For the Love of "Scandal"

If you've been watching ABC on Thursday nights, or simply just breathing like the rest of us, you should know all about what I currently think is the BEST show on TV...period. Yes, I am talking about ABC's hit Thursday night series, Scandal, starring Kerry Washington. This show is written so beautifully that it makes you sit at the edge of your seat...and question your entire system of values every week.

How is it that Shonda Rhimes manages to get me to go against everything I believe in when I watch this show? If you're a Scandal fan, then you know what I mean by this...Fitz and Liv are too hot for TV. The man is literally the most powerful man walking this earth, but in her hands, he turns into putty...and I love him for it. Did I mention he's married? Did I mention he's not married to Liv? He's the president; he has a wife; and a kid, with a baby on the way.

In real life, this would disgust me. In real life, it HAS disgusted many of us--think Bill Clinton.--and it wasn't even on such a "scandalous" level. Ah, but when it comes to Olivia Pope and President Fiztgerald, I want them to win...we ALL do!!! The internal conflict I experience when watching this show between my romantic side (rooting for their intense attraction, passion, tension to take over and give them their happily ever after. He's married, yes. But he deserves better. Olivia? Well she just deserves it all), and my moral side (rooting for them to stop this madness, and for him to keep it in his pants because I know it's wrong, even if the wife Millie knows...even if he's in love...it's still wrong). In real life, I would call Olivia Pope a homewrecker in seven different languages, and Fitz would be a dog in the least favorable aspect of the word. Ah yes, Mr. President! You, sir, would be the lowest of the four letter words I could come up with.

But on ABC at 10 PM on Thursdays, Olivia Pope is a goddess! President Fitzgerald is a man in love, and my heart breaks for their imprisoned love...I ache for their feelings to find liberation...and I pray for Millie to just disappear already! (not in a bad way, just pick up and move to Brazil.)
At 10 PM on Thursdays, I am ashamed and proud to say, that I want Liv and Fitz to win! I want infidelity to win!

And if you've watched this show for more than half a minute, you know you do too!

Hanging my head up high,
Lady G