‘Scandal’ season 3: The end is in sight… at least for creator Shonda Rhimes

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Do we know yet just how “Scandal” is going to come to a conclusion? Not exactly, but one person seems to have figured it all out already, despite her show only currently being in its third season: Creator Shonda Rhimes. This clearly suggests that there was a great deal of planning that was put into the show before it even got to the pilot episode, and that’s a good thing. That means that there is a rhyme and a reason to the story being told now with Operation Remington, and it is not all just being dragged out for extreme lengths without some sort of resolution or purpose.

Rhimes first made her comments in an interview with “Morning Edition,” where she also offered up the following explanation as to why this decision was made:

“I knew the end of Grey’s Anatomy, and then we kept going, so that I finally just had to write that and move past it. Who knows, at this point, how long that show’s going to go? It’s going to go as long as I feel interested in what happens to those characters … But I feel like there is a finite amount of Scandal to be told. So I know what the end of Scandal will be, and I feel really good about that. And I can see where the end point is. And I don’t think I’m going to change that. … I know how long I think it will be. But we’ll see.”

Personally, we could see the show lasting for around six quality seasons, and then taking off to TV pasture. This would be just enough time for the original contracts on the series’ stars to run out, and long enough for there to be a story that feels complete. There has not been a show to leave at that point, even “Breaking Bad,” where we have sat there after the fact and said that we wished it would have gone on a little longer than it did.

What is your dream length for “Scandal,” and how do you want to see it come to a close in the end? Be sure to share below! Meanwhile, click here if you want to see a preview for the episode coming up just around the bend.

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