I don't have a Twitter account, so it usually doesn't occur to me to check out anything over there, but I remembered something about Shonda tweeting her shows, so I looked to see what she had to say about this episode. And loved it.

I don't have a Twitter account, so it usually doesn't occur to me to check out anything over there, but I remembered something about Shonda tweeting her shows, so I looked to see what she had to say about this episode. And loved it.

The audience didn't accept her being thrown around. People voiced their concerns over her treatment both physically and as a devolving character.

Point taken. I suppose I was enamored by the differences in the roles Washington has been allowed to play, but Tarantino probably isn't the best example (though I do think her role in that was highly disappointing). Edited because it muddled the real point I was trying to make. It was pointed out below that women's…

On this show, we've seen Olivia Pope choked and thrown against walls, abused physically and verbally, kidnapped and assaulted. And the audience has largely accepted it, perhaps as a reflection of the real world, perhaps because violence against women is simply a trope we've come to accept in entertainment. It's just…

I love how Andrew being in a wheelchair keeps being brought up as a justification for why this was sooooo awful. As if that made him any less abusive. As if it isn't incredibly offensive to say, "Oh noes! A man in a wheelchair is soooooo hewpwess and should be treated much differently than fully able-bodied person."…

Well, I was referring more to the other vicarious thrills the show has offered through the character's dirty dealings over the years…but thanks! I will! I've already watched the scene five times, and look forward to doing so again!

Of course not. In real life. This is fiction, and this particular piece of fiction is full of characters doing things human beings shouldn't in real life, and often allows viewers the vicarious thrills that come from that. I've certainly been around the internet long enough to know that many viewers consider shows…

I said "for me." I wasn't speaking for "most people." And if you think Andrew was defenseless, you weren't watching that scene. Unless he's defenseless because he was in a wheelchair…which is a lot more offensive to people with disabilities than anything that happened in the show.

So being in a wheelchair should give him a pass for being a terrorist, a traitor, an abusive misogynist and a murderer?

I'm truly sorry you feel that way; I know what it's like to have a show ruined for you. It's just interesting to see how something that can ruin a character for one person can save it for another. That moment was the most I've felt for Olivia in longer than I can remember—maybe this entire season. I was literally…

COUNTERPOINT: All right, I'm just going to say it. As someone who has been hating on the show for weeks and has thought it awful, I have no idea why anyone would have a problem with Olivia's actions in this episode, or think them worthy of earning the episode an F. None. After all, this is a show where the President…

For what it's worth, last year on the final season of Revenge, Madeline Stowe's character supposedly died a few episodes before the finale, and she did interviews on all the usual entertainment sites—including Entertainment Weekly—about how it was right for her character to die before the finale and she was ready to…

For what it's worth, Alan Sepinwall posted the raw footage of the verdict being read in his review (a little easier to focus on Kardashian's reaction than in the clip Pilot posted in her review). Kardashian certainly doesn't look pleased (Sepinwall describes it as "dawning horror"). I could believe this guy running…

Here's what Marcia Clark has to say about him in her interview with Vulture on the finale:

Also very worth a read: Dominick Dunne's article from the December 1995 Vanity Fair on the reaction to OJ post-verdict.

I love David Walton, but I hope this is the last we see of Sam and he gets away from these people. I loved him telling off Jess at the end, which was completely justified and awesome.

Interesting. I spent most of this episode thinking what a mistake it was to rush into yet another election. I mean, it was just two years ago we were watching the last election, and they spent the two years prior to that showing flashbacks to the previous one. It's starting to seem like all this show does is election…

I thought it was alright, but kind of bland. It has all the things that should make me love it…yet, I didn't.

The top picture should probably be updated. That's the original cast of "The Catch," half of which have been replaced and recast. (The guy in the middle is now Peter Krause; the girl from "One Tree Hill" is now Penny from "Lost."