Scandal S1
Started watching Scandal (which giandujakiss has mentioned favorably so often that I had to check it out *g*) and like it quite a bit. I do have some issues with S1 that I am going to mention, however, because it will make me feel better, and also because maybe someone will want to talk with me about them. :-)
I suspect I am intended to like the president on some level, and be invested in Olivia's romance with him - in a way other than to be squicked because she is five million times too good for him and should drop the corrupt slimy hypocritical sleazeball like he was on fire. This is unfortunate, because I honestly don't know what reasons the show believes it has given me to feel at all positive towards the guy. (I rolled my eyes so hard at the security guard's little speech to Olivia, clearly a clumsy attempt to win me over to the sleazeball. Look, he's a nice guy who bends from his lofty heights to ask the little people about their families! Ugh, show.)
I also suspect I am not intended to think the president's wife is brilliant and amazing, and that he got insanely lucky with her. However, I do think so. She is wonderful, and far too good for him.
As for Quinn, or whatever her name is. I just. When confronted with her boyfriend bleeding all over the floor but still alive with scissors sticking out of his neck, she pulls out the scissors? Seriously? I'd be willing to cut her some slack because of the situation, but sitting there with her hands fluttering for minutes on end, failing to even consider calling someone who could save the guy, and actually pulling out the scissors… argh. Sorry, that's just too much.
Unfortunately, this plotline will only get worse for me going forward. I hate both the option of Quinn agonizing over the fact she killed her boyfriend through idiocy (no doubt when she finally confided in someone, they would assure her that it was understandable, she should forgive herself, and other such things), and the option of the show never mentioning that the guy might well have lived, if Quinn had just stood there and called 911, or even Olivia.
And last but by no means least, I am aware the phrase is in common use in US politics, but even so I entirely lose track of the plot every time somebody calls the president of the US the "leader of the free world". Just: no. So much no.
What I do like about the show: Olivia. Huck. Abby. And the fact that the show is not afraid to murder characters, change the game, and show main characters being hypocritical and corrupt and willing to walk over any number of dead bodies and broken laws, because they (of course) are justified by whatever self-serving justification they have conjured up for themselves. There are no heroes here.
Anyone else watching this? What do you guys think?
(I'm presently starting in on S2, so please don't spoil me!)
I suspect I am intended to like the president on some level, and be invested in Olivia's romance with him - in a way other than to be squicked because she is five million times too good for him and should drop the corrupt slimy hypocritical sleazeball like he was on fire. This is unfortunate, because I honestly don't know what reasons the show believes it has given me to feel at all positive towards the guy. (I rolled my eyes so hard at the security guard's little speech to Olivia, clearly a clumsy attempt to win me over to the sleazeball. Look, he's a nice guy who bends from his lofty heights to ask the little people about their families! Ugh, show.)
I also suspect I am not intended to think the president's wife is brilliant and amazing, and that he got insanely lucky with her. However, I do think so. She is wonderful, and far too good for him.
As for Quinn, or whatever her name is. I just. When confronted with her boyfriend bleeding all over the floor but still alive with scissors sticking out of his neck, she pulls out the scissors? Seriously? I'd be willing to cut her some slack because of the situation, but sitting there with her hands fluttering for minutes on end, failing to even consider calling someone who could save the guy, and actually pulling out the scissors… argh. Sorry, that's just too much.
Unfortunately, this plotline will only get worse for me going forward. I hate both the option of Quinn agonizing over the fact she killed her boyfriend through idiocy (no doubt when she finally confided in someone, they would assure her that it was understandable, she should forgive herself, and other such things), and the option of the show never mentioning that the guy might well have lived, if Quinn had just stood there and called 911, or even Olivia.
And last but by no means least, I am aware the phrase is in common use in US politics, but even so I entirely lose track of the plot every time somebody calls the president of the US the "leader of the free world". Just: no. So much no.
What I do like about the show: Olivia. Huck. Abby. And the fact that the show is not afraid to murder characters, change the game, and show main characters being hypocritical and corrupt and willing to walk over any number of dead bodies and broken laws, because they (of course) are justified by whatever self-serving justification they have conjured up for themselves. There are no heroes here.
Anyone else watching this? What do you guys think?
(I'm presently starting in on S2, so please don't spoil me!)