The Scandal Roundtable 2.14: “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”

T.F.: Fitz has always been an asshole.

Jordan: With all the stereotypes about black women, water, and hair, I am kind of thrilled to see Olivia has taken up swimming. Way to subtly go against the grain, Shonda. I like that detail.

Loree: Yes! Jordan, I do love that she is swimming. I’m so tired of that stereotype as well. And yes Fitz was wrong, wrong, wrong–the way he spoke to Olivia! I’m starting to get tired of defending their love. Yes: Olivia is a mistress to him and, yes, he is an adulterer, but I said before it takes two, and he can’t only make Olivia the brunt of all his anger. Fitz knows how to hurt people so well with his words. Seriously, I just wish Olivia would find someone deserving of her, and now she has Capt. Jake Ballard who is a voyeur on her radar or she’s on his. Unreal!

Joe: I am the host of this roundtable, and I order all of us to call him Captain Donuts. Because I like to giggle. Moving on…

Jordan: Wow, Mellie. Your husband is requesting hard liquor in the shower, and you are giving him oral sex with full makeup and a determined smile on your face.

Joe: And her hair up. In the shower. I really wanted to see what that looked like when she came up ’cause I’m pretty sure it would have been hilarious.

Jordan: Mellie? Ummm…I am sad for you and your situation. Woman, you need to call this man out. This is ridiculousness.

Zach: Right!? I was screaming at my television when Mellie was so subservient to Fitz. I don’t even like Mellie, but that was a low moment that I couldn’t even take my usual glee from things not working out for Mellie.

T.F.: This episode put a dent in my Mellie-love, I have to admit. The shower scenes were sad, sad. And then throwing Cyrus under the bus like that when she could have just told the (partial) truth and named Hollis? I didn’t approve. Would she be trying so hard if she knew Fitz is a murderer?

Jordan: I was pleased that David was not teaching a sea of color.

Joe: I’m pretty sure that’s what we are to assume. Or maybe Shonda was like “damned if I do, inaccurate if don’t.”

Jordan: Oh look! Baby time. It’s a Fitz The Father Alert. One of his mythical children is actually in the same room with him. Frame it, and put it on a wall!

Joe: We still don’t know what that baby’s name is. Or the other two kids (did you know how many kids they had? I had to look it up).

Jordan: Remind me again why these people broke the law to get Fitz elected? For a man they all seemed to once believe in, the idea of him making his own decisions seems justifiably terrifying to them, and they are painfully aware of how weak he is. He needs someone to hold him up. Also, I find their group dynamics so fascinating. For all Mellie’s annoyance towards Olivia, I get the feeling that if she thought Fitz having Olivia back in his life would bring everything back to normal, she would jump at the chance.

Joe: Didn’t most of them do it so they could get what they wanted? Mellie is a First Lady; Verna was a Supreme Court judge; and so on? I don’t think they really thought about Fitz other than his face would look pretty great on currency.

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Jordan: Soooo…Olivia knows that David Rosen is being set up professionally, and she takes it as a coincidence that she happened to meet a man associated with the case in a coffee shop out of the blue in an unrelated incident. Really, Olivia. You’re smarter than this. I hope for her sake she is just playing dumb.

Zach: I have money on her “playing dumb.” Liv is too smart to not see this coming. I really don’t see Shonda breaking her down this much through having her heartbreak to have her be this off her game.

T.F.: I dunno. Olivia and her team have screwed up in some pretty major ways in the past, e.g. not realizing that Huck’s former colleagues would be packing double. Really? They bungle some fairly basic things on the regular.

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