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Friday, October 5, 2012

Scandal- The Other Woman

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What happened: The case-of-the-week involved covering up a revolutionary, admired pastor's 15-year affair. It was a success. Olivia continues to get in David Rosen's way, and he is asked to take a leave of absence. Olivia keeps getting nighttime calls from the president. Lindsay goes home to visit her father and finds that he doesn't believe she's innocent.

We find out that Lindsay could "bring down the government," and Olivia conspired with a Supreme Court justice in order to deal with the Lindsay situation, whatever it is. Huck is having Dexter Morgan-like urges and goes to AA meetings to deal with them. A CIA director tries to trick the president into warring with Sedan. Cy's partner wants a baby, but Cy is too busy to give him one.

What we thought: This week was all about forgiveness and the pain of being a mistress or cheated-on wife. The episode packed a lot in. It touched on the prospective war with Sudan, confirmation that the Quinn arc will be big and will matter, relationship/character development, David Rosen stuff, and Huck's unsettling bloodlust. Abby is still judgmental and in existence, but other than that, this episode was perfect.

We don't know that we like our White Hats doing a cover-up so that a man can remain worshiped and a church can't confront its problems. We wanted them to save the pastor partly because he sounded like someone who did good work and partly because the scandal was a private matter. This show is trying to get our heads out of boxes with the gay republican aid, a republican president with a heart, and the pastor who is nice enough to favor equality and yet cheats on his wife. Nobody is predictable.

David is going to become the Hank to Olivia's Walter White. We like Scandal showing the devastating problems the president has to face on the job (the possible war). The show is really trying to make us like this guy, and it's working. Olivia screaming at the president over the phone to get what she wanted made her come off as crazy. Then he ruined a perfectly good computer. These two are frustrated.

We were touched when Pastor Drake's wife comforted the mistress and her son. That was a great funeral scene. We guess this Quinn/Lindsay stuff is serious. We felt bad for her. She is less annoying this season.

We like that Olivia didn't answer the phone and told Fitz to let her go. Mellie is trying to mend her marriage, and after seeing what she saw this week, Olivia would be so foolish to keep letting Fitz pursue her that it would make her unlikable. We're sure Mellie will do something terrible soon in order to get that romance going again.

The case of the week fit really well with everything else going on in the show. There wasn't a single boring or emotionally barren subplot.

Episode grade: A-

9 comments:

  1. Is this actually really good? Like Revenge type good? Title was a turn off for me.

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    1. I like it as much as Revenge, but I know Leeard doesn't. I really hated the first couple of episodes of Scandal, but I liked it by the end of season one.

      The last three episodes of the first season were great and sucked me in/solved the problems I had with the first couple. As for the name, it doesn't match the tone of the show, so that shouldn't be a problem for you.

      I'd recommend watching the seven-episode first season, and if you don't like it by then, it's not for you.

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  2. hey u guys arent recapping/reviewing 'how i met your mother' anymore? 2 episodes of season 8 have been telecasted already...

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    1. Yeah, that turned into a lie. We just can't do it anymore. We turned it on and it was still lame. We'll probably write about the finale and the episode when we meet the mother though.

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    2. And besides, if it's one of your favorite shows, you probably don't want to see us be mean to it. The premiere would have gotten a D.

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  3. Another interesting, well written episode. This show is written very smartly & acted very well, but for some reason it just doesn't excite me much. Some shows I almost always watch the same night they air (Grey's Anatomy, Revenge, PLL, etc), but I didn't watch this episode until almost a week after it aired.

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    1. That happens with us all the time. There are just some shows that you are rarely in the MOOD to watch right away. For me, it's Parenthood. Once I'm into it, I'm glad I turned it on, but I have to force myself to hit play on it. It's always good/worth it, but yeah...I get more excited by other stuff.

      Grey's, which isn't as good as most of my shows, always gets played right away by me, lol.

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    2. Damn. Parenthood? :S Parenthood is too nice of a show to skip. It's also nice to watch late at night...makes me sleep well. (I download Parenthood on Mondays which is awesome. Think it's from CTV or some Canadian channel. Think they get it earlier or something...I would also get Parks & Recreation on Tuesdays. That's 2 days before Thursday...and Nikita on Thursdays. Though, I don't get them anymore for Parks & Recreation and I'll have to wait and see if Nikita gets episodes earlier)

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    3. I knowwwww. It's wrong. Parenthood should totally be something I want to watch. It's not very nerdy though, and I'm kind of a nerd. That makes me want to watch stuff like Fringe, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Once Upon a Time, Revolution, American Horror Story, 666 Park Avenue, The Walking Dead, and Community first.

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