Okay now here we go OLIVIA x ANNALISE
As we the know the character of Annalise wasn’t originally black, but Viola was thrown into the mix and they loved the idea, so they made her a really black character upon Violas wishes. Personally I do feel like they were comfortable with giving the lead of HTGAWM to a black woman like viola bc of the success they had seen in Scandal.
This is my opinion, but I found it interesting that The character of Olivia didnt really speak boldly about her color until about 3 seasons in. They had little subtle comments here and there but her speaking of the plight of being a black woman was season 3. In fact season 3 started with the iconic speech her dad gave when she had to repeat “I have to work twice as hard to get half of what they have.” I’ll even take a crazy leap and say they were playing it very safe with picking Kerry Washington for the character of Olivia. And here is why, Kerry is soft, motherly, her blackness “isn’t in your face”. Kerry can’t sound like she’s from the projects even if she tried. Have y’all seen her in “save the last dance?” Her accent was terrible. But that’s why Kerry Washington was MADE for the role of Olivia, it was the closest to her actual life. They didn’t want it to scream BLACK SHOW right away. Scandal represented, the little black girl in AP classes at a predominantly white school. Who has to dilute her slang and always speak properly so that she isn’t defined as GHETTO. Scandal was just that it was a really big leap of faith. In fact they were trying to give the role to white actresses after reading the script and Shonda said NO Olivia is a black woman. Idk, if it tells more about them or about Shonda. Like why did they read the script and automatically think Olivia was white?? Or did Shonda to blame for white washing Olivia? They didn’t have to write the character of Olivia that way but they did bc she was the first black girl on an a network in forever and they had to dilute her blackness. It is almost poetic and sad.
However HTGAWM Viola had the freedom to be as black as it gets through culture, accent, demeanor all of it. Viola could embrace all the things we black children are taught to hide, so that we aren’t called ghetto. She could tell the world she wore wigs and weaves, she could move around in cornrows on the show. And I think it’s because they saw the success scandal had on people in general, and so they gave us more representation. You know NEVER once did they show Olivia
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First of all, that is the weakest intervention/confrontation I have ever seen. I expected them to go even deeper and really tell her how they felt.
Second of all, WHAT a bunch of hypocrites. Yes, Huck was right when he said that Olivia shouldnt have come after family. BUT MY GOD, DO YOU SMELL THE HYPOCRISY??? Huck almost killed Quinn while torturing her, Abby went against Olivia so much to the point it NEARLY cost Hucks life. And dont even get me started on Fitz. Fitz is the LAST person who should be interventing and judging Olivia.
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I know they are technically 2 different universes but I would have love to have seen Meredith and Olivia Pope (scandal) meet. Not sure how but they would have been interesting together
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Ok ok I know I will get a lot of disagreement on this comment - considering my own Mum argues with me about it ha! Also I appreciate and welcome all opinions. Soooo if I am to view it through the eyes of say, my Mum I view Olivia as a strong, well together ‘in charge’ woman and Mellie is weak for knowing and allowing Fitz to be with Olivia / get pregnant to sort a scandal etc. However I see the opposite, I see olivia walking into the Oval Office angry and confrontational however within seconds one kiss makes her forget it all , even when she says ‘don’t’. Mellie wanted to be in the office (albeit alongside fitz) and she knew what would get her there and keep her there .. anyway my point is I don’t view Olivia as a strong independent woman I see her as very weak . All opinions welcome 😁
I think we all have a side of her when it’s time to go detective🕵🏻♀️ Best role in the series, don’t come at me
So I just finished binging the first 16 seasons, and as a big Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder fan, part of me want to see Olivia or Annalise on the show since I want to believe that all of these shows take place in the same universe.
I was thinking Meredith could get help from Olivia in Washington (similar to Annalise in the Scandal x HTGAWM crossover) to reform healthcare laws, and I'd like to think that someone at Grey-Sloan Memorial has run into trouble again so Catherine brings in Annalise to help out with the situation.
Hello everyone! Please bear with me since this is my first reddit post but essentially the title. I’m looking for a book with a political “fixer” that is a kickass lady and superstar at her job. Romance optional. I’ve been looking for a book that fits the bill for a long time but since I haven’t found anything I thought I’d turn to you lovely people for some help! Thanks in advance
I finally got around to watching Scandal on Netflix, and even being decently aware of what I was getting into since it is a Shonda Rhimes show, I was still blown away.
