Ooof. How did I miss that metaphor backfire? Great catch.

Spy crap aside, this episode was very vintage Scandal, and it worked all the better for it. Too bad it took most of this reduced season to get there.

Heh. She did look a bit off. I assumed it was the alcohol taking its effect.

"Battle of the Bastards" had plenty of disgusting imagery, but nothing will ever top the gruesome death in "The Mountain and the Viper." NOTHING.

I stopped watching House regularly by the time House operated on his own leg, but…whoooooo. That was the second grossest thing the series has done.

I enjoyed Paul Adelstein a lot more as Kellerman in Prison Break. As Leo, he had his moments, but he was underused after a while. A shame, since the actor is capable of better than what he was given.

That's one reason why season five almost redeemed the show. It continued where the show should have been after season two: dealing with the affair's fallout instead of this spy bullshit. And just when season five nearly pulled the show from its self induced muck of cynical nihilism, it came roaring back with a…

David Rosen can't be a white hat, since he traded his knowledge of Defiance in season two to become U.S. Attorney General. Aside from that, morally speaking, he's the lightest gray in the series. He's not deeply involved in the administration or Olivia's worst actions, he did actually try to stop B613 in season 4, and…

Uh…no. Even though it's nice to see an America with an unlikely president who isn't a raging assbag, Designated Survivor's quality is a lot closer to Scandal's weaker recent seasons than Better Call Saul. Designated at least gets the edge for not being as brazenly offensive to its audience. That would be fine a decade…

Regarding the first part of your response, Designated Survivor is resembling 2005's ill fated Commander in Chief in multiple ways: the show's concept (a West Wing-lite show centering on an unlikely candidate for POTUS), the network behind it (ABC), and even their behind-the -scenes issue with multiple showrunners. It…

That was season 4.

I'm pretty sure Charles Logan (of 24 season 5) can probably top Fitz in that department. Unlike Fitz, who's merely incompetent, Logan was outright evil.

Yes. Quinn still having warm feelings for Huck after extracting her molars in season 3 still makes me scratch my head. You do that to me…I might not kill you, but fuck being friends for ETERNITY; afterlife and all.

This was the biggest problem with how the whole organization was written. It's scarily omnipresent when it needs to be, but then it's hilariously incompetent the rest of the time. Go back to Prison Break's first season with The Company and Breaking Bad with Gus's organization to truly show a believably scary and…

I was going to post that if you didn't. Woman beating is wrong, but she REALLY deserved that punch to the face.

HAHAHAHA WOOOOOOOOOOW

Funny enough, that happened by accident with my gaming hobby with my (now ex) girlfriend of eight years. I had no intention of being her gateway into the interesting and bizarre world of gaming culture, but the more she watched me play video games, the more she absorbed everything I played. By her admission, it helped…

Adding to seven's statement, X-Men The Last Stand had a litany of behind-the-scenes problems, with most of them being sparked off by Fox's unwillingness to change the movie's projected release date (May 26, 2006), no matter what. Bryan Singer left for Superman Returns, and Matthew Vaughn (of X-Men First Class), the…

Fitz isn't even around that much after season 5A anyway, so I don't see why the reviewer hates him to this extent…especially since Jake has proven to be far scummier and less charismatic ever since. Fitz at his worst isn't even close to being as shitty as Jake telling his wife to go drink wine all day.

In all fairness, Scandal season 2 took a lot of cues from the better "24" seasons (mainly season five) while avoiding the real time shtick that turned into a liability so often in the series. In fact, at the time, I argued that Scandal was the best "24" successor in a genre that many other shows tried and failed to…