When How To
Get Away With Murder’s gay couple Connor and Oliver got tested for HIV towards
the end of the show’s first season, it seemed that the very promiscuous law
student Connor was the one at most risk.
But it turned
out that computer nerd Oliver (Conrad Ricamora) was the one who tested positive
while Connor (Jack Falahee) did not.
Show creator
Peter Norwalk sees the twist as an opportunity to offer viewers a storyline
about living with HIV in 2015.
‘Our goal is
to treat that in a very realistic and contemporary way,’ Norwalk tells
Entertainment Weekly. ‘How do you live with an HIV positive gay man as a
boyfriend?’
Connor
initially hooked up with Connor early last season to use him for his tech
skills. Oliver developed feelings for him but broke things off when he
discovered Connor had slept with someone else to get information.
But after
Connor and his classmates become entangled in the murder of their law
professor’s husband, he ran back to Oliver and was able to eventually win him
back.
‘We take it
to places I hope viewers don’t expect coming,’ Norwalk promises. ‘Especially
now that Oliver is a huge security blanket in Connor’s life and a necessary
balance to all the murder.’
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