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[xothemedia]

Scandal 5x10 | “It’s Hard Out Here For A General”

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Grey's Anatomy 21x13 "Don't You (Forget About Me)" Promo - Amelia and Simone attempt to perform a high-stakes and groundbreaking brain surgery; Teddy and Bailey attend a medical conference and run into Dr. Cass Beckman; Jo struggles with her irritation toward a younger OB-GYN.

[swiftiesbuddie]

9-1-1, Grey’s Anatomy, and Station 19 was my TGIT 2.0

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Station 19 7x02 Promo “Good Grief”

[mune-writes]

TGIT: THANK GOD ITS THIRTSDAY

hey y’all!! this just in: THIRSTDAY NIGHT THIRST IS ON TONIGHT ! go ahead and send me your most shameless thirsts for whoever, whichever anime! (though I must admit I’m currently thirsting over jjk men bc tbh how could u not??)

anywho, my asks are open to anybody, though I will ask you guys to be a little respectful and read my pinned post, n e ways,,, thirst away!

[tabbydarling]

SCANDAL - The best drama of the 2010's.

Scandal is a political thriller that is part procedural and part drama. Shonda Rhimes created this insanely juicy political thriller and drama that premiered on April 5th 2012 with 7 episodes in the first season. This first season gives us an idea of who Olivia Pope (played by Kerry Washington) is and what she does as a DC fixer along with her team, a group of lawyers and a retired hitman. When I think of Shonda Rhimes I think about Greys Anatomy and Private Practice. Greys used to be one of my favorite shows until it stopped talking about medical cases, pushing an insane liberal agenda, and only using DEI hires that fell flat and were uninteresting. However, Scandal deviates from pushing an insane liberal agenda. President Fitzgerald Grant the II played by Tony Goldwyn is a catholic Republican who is deeply in love with the main character, Olivia Pope who is Apolitical. She does not spout hateful rhetoric towards Republicans, or Democrats which makes this a safe watch for people of any party.

Scandal is known for its sharp dialogue and intricate plotting. While most 43 minute shows have a script that is around 50-55 pages long, Scandal's scripts were around 80-82 pages PER EPISODE. This was done so they not only can they fit so many plots and turns in one episode but this is why they speak fast and command attention with their dialogue. The storylines include political scandals, personal vendettas, betrayal, the lines people cross in politics and these storylines show that not everything is black and white all the time.

The procedural parts of this show comprise of DC's elites politicians and their friends and families who hire Olivia to "fix" their problem or get rid of Scandals. Olivia Pope is based on real life DC and hollywood fixer Judy Smith. If you're not sure how the intricacies of Politics work, Scandal does an amazing job of showing you what life is like in the White House. It is incredibly accurate in certain aspects, however this show goes beyond politics. There is a deeper level of what goes on in the white house. Is there a secret group of people higher up than the CIA, the FBI, the military that controls what goes on in the white house? In season 2, you'll find out. Now of course a lot of this is far fetched, but actually there are some things that we see are not as far fetched as you would think. The season 2 finale has one of the first big shocks but the shocks and plot twists DO NOT STOP COMING.

I have watched Scandal more times than I can count and I'm always invested in it. I wish I could watch it for the first time again. This show doesn't start to lose it's luster until season 5, and even then it is still a crazy good show.

There is one season 4 episode that pushes a "racist cop" agenda, but that is only one episode and in the episodes defense the cops were being racist and dumb. Luckily, the writers dropped that trope moving forward.

When people watch Scandal they might think that this was actually filmed in DC but it was actually completely filmed in LA. Using Sunset Gowers studios for the sets and green screen for most of the outdoor scenes and the Truman Balcony it still looks realistic.

In politics nothing is as it seems and nobody is who you think they are.

[foxtaeil]

portraying a character from a show that ended over 5 years ago is such a curse bc u get such bad brain rot over a thing nobody gives a fuck about anymore !!!!

[idk-i-just-really-like-tsc]

save me thursday night abc programming save me

[thotdimples]

I miss watching new episodes of htgawm every thursday night 10 years ago that's all I stayed alive for

[soldierandawar]

what if this is greys last season???

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Grey's Anatomy Season 21 Promo - The doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital deal with life-or-death consequences on a daily basis-it's in one another that they find comfort, friendship and, at times, more than friendship. Together they're discovering that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.

