“How to Get Away With Murder,” the Shonda Rhimes-produced, Viola Davis-starring series about a law professor who gets mixed up in a murder plot with her students, heads back to ABC for its second season this fall.

A lot went down in Season 1. There was murder, of course, blackmail and the scrambling around to cover up heinous acts before uncovering another corpse in the basement.

The show is obviously full of smarts and genius acts of survival, but Viola Davis, who plays the lawyer Annalise Keating on the series, does not feel that her character is anyone to aspire to.

Speaking at a celebration for the show’s first season, Davis talked about bringing her personal perspectives about the teacher-student power dynamic in to inform her character.

“I’ve had those teachers at Juilliard who think they are very well intentioned ... [but] have unfinished business in their lives. ... They bring all of that in the classroom with them,” Davis said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve had very abusive teachers and I wanted [Annalise] to be one of those abusive teachers ... when teachers come in, they are very human also, they have their shortcomings.”

Another aspect that Davis addressed was her character’s sensuality.

As the 49-year-old actress approached the show’s love scenes, she mentally played around with the defining terminology of the tropes of eroticism.

“I chose to remove the word ‘sexy’ from my vocabulary, and I replace it with ‘sexual,’” Davis said. “I try to be very aware as an actor, when I am doing sexual scenes, to not to be so self-conscious about making it look good because, for everyone that’s had sex, it’s not cute.”

According to Vulture, Davis addressed how unconventional a choice she feels she actually was for being cast as the star of “How to Get Away With Murder.”

"When someone is described as sexual and mysterious and complicated and messy, you don’t think of me,” she said.

"How to Get Away With Murder" returns Thursdays at 10 p.m. in the fall on ABC.