is very immature and silly himself, he nevertheless is capable of being serious and responsible when required, is a (mostly) functioning [[BunnyEarsLawyer law student]] and has a hidden caring side to his personallity. Chloe meanwhile is dim, flightly, bratty, whinny and irresponsible, to the point she can barely function in life without her families money to support her.
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* HollywoodLaw: The main student characters are all first-year law students. In the United States, first-year law students aren't allowed to work more than twenty hours per week if they're full-time students -- it's a rule in place by the American Bar Association to allow the students to focus on their educations. Obviously though, following that rule would lead to less drama for the show, so TropesAreNotBad.
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* HollywoodLaw: The main student characters are all first-year law students. In the United States, first-year law students aren't allowed to work more than twenty hours per week if they're full-time students -- it's a rule in place by the American Bar Association to allow the students to focus on their educations. Obviously though, following that rule would lead to less drama for the show, so TropesAreNotBad.Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad.
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[[spoiler: The Governor and Xavier Castillo. She makes nice with Annalise after the Supreme Court win, only to have Nate's father killed by Xavier's henchmen.]]
[[spoiler: The Governor and Xavier Castillo. She makes nice with Annalise after the Supreme Court win, only to have Nate's father killed by Xavier's henchmen.]]
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** Michaela is mentioned to be from a poor background, and then is mentioned to be adopted. She mentions she's highly familiar with the Hapstalls' adoption issues.
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** Michaela is mentioned to be from a poor background, and then is mentioned to be adopted. She mentions she's highly familiar Michaela's father Solomon slept with his client's wife. By the Hapstalls' adoption issues.time he tracks her down she is already graduating high school but he tells Annalise to look after her.
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* DaddyIssues: Laurel, Bonnie, Wes, Frank, Asher, Annalise... this show LOVES this trope. It's hard to think of even one character who doesn't have serious problems with their father; even Connor, whose father seems like a good and supportive man, openly resents his. Lampshaded in 3.3 ("Always Bet Black") in a conversation among Annalise, Bonnie, and Laurel.
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* DaddyIssues: Laurel, Bonnie, Wes, Frank, Asher, Annalise... and later Michaela... this show LOVES this trope. It's hard to think of even one character who doesn't have serious problems with their father; even Connor, whose father seems like a good and supportive man, openly resents his. Lampshaded in 3.3 ("Always Bet Black") in a conversation among Annalise, Bonnie, and Laurel.
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Season 2 began on September 25th, 2015, followed by Season 3 on September 22nd, 2016 and season four on September 28th, 2017. On June 2019, it was announced that the show will end at season six.
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Season 2 began on September 25th, 2015, followed by Season 3 on September 22nd, 2016 and season four on September 28th, 2017. On In June 2019, it was announced that the show will end at with season six.six in September 2019.
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Season 2 began on September 25th, 2015, followed by Season 3 on September 22nd, 2016 and season four on September 28th, 2017. On June 2019, it was announced that the show will end at season six.
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“Stillborn at birth” is redundant. Stillborn means the baby is dead at the point of birth.
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** Averted with [[spoiler:Annalise and Sam's baby. He is stillborn at birth.]]
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** Averted with [[spoiler:Annalise and Sam's baby. He is stillborn at birth.stillborn.]]
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** Played straight with Connor's father Jeff. He was married to Pam for 20 years and had a son with her, but both he himself and other characters refer to him solely as gay after coming out. [[RealityInTelevision It does sometimes happen that way in real life]].
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** Played straight with Connor's father Jeff. He was married to Pam for 20 years and had a son with her, but both he himself and other characters refer to him solely as gay after coming out. [[RealityInTelevision [[TruthInTelevision It does sometimes happen that way in real life]].
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** Played straight with Connor's father Jeff. He was married to Pam for 20 years and had a son with her, but both he himself and other characters refer to him solely as gay after coming out. [[RealityInTelevision It does sometimes happen that way in real life]].
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*** Referred to as such in 5.09 ("He Betrayed Us Both") by [[spoiler:Nate]].
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*** This is walked back somewhat in 5.02 ("Whose Blood is That?"), when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy," and while Michaela objects to it being mentioned, she doesn't insist Aiden was gay. In 5.10 ("Don't Go Dark on Me") Michaela herself refers to Aiden as bisexual.
