Is Annalise Keating the Best Black Female lead on Television?
The Survivor:
Towards the end of the 1st season and the beginning of the second season she is accused of killing her husband. It is about that time when she finds out that her husband was involved in an affair with one of his students and also that the student was pregnant before she was killed. During this time Sinclair, her rival. keeps digging dirt against her and tries to take her down. During all this time she has to protect her students who killed her husband, keep Rebecca’s murder as a secret from her students, she also had to frame her secret boyfriend for the murder of her husband so that her students don’t get caught. She also turns to her friend from college with whom she had an affair with (a girl) to help her secret boyfriend come out of jail and also take other cases and win them. Even though there was so much going on she won the cases that Sinclair threw against her, she protected her students, got her friend from college to win the case of her secret boyfriend and came out a warrior. Agreed that her life is a bit messed up, but she managed to keep different parts of her life separate and won in each single battle against life.