The ridiculous B613 and Mellie for Senate story lines have killed Scandal this season. The second half of the season has been boring except for a few standout episodes.

First kill B613 and Jake and Papa Pope to get rid of deadweight.

As usual Mellie did nothing in this episode to save her political career. As usual it was
Olivia, Fitz and Cyrus who came to her rescue. What is wrong with the people who keep praising entitled Mellie for doing nothing? I wish they would STFU with this white privileged version of feminism when the show has shown that…

So we wasted a full season on this ridiculous election arc for it to end in this lame manner. They continue to insist on showing Alicia as being very naive and clueless about political matters when she has been married to a politician for over 20 years.

This rating seems low for an episode that was well done and actually pretty good. It was a slower pace which was appropriate for the flashbacks. A lot of social issues were touched on that apparently went over the head of this reviewer - gay rights, AIDS in the 80s, gay conversion camps, Cyrus' political marriage to…