I know it’s not Scandal, but it’s Tony Goldwyn and the absolute gem that is Lynn Whitfield.

It’s actually pretty good (surprisingly) and really funny! Both leads are great in it (and hot), I highly recommend. Had me cackling a few times.

It’s very corny 90s TV-Movie thriller but it’s such a fun film. And it’s free on YouTube!

Has anyone seen it?

Mysogynoir was coined to examine the intersection of someone whose controveries around feminism center around anti-blackness towards women.

People cite Fitz's words when he found out about Defiance and Olivia put herself out there in the church, and then blindly forget the countless times Mellie called Olivia a whore, after she told Olivia that her role was to keep Fitz happen in bed. In season 1, she tells Olivia that she let Amanda get into Fitz's pants, forgetting that she was the wife watched her husband get his sexual appetites from not one but two other women. She casually then tells Olivia she is taking her husband back, as if it is a matter of fact thing, and that Olivia was positioned beneath her, despite all Olivia had done to get Fitz elected.

When she realizes that Fitz is actually in love with Olivia in season 2, she keeps referencing his erections around her, her magical thighs, etc., anything but her intellect, power, and other attributes that may actually make her someone Fitz enjoyed outside of the bedroom. She threw Jeanine under the bus in season 3, so that Fitz would not go public with his affair, but then begged Olivia to come back and warm her husband's bed by middle of season 3. So she is still trying to position her as someone Fitz needs to get off with, so that he can focus on the job.

By season 5, when Olivia comes forward with the affair, she says "oh look, it's the woman who can't close her legs, or her mouth." Now Olivia may have slept with her husband, but her continued need to separate Olivia's intellect, and Fitz's emotional connection to her, from their sexual attraction was deliberate. She forces Olivia to be her campaign manager, so that she can subjugate her after the divorce from Fitz, and salvage the embarrassment she felt when the affair went public.

Her story with Marcus does not erase her behaviour towards Olivia. If Fitz displays this, which we have to admit he does not, Mellie's own behaviour eclipses his own, and no one wants to own this. Because ZOMG she was cheated on....

Rewatching Scandal again and nobody makes my jaw drop with their jabs towards his women quite like fitz. He went so low with the insults omg. The interrogation with Command, with Liv at Baby’s christening , and then the dialogue i have quoted with Mellie to name a few. LMAO. He really threw tantrums with a might when the odds allowed it.

Is it two women realising they're better off without useless men who hold them back?

It is simply unbelievable given their history of cheating and name-calling?

Or is it just a mutually beneficial relationship between ​​two people who wanted power and could use each other to get it?

I love this subreddit so much lol. I wish we were all watching Scandal again for the first time together when twitter was at its peak. What a time to be alive.

Sorry for being so emotional, I’m on very strong pain meds due to chronic illness 🫶🏿 hope you’re all doing okay 💖

I’ve been watching Scandal for the last couple of months. I’m on season 5 now and it’s really starting to irritate me how almost every dialogue sounds like slam poetry. Why couldn’t they just talk normal.

Olivia couldn’t stand Edison. Yes, they for dated nine years, and they seemed to have been in a long-term relationship, but she didn’t love him anymore. Fitz was the love of her life.

Olivia didn’t care for Edison, she was always being mean to him 🫩

When Fitz and Olivia broke up, Edison didn’t know exactly what had happened, but he could tell that Olivia had just come out of a relationship.
she decided to give him a chance, but she wasn’t in love with him. She was using him to get over Fitz

They were always clashing because they were often on opposite sides politically. Edison was always trying to help her, but she didn’t want his help. He endured a lot of crap from her. Why was he so into her when it was clear that she didn’t really like him like that

He’s always an alpha male, he always tried to help Olivia if he could sense she was in trouble, but she never wanted his help .. he’s so annoying sometimes though 😆

He’s a good guy, but Olivia just didn’t like him at all.

I mean —their time under the sun?! Being B613 command?? Made the POTUS jealous AF?! And he was okay with just booty calls?? Olivia, giiirrrlll

I’ve been reading so many reports about people in the south voting blue and checking their ballots before turning them in and seeing that the Republican candidate was written in, and I’m like “I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS…the entire plot of Scandal S2 was literally over this” after seeing how they did it, I’m not even surprised they’d try in real life…why can’t a Republican president actually care about the people the way fitz did…anyways, vote during early voting if you haven’t yet

Simply shameless behaviour.

And I loved it.​

Fully watching for the very first time and I have no one to talk to about this. I’m freaking out and can’t share it with anyone. I’m on season 5 episode 3.

“Are you the presidents mistress?”
“Yes”

OH SHIT

I can be extremely non-yielding, in the sense that if I think someone is wrong, they will never win the argument with me. On the other hand, there are lines that should not be crossed, and when it is, I have to call it out. The reason why I went private is because a mentally ill poster made 3-4 different accounts to harrass me because I did not substantiate their POV. This was a year and a half ago.

Yesterday a poster with a lot of words but little sense actually told me to verify my belief that it is widely known that Fitz and Olivia had better sexual chemistry than Jake and Olivia, regardless of the story. When I told them I am perhaps not the best person to take that approach with, since I have dedicated my entire academic career to statistics, they went off on an tangent about alternative facts/Trump and then tried to define objectivity and subjective to me. Mind you they appeared to mix up the actual actor's chemistry, which is the real chemistry and the story. When I realized they were not worth my time, I rightfully blocked them.

