EPISODE
SEASON
Scandal - Season 1
Olivia Pope continues help people out of scandals and protect and defend public images.
30 December 1964, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
14 August 1982, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
7 January 1977, Madison, Mississippi, USA
2 April 1947, South Dakota, USA
April 05, 2012
It's a satisfying, fast-paced, well-acted hour with flashes of humor.
April 05, 2012
Maybe Rhimes should bring in a fixer to deal with the scripts.
April 05, 2012
The show's set in Washington, where the crises that need managing are unending, so there's bound to be material, some of it all too familiar.
April 05, 2012
It doesn't come off as a show that exists in reality - it's a middle-of-the-road drama with a fakey-fake TV gloss on a real-world profession - but it is fun in its energy.
April 05, 2012
Scandal, on the other hand, shows potential in spite of a rather dreary pilot.
April 05, 2012
You'll be asked to absorb a lot of slick montages and melodramatic contrivances, not to mention a preponderance of shallow focus shots and synthy beats. But the formulaic business is at least partly alleviated by a couple of things.
April 05, 2012
Scandal could become a habit worth forming.
April 05, 2012
Clear away the soap bubbles, and you'll find ... more soap bubbles. But you won't be bored.
April 05, 2012
It's regularly preachy and far-fetched, with the key characters tending to speed-talk as though they're all in a Go-Kart race.
April 05, 2012
ABC's newest Shonda Rhimes hit, Scandal, is set in Washington, D.C., an area rife with scandals both fictional and factual, which gives this show enough reality to hook people who love it when strangers' lives are on the verge of unraveling.