TV #22 of 2022: Scandal, season 7 Credit where credit’s due: the first five episodes on this last year of Scandal are genuinely riveting. The scripts are tighter, and it really feels like the show has finally locked into who these characters are and how to tell trenchant and complex storylines involving them. Taking that …
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TV Review: Scandal, season 6
TV #15 of 2022: Scandal, season 6 This penultimate outing starts with a bang, and winds up structuring its entire year a bit like a whodunnit mystery. For a while, the show is almost hypnotically-recursive, returning Rashomon-like to Election Night again and again, each time filling in yet another person’s perspective along with some additional …
TV Review: Scandal, season 5
TV #12 of 2022: Scandal, season 5 This political melodrama remains ridiculous, verging on outright self-parody, but this season is at least a minor course-correction to the spy nonsense that was dragging it down in previous years. Rowan is frustratingly still around as a master manipulator, but his B613 organization has stayed dismantled, and for …
TV Review: Scandal, season 4
TV #1 of 2022: Scandal, season 4 This series remains compulsively watchable in the ludicrous audacity of its various developments, and it occasionally gives us some powerful character arcs, like the one this year of a shattered First Lady Mellie Grant picking herself back up after personal tragedy. Mostly, though? It’s a whole lot of …
TV Review: Scandal, season 3
TV #79 of 2021: Scandal, season 3 This series is becoming ever more of a soap opera, such that when Fitz replaces his treacherous VP with a running mate he says is the one man he trusts, it’s almost inevitable that that new fellow will end up in a love triangle with him and the …
TV Review: Scandal, season 2
TV #74 of 2021: Scandal, season 2 This second year of the presidential-fixer-and-mistress show is an undeniable improvement over the first, both steadier in its storytelling and with better definition to its characters. (I still don’t really understand what Harrison and Abby’s exact skillsets are within the firm, but at least they have clearer personalities …
TV Review: Scandal, season 1
TV #67 of 2021: Scandal, season 1 Initially this drama about a Washington lawyer/fixer seems like it might be clunkier and soapier than I would prefer, but it improves on the former measure as this first year goes along — an achievement, given that that’s just seven episodes in total — and the latter isn’t …
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