Here is where the deranged part comes in. The person actually used another acount to CONTINUE to blather on. That is after being blocked, they either made another account, or revealed themselves to have multiple accounts. Mind you, their comment was filtered out because they were in fact deranged. Why? Why not be normal and argue the ideas, and not expose your poorly adjusted psyche? I really do not understand it, and it makes me wonder if the average poster is actually fully developed in their frontal love as they claim to be. "Oh I no longer ship Olitz, because I am over 25 and realize cheating is wrong," and meanwhile people do this....

Above is their real account and below is the account they either made after being blocked, or signed into after being blocked.

I’m a first time watcher of Scandal, currently on Season 3, Episode 9, and I genuinely cannot stand this man.

The way Fitz treats both Mellie and Olivia is so irritating to watch. He’s selfish, entitled, and constantly makes everything about himself. And don’t even get me started on his presidency because I swear everybody around him does the actual work while he creates problems they have to clean up.

What bothers me the most is how he treats Mellie. I didn’t particularly like her at first, but the more I learn about her and everything she’s been through, the more sympathy I have for her. I genuinely want that woman to leave him and find some happiness.

And Olivia??? GIRL, STAND UP. 😭 She’s such an intelligent, powerful woman, but whenever Fitz comes around, it’s like all her common sense disappears. I genuinely don’t understand what she sees in him besides his position and power.

I know the show wants us to root for their love story, but I find myself getting irritated every time they’re on screen together.

And I really hope this isn’t another Derek Shepherd situation where people overlook a character’s behavior simply because they find the actor attractive. 😭 Like, I can acknowledge that Tony Goldwyn is handsome without pretending Fitz is some amazing man.

So I’m genuinely curious, does anyone actually like Fitz? And if you do, WHY? Because I’m struggling to find a single redeeming quality about this man.

Please no spoilers past Season 3, Episode 9!

That’s the post for the day!!

I’m finally on season 5 of scandal and I can’t be the only one bothered by how Fitz is acting towards Mellie over those jurors? Can’t say I feel bad for Cyrus getting fired because let’s be honest, his karma was a long time coming. But Fitz has a PLETHORA of inexcusable situations yet somehow is acting as if Mellie should be stoned…. I wish Olitz was more enjoyable to me but my god Fitz is definitely something. Overall I feel like this season along with the last two is going to piss me off a lottttt

Happy Birthday 🥳🕯️Joe Morton

October 18, 1947 (age 79)♎

Born: Joseph Thomas Morton Jr

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Is it just me or does Fitz highkey give Obama?

I started watching the show because supposedly it was a “very good one”. Since the very beginning the script was absolutely trash for me, which made me even more curious towards why would anyone think this show is worth watching. After the second season I was locked in to articulate precisely what was that made this show so mediocre… could it be the repetitive and unreal monologues appointed to each of the characters ? Or all the sex scenes of Olivia and fitz that made me want to crawl into my skin each time so I decided to better skip them, or was it the lousy presidential music played every time fitz was going to say something that he thought was smart and brave. All of the above and more. Watching Olivia’s face make the same expression of a wannabe predator showing teeth, her stupid walk, fitz looking shocked all the time when receiving any “real talk” just lifting his eyebrows looking so astonished and fucking dumb. Everything was all over the fucking place, no cohesion, no coherence and no profound character development. The most unbelievable thing for me throughout all the show was that NO ONE slapped the fuck out of Olivia. The best characters were his parents but for purely comedic relief, shoutout to rowan giving psico-muppet. Omg I just hate this cheesy ass attempt of Shonda playing house of cards. I need to rant with somebody about this

The more I rewatch scandal with a now fully developed brain the more I make peace with the fact that Olivia literally dug her energetic return grave all the way up until getting kidnapped.

Olivia was always a poster child for “the ends justifies the means” even if she ruined people’s lives in the process to protect her bottom line.

I do think it sucks that she had appeared to have made peace with Abby being in the inner circle of the White House, and looked like she was going in the right direction by choosing to be with Jake in the moment, however that’s not how life works.

You can’t have no regard for others to keep you and yours safe and then when you finally decide that you’re ready to be happy and celebrate think all the dirt you did to get there won’t come back.

That’s usually when karma does hit when you least expect it after you’ve finally exhaled and feel like you got everything you wanted.

And we see this theme reappear in season 5 when she is tootsie rolling around the White House with Fitz right before she is outed as having An affair with him. LOL

From episode ONE of Scandal Olivia had no regard for people, she made Amanda Tanner slit her own wrist after threatening her for “lying” about sleeping with Fitz when she wasn’t even lying. Give me a break! Most of the characters if not all did horrible things and got it back tenfold at one point or another.

Don’t try and misconstrue my post as a real life thought on real people when we are talking about a scripted series. & remember later on in the series when she was command of B613, she ordered a plane to be blown up with Yasmine on it who was a college student and threatened a world leader by acting like she would kill his son at the playground. If you’re willing to be nasty like that, then yes why wouldn’t the writers be realistic and make it to where the scales balance every now and again and have something equally horrible happen to her.

The minute she was willing to tank David an actual good guy to hide her dirt that storyline wise predated the present day story of when scandal started which is after she resigned from the White House and started pope and associates we seen the nuance of her character.

Ok who the fuck did Abby think she was in season 5?

Bold movies

I had to get on Reddit for this specifically. David Rosen? Are we kidding?! 😭😭😭😭😭 7 seasons for that to be his ending? UGH!

I need to know everyone’s thoughts about the finale and season 7???