ABC’s ‘Scandal’ season 5: Kerry Washington on Olivia, Edison, Mellie, and perspective
The field of Presidential hopefuls on “Scandal” continues to expand, and one of the latest people we can add to the mix is none other than Edison. As if having the likes of Vargas, Susan Ross, and Hollis Doyle in the race was not enough for Mellie Grant, she also now has this problem to worry about.
As for Olivia Pope, this is a very different sort of problem all its own given that there is a clearly-defined history there, but she’s not apparently going to let that get in the way of standing up for the woman she is helping to run at the moment. For some more on that, just take a look at what Kerry Washington said recently on that subject to Entertainment Weekly:
“There’s a real reason why Olivia feels the necessity to support Mellie. Her reasons are both political and personal. This is her way of making up for taking time from Mellie, for not supporting Mellie more, for not being in Mellie’s corner and to try to make right some of the wrongs that she had in the last administration.”
Will this all work out for Olivia in the end? We’re reasonably confident that it will, if for no other reason than that it often does in the end when it comes to politics. The biggest threat that she may have right now is Hollis, mostly because he’s coming in with that whole “political outsider” status, and that is what Donald Trump has done effectively in the Presidential race outside of the show.
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Lee
March 27, 2016 @ 8:46 pm
When is everyone going to be done making things up to Mellie? I thought her affair with Fitz’s friend was her payback, then I thought the Senate seat Fitz gift wrapped for her was her payback, Then it was the house and the kids and his presence when she was sworn in.
Now Olivia has to be her indentured servant and give her the presidency as well? How long must the world apologise to Mellie for the fact that some man didn’t want her?
I have no doubt it’ll work out in the end, but it’ll work out for MELLIE, not Olivia. She’s not going to get an ounce of loyalty for making Mellie president, not from a woman who freed her own child’s killer and has stabbed pretty much everyone in the back when it suited her.
Kaston
March 28, 2016 @ 6:20 pm
I don’t understand this statement from KW about Olivia working for Mellie. She has to support Mellie for POTUS because Fitz fell in love with her. Fitz helped Mellie become Senator and once she betrayed him by not confiding in him, he threw her out. Yet it’s Olivia who has to make Mellie POTUS. Fitz only gave into Mellie’s demands in the divorce because of Olivia, yet Olivia has to continue to bow down to Mellie? What type of made up feminism is this? A privilege women who chose to stay in a marriage, while her husband repeatedly told her he was in love with another woman. She not only gets the help of her ex-husband’s mistress, but she will probably become POTUS, all because she decided not to divorce her own damn husband.