There’s something so undeniably enticing and intoxicating about Annalise Keating. At first, it’s the obvious – her rapport, her tough walk (no, I like it!), her wit, her fast mouth, how she dresses and how she wins her cases. She has tact, she has skill – she has mastered people, their minds and how the world works.

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Then it’s the things you only notice as you go into the second season and the third and and and...

How openly sexual she is, how she embraces her flaws, how she loves each and every one of her students. She loves teaching. She hurts people with her actions and words but when done to her it has worse effects - she’s vulnerable. The way she loves her mother, she is a big baby. Her self-awareness improves as she ages, and she finally she stops with the power struggle.

That power struggle between Annalise and herself - how crazy? Have you ever had to let yourself just be... She eventually says, “Yes, this is who I am”. She says it herself at the date with Robert. She might also have been trying to scare him away. But after she got caught, she ends up back home and things from there are different.  That last scene at the court when she’s making her last statement to the jury. Yin, yang, black, grey and white. She is all the good things, but she is also all the bad things. And that just makes her human.

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I always wonder if other humans police themselves like I do. It is a struggle no one can truly openly talk about because how do you say consistently ask someone else “Am I doing this life thing correctly?” “Am I saying the right thing?” “Is this thing worth it – whatever I’m doing?”

I love Annalise Keating for being one the characters who have made me less judgemental of myself. Key word – less. 

 

One other thing – Oliver and Connor’s relationship. I liked that.