ziparumpazoo: (Xray)
ziparumpazoo ([personal profile] ziparumpazoo) wrote2012-05-11 12:26 pm

I'm probably dooming this show to cancellation...

but, I'm really enjoying Scandal. I don't know enough about US politics to actually care about a show about politics (and really, it's nice to watch something I don't know anything about so I can handwave the inaccuracies without caring), however the show mostly only uses it as a framework for the plot and not to drive it. It's, so far, very much a character piece centered around Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), former White House Communications Director, current private for-hire crises manager, woman of many layers, and all of them interesting. It's got a very West Wing feel to it, but with less tightly-packed dialog and smaller scale crises. Bonus points for having Josh Malina in a small role, as well as a few other notables in the ensemble cast.

Gosh, I think this is a the first show I've gotten hooked on in a long time that doesn't include aliens, wormholes, spaceships, the apocalypse, alternate universes, or time travel. How novel.

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