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*** This is walked back somewhat in 5.02, when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy," and while Michaela objects to it being mentioned, she doesn't insist Aiden was gay.
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*** This is walked back somewhat in 5.02, 02 ("Whose Blood is That?"), when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy," and while Michaela objects to it being mentioned, she doesn't insist Aiden was gay.
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*** This is walked back somewhat in season 5, when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy."
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*** This is walked back somewhat in season 5, 5.02, when the client's ambiguous orientation is discussed. Oliver says outright "Ask Michaela, she was engaged to a bi guy."guy," and while Michaela objects to it being mentioned, she doesn't insist Aiden was gay.
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* MercyKill: Nia, Nate's wife, asks Annalise to assist her in killing herself so she can escape the pain of her late-stage ovarian cancer. Annalise agonizes over it, even getting some pills, but ultimately refuses to let her have them. [[spoiler: Nate eventually agrees to do it.]]
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* MercyKill: MercyKill:
** Nia, Nate's wife, asks Annalise to assist her in killing herself so she can escape the pain of her late-stage ovarian cancer. Annalise agonizes over it, even getting some pills, but ultimately refuses to let her have them. [[spoiler: Nate eventually agrees to do it.]]]]
** Arguably [[spoiler:Bonnie's smothering of Miller]] in season 5. [[spoiler:He]] was badly beaten, having lost a ton of blood, and [[spoiler:she]] did have other reasons for doing it, but surviving those wounds didn't look likely.
** Nia, Nate's wife, asks Annalise to assist her in killing herself so she can escape the pain of her late-stage ovarian cancer. Annalise agonizes over it, even getting some pills, but ultimately refuses to let her have them. [[spoiler: Nate eventually agrees to do it.
** Arguably [[spoiler:Bonnie's smothering of Miller]] in season 5. [[spoiler:He]] was badly beaten, having lost a ton of blood, and [[spoiler:she]] did have other reasons for doing it, but surviving those wounds didn't look likely.
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* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Nearly every episode has at least one sex scene in it. By the time the series is five episodes old, every regular character has either been shown or mentioned having sex (and it isn't too much longer for all of them to be shown screwing).
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* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Nearly every episode has at least one sex scene in it. By the time the series is five episodes old, every regular character has either been shown or mentioned having sex (and it isn't too much longer for all of them to be shown screwing). Effectively lampshaded in season 5 when Laurel and Michaela agree to be "fabstinent" (fabulous and abstinent) that they may better focus on their studies and work in Annalise's clinic. [[spoiler:It doesn't last.]]
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Oliver]] is conspicuously absent from the season 5 flash-forwards ruling people out as the person bleeding out in the snow. But in the end, [[spoiler:he's fine, just having disappeared for a moment to prepare a grand romantic gesture for Connor]].
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*** In episode 4: [[spoiler: Annalise, who collapses sobbing at the C&G office.]]
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* SavedByCanon: Season 3 starts showing that someone in the main group [[spoiler: dies in the fire on Annalise's house, but each episode's final flash-forward shows someone of the group that has survived:]]
** In episode 1: Annalise.
** In episode 2: [[spoiler: Oliver.]]
** In episode 3: [[spoiler: Bonnie.]]
** In episode 4: [[spoiler: Laurel, who is pregnant and severely injured from the fire. Meggy is also shown to be alive.]]
** In episode 5: [[spoiler:Michaela; it is also revealed in this episode that the victim is male, but that's fairly useless information as the only remaining possibilities all *are* male]].
** In episode 6: [[spoiler:Asher]].
** In episode 7: [[spoiler:Wes (which is later subverted in episode 9)]].
** In episode 8: [[spoiler:Connor]].
** In episode 9: It's a bit different, as this isn't the big cliffhanger ending for the episode, but the episode spends a lot of time hinting that [[spoiler:Nate]] is the one who died. The big reveal happens moments after he is shown to be alive and well.
** In episode 1: Annalise.
** In episode 2: [[spoiler: Oliver.]]
** In episode 3: [[spoiler: Bonnie.]]
** In episode 4: [[spoiler: Laurel, who is pregnant and severely injured from the fire. Meggy is also shown to be alive.]]
** In episode 5: [[spoiler:Michaela; it is also revealed in this episode that the victim is male, but that's fairly useless information as the only remaining possibilities all *are* male]].
