The unlikely pairing between Asher (Matt McGorry) and Michaela (Aja Naomi King) will be further explored in the third season of "How To Get Away with Murder."
According to the statement of showrunner Pete Nowalk, which was released by TVLine, the unexpected pairing of Annalise Keating's (Viola Davis) students that began in a bathroom during the season 2 finale will continue next season.
"I think it's fun. I really understand how these young people who have been living in a powder keg would grasp at each other," the showrunner explained.
Both Asher and Michaela were involved in different relationships in the past. Asher used to hook-up with Annalise's associate attorney Bonnie (Liza Weil), but the two kept their relationship a secret from the rest of the group.
Meanwhile, Michaela was engaged to a politician's son Aiden (Elliot Knight) in the first season, but the two ended their relationship after she realized that he is gay. And then she had a sexual relationship with Rebecca's (Katie Findlay) foster brother Levi (Matt Cohen), as well as one of Annalise's clients, Caleb Hapstall (Kendrick Sampson). But Asher and Michaela became intimate when they got drunk one night and almost repeated their act the following day until Michaela decided to stop it.
According to Nowalk, Michaela could reconsider her stand about dating Asher in season 3.
"Michaela is going to have to deal with the fact that she just found out another guy she trusted, Caleb, was a crazy, freaking sociopath, so it makes sense to me why she might want to just choose the simple guy who's right in front of her," he said. "In many ways, Asher is a really good boyfriend, and I think he's probably a generous lover."
The showrunner also teased that viewers will find out more about Michaela's background, as well as the involvement of Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch) in the death of his newly discovered father Wallace Mahoney (Adam Arking), when the series returns to ABC this fall.
