Scandal, Scandal, Scandal. Say It Ain't So, Harrison!!

"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. 

Now THAT was sad!  Pitiful, even.  After what must have been a lustful and passionate love making session, Olivia and Fitz resort to arguing like an old married couple all while the Secret Service stands guard outside their lair waiting for them to finish their business.  Side note…Secret Service Agents must have the best salary, retirement packages and punishable by death Non Disclosure Agreements to assure they take all they see and hear while protecting the White House to their graves.  I digress.  Back to how sobering that opening scene was with Olivia and Fitz.  “I am not a prize at the state fair.  You can’t win me.”  Really?  That’s debatable.  Every single time she attempts to leave FITZ for good and he comes back with mad s w a g promising her a log cabin house built from the ground up…WIN…every time he threatens to throw all of his power and authority away to live a couple of forevers with her…WIN…for each time he gives a special favor for her because he’s the POTUS…WIN.  Sounds like he’s WINNING to me.  And yes, Olivia you do have a scarlet A on your chest except the inside community of the White House is colluding with you to dim that scarlet A just a bit.  It is what it is. Really.

So that cat, Andrew from California was in the house when Mellie was violated by that mean old nasty Daddy Fitz?!?  He found her trying to take her life, saved her from herself and THAT is a connection that is hard to forget.  Plus Mellie confessed to him that her father in law violated her and that she’s worried her husband’s son may very well be his “brother-son!”  All because Fitz was busy being governor and she was left to live the life she chose to live.  With him.  Mellie did her best to stay within her marriage while her FITZ went about the business of being the most powerful man in the world reminding Olivia, “We are not the same!”  Oh.  Yes.  You.  Are.  *snicker*  What would Jackie Kennedy Onassis say? *grabbing my pearls & gasping*

Harrison gets it in on this show, baby!  Dig the facial hair by the way, bruh.  He’s like a modern day Wesley Snipes or something without the sorta kinda butt naked shots.  Not quite sure how I feel about that, though.  Clearwater…that must be a connection to that oil tycoon, Hollis.  He is making donations that seem to be connected to Hollis under an assumed name to get around government regulations.  And the donor is Harrison’s lady love, who is Mama Pope’s connect!  That’s why he was freaking out!!!  Olivia is going to be crushed.  Damn!

That Shonda is a bad, bad girl!

Still not buying Jake as Command.  He looked stressed the hell out reading through the top secret briefcase.  B6-13 must operate without interference from the Executive Office.  And and and…you have support from within the White House.  “Protect the Republic.”  He ain’t ready!  Can you imagine the REAL Command having a damn meeing with Quinn telling her he is worried about her?  Please!

Sally is not going to make it.  If someone starts ministering to her for longer than a minute or yells, “HALLELUJAH!” too loud in her presence she’s going to fall apart and give it all up.  And I do believe that Hollis knows something is up with the death of her husband.

“I bought you a coffee.”  He’s baaaacckkk!  That’s Huck’s way of apologizing to Olivia for hemming her up for knowing the REAL Command was her Daddy and for licking Quinn’s face.  I hope she tossed those coffee cups in the trash, too.  I know I would have!  So, Olivia chastises him for going too far and he reminds her in the way only he can,  “That just makes me a very loyal monster.  I went exactly as far as my leash allows.  You hold the leash.  You went too far.  You should have never given me someone to love.  Monsters eat people, Liv.  It’s what we do.”  Awww, Huck!  Dang…   

Quinn and that gross guy, Charlie just…gross me out.  Ewww!  She is on the fringes of everything and everyone trying to find her way back into the inner circle.  I think she has some big thing she is trying to make happen to give her credibility as B6-13, which is not going to work since Olivia has advised Jake to not allow Quinn to become one of the bad, bad, bad guys (or gal in her instance).  Oh, but Olivia still wants to save Quinn after she was a part of destroying Quinn’s life, “Come home.”  I do believe you lost this one, Olivia.    Girl, bye!  You better leave Quinn’s old tired self out in the world to do whatever she thinks she needs to do. Put your white hat neatly away, Olivia.  Quinn is c r a y!

Back to Sunday Dinners with Daddy.  Does she really think Daddy Pope does not have any power or authority?!?  C’mon, son!  He’s playing mind games with her like he did say what we know he said to her last week. 

Abbey was molded.  She confessed her love for David to David and he gets up to take a damn phone call?!?  I would have politely gathered my belongings and left with a quickness.  James is Publius (note to self…get clear about this Publius).  He is scared of Cyrus.  And he should be.  He is too damn anxious.  A whiner.  Indecisive.   He can’t be a real asset the way he freaks out.  Looking all around like a junkie waiting for another hit while he is meeting with David Rosen.  *sigh*   She comes out smelling like a rose later when he calls her to tell her he loves her, she pops the trunk and tells his silly ass, “Thank you!” for confessing his love to her when he thought he was on his way to meet his maker.  Get ‘cho life, David!  See?!? He will stay in debt to Olivia. 

Huh?  Jake is supposed to be Olivia’s boyfriend now?  When did that happen?  So, that’s why Fitz was pissed off at the start.  He knows Jake did the “hootie hoo” with Olivia and the idea of her pretending to be with a man he knows was handling business is just too much to bear.  And Olivia only has feelings for Jake when Fitz hurts her feelings or she starts feeling guilty.  He’s the “In Between Guy” that every woman has had at one time or another. 

Cue the soul music!  “What they do!  They smiling in your face, all the time they wanna take your place.  The backstabbers! Somebodys out to take your lady.  A few of your brothers they sho’ look shady!”  ~The Mighty, Mighty O’Jays  That one loyal Secret Service cat is B6-13!  

Until next week...