Scandal

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Season 3
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 5, 2012
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 62 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 45 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 62
  3. Negative: 11 out of 62
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  1. werneck
    May 31, 2014
    4
    As I feel, overall, it's a bad quality tv show. Bad casting (Kerry Washington is a terrible actress! For gods sake) and the dialogues are sometimes dumb and the situations unreal.
  2. nalpillai
    Jun 26, 2014
    6
    The then and the now. The flare and then the fail.

    By: Nalini Pillai In eleventh grade, and I remember this night very clearly, I was doing homework, my mom was out of town and my dad, my brother and I sat down to eat dinner. My dad brought his computer to the table and on some shady internet site played the first episode of the first season of Scandal. We sat there that night and    The then and the now. The flare and then the fail.

    By: Nalini Pillai

    In eleventh grade, and I remember this night very clearly, I was doing homework, my mom was out of town and my dad, my brother and I sat down to eat dinner. My dad brought his computer to the table and on some shady internet site played the first episode of the first season of Scandal. We sat there that night and made our way through the first three episodes. In an instant Olivia Pope became my new icon.

    She was a problem solver, a “fixer.” The show had a protagonist yes, Olivia, but she was the hero, not the victim. She was a strong central black woman, something one rarely sees on TV, and she had what we like to call a personality, a presence. To be a part of her life, you were special. To be noticed, you had to be powerful. Olivia Pope was a genius. She had a personal life, issues, and regrets, but did she let that get in her way? No. She was strong, resilient and powerful. More powerful, I would say, then a lot of her clients.

    The show was unique.

    My parents never got cable, which is why, every Thursday night I waited up reloading the shady site to see if someone had uploaded Scandal yet. The first season ended with a bang. The second season wavered but in that last scene… we thought she was back. With her white hat and her passion… Olivia Pope was back.

    And then the third season began. And now the show is on some tirade with one shock after another. This show is all about the problems of a total of seven or eight people. It is a shock factor. Olivia Pope has taken to crying. She is close to tears at the end of every command or lecture. Olivia Pope is a confused human being who has done so many things wrong and made so many mistakes that, now, she cannot even pretend to put on her white hat. Olivia Pope does not fix problems anymore, instead she is surrounded by a vast array of highly unreasonable, dramatic and confusing problems, and the fact remains that not only can no one woman can fix these problems, but the problems have no real solutions.

    Good television hinges on being able to put the audience in the shoes of the characters, make them feel as if they are experiencing another world. Scandal is no longer able to do that. Every episode ends with a bang. Writers, producers and directors are counting on the fact that each ending will be so suspenseful that people will have to watch out of shear irritation. There is no hook, no real suspense. The characters, personalities, relationships have gone so far into the unimaginable that the series is unrealistic.

    Scandal has lost its flare, its joie de vivre. All that remains is a bunch of memories, and reruns of a show that used to great.    … Expand

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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Henry Goldblatt
    Sep 27, 2013
    91
    The final moments [of the premiere episode] set up a new mystery that could propel Shonda Rhimes' Sodom-on-the-Potomac creation through the rest of the fall. [4 Oct 2013, p.59]