The third character that I want to talk about is Michaela! She, like my two precious posts has a standout moment for me that I want to talk about. But first, Michaela is a member of the Keating Five that works with Annalise. She is very type A, and initially dis liked by most of her peers. In the first season she is arguably the one who handles every high pressure situation the worst. I mentioned a moment in my last post about Laurel where the five students are burying a dead body in the woods, while Laurel puts everyone in their place, Michaela is on the verge of a breakdown almost the whole time.
I love Michaela mostly because initially I didn’t like her very much at all. I, like the rest of Annalise’s’ team and the audience thought she was entitled and a know it all (for lack of a better term. However by the end of season one and definitely into season two, she slowly crept up on me as a character to look out for. In season two she loosens up and like the rest of the women in the Keating household owns her sexuality and never settles.
My favorite scene is one where she is out to dinner with her almost future mother in law. At the start of season one she is engaged to a man named Aiden, and for all intents and purposes they are the picture perfect couple. at the start of the season the biggest problem she has is with her future mother in law who does not think she is good enough for her son. However, as the season progresses Michaela finds out that her fiancée Aiden is hiding past relations with men, which leads Michaela and the team to find out he is gay and marrying Michaela to cover up. In this scene you find out a whole lot about Michaela and why she acts the way that she does and I loved every second of it. Check it out:
In this simple scene you understand Michaela, and why she constantly strives for perfection to escape her an upbringing she’s not proud of. But when she slips into that accent and let’s herself go back to her roots, I had never lover her more. Actress Aja Naomi King kills this scene especially when she delivers. “I love me. So I’m done”. I think more than any other moment Michaela embodies feminism in that she respects herself, and walks away unapologetically.
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