Scandal Look At Who Wants Me Scandal Season 4 Episode 12 recap Well, this is one of those oxymorons that happens on television. “How do we make a kidnapping fun to watch?” Lots of moving parts, a hell of a lot of booze, a body count… This episode was more of an Ocean’s Eleven roundup By Duana • Feb 13, 2015 09:40 am
Scandal Seriously Kidnapped Scandal Season 4 Episode 10 recap. Okay, out of a pretend middle-eastern soundstage, into the fire. Oh, and the President of the United States was convinced to negotiate with terrorists and start a war by his wife, because she feared for the life of his mistress. I mean, I do By Duana • Feb 06, 2015 09:42 am
Scandal Scandal Returns Scandal Season 4 Episode 10 recap So I have a pretty strong fear of kidnapping. This is nonsensical, because I am worth zero to anyone. But overcautious parents combined with a few too many high-profile kidnapping cases in my growing up years, and now I’m a weirdo obsessive who’ By Duana • Jan 30, 2015 09:59 am
Media Manipulation Lena Dunham’s New Advisor So this is new. You know how Olivia Pope on Scandal is based on a real woman? That’s Judy Smith. She’s everything you expect Olivia Pope to be and her resume includes advisor to people who are Heads of State and Executives of Major Corporations. She just advised By Duana • Jan 20, 2015 10:21 am
Scandal A Special Place In Hell Scandal Season 4 Episode 9 recap Well that’s redemption. I mean the show is crazy, of course. The bulging eyes of Kerry Washington when she’s shouting at Cyrus need to be parodied immediately, and I am not good at starting memes but I really hope someone’s on By Duana • Nov 21, 2014 09:46 am
Scandal Shiny Things Scandal Season 4 Episode 8 recap Do you buy it? Because I do. I buy that everything Olivia Pope has accomplished has been with the guiding hand of her Daddy behind her. Some of the time, even most, she hasn’t needed it, like a parent who holds a cautious By Duana • Nov 14, 2014 09:31 am
Scandal Keep it Up? Scandal Season 4 Episode 7 recap Last night as I was pressing play on Scandal, Lainey discovered the Duggars. So I was already in a delighted mood and this episode of Scandal kicks it up a notch for several reasons. Mainly, it’s the best episode of Scandal in a By Duana • Nov 07, 2014 09:15 am
Scandal The Words Used To Describe Women Scandal Season 4 Episode 6 recap Of note, because I care, Elizabeth, the Republican party operative, Portia De Rossi’s best-ever haircut, is the same name as Bitsy, President Cooper’s widow. That is, Bitsy is a nickname for Elizabeth. So women named Elizabeth have balls and manipulate unsuspecting men By Duana • Oct 31, 2014 10:23 am
Scandal To Be Like Olivia Pope Scandal Season 4 Episode 5 recap This episode was all about good people, and whether there are any left. Of course that’s what the whole series is about. What it’s always been about – but back then, there were lines very clearly drawn. And now, well, Scandal isn’t By Duana • Oct 24, 2014 10:48 am
Scandal Bad Parents Scandal Season 4 Episode 5 recap Well, Scandal wasn’t boring. I can’t exactly decide what it was, in a word, because mostly it was a contradiction. So we come in on the President’s daughter, the completely anachronistically named Karen, who needs rescuing from a party that is By Duana • Oct 17, 2014 09:40 am
Scandal Mommy Issues Scandal Season 4 Episode 3 recap Parents and Children, in this episode. Mommies who don’t pay enough attention to their daughters, even as they go through the motions of dropping them off at school or bringing them along on interviews with former classmates whose daughters have in turn gone By Duana • Oct 10, 2014 09:28 am
Scandal “The Taliban Is Better Than This” Scandal Season 4 Episode 2 Okay, so. Nicely done. That’s saying something because I thought an elementary-school shooting premise was going to be far more mawkish. Scandal made it not about that, which is impressive and also somehow made the death of Fitz & Mellie’s son Jerry into By Duana • Oct 03, 2014 11:57 am
Scandal SCANDAL Season 4, Episode 1 recap I forgot about the soul music. I love the soul music on this show. Gone Girl is a very nice touch, as is Olivia’s curly hair, and what appears to be a first for network 9 PM. Is that a first? Um, digital manipulation? By Duana • Sep 26, 2014 11:54 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Mother & Pope Kerry Washington made her first public appearance since having a baby yesterday at the Crystal + Lucy Awards in LA yesterday with Shonda Rhimes, the mother of Olivia Pope. I wrote about Shonda earlier this week. About her wonderful commencement speech at Dartmouth. About her approach to the Work and her By Lainey • Jun 12, 2014 02:28 pm
Scandal “I am the Scandal” Scandal Season 3 Episode 22 recap Look, it had to be big. It had to be hardcore because that’s what we’ve come to expect from Scandal, and because all the people watching who would probably never call themselves thrill-seekers are now smacking their veins, desperate for the next By Duana • Apr 21, 2014 09:53 am
Scandal If I never hear the word “Command” again… Scandal Season 3 Episode 21 recap Okay, let’s start here. I call my dad “Dad” most of the time, but when I need to get his attention in a crowd, I call him by his first name, “Gamal”. It’s left over from when we’d be in a By Duana • Apr 11, 2014 10:15 am
