So the problem with this show is it's a Blanche, Sophia and Rose without a Dorothy? I would buy that. Golden Girls would never work without Dorothy to hold it all together.

This episode was so unlike most Scandal episodes in that I was totally bored by the end of it. At the end of most of the best Scandal episodes I'm literally shaking, so wound up that I need to watch a couple of half-hour comedies before I can begin to think about getting to sleep. After the end of this one I could…

Shonda Rhimes was quoted somewhere as saying that she thought Scandal would be a limited-run show, and she had in mind the stories she wanted to tell and when she had told them she would wrap it up. Let's hope she sticks to that, although it is far too easy to imagine a world where she doesn't.

I got into this show from square one over the summer and I agree it is A LOT to watch to get up to the current point. However it's hard to recommend jumping in later, because the show has done such a great slow-burn thing over time building up tiny bits of through-plot and then coming back to them at unexpected times…

Thanks, good to know. I will stop poking the corpse.

Is the TV Club iPad app just dead? I haven't been able to get it to load in a while now and that not loading is more definitive under the new format than it was under the old. The app had lots of problems (like crashing 100% of the time after about 5 minutes of use) but maybe push out some sort of notification and let…

I felt like they wrote in the pregnancy to leave open the option that Peter already did bang her. Though I'm not sure that can be made to work timeline-wise.

When you say the mean lawyer complaining about bonuses *seems ready* to jump back to LG — didn't that already definitively happen last episode? He was offered Alicia's vacant partnership at LG and took it. He was just getting Will, Diane and David caught up on what he knew about LG.

AFAIK we have never seen Elsbeth lose a case — and she always wins cleanly, not a "thought you won but actually you lost" like Alicia has gotten against Canning a few times. I would rather have her be an infrequent but potent character than a regular character who would have to lose from time to time, since you can't…

Oh, and as others have said, the lack of the drop-down index of all shows and/or just the shows that one follows is a big loss.

The new AV Club homepage looks fine, generally, but as someone who mostly jumps directly to the TV Club homepage, that one is a bit lacking. I would add a newswire box like the one on the AV Club homepage to the TV Club homepage — something to break up the endless sea of tiles.

The show probably does not take seriously the question of how they pay the bills, but that question always bugs me whenever they're doing a clearly pro bono-type case. Not only does Olivia clearly have a lot of disposable income for herself, but she also has all these gladiator mouths to feed. And now Abby's new hair…

I think you misunderstand Olivia Pope & Associates if you think she was muddying the name of her firm by representing the congressman. That is what her firm does — represents people in often-unsavory situations. In one of the early episodes Olivia exposition-izes that she doesn't care if you're guilty or not, as long…

Gangnam Style she ain't.