By Phil Andros
I’ve been on the run, but Tamara has me chained tightly to the radiator once again. Tonight I have some questions before Thursday night’s episode:
- Is Huck going to die? I’m going to guess no because I’m pretty sure we would have heard about it. And why did he even take Meg to see Jennifer when he was kind of suspicious of her and he knew that she met with the blonde lady who is blackmailing Eli? Honestly, that made absolutely no sense at all. Of course it also means that the woman who was capable of putting a bullet directly in Jennifer’s heart and forehead was incapable of killing Huck at point blank range. Because Scandal.
- I DO NOT LIKE people having the upper hand on Poppa Pope. I guess that isn’t a question. But I still don’t like it. And, by the way, how did Huck know to take the chip out of dead lady’s neck? And why would it have a recording of everything? Sigh. Anyway, I hate blonde lady and her apparent boss is super creepy. Oh, and if blonde lady and super creepy boss are capable of hiring assassins and killing people and such, why couldn’t they just take out Frankie Vargas themselves? Oh right, they could, but Shonda.
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Why does Olivia seem perpetually clueless. For real. She seemed omnipotent in the first couple of seasons. Now she doesn’t ever figure out anything on her own. This sort of started last season. Even when she was kidnapped she always seemed to be planning, scheming and using the kidnappers against each other. But last season and now this season she is always trusting and believing the wrong people. What happened? Her instincts were always so good? I thought Shonda had finally created a perfect black super-heroine for the teevee. Too bad really. - What the heck happened to Cyrus? We haven’t seen him in the past 3 episodes. And since we all know he’s innocent, you’d think someone would have a passing interest in getting him out of jail unless of course they need him to stay in jail until Mellie is named President. Scratching my head on this one.
- And finally the big question: WTF Abby?!?!?!?! According the promo for Thursday night’s show: “The events from election night are retold from Abby’s (Darby Stanchfield) perspective, revealing a formidable thirst for power and an explosive secret she’s been keeping.” Ok, so we kind of saw Abby’s thirst for power coming out last season, but we also kind of laughed about it because she wasn’t really very good at it. Now all of a sudden she is a super schemer? Oh, remember how she was literally the very last person on the show who hadn’t actually killed someone (besides black dude who is fucking Mellie who has been off for so many episodes that I’ve once again forgotten his name)? Not so much anymore.What does she hope to gain or is she being massively blackmailed by someone? And if she is being blackmailed, by whom? Who could possibly be scarier than the people she is in bed with and also Poppa Pope? Answer: Nobody. It had to be something that was set up basically knowing that Frankie was going to win, right? So another election was rigged? And follow me here: If you knew who was going to win and you wanted them to win AND you put this plan in place beforehand, the only person it could reasonably benefit * I think * is Cyrus. So my guess is that Cyrus and Abby are in cahoots and Tom threw a wrench in their plans. Which means that eventually Cyrus is going to end up President of the United States. That’s my theory and I’m sticking with it.
I’ll be back after the next episode to explain why I am totally wrong I’m sure.
Note from TT: I really wanted to be able to post this in my comment but I couldn’t so I am doing it here instead.
Please raise your hand if you have been personally victimized by Shonda Rhimes…
This season and its flashbacks have been a headache. It all seems so meshed together by Shonda… ehhh
Agreed. I really don’t have much idea what is going on. If Huck dies, I’m done. When everyone was talking about crying during This Is Us and it sticking with them, I thought about when Cyrus’ husband died. I sobbed. I was furious. I was still upset the next day. It’s the only time I’d ever been upset over a TV show character dying. If Huck dies it will probably be the same way.
I keep trying to cram a gif in here but I can’t so I am going to stick it to the end of Phil’s post.
I have been victimized by Shonda!
The whole scene leading up to Huck being shot was sort of predictable and a rookie mistake on Olivia’s part. It seems as though they would misjudge a situation like that early in their Gladiator careers not now as seasoned Gladiators.
Agreed. Even I saw that coming, and I have no idea what is going on anymore. I mean, I didn’t think Huck would get shot, but I did know that that girl was not on Huck’s side. Whatserface, the one marrying the serial killer tried to tell him that.
Even Huck knew. He confronted her about meeting blonde lady and she said she didn’t know her and it was “just a coincidence.” That was some remarkably shoddy writing.
They need to get back to being “fixers”…kinda over every episode being about Olivia’s pseudo family. The rest of the cast is underused. And Rowan referring to Jake and Olivia as siblings turns my stomach….
Yep, as predicted. Guessed completely wrong.
Because Atlanta was burning, and we still haven’t gotten used to it, Scandal was preempted so we could watch the fire. They reaired it at a weird time 2:05 am so I had to tape three half hour shows to piece the whole thing together. It was a PITA.
All of that for THIS FUCKING EPISODE? Abby is left alone with the dead president long enough to complete an autopsy and leave her DNA filled glove in the trash can, not even in the biohazard waste?
I still don’t get the importance of the dead, not dead, dead chick. And this HUCK MIGHT DIE crap is going to be dragged out for the rest of the damn season, why?
I feel so personally victimized by Shonda Rhimes.
Yeah, so I have zero interest in recapping this episode. I was definitely wrong and I guess I’m glad since it would have marked a pretty dramatic turnaround for Abby from wanna be badass to actual badass. But, since we’re all keeping score:
Fitz: Mass murderer. Project Remington, the Supreme Court lady plus the war in East Angola.
Olivia: Murdered former VP Andrew.
Mellie: Got the bus full of people killed.
Cyrus: The jail guard a few episodes ago, multiple others, even hired Charlie to kill his husband, James.
Huck, Jake, Charlie, Eli and Quinn: serial killers, zero remorse, your basic sociopaths for real.
And now Abby. Sigh.
That leaves David Rosen as the only recurring character since season one who hasn’t killed someone.
WTF Shonda
And then she gives us the Abby flashback episode.
Just ask yourself this:
If a shadow organization is capable of hiring assassins, whipping hundreds of millions of dollars around the world and basically getting access to every important person in DC, and getting a faux nurse into the room with the just-shot President elect, why the fuck do they need to engage in this totally unnecessary and elaborate ruse?
I mean, I hope there is some payoff here. No doubt once Cyrus gets out of jail they will all band together to bring down the shadow people, but this one is just straining credulity a bit much for my tastes.
It’s almost like General Hospital when the Cassadines were going to use their freeze ray to freeze Port Charles.
I didn’t sign up for James Bond light, Shonda.
I’m so distraught I can’t even point to the spot on the doll where the bad lady Shonda touched me. 🙁
MUST YOU BRING UP THE MOST TRAUMATIC THING EVER TO HAPPEN ON TELEVISION EVER?
/SOBS
“Cyrus: The jail guard a few episodes ago, multiple others, even hired Charlie to kill his husband, James.”
I was crying so hard I forgot to include the reference. Although, DUH.
/SOBS
You know, after he pimped him out to Sally’s husband.
Oh, btw, now really dead girl’s importance is that Eli got her to call and blame the murder on Cyrus. At least I think it was Eli. So Jake had to kill her. Loose end.
There is literally nothing redeemable about any of these characters. Nothing. Murderers, liars and morally bankrupt. White hats my ass.
Which actors are playing the creepy couple?
Zoe Perry and David Warshofsky.
There’s no indication that they are a couple. She seems to work for him.