Does anyone else have whiplash from how quickly this shadowy organization goes from impossibly all-powerful to completely impotent?

Alicia had a little glimmer when they said that which seemed to convey that she did not know Leora had recommended her, and that she was surprised and honored that Leora in fact thought highly of her despite her cool demeanor whenever they've met in the past. It was the sort of subtlety and excellent storytelling that…

I guess I am willing to buy the "people can't handle the truth" argument, at least within the context of the show, but then my question is, what was Pilcher thinking? People may not be able to handle the truth, why should they be any better able to handle being locked in a small town with no contact with the outside…

It's not all that bad. Like many other shows, it started out good (well, it started out okay and then got good), and then ended up getting bad. Just as I would happily recommend anyone watch the first season of Heroes and then stop and never look back (NOT EVEN FOR A SECOND), it's increasingly looking like the Scandal…

A few other absurdities not mentioned in the review:

I've just figured out what the problem with season 6 was … there was no Elsbeth.

This would work better if they included all of the various permutations of clones playing other clones.

Mellie was thinking "if Olivia gets killed and he could have stopped it I am never going to hear the end of it."

At this point the only way I could be satisfied by this plot arc is if Hollis Doyle is behind the whole thing, because he is awesome and we haven't seen him in far too long. But even if that proves to be true, Andrew's descent into mustache-twirling evil came on far too quickly and with far too little warning to work.

My one problem with this episode was the heavy-handed "here's what just happened" explanatory flashbacks. So so many of them. I can understand how in a show like Scandal they are sometimes useful and necessary, but showing us how Olivia unscrewed the pipe below the sink seconds after we saw her very clearly looking at…

Is Connor's drug problem real or is that just a lie he made up to tell Oliver to cover for his crazy behavior the night of Sam's murder? I was under the impression it was the latter — I don't think we've ever actually seen Connor do drugs. Sadly I don't get the impression the show particularly knows or cares.

The soundtrack in this episode was done really well. Maybe even a bit too well in that it was more noticeable than usual, but they used lots of great touches to emphasize the urgency of everything that was happening, with the violin flourishes becoming faster and faster as the episode progressed. And at one point…

The mention of one Florrick and Lockhart above really highlights the biggest problem with this show … The Good Wife has shown how to do extremely sophisticated, thoughtful, but still sometimes soapy-and-exciting legal plots, and this is just such a pale imitator in that regard.

I am holding out hope that the rest of the Happy Endings gang will show up and help Penny get over her amnesia. I mean, she even said "get to stepping" so clearly it is her.

You missed the point of the recall of the coin toss. Wes lied to everyone and said it was heads, but this time we saw it was really tails. Heads meant they had to go back and get the body. Hence we are learning that 2.5 months from now Wes is not as nice as we thought he was.

I liked this episode because it reminds me of early Season 2, which was also slow going but building up to something great. Season 3 was full speed ahead from day 1, which was exhausting and ultimately fruitless. Now here's hoping they're planning the same build they did in Season 2.

This review makes no sense. This was the laugh-out-loud funniest episode of New Girl in quite some time. And on top of that it had knives falling randomly throughout. Probably the best episode of the season so far. This isn't Mad Men.

Scandal is definitely much soapier than these, and if you start from the beginning you may find it a bit off-putting (there are some particularly clunky exposition lines in the first 2-3 episodes). However, Season 1 is only 7 episodes and does have some major set-up for the excellent Season 2, so it's worth slogging…

It was painfully obvious how a disproportionate number of questions were about things that happened on NBC. (What random celebrity appeared on the Today Show this week?…and many more.) Though, a lot of the questions were painful, which is presumably what happens when you need to generate enough questions to populate a…

You did miss one of the best jokes in the episode and yet inadvertently called it out in your review. I think technically you could have "gotten" it from what you know thus far, but personally I didn't get it until the Lucille episode, at which point it was truly hilarious, so I guess it is kind of worth it.