Posts tagged: “Scandal”

Just for fun -- as an experiment -- I've decided to do this recap as a ranking, somewhat a la The Good Wife. In this case, it's a Suck Index, although that's rather blunt so maybe it's just a Worst of the Week scale.

This week, Scandal doesn't mess around -- it just cuts straight to the chase: There is no lead-up to the wine. There is just wine. We begin with wine. Wine is the alpha of this show, and someday, when it ends, the last shot should be Olivia in

I am mad-crazy sick right now, so it's possible I will blow through this mother faster than usual. Just warning you. I can't breathe through my nose and it's doing that really alluring thing where the skin is starting to peel. Aren'

This show made a couple curious choices that make me wonder whether this episode and the one prior -- or even the two prior -- had the deck shuffled on them a bit. One: Later on, Liv wears the EXACT same outfit she had on midway through the previous one. Two: This

Back in the Felicity days, did anyone ever imagine Scott Foley would have ANY career success threatening to snap people's necks, and wantonly murdering, and walking casually away from a car he just blew up? Did anyone even imagine that until about halfway through his Scandal tenure? And

As much as my relationship with this show is frequently one of frustration, there's something soothing about the return to Scandal of the Week storylines, because it pushes (Un)B-Lievable stuff down and away from the fore. Of course, having said that, Portia de Rossi is stepping

Sometimes Scandal gets all hot for its own cuteness. And this week, in the midst of a montage about Mellie, we got this graphical collage of bad headlines: And, real talk, I would watch the hell out of that if Shondaland produced Mental Mellie and slid it into the 8

The short recap is: The awesomeness of Abby's hair is inversely proportionate to the impassioned grey turf that's been implanted on Cyrus's head, Mellie is handling her grief with Ugg Boots, and Olivia's wine habit finally came back to bite her (but

I have to say, I think Scandal would be well-served to limit itself to fewer episodes EVERY season. Because, as rushed as it was to find ourselves on the doorstep of the presidential election -- without even a word as to who Sally Langston's running mate even is

Plenty of terrible things happen in this episode, but most of them are TO OUR EYES. It's the penultimate one of the season, so I decided to go long and not skimp on the screen grabs, so that you can get the full flavor of the unique hell

All righty, I'm doing this old-school style -- no slideshow -- for a variety of boring technical reasons (and as a semi-shout-out to Television Without Pity, which went dark yesterday), so get your scrolling finger warmed up and ready. This episode of Scandal begins with Abby at