Scandal Recap 2.15: “And Boom Goes The Dynamite”
Yeah right, like that was going to happen.
Tony Goldwyn (l) and Bellamy Young in “Scandal.” Image via TV Overmind.com
In a scene that I found rather surprising, Fitz informs three of his advisers that drone strikes were his wife’s idea. I know Scandal is a woman’s world, but I definitely raised an eyebrow when the POTUS told three male advisers that he was making military decisions based on his wife’s advice. It could be that I’m too cynical, but that just didn’t strike me as something that would be shared within such an Old Boys club.
Of course, the most damning aspect of this is that Cyrus is in the room and knows that Mellie took the credit. We all know that you double cross Cyrus only on pain of death, so it’s no surprise when he goes and hands Mellie up to a reporter on a platter. By the time we get to the end of the episode the First Couple seem to have taken another ten steps (maybe even ten months) back.
The end also brings us another check in between Jake and Fitz (“No, sir, I’m not romancing the woman you have me Fatal Attraction-ing”) and the revelation that the director of the CIA framed David Rosen for murder. But how many of us are actually paying attention to the David Rosen plot?
Come on, be honest.
Final thoughts:
- Some friends have been debating whether or not Harrison is gay. I wasn’t really giving it much thought until his short defense of the Governor-to-be last night. Could he, like Olivia was later, have been talking about himself then?
- No one mentioned Gladiators or White Hats last night, while I found fewer nitpicky things to be annoyed with. I think there’s a correlation.
- Given Quinn’s relative uselessness, I’m convinced she should have been a six-episode guest star and vanished for good after that. This show has a lot of moving parts, and she never quite seems to be keeping up. Is it the writing or the actress?
- For all of its flaws, Scandal does have a knack for pulling in relevant topics of the day and working them into the story without making the viewer feel like they’re just reliving the year in current events (*cough* The Newsroom).
The effects of torture and veteran PTSD would be two of those topics. Huck most likely has PSTD due to being waterboarded, which should make for interesting television so long as it doesn’t actually disappear and never recur, along with the rain. That said, Shonda’s been writing medical dramas for almost a decade at this point, so I have to trust that this would be handled appropriately.
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