[freewayshark]

ABC Thursdays are for throuple baiting. TGIT stands for Thank God It’s Throuples

[horsetailcurlers2]

nobody cares but i finally watched all of scandal and have now seen the full trifecta of TGIT shonda shows so here are my thoughts:

-it’s very interesting to me now having watched all three of the main OG shondaland shows just noticing all of the parallels and similarities between shows. obviously they’re all their own things with their own unique writers rooms and casts, but i think there’s definite thematic parallels and even just a familiarity to all of the dialogue. like how siblings have similar speech patterns.

-it’s also fun (for me especially because i watch so much fucking television and i love going on imdb) trying to spot all of the actors that have been in other shonda shows. (there’s also a surprising amount of crossover between shondaland actors and mad men actors)

-i really really liked olivia pope for the first four seasons. seasons 5-7 were rough. but i have to give shonda props bc i do love screwy and morally flawed female characters. although i have to say i think annalise keating from HTGAWM was much more compelling and had a better and more coherent story. she’s prob my fave of the three main shonda ladies.

-i got a little sick of B613. i gave it a chance when i thought it would just be maybe a season arc (even though i liked it better with the history they’d first established about it in “spies like us”) but oh my god it just got so fucking exhausting and ridiculous. the case of the week format was much better and more interesting than the B613 show.

-this is more specific than any of my other thoughts so far but i can’t stop thinking about in season 5 episode 12 when liz north tells david “down boy” and he immediately gets on all fours thinking it’s a sex thing.

-i hated fitz less by the end than i did in the beginning but i still don’t care for him. they couldn’t make me care about olitz at all. that relationship was more tiresome than merder to me.

-MELLIE MY LOVE. my darling. my president. bellamy young is fucking dynamite.

-i’m abby whelan’s number one defender im sorry. i TRY my best not to put too much stock in other people’s opinions of shows before i watch them but i’d seen some stuff online about a lot of people hating abby so i was nervous as i progressed through the show. but i still loved her by the end. i think it’s interesting how in a show of people who all do horrible fucked up shit, people hold all of the characters to such wildly different standards. i wonder if people were less willing to forgive abby because they found her “annoying”. fortunately that trick doesn’t work on me because i think annoying women are sexy.

-abby and olivia’s relationship was so beautifully complex and flawed and interesting to me. i think that dynamic is very underrated and unexplored. it reminded me in some small ways of annalise and bonnie’s relationship in HTGAWM.

-david rosen did not need to die. not narratively. not logistically. killing off an original character in the finale of a show honestly feels like a really shitty thing to do.

-i think that cyrus should have died. not even just personally i just think that would have been the best way to wrap up his story. i really thought he was going to have another heart attack by the end of the show.

-susan ross was maybe the only truly good person on the show and she deserved better than she got

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Station 19 7x09 Promo [ How Am I Supposed To Live Without You ]

[shelbbswrites]

Rewatching Scandal as an adult is going to be FUN. I watched it for the first time as a teenager. An older teenager, but still a teenager. Every Thursday night, I would lock in for the coveted hours of 8-10pm and live tweet TGIT (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder) with the shows' casts and crews.

As a longtime fan of Shonda Rhimes's work, I felt so close to that creative process that I longed to know and understand and do. I felt like I was a part of something -- a community of people watching TV together. It was big — so big that it's strange (yet so deeply understandable) to watch Kerry Washington announce that she's leaving Twitter. Scandal was THE show that started live tweeting back in the day. It was THAT big of a deal, and Kerry's exit really puts into perspective how that TV-watching community has changed thanks to all the algorithms and buyouts.

Anyway, watching Scandal as an adult is going to be fun. I always understood Olivia and Fitz. I got why people liked them together. But I rooted for Jake the second that he walked into the picture. I had no choice when Scott Foley had recently (more recently than Felicity) played Henry Miller on Grey's Anatomy and ripped my heart out in the process. But I also remember things getting really dark and weird (more so than Scandal's usual) with Jake there towards the end. Right before Olivia and Fitz got back together.

So, I'm curious to see what I think of all of that now. I'm mostly just excited to experience the absolutely heart-racing speed of this show.

Have you watched or recently rewatched Scandal? What do you think of the show? Let's chat!