I’m delightfully surprised by the current season of Scandal. I had trouble getting into the show, and actually, I’m surprised I’m still with it; catching a glimpse of a political debate between two women and Melly’s bid for the presidency kept me involved, even though I don’t really like her, or Olivia …
And this season, Olivia’s arrogance is really off-putting, but my god, her monument or asterisk speech to Melly – she actually used the word ‘misogyny’. The word! Spoken by a character on prime time tv!! Been waiting for that for almost fifty years.
And then in a subsequent episode, Marcus takes Fitz to task for his white privilege.
And for turning Olivia into a ‘black ho’? Bring it on.
And that was after he lands that “Welcome to the plight of almost every successful woman in the history of mankind” remark.
Who are these writers? And why weren’t they on the show since the beginning? (If I’m reading the IMDB site correctly, the writer has always been Shonda Rhimes. Hm.) (Perhaps no surprise. If she’d said the ‘m’ word in the first episode, perhaps she wouldn’t’ve gotten any further.)
(Though I have to say…I worry that Olivia will set feminism back fifty years if she continues with, well, murder and blackmail. People will say shit like ‘see what happens when we let women in power?’ conveniently forgetting every man in power that has done the same…)
