Scandal has officially jumped the shark, list your reasons why...
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Anonymous
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I'll start:
1) David Rosen, the Attorney General. Just his installment into that position is ridiculous. But his semi-regular involvement in what is little more than a local crime, being investigated by a private security firm is so stupid! Why does ABC write a script depicting America's AG as a micro-manager of individual crimes! 2) Keeping with David Rosen, the gratuitous drinking is beyond over the top. 'Oh Abby, you're agitated. Here, have a swig from my brandy snifter located in the MIDDLE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALS CONFERENCE TABLE'. Yes, that's what I want when I'm hysterical, to drink a low ball of paint thinner and not cough it back up. |
Anonymous
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I stopped watching after the first couple of episodes this season. So preposterous and the b613 stuff is dumb.
The show totally lost it's way, which is a shame, because the original premise of containing Washington scandals was interesting and unique. |
Anonymous
| I loved the first season and then had to tap out towards the end of the second season because it was getting out of control. I can't imagine how much more ridiculous it got. |
Anonymous
I do still watch the show but you are right. The show has shifted and the stories are more around the individual characters. I assume they are pandering to what they think the public wants. |
Anonymous
| I haven't seen the last 3 episodes and I am not sure I can start back up, so disappointed in it this season. |
Anonymous
Completely. I've stopped watching. |
Anonymous
| I love how the prez and First Lady are always on their balcony outside. ThAt never happens. |
Anonymous
| I just can't take the dialogue. Everybody speaks in monologues and with the same ridiculous intonation and supposedly witty things. |
Anonymous
I've notixed this is a shonda rhimes (sp?) thing |
Anonymous
Notixed? |
Anonymous
| I stopped watching during season 2. Olivia became too much of the story, and despite all their efforts to convince us otherwise, she is a very weak protagonist. |
Anonymous
| This season is ridiculous. I miss when they were solving problems for clients. |
Anonymous
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I fell asleep during the last episode. At first it was a strong show because it wasn't all about Olivia. This season is nothing but her.
Greys did the same with Meredith. |
Anonymous
+1 - another Shonda Rhimes hallmark along with unrealistic, stream-of-consciousness, over-emotional monologues. Olivia, Meredith, and Annalise on the unwatchable How to Get Away With Murder are all weak, boring protagonists. Fortunately for Grey's, there have been many excellent characters in the cast to make up for that shortcoming (most of whom are gone now, but fortunately Bailey remains, and there are several excellent male protagonists as well). I feel like Rhimes saddles her female protagonists with so many flaws and insecurities to make them more "relatable," and to make them more human despite their allegedly supernatural professional abilities, that they end up neurotic, unlikable, and not believable as actual people. |
Anonymous
| The whole fake prison-in-Morocco thing. That was just ridiculous. |