Thursday Nights?!? Shut. It. Down.

"Scandalous Thursdays!"
"Hi!  My name is Faith Margaret and I watch Scandal."  I enjoy it.  Thoroughly…and will blog  right here about all new episodes on Thursday nights beginning next week.  Oh!  Your theories about what is happening next in this suspenseful show are welcomed along with my musings. 

So!  Since it is my good intention to blog about new episodes of Scandal on Thursday nights I figured we may as well go ahead and acknowledge a few things, like...

1.  Everyone does not like Scandal.  

2.  Everyone does not watch Scandal.  

3.  Many folks have serious, strong opinions about those of us that do watch Scandal and the impact the show has on black folks, specifically.  

Yep!  I've heard it all and appreciate lively debates on the subject.  Just know that right here?  On this here blog?  I will offer a recap of new episodes of Scandal on Thursdays even amidst the naysayers.  And that's just that.  We can explore what is happening on the show with its twists and turns as well as the suggested impact the show is having, in general.  All opinions are welcomed.  Now that we've got that out of the way, shall we begin?

After a ridiculously long wait it's just about time for one of the most entertaining yet divisive televisions shows to capture our attention again.  Oh, indeed there will be plenty of water cooler talk the day after and social media will be abuzz come February 27th.  It's been a while so a recounting of where Olivia, Cyrus, the POTUS, Mellie and the Gladiators left off is in order!

The winter finale of 2013 found us reeling from Command absolutely, positively, without a doubt r e a d i n g Fitz over the subject of his daughter, THE formidable Olivia Pope.  Remember that scene?  Here goes...

POTUS:  “I’m screwing her, you know? Your daughter. Every chance I get. The things I could tell you…about the way she tastes. She’s quite a girl. Talented.” 

Really? Really, Fitz? You are going to stand in that man’s presence and tell him you’ve had his daughter this way and that way? Really?!?

Command:  “For you it’s always summertime and the living is easy. Your daddy’s rich and your mama’s good lookin’! You. Are. A. Boy. I’m a man! I have worked for every single thing I have ever received. I have fought and scraped and bled for every inch of ground I walk on. I was the first in my family to go to college. My daughter went to school with the children of kings. I made that happen! You cry yourself to sleep because daddy hurt your feelings. Because papa banged his secretary. Because it hurt to have so much money. You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful little brat! You have EVERYTHING handed to you on a silver platter and you squander it. You’re given the world and you can’t appreciate it because you haven’t had to work for ANYTHING! So, now you’ve decided that the one thing that you want is my daughter, my child, mine. What I made! What I created! You can talk about what a great lay she is all you want to get a response from me but guess what? I am actually quite literally above your pay grade. Which means that I know that you believe that you are in love with her. You love that she is a door marked exit! You love that she is your way out! Because if you are with Olivia Pope you don’t have to fulfill your father’s dream of being President! If you are with Olivia you no longer have to be your father’s son! An apple never falls too far from the tree. You are ALWAYS going to be Senator Grant’s disappointing boy Fitz! SHE is always going to be the formidable Olivia Pope! Don’t use the person that I made to make you into a man. You’re a BOY! You disappoint me as a suitor for my daughter’s hand!”

I love that cat, man!! That’s theatrical acting, baby! *Applause & Whistles* And damn good writing! Betcha the person that wrote that scene had absolutely no lead left in that number 2 pencil once the scene was done.

The Vice President literally had blood on her hands, that damn Quinn was bumbling as usual (though I think we should keep our eye on her…the chile' ain't right), Cyrus appeared seemingly out for the count only to get up off the ropes in the last round with a brutal upper cut and Jake had ascended the throne as the new Command!  And.  And.  And!  We realized that Olivia's mother is actually a damn terrorist, spy or whatever and is THE master manipulator.  And had the nerve to sport a white coat before she exited stage left! 
  
And here we are!  *cue the dramatic soap opera music that would play at the end of the soap operas your Mama and 'nem watched when you were a kid*  How will Command handle not being Command anymore?  What types of mischief is Mama Pope going to get into and for what reason?  How will Mellie manage living with a man that clearly wants to be with another woman?  That damn Cyrus, what is to come from his betrayal (again) of his husband?  And Huck!  Dear Huck!  What ever will he do with foolish Quinn? Will we ever know what Harrison's back story is? Do tell, please!  Is Olivia resigned to wait for Fitz or will she continue to carry on with Jake in an attempt to level her feelings for Fitz?  And how are they going to distract from, disguise or include Kerry Washington's Love on Top for the rest of this part of the season?

Remote?  Check!  Nice Pinot Noir?  Check!  Grown woman sized sexy wine glass?  Check!  It's almost Thursday, people!!