EPISODE
SEASON
Scandal - Season 1
Everyone has a secret... and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation';;;s elite and keeping those secrets under wraps. Olivia Pope, the owner of a successful Washington, D.C., crisis-management firm, adds Quinn Perkins, a young attorney with a mysterious past, to her staff. Quinn';;;s first assignment involves Amanda Tanner, a somewhat reluctant client who claims she';;;s been having an affair with the president of the Unites States.
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15 November 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
30 August 1984, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
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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
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
Maybe Rhimes should bring in a fixer to deal with the scripts.
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.
April 05, 2012
Clear away the soap bubbles, and you'll find ... more soap bubbles. But you won't be bored.
April 05, 2012
Scandal, on the other hand, shows potential in spite of a rather dreary pilot.
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
Scandal could become a habit worth forming.
April 05, 2012
It's a satisfying, fast-paced, well-acted hour with flashes of humor.
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.
