Aside from the powerful lines and strong personalities, another common sight in How to Get Away with Murder are the sex scenes, no ordinary sex scenes. Seven episodes into the series that stars Viola Davies in the lead role, viewers have already witnessed a number of characters getting intimate with each other in the places you least expect them to be. One character that gets involved a lot in steamy sex scenes is Jack Falahee's Connor Walsh.
Falahee's making out scenes with another male has come under fire among social media users. How to Get Away with Murder producer Shonda Rhimes has come to defense of those scenes involving gays. She said there are no gay scenes but scenes with people in them. Still, some people just don't get why they must see two man eloping in the show. For Falahee, he thinks that those acts are necessary to better portray his character.
"I think that the sex and those scenes are very plot driven," he said in an interview with Buzzfeed. "Connor is trying to achieve things by having sex and not only that, but I think he's a creature of sexual appetite. I think he enjoys having sex and I think Pete's done a great job of creating a real character. People have sex - lots of sex - and I think Connor's one of those people."
Some of the episodes were written by creator Peter Nowalk who has also written for Shonda Rhimes' works like Scandal and Grey's Anatomy, shows that are also notorious in sex scenes. Nowalk is surprised that How to Get Away with Murder is being scrutinized for scenes that people already saw from the two ABC drama.
"I've written for Grey's Anatomy, I've written for Scandal, and they're shows that depict a lot of sex. So nothing I've written here is any different. It's just the fact that it's two young gay men," Nowalk told Buzzfeed.
For Falahee, the How to Get Away with Murder TV series creator created Connor Walsh to have a 'real and honest' character to whom viewers can relate with.
"I think it's very cool that Pete's created this character and it's exciting to be able to portray a character that viewers are identifying with him in whatever way they are," Falahee said. "But there's been a lot of discussion about how progressive the show is and I don't think that was ever the intent. Pete just wanted to write a truthful story and real honest characters."
