HOLY SHIT. FUCKING THANK YOU FOR THIS.

As much as I didn’t like HamNo’s Obama article (even though I understood and agreed with the frustration with pres Obama that clearly fueled that flawed piece), this comment thread misses the entire point of his screed here, and excellently illustrates the clear and present danger…

Oh right, I forgot about the crossover episode when mentioning season 7. It won’t change my overall grade, but I did enjoy that episode a lot more than most of S7 for the reasons you mentioned.

I wasn’t averse to Scandal drifting from the case of the week format, here and there. Seasons 1's sole episode that wasn’t…

All right AVClub Scandal fans (or masochists, if you prefer). What’s your ranking per season, and overall? Explanations are optional.

Season 1: B+ (It was mostly a case of the week formula, but the show’s premise was fresh and innovative at the time, so the short 7 episode season was solid and entertaining. Plus,…

I want to give a long, thorough 2K word dissection to the shit show that Scandal has become, in light of the finale, but...sigh. Anyway, the level of wtf dumbassery that has unfolded...

* Prosecutor guy offed himself after getting a solemn promise to resolve gun control. Nevermind that he agreed with almost everything…

Emphasis on the word “first”, not “best”.

I stopped right at that point myself. I fell behind, because I was working two jobs at the time, but so many inconsiderate morons decided to make massive public spoilers on Facebook (and they had the nerve to call ME an entitled whiner when I complained about it), it ruined the season before I had a chance to watch it…

So...things like the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Jim Crow era, and a massive poverty gap because of multi-generational systematic racism doesn’t apply at all? Just...complaints about black people talking about racism makes us racist. Okay.

It must be nice being white and privileged.

I don’t despise Horizon as much as Junkertown, but I don’t get excited when Horizon pops up for the reasons you stated.

You want a spoiler-free assessment of Black Panther, but ask about a character’s potential death in the same statement. Don’t you find that ironic and counter-intuitive?

Eh, Ash’s coming around...slowly. :P

At the very least, she’s not pro-Jake.

What do yooooou mean by “you people?”

Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.

After the previous abysmal episode - it’s a contender for the series’s worst episode, even with so many worthy picks - even a regularly bad hour of Scandal would be an improvement. Thankfully, this episode was far removed from the dirge of Quinn’s fake death two weeks ago, and last week’s ridiculousness…

Ashley, you don’t decide to make amends for your Fitz put downs. We do, in our own twisted version of Vermont with you surrounding our disapproved stares. Now grovel! :P

Anyway, I do agree with Jett that Fitz and Jake have gone to two distinctly different trajectories since season 5B. Fitz has shown genuine remorse for…

On another note, I grinned really hard at the episode’s ending. Olivia burned every bridge with Fitz, David, and OPA to get her hands back into B613, and in the end, she still lost, because Jake finally took the initiative to defy her. And did this after sex. Jake’s still a scumbag, but at least he’s owning it now,…

Everyone could see that Olivia’s admission to guilt speech was bullshit. How so many smart people could fall for that made me scratch my head. All of you got played like a damn fiddle, indeed. The only thing missing was Kaz from MGSV.

Strangely enough, Huck hasn’t done anything near that depraved since the bus juror massacre. However, the writers assumed we would not forget, and framed his possible demise in season 6 as a sympathetic catastrophe instead of karma catching up to him. Of course, he survived, but the moral dissonance was disgusting to…

Leave us be. We have fallen into the sunken place. It’s too late for us. I envy your resolve to let this go.

I’m pretty sure this is how fans of The Walking Dead feel every episode, too. (that, I was able to escape after the season 5 premier)

I know Rowan liquidated all of his B613 assets at the end of season 4, but...he doesn’t have reserves? No hidden armory? He doesn’t have some reliable contacts he could ring up at a whim? And after proving his borderline omnipotence in season 4, and even kidnapping a pregnant Quinn with a size too small luggage…

Seriously though, Ashley. If even Fitz can deliver a low key but savage burn during your lowest moment, you know you done fucked up.

I have never laughed and groaned so much in a Scandal episode quite like this one. It felt like the writers combined the atrociousness of several “worst Scandal episodes, ever” into one painful plot tumor. Let’s count the ways:

*The brief kidnapping plot of season 4
*Quinn halluncinated all of OPA to get her out of this…