Listen, I'm saying if they do, Shonda needs to just go ahead and hire you on staff.

I agree. In fact, initially I thought the mention of Harrison/Stephen's office was just as a means to pave the way for Jake to step into that role.

Yeah, I have noticed that Katrina is the first person you see in the credits. And I honestly don't know what to make of that since she's been such a non-entity since the start. I heard (I don't know where so don't hold me to this) that Katrina wasn't supposed to make it out of purgatory in season one. If that's true,…

Yeah, that house looks ridiculously drafty to me.

I really and truly understand why you think it's a great idea, I just personally think they're not gonna get as much traction out of the idea as they could. Sending Abbie back to the seventeen hundreds doesn't seem as filled with narrative possibilities to me, in fact, it just fills me with anxiety (and I know I'm not…

Perhaps they were the guiding hand that kept wilder impulses at bay…or something. I just can't understand such a precipitous drop in quality otherwise. It went from fun and exciting to a boring slog so quickly. Why shift the focus so drastically from what worked (Abbie and Ichabod, with a little Jenny thrown for…

What happened to Lila's boyfriend? He just disappeared. I thought, given the fact that they heavily suggested he and Rebecca had a relationship of some sort too, that we'd see more of him. He just fell off the planet once they were acquitted. They definitely seemed to be into something together.

But she was weird with him before that. Remember the convo in the bathroom when she begged him not to reveal her affair with Nate? Her thing with Wes has been weirdly sexual…or something from the beginning.

Those scenes definitely seemed like they were lifted from something you'd see at the Beacon Theater (if you're from NYC that will mean something to you, if not…suffice to say, that's where Tyler Perry's stage stuff plays).

So I wasn't the only one that thought "uh-oh, Izzie/Denny alert!" with Stephanie and the brain tumor dude. That's either poor writing/ blocking of the scene on their part or pathetic wishful thinking on our parts.

I don't know either. This could be true but I keep thinking Wes is Annalise's son. I agree, it's really ambiguous right now but I'm leaning more towards long lost illegitimate child rather than sex-slave in training.

"…A term that should have died and been buried with Harrison."

…probably in an institution somewhere having PTSD-like reactions to offers of ice cream.

Unfortunately as mentioned upthread (and apparently on another recap site) Liv is pretty much in the same boat. She's in love with Fitz, the person too but she's mainly in love with Fitz the idea. They're both delusional.

I agree but I think as someone else said, if Fitz isn't the president half of the allure and most of the narrative drive behind their stupid "secret tormented lovers" storyline goes down the tubes. Nothing would be preventing them from making the idiotic "Vermont jam" except the reality that it isn't/wasn't ever…

I agree about the frequent ret-conning but in some ways it could still make sense that they all went to law school together. Remember, Abby carried a huge torch for Stephen in season one. It could make sense that it was a holdover from school.

Yeah. They never got to that. But it was implied by Huck in first season that basically Olivia saved all of them in one way or another. I suspect Olivia just saved Stephen from himself. She convinced him that he could stop being a man-whore, settle down and have a regular life with Georgia (apparently she was wrong…

Agreed. That subject matter is far too important to get the Scandal treatment. A far more accomplished staff, capable of infinitely more nuanced writing (aka the team over at The Good Wife) tried and failed valiantly. These jokers are more likely than not to just piss me and most sensible people off in the attempt, I…

I thought it was "hear"? Maybe I need my hearing checked, huh?

I personally think Goffman is a moron, but I assumed he was the original showrunner and so I just resolved to grin and bear it. He's not?