Olivia Pope is better at everything than everyone. She is a fixer, but she is also a master politicitician, a lawyer, a publicist, a tyrant, a dictator, the list goes on and on. She also happens to be the absolute best at all these things and more. Entire teams of the highest trained professionals in the US Government can fail to find an answer, but Olivia Pope can come in, scrunch her face, and figure it out in seconds.
She is right 99% of the time, and the few times that she isn't right, she either ends up being right eventually, or why she is wrong is swept under the rug so fast and never spoken of again. She can speak foreign languages. She was a world class athlete. She is outrageously rich with money hidden in accounts all over the world. Her name inspires fear and respect among every name in DC. She has friends that will follow her over a cliff (as they have stated literally hundreds of times over the course of the series). Every man that meets her falls in love.
The list goes on and on about just how perfect Olivia Pope is, it is honestly kind of humorous.
I just wished we had an extra season or two where Olivia becomes POTUS. Do you know why they didn't do this? It would have been so cool!
But I do it and I need help. Double standards
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Also, Kerry Washington directed this episode.
Looking for a book with a female character that is similar to characters from tv shows such as Olivia Pope from scandal, Alicia Florrick from The Good Wife, or Annaliese Keating from How To Get Away With Murder.
Hey! I don't know if this is the right place for this sort of question, but I was wondering how many people Olivia Pope directly or indirectly gets killed throughout the 7 seasons of Scandal. She always seemed like the villain to me, manipulating Presidents, Congressmen, judges, celebrities, criminals, and international politicians to dance to her tune or she would RUIN them. I know she is the cause of a war in Angola and has beat at least one person to death herself, but i was never an avid watcher. Anyone out there have any idea on the general death toll Liv carries with her all the time?
*Edit: I don't REALLY think of her as the villain, but I have fun reframing shows with ambiguously 'good' characters... my girlfriend is not a huge fan of this take.. haha
I personally kind of binged the whole show in three-four months so I probably had some frustration alleviated, but I really love Liv.
She's a flawed character, especially in later seasons, but that's precisely what's so interesting about her.
In the very beginning of the show she's introduced as a perfect woman, badass, beautiful, very smart, fierce. Then you learn she has a thing with the POTUS, and the facade slowly disappears. But it's still kind of there, she's on the "good" side, she does her best to help others...
But throughout the seasons, she's more and more egoistical, and more generally, flawed. S4 is the turning point for her character, I love the winter finale and particularly the last moments, when she's dancing with Jake. She says so herself, she's choosing Olivia, she wants to be happy and live however she wants. Then she's kidnapped.
She gets PTSD from that storyline and that unlocks something in her. It culminates in her killing Andrew, the VP, and getting away with it.
The other characters always forgive her, but she does terrible things. They forgive her for Andrew (although nobody would really miss him, presumably), they kind of forgive her for what she did in S7... and you know why?
Because the other characters aren't the audience surrogate. The closest of that could be David Rosen, but he gets killed in the final episode.
All of these characters are deeply flawed, and we're not supposed to think, work, and react the same as them. Sure, they have feelings, they're capable of love (...most of them, anyway) but they aren't ethical people. They're often frustrating, irritating (I read a lot of episode discussions on this subreddit, and I saw most of you were irritated at Olivia, Fitz... and more or less at every character) but they're not protagonists in the traditional sense. They're villains, all of them.
And as a villain, Olivia is highly entertaining. I think one of my favorite episodes is the one in S7 where she's in the Vermont house with Fitz and several other characters. In the end she's "forced" to surrender, but she actually doesn't yet. I laughed out loud at that reveal because damn, really Olivia?
And the other characters forgive her anyway! That's truly ridiculous, and yet it happens.
The increasingly power-hungry Olivia Pope is one of the most compelling characters I've seen lately. She's funny, I couldn't help but wonder to what extent she was gonna try to get power.
And in the end, she stops because she underst
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Every constantly praises Olivia, saying things like, "she wins elections", when in reality she has NEVER won an election.
- First there was Defiance.
- Then Jerry Grant died and got Fitz sympathy votes (he literally died as Fitz was about to concede)
- Then Mellie lost to Francisco Vargas, until he was shot and killed by Olivia's father
People really need to stop hiring her to run campaigns
Where's a Scandal cross-over when you need one? I just want Olivia Pope and President McCord to slaughter the hell out of that f***ing prisonbreak actor and that new chairman person. And what's scary is that these people do exist in real life.
I’m new here but does anyone else have quarrels with how Jake and Fitz dip their stick in the same sauce every other episode or even the same episode most of the time?
I can never quite decide, although she’s gotten worse so maybe it’s the role and the downhill slope of the series now.
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