- ABC
- Olivia Pope is most forlorn when there’s no red wine in sight.
Scandal flew below my radar for its first three seasons. When the show’s popularity really hit, I was all caught up in Breaking Bad and Mad Men and turned up my nose at any network drama like some pretentious jerk. To quiet the pleas of a fellow television lover, I finally gave it a chance and I was hooked. As my new favorite Clickhole article so eloquently says, “Not every show needs to be fucking Mad Men.”
The season four opener gives Olivia (or rather, Julia Baker, her new identity and a nod to the first lead character played by a black woman on TV) exactly two-and-half minutes to relax on island before all hell breaks loose. Here, red wine is her demise; her colleagues track an unusual amount of alcohol shipments to a remote island and discover her whereabouts. But that’s for the best. Sure, Olivia deserves a break, but I don’t watch this show to see Kerry Washington loafing around in a swimsuit, I watch this show to see Kerry Washington’s furrowed brow and quivering lip before she snaps out of it and yells at high-level politicians. Which, thankfully, is exactly what happens next.
