Scandal Recap 2.12: “Truth Or Consequences”
by Joseph Lamour
If you missed last night’s episode, all of the White Hat Brigade knows most of Scandal’s huge secrets–and don’t you worry… I won’t discuss it till we’re under the cut. Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it yet: a character is indignant about something–I hope I didn’t give too much away! As we all know, Scandal is all about these secrets and how they simultaneously enrich and ruin everyone in Northwest DC.
A lot happened in this episode, so let’s get to it!
The breakdown: Each week, Kendra or I will provide a Friday Scandal recap the day after the newest episode airs. The next Thursday morning a longer roundtable discussion of the episode is posted featuring Joe, Kendra, and a variety of guest commenters.
Spoilers for Scandal 2.12: “Truth Or Consequences” are under the cut.
We open with Quinn’s ex Jesse Tyler (played by Katie Lowes’ real-life husband, Adam Shapiro) in a polling station–where, already, he’s sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the volunteers by about half a foot and fifty years. As the trainer gives a tutorial on the new-fangled voting machines, Jesse swiftly and smoothly changes American history…with a 5 second game of switcheroo. Honestly. Is it that easy, really? So much, that Jesse can simply leave right after he did so, which didn’t arouse any suspicion. I kind of wish the voting trainer completed this pastiche of Americana by actually noticing the only young person in the room suddenly disappearing, perhaps adding, “He’s probably off playing Xbox.”
Meanwhile, in The White House, Cyrus is asked to fix the President again by the First Lady. Fitz wants to divorce Mellie in her ninth month of pregnancy and end Scandal six seasons early by being with Olivia, who will not only be known as Fitz’s mistress, joining France (and England, too, Cyrus) but will significantly alter others’ perception of his judgement. Cyrus continues to only care about the political implications of a divorce, and not the emotional ones, which Mellie, Grant, and Olivia are all about in this episode. I, for some reason, am liking Mellie more and more, perhaps because she is the least terrible person on the show at the moment. Cyrus mumbles ”breeders” under his breath as Mellie leaves the room. To me, that slur is so outdated I haven’t heard a real person say it since 2002. I wonder why television writers think gay people look at straight people like aliens. As the First Lady leaves the room, she’s breathing heavy and looking a little pallid. Afterward, the Chief of Staff didn’t miss a beat and said another awful thing to Fitz, intimating that Olivia is not the “hue” that most Republicans are fans of. (I then exclaimed, “Oh snap!” from my couch.) In other words, we’ll definitely be talking about it more in the roundtable.
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