All of this.

I completely forgot about that. Sigh.

If there was ever any doubt Mellie is Scandal's best character, that doubt has been removed.

This was my exact reaction. If Robert and Michelle King can't make it work, it isn't workable.

Given that auctions are designed with the express goal of yielding a single winner, this is not irrational at all.

I am in your debt for pointing me to this Moneybeat series. Again, I really like the idea of Cookie being the one to give the speech, but the tracks laid down in the scripts didn't get me from point A to point B. The charisma piece of it is really important and a cogent point, but I dunno why Lucious couldn't have…

We're agreed on that; choosing Cookie was the emotional way to go, and I can even buy that Lucious would be in an emotional state during his attack. But because Cookie is always in beast mode, it never looks like she has any competition, and that's an issue. Because Cookie is always at the top of the pyramid, to give…

That clap reminded me of Steve McQueen's super bitchy faux applause at the Oscars when John Ridley won Best Screenplay. http://youtu.be/G3yeijOMet8

Totally agree. An Andre-centric episode needs to happen soon.

I think Anika loves Lucious too, but she seems willfully blind to the real threat Cookie poses to her position in Empire. I'm sorry, but after Lucious chose Cookie to give the speech, then actually said "I love you, Cookie" in front of Anika, there's no way Anika should have been immediately boarding a flight to…

It's no coincidence that I didn't harp on the little girl's paternity as a plot hole. It didn't even occur to me because she's so cute she shorts my critical circuits.

The point about Anika in the emergency room makes sense to me. I still don't get choosing Cookie for the speech, especially since the big fish they were trying to catch had already met Andre and had a rapport with him. If the idea is to sell that it's a family business with a clear succession plan in place, it's a…

Rethink this one. Consider for a moment that at this point Liam is the only character on this show who doesn't have indiscriminate sexual flings, then consider why you decided Fiona is the one who should contract an STD as a result of doing so.

I think this is all fair, but sometimes people have contradictory, indifferent, or even hostile feelings towards their own children, and given how Yevgeny was conceived, this is a situation in which those kinds of complicated feelings make sense, even if confronting them feels icky.

Again, this is a situation in which the audience benefits from seeing what's actually happening. If Hannah was my friend, she'd call and say "Now that I'm here, I have all this time to write and no interest in doing so, and now I'm starting to think writing is not actually what I want to do." I'd say "You're probably…

Yeah I agree with this. It was a sweet sentiment, but it wasn't comforting then because Hannah didn't want a good girlfriend, she wanted her boyfriend back. It's kinda like when you're up for a big promotion but don't get it, and your friend says, "But think of how much you have to be grateful for!" It's like…that's…

Yeah, this is definitely a thing. I only lived in Brooklyn for three years, and met a LOT of people who were like, "We were dating for three weeks, then my lease was up, so we moved in together. It was weird when we broke up two weeks later, but it's fine now because we work different schedules."

Sure is.

I wrote about this! And maybe I should have waited, because this is a better example than Scandal. http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I very seldomly see things through Adam's perspective, honestly. But again, I think that's a result of how the story is told. From the beginning it's been Hannah struggling to understand this odd, moody person and the audience watching her puzzle through it. I feel like I understand Adam with regard to everything that…