How to Get Away With Murder (6×04) I Hate the World Review

For our review of the last episode of How to Get Away With Murder, click here.

Synopsis: The FBI continues to interrogate Conner, which leads him to panic under the pressure; Annalise, Tegan and the students defend a woman accused of violating a disabled man’s civil rights for developing a dating app that discriminates against him. (TV Guide)

In terms of the season long mystery kind of took a backseat in this episode, entitled I Hate the World, until something dropped at someone’s door. While there is surely more to the story, things are leaning more and more towards the still-missing Laurel.

The episode started with the flashforward as Agent Lanford still tending to Connor who collapsed while a frantic Michaela wants to know what is going on in the room next to hers. Meanwhile, Annalise used a hidden cellphone to transfer money to her bank account. Gabriel was listening to more of Annalise’s tapes to get more intel on Sam (he and Michaela were also getting a room in the Poconos for the weekend). Nate (who still had Denver’s files on everyone in his safe) was still pondering the FBI’s offer.

The big case of the week involved a disabled man suing C&G’s client, a woman named Hedi Turpin (Heather Mazur) whose company’s dating app (which would lead to certain other characters to examine their own love lives) who he claimed discriminated against him. He refused their settlement as he simply wanted the company to rewrite their algorithm in order for it to be more favorable for him. As a result they would have to tackle a discrimination case on a digital front for which there was little precedence. Meanwhile, Michaela and Gabriel’s romantic getaway was just a ruse so they can get away to New York City so she can confront who she believed to be her father, a lawyer named Solomon Vick who claimed to be a feminist, and get a sample of his DNA. She confronting him in public during his keynote address at a conference.

Oliver, who had been spending some quality time at home, was called in to re-assume his position as the conscience of the group as he was tasked to dig for dirt on the disabled plaintiff (he was an incel who wrote bad things about women online). What he found didn’t work. The tides turned when Annalise learned that the app company was licensing its discriminatory algorithm to the U.S. government. Meanwhile, Bonnie took advantage of her first day at C&G by swiping Tegan’s divorce papers to hand to Nate. He then gave them to the FBI to ask them to look into it and any possible connection between Tegan and the Castillos in exchange for his assistance with their case against Annalise (Tegan was paid off in stock for a company owned by Laurel).

The next step in the case was to try and set up the plaintiff by giving him sensitive information of Turpin’s to post online but that didn’t work. A heart-to-heart between Annalise and the plaintiff did but she was sure to give Turpin a piece of her mind. Turpin’s lawyer Robert was hitting on her the whole episode (and they found each other on the same dating app) so she finally went out with him for dessert. Oliver used the dating app to find a man to join he and Connor in a threesome. Meanwhile, Bonnie admitted to Tegan that she looked at her divorce papers as a way into figuring out her connection with Laurel. She revealed that Jorge gifted her the stock for actions she regretted. When Bonnie confronted Nate with the news, he was still adamant that there was more going on here.

Gabriel and Michaela had a fight about how to go about her father and Michaela asked him to leave, leaving her alone to break into his room. Unfortunately, she could not escape without being spotted and as she was, Vick recognized her as his daughter which would only spook her. She later found him at a bar where they finally got to talking. Listening to the tapes got Gabriel the point where Annalise professed her love for Sam, who at that point was already married to his mother. This convinced him that Sam may not have been so bad after all (and perhaps offering another suspect in Annalise’s death). Meanwhile, Asher believed he had found someone on the dating app but it was really his sister who wanted to talk.

The episode ended with Frank’s body dropped at Bonnie’s doorstep. So he’s getting close.

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Keith Noakes

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