How to Get Away with Murder season 5

The fifth season of the ABC American television drama series How to Get Away with Murder was ordered on May 11, 2018, by ABC. It began airing on September 27, 2018, with 15 episodes like the previous seasons and concluded on February 28, 2019. This was made in a deal with Viola Davis that the series would be a limited series with only 15 or 16 episodes per season.

Plot
Season 5 picks up after Annalise's (Viola Davis) class action victory in the Supreme Court, with Michaela (Aja Naomi King), Connor (Jack Falahee), Asher (Matt McGorry) and Laurel (Karla Souza) moving on with the next chapter of their lives.

Main

 * Viola Davis as Annalise Keating
 * Billy Brown as Nate Lahey
 * Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh
 * Rome Flynn as Gabriel Maddox
 * Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt
 * Matt McGorry as Asher Millstone
 * Conrad Ricamora as Oliver Hampton
 * Karla Souza as Laurel Castillo
 * Amirah Vann as Tegan Price
 * Charlie Weber as Frank Delfino
 * Liza Weil as Bonnie Winterbottom
 * Timothy Hutton as Emmett Crawford

Recurring

 * John Hensley as Ronald Miller
 * Tamberla Perry as Theresa Hoff
 * Jessica Marie Garcia as Rhonda Navarro
 * Glynn Turman as Nate Lahey Sr.
 * Elizabeth Morton as Julie Winterbottom
 * Laura Innes as Lynne Birkhead
 * Cynthia Stevenson as Pam Walsh
 * Melinda Page Hamilton as Claire Telesco
 * Terrell Clayton as Jeffrey Sykes
 * William R. Moses as Special Agent Lanford

Guest

 * Mia Katigbak as Joanna Hampton
 * Heidi Sulzman as Molly Keener
 * Teya Patt as Paula Gladden
 * Tom Verica as Sam Keating
 * D.W. Moffett as Jeff Walsh
 * Jim Abele as Ted Walsh
 * Dante Verica as young Gabriel Maddox
 * Famke Janssen as Eve Rothlo
 * Tess Harper as Sheila Miller
 * Cicely Tyson as Ophelia Harkness
 * Gerardo Celasco as Xavier Castillo

Development
How to Get Away with Murder was renewed for a fifth season on May 11, 2018, by ABC. In July 2018, series creator and showrunner Peter Nowalk told Deadline Hollywood his plans for the fifth season, confirming that the wedding between Jack Falahee and Conrad Ricamora's characters would take place, as well as a flashback episode further exploring the marriage between Viola Davis and Tom Verica's characters Annalise and Sam Keating, respectively. Additionally, he stated that the season's flashforwards were expected to be "twisty, and more fun", and tonally different. The first table read occurred on July 13, 2018.

Casting
In June 2018, Rome Flynn was promoted to the series' main cast after appearing in a guest capacity in the fourth-season finale. In July 2018, Amirah Vann was promoted to the series' main cast after recurring in the fourth season. Later that month, Timothy Hutton joined the main cast.

Filming
Filming for the season started on July 19, 2018.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the fifth season has a rating of 83%, based on six reviews, with an average rating of 7.67/10. Writing for The A.V. Club, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya criticized the "messy" storytelling of the season and the series as a whole.