'How to Get Away with Murder' season 3 news: Creator Pete Nowalk addresses backlash for the big death in the winter finale

"How to Get Away with Murder" may already be cruising in its mid-season hiatus, but fans of the show are still somewhat reeling from the reveal of who was under the sheet. The huge plot twist hit viewers with more impact since the narrative time jumps that the show had incorporated seemed to have confirmed the character in question to be alive and well moving forward.

For those who have yet to get caught up in the third season of the show, spoiler alerts suggest that it was actually Wes (Alfred Enoch) who bit the bullet in Annalise's (Viola Davis) home fire. Prior to the shocking reveal, there was a sense of sureness that the Keating 5 member will not meet his demise as a scene with him looking to turn against his mentor showed him alive and well. What fans did not know is that the sequence took place earlier in the night, moments before his death. Obviously, some fans were not happy with the scheme but creator Pete Nowalk addresses the backlash saying that surprises like this are what makes the show so interesting.

"I understand if people will be upset," Nowalk told Entertainment Weekly referring to the audience's reaction. "Part of the DNA of the show is that we're always playing with time. Nothing is hard and fast when you watch it. You don't know where it is in place and time until we tell you. To me, that's the fun of the show, the ride of it."

With Wes now dead, the conversation for "How to Get Away with Murder" pans from who is under the sheet to who killed the person under the sheet. The guessing game gets more intense as everyone is basically a suspect in the murder since Wes has already been dead even before the fire. This will presumably shake Annalise and her team to the core as if they have not been fully tried and tested throughout the ongoing season.

"How to Get Away with Murder" season 3 comes back on Jan. 19, 2017, on ABC.