SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.
When I saw this weeks “Scandal” episode was titled “Everything’s Coming Up Mellie” I was thrilled. I have been a fan of Mellie Grant‘s since season 1, and I think she always gets the short end of the stick since everyone and their mother is more interested in seeing her husband Fitz Grant and Olivia Pope screw in a closet than great characters.
So I had planned to write an article titled “In Defense Of Mellie” about how I think she constantly gets seen as cold and ambitious. I wanted to show how Olivia is just as bad as Mellie is, if not worse since Olivia is sleeping with Mellie’s husband, which despite what everyone wants to think is wrong and makes herthe other woman. Anyway, I had this whole article planned out until I watched the episode last night and I was left with a cold fury in the pit of my stomach.
Now I don’t write for television and I don’t know what happens in the “Scandal” writers room. But I will say this–since I am I writer, I recognize when others use rape, murder, torture or other horrible things for one purpose only: SHOCK VALUE.
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