by Alexa Duplisea
Scandal
Secrets aren’t impossible to keep, but for how long can a person keep such a big secret, like an affair with the President of the United States or being part of a team that rigged the presidential election? If you are Olivia Pope, you have to keep both of these secrets. The hit show Scandal knows how to create drama and suspense.
Scandal, which plays on ABC on Thursday nights at 10pm, is a captivating show. It focuses on a group of people that call themselves “The Gladiators.” During the first show of the series, this team rigs the presidential elections to have President Fitzgerald Grant, or Fitz, put into office, but now they have to keep their secret. That certainly generated suspense in the show as viewers wondered when they were going to get caught and by whom. To keep their secret safe, they have to lock up and hide the device that holds all their secrets to rigging the election. Someone is after their secrets, and they have to keep “the mole” from getting the device.
The other big secret is the affair between Fitz and Olivia. Only Cyrus, Fitz’s close personal assistant, and Fitz’s wife, Mellie Grant, know about the affair. I was shocked when she didn’t tell everyone right away. Even though a man was investigating Mellie and trying to get her to reveal the name of Fitz’s mistress, she never once gave the name away.
About halfway through the show, Harrison Wright, Olivia’s coworker, reveals that he knows about Olivia’s affair. He will keep the secret if she stops the affair, so it will put the president and his love life out of the press. Olivia is handling this situation very well, and she acts like she has everything under control. She does lose control when she is telling Fitz that he has to keep his presidency or for the rest of her life she would feel like it was her fault.
Olivia and her team need to keep the president out of the newspapers because of his biggest secret, the rigged election. I wanted people to find out that they rigged the election because I wanted to see what might have happened in the show. Unfortunately, the show ended before that happened.
I loved the suspense, but with all the different problems going on at one time it made it hard to follow along. Who was the mole? Why was this person going to be killed? Who is following this man? It was hard even to put a name to all the faces because there were so many characters in this show. Scandal is definitely a show that you have to watch every episode in every season or you would be lost.
