If you're looking for a feel-good, morally correct show, this is def not for you. Obviously, its title pretty much gives it away. The president is cheating on his wife (who is pretty much in an arranged marriage with and is absolutely ferocious) with a crisis fixer; said crisis fixer had rigged the national election with the future COS, FLOTUS, and Supreme Court justice; the Supreme Court justice then hires out to have the president assassinated; upon finding out about the election and truth behind the assassination from the Supreme Court justice, the president murders her as she lies dying in a hospital; I could go on...... But in the times of DVR, this is the first show I have felt like I have had to watch live every week. Its THAT addicting. And, knowing how much I love and respect the presidency, you would think I would be appalled. However, Shonda Rhimes has done an amazing job in this show with painting all her characters as good and bad. No one character is all good or all bad. One episode, I'll hate a character and the next episode I feel sorry for them. It has made you think about relationships and how we approach them as a culture. Obviously i'm not condoning adultery...but it is interesting to see how Shonda has written her characters and started a discussion about such things. She also has a gift for twisting the crazy twists in her shows until you're left theorizing constantly until the next weeks episode as to what is REALLY going on. And I love it. LOVE IT. It has been so fun trying to figure everything out with other fans on twitter and constantly texting possibilities to my friends and sister. It really has been a whole experience.
Its an added bonus that the cast is absolutely AMAZING and talented-live tweeting every episode, engaging with fans on twitter, generally being awesome. Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn have insaneeee chemistry as Olivia and Fitz and are just precious. Jeff Perry plays the COS Cyrus Beene and while he can be real mean (and had a WH staffer murdered because she was going to come out that the president slept with her), I just LOVE HIM. I can never hate Cy and Jeff Perry does an amazing job playing him.
...And you know how much I love my boo Fitz.
Last week was the Season 2 finale-I made cut out brownies to spell "SCANDAL" and "FITZ", and while it required a little effort to get them out of the pan, it finally worked.
Also, Rebecca sent me the picture form the airport last month, in which we are holding the "BE A FENCE" sign she made. I tweeted it to Tangela who loved it :) haha. Here is the recap where she says the now infamous "Jesus, BE A FENCE!" Seriously, i die. Love her. If you watch the show or want to start, you HAVE to watch her episode recaps. I promise; if you need a laugh, SHE WILL DELIVER.
Of course, since its "Scandal" the finale included not one, but a MILLION cliffhangers, and I don't know how I will last through the summer. Must rewatch them, obviously. That night, after the east coast airing, the entire cast did a live table-read of the finale script for an audience in Los Angeles. Okay, how cute are Tony and Kerry??? I can not get over them. CAN. NOT.
Sigh. So anyway. I am excited for season 3 and to see what Shonda and the writers have up their sleeves! In the meantime...here's a web Cosmo made trying to sort out the connections all the characters have with one another. And some more Olitz pics because who DOESN'T want another excuse to stare at them?
Buckle up friends, its going to be a longggg summer.
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