VIOLA DAVIS, LIZA WEIL
10. HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
Shock. Gasp. Repeat. The formula for the newest member of ABC’s Shondaland Thursday lineup turned out to be a simple one — even as every one of its core characters got more deeply entangled in a web of deceit, debauchery and the occasional death. Ballsy enough to kick off its electrifying second season with Viola Davis’ mercurial law professor Annalise Keating bleeding out from a gunshot wound, creator Pete Nowalk & Co. managed to keep us speculating, guessing and (perhaps hardest of all) caring about his merry band of murderers.