** In episode 6: [[spoiler:Asher]].
** In episode 7: [[spoiler:Wes (which is later subverted in episode 9)]].
** In episode 8: [[spoiler:Connor]].
** In episode 9: It's a bit different, as this isn't the big cliffhanger ending for the episode, but the episode spends a lot of time hinting that [[spoiler:Nate]] is the one who died. The big reveal happens moments after he is shown to be alive and well.
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* SavedByCanon: SavedByCanon:
** Season 3 starts showing that someone in the main group [[spoiler: dies in the fire on Annalise's house, but each episode's final flash-forward shows someone of the group that has survived:]]
** *** In episode 1: Annalise.
** *** In episode 2: [[spoiler: Oliver.]]
** *** In episode 3: [[spoiler: Bonnie.]]
** *** In episode 4: [[spoiler: Laurel, who is pregnant and severely injured from the fire. Meggy is also shown to be alive.]]
** *** In episode 5: [[spoiler:Michaela; it is also revealed in this episode that the victim is male, but that's fairly useless information as the only remaining possibilities all *are* male]].
** *** In episode 6: [[spoiler:Asher]].
** *** In episode 7: [[spoiler:Wes (which is later subverted in episode 9)]].
** *** In episode 8: [[spoiler:Connor]].
** *** In episode 9: It's a bit different, as this isn't the big cliffhanger ending for the episode, but the episode spends a lot of time hinting that [[spoiler:Nate]] is the one who died. The big reveal happens moments after he is shown to be alive and well.well.
** Season 5 uses a very similar technique with its flash-forward story. Episode 1 starts with a POV shot of someone bleeding heavily outside in the snow by a large tented area (later revealed to be [[spoiler:Connor and Oliver's wedding reception]], as [[spoiler:baby Christopher]] watches on. Each episode reveals someone ''not'' to be the bloody party.
*** In episode 1: [[spoiler: Bonnie, who smothers the bloody person.]]
*** In episode 2: [[spoiler: Laurel and Michaela.]]
*** In episode 3: [[spoiler: Connor, who has facial bruises from a fight (later depicted in episode 7). It's also shown that Bonnie has posession of Nate's cell phone.]]
*** In episode 4: [[spoiler: Annalise, who collapses sobbing at the C&G office.]]
*** In episode 5: [[spoiler: Asher, as well as Connor's mother Pam, as the two are discovered in a sexually compromising position.]]
*** In episode 6: [[spoiler: Ron Miller (later subverted).]]
*** In episode 7: No new suspects are eliminated, but [[spoiler:Bonnie]] is revealed giving instructions to ''another'' unseen party to leave the scene with the bloody (and now clearly dead) original individual.
*** In episode 8: [[spoiler:Miller]] is revealed as the bloody, dying person and [[spoiler:Nate]] as the person who beat [[spoiler:him]] bloody.
** Season 3 starts showing that someone in the main group [[spoiler: dies in the fire on Annalise's house, but each episode's final flash-forward shows someone of the group that has survived:]]
** Season 5 uses a very similar technique with its flash-forward story. Episode 1 starts with a POV shot of someone bleeding heavily outside in the snow by a large tented area (later revealed to be [[spoiler:Connor and Oliver's wedding reception]], as [[spoiler:baby Christopher]] watches on. Each episode reveals someone ''not'' to be the bloody party.
*** In episode 1: [[spoiler: Bonnie, who smothers the bloody person.]]
*** In episode 2: [[spoiler: Laurel and Michaela.]]
*** In episode 3: [[spoiler: Connor, who has facial bruises from a fight (later depicted in episode 7). It's also shown that Bonnie has posession of Nate's cell phone.]]
*** In episode 4: [[spoiler: Annalise, who collapses sobbing at the C&G office.]]
*** In episode 5: [[spoiler: Asher, as well as Connor's mother Pam, as the two are discovered in a sexually compromising position.]]
*** In episode 6: [[spoiler: Ron Miller (later subverted).]]
*** In episode 7: No new suspects are eliminated, but [[spoiler:Bonnie]] is revealed giving instructions to ''another'' unseen party to leave the scene with the bloody (and now clearly dead) original individual.
*** In episode 8: [[spoiler:Miller]] is revealed as the bloody, dying person and [[spoiler:Nate]] as the person who beat [[spoiler:him]] bloody.
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Simon isn't dead, and when asked if he's gay he says "I dunno, maybe"
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