My wife started watching this a while ago, and I watched episodes here and there throughout the run of the series on Netflix, and after a while, I asked her how she can keep watching it.
"Sometimes you just gotta watch trash. It's basically a bad soap opera."
But seriously. This show starts with a group of political operatives who are basically glorified dirt diggers on politicians, and it escalates to Kerry Washington's character's dad being a leader of a private military organization who kills people, rigs elections, hacks into countries, etc., and her mother being the most dangerous terrorist in America that no one knows about.
It's a classic Shonda Rhimes show, really. Instead of having plots that organically move the show along, everyone just double crosses each other, people get killed and brought back, everyone sleeps with each other, new family members are brought in from nowhere, blah blah blah. It is seriously a soap opera.
The acting is incredibly overdone; the worst offenders are Olivia, her dad, Cyrus, and Mr. Frowny Face that does all the computer hacking. They are always screaming when there's no need to. It's like every episode has to have someone having an Oscar Moment.
It's like She (Shonda) watched a season of post-Sorkin West Wing and some episodes of 24 and thought, "hey, I can do that!" But it fails in every way. I do not understand how she is revered in the television world. She producers primetime soaps.
It's just a garbage show.
Submitted June 30, 2018 at 11:02PM by jcwitte https://ift.tt/2tFI5EG
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