EPISODE
SEASON
Scandal - Season 1
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 even as she continues dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation.
3 March 1961, Monterey Park, California, USA
10 June 1967, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
13 March 1971, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
21 September 1969, New York, USA
16 August 1976, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
20 April 1975, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
21 August 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 February 1970, Springfield, Illinois, USA
25 November 1947, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
13 February 1983, Orange County, California, USA
21 February 1958, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
4 March 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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, on the other hand, shows potential in spite of a rather dreary pilot.
April 05, 2012
It's a satisfying, fast-paced, well-acted hour with flashes of humor.
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
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
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
Scandal could become a habit worth forming.
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
Clear away the soap bubbles, and you'll find ... more soap bubbles. But you won't be bored.
April 05, 2012
Maybe Rhimes should bring in a fixer to deal with the scripts.
