Scandal season 6 episode 9: Is Huck alive?
Is Huck alive? We don’t want to beat around the bush on this, given that everyone out there is probably eager for an episode. Not only that, but we feel like everyone deserves an answer — Huck is alive! He somehow managed to make it through the mire and the near-death experience, and it’s probably thanks to one thing more so than anything else: The guy’s resolve. He’s a fighter. He doesn’t relent, and he constantly tries to find a way to make it through … even if he needs a little help sometimes to realize it.
Let’s face it — Diaz is too remarkable an actor for this show to lose. He’s intelligent, resourceful, and he brings so many layers to the performance.
So much of what made this episode a great one for Diaz is that they really put Huck through the wringer here. At one point, it looked as though he was going to make it; the next, he was suffering again. The show went a little Hannibal with the whole memory palace — though to be fair, you could also use a Sherlock metaphor here. Him getting out of the car is a glorious moment — it’s a little early to start to say that he’s going to be okay in the aftermath of all this, but one of the things to remember is that Huck may never be okay. When you think about everything that the guy’s been through over the course of the show, it’s understandable to worry about his mental state now that his physical one has been better taken care of.
Oh, and how long was Huck bleeding until he actually started to get some help? Poor guy felt like he lost a good million ounces of blood by the time we made it to the halfway point of the episode.
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