If you’re a longtime visitor of PurseBlog, you understand that we’ve recapped great deals of different shows over the past five years. starting today, I’m trying my hand at one of my personal favorites–Scandal. We originally chosen it since Olivia Pope has such a outstanding purse collection, however unfortunately, our woman Liv spent a lot of of last night’s mid-season premiere in a cell without appropriate gain access to to Prada.
Since we’re hopping on to this midseason, I mean it’s crucial that we figure out where we’ve been before we can truly figure out where we’re meant to go. (Also, genuine talk: a bit evaluation seems in buy for a show so complex that it makes daytime soap writers dizzy.) (I indicate that in the very best method possible.)
When we last saw our hero Olivia Pope, she was being kidnapped quietly out of her own apartment or condo just before banging the recently complimentary as well as perpetually shirtless Jake Ballard. That’s both cruel to her as well as to those of us who were all het as much as enjoy one of Scandal’s signature lovely guy Worshipping Olivia Pope Sex Scenes (TM), this potentially ON A PIANO. Shonda Rhimes develops us up only to knock us down.
Olivia was snatched so unexpectedly that she really spilled her white wine instead of pouring it directly down her gullet, as she definitely would have if she had had even a split second to believe before she was dragged out of her apartment. It was the exact same elegant stuff she had shipped to the island, after all. You don’t just squander a glass of that stuff. There’s a finite amount of it, very first of all, as well as second of all, it’s going to be a bitch to get out of the sofa.
After briefly flashing to Liv running wild-eyed, wild-haired as well as gun-toting with some kind of bunker as well as directly at what appeared to be a extremely safe door, we flashed back to the scene in her apartment or condo as well as saw her kidnapper, such as he was. The dude was wise as well as experienced sufficient to effectively kidnap Olivia Pope, so he didn’t precisely show up in a silk bomber jacket with his name embroidered on the back.
The process of getting Olivia out of the building past a mainly naked Jake, who was running wild with the streets in his underclothing in an evident attempt to stop her captors with the sheer power of his semi-nude body, included killing a kindly old neighbor woman as well as shoving Olivia in a body bag. First, though, Liv’s captors ominously intimated they may abuse her, as if someone’s not tortured actually weekly on this show as well as she may not have thought about it’d be a prospective tactic.
Then they pulled a Dexter as well as shot a syringe full of stuff into her neck, as well as when Liv woke up, she was in a cell in some as-yet-unidentified Muslim country with an American dude who had clearly been there for a hot minute. in spite of the deplorable conditions, our heroine still had the self-respect to line the toilet with paper before she relieved herself. If she can’t have her dove grey cashmere around-the-house sweater, she can at least have her two-ply.
In addition to the somewhat unusual existence of toilet paper in the extremely dive bar-looking bunker bathroom, the food Liv as well as her cellmate were provided didn’t look terrible. I’ve absolutely eaten a lot more doubtful stuff from crappy midtown Manhattan delis, as well as I paid $12 for the privilege. as well as when the cam pulled out for the large shot of Olivia embracing her cellmate as well as telling him she would ultimately save the day, it kind of appeared like the whole tableau was taking location inside an Anthropologie catalog. It didn’t look like that when she arrived, though; Olivia elevates the interior decoration of a space just by existing in it for a bit while.
The next time we see Liv, we are meant to comprehend that time had passed since of the deteriorated specify of her blowout as well as since she no longer bothered putting toilet paper down before she pees. On one of her lots of trips to the bathroom, she made an ill-fated getaway attempt with a window that likely would have been as well little to get through, utilizing her underwire to pick the lock. She got caught, of course, as well as since her captors couldn’t hurt her, they killed her cellmate instead. Down one roommate as well as with only one supported boob, things looked grim indeed. If I were her, though, I would have abandoned my bra long ago. To me, that she was still using it was a indication of great morale.
After that, I stopped understanding what in the hell was going on for a number of minutes. At very first I believed Olivia was dreaming, since attractive Jake Ballard busted in with seal team six as well as that seemed like it may not be a genuine thing that happened, however then Olivia woke up in a sunny bedroom in Vermont as well as showered withFitz, as well as it seemed like maybe her entire kidnapping as well as imprisonment may have been the fabrication. as well as then she was walking a golden retriever, which I truly really hoped was not a dream, as well as instead that we had introduced a pet dog character to the show who we would get to see for a scene or two in every episode. A fixer service pet dog of some sort.
Alas, Olivia was dreaming within her dream, which I believe was when the plot of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie. soon she was back to eating her not-so-bad food out of one of those incredibly 80s wooden salad sets inside her cell, just as she had been before. Her giant, inconvenient spoon made her angry, though, as well as she made a decision it was time to try her luck with her second (and last) underwire.
She requested one more shower room break, however her too-tiny-to-escape-anyway window had been bricked up. After sobbing on the floor briefly as well as remembering something Ghost Abby told her in her dream, though, she dismantled part of the sink, left the shower room as well as bludgeoned her potty time escort with a pipe.
Liv then stole his gun as well as keys, which is when we revisited the scene that opened the episode–she ran toward the door with whatever she had. Her other guard stopped her, though, as well as after some dithering, Liv shot him in the head, mainly since he told her the gun was a man’s weapon. When she pulled the trigger, I really hollered in glee as well as triumph. You can kidnap Olivia Pope as well as stick her in a cell like an animal if you want, as well as that may not get you shot, however implying that she can’t do something since she’s a lady absolutely will.
That feeling was short-lived, though, since when Olivia discovered the ideal crucial as well as busted with the door, it was remove that she was on a soundstage of some sort, set as much as make her believe she had been whisked away to a stereotypically lawless foreign country. Her cellmate hadn’t been a fellow captive at all, however instead, he was the guy who was directing the rest of her captors. He had posed as a prisoner to get Liv to confide in him, which she did before her hair was even messed up. For all the difficulty her captors went to, she didn’t precisely make this dude stick it out for the long con.
Apparently the nugget of info that her fake cellmate was trying to find was that the president likes Olivia. I’m not precisely sure why he had to imprison her on the set of Homeland in buy to get that information, especially considering that the Fitz-Olivia like affair has to be one of the worst-kept tricks in Washington as well as he didn’t extract any type of concrete proof of an affair that can be utilized at a later date. After all, just understanding something to be true doesn’t have a great deal of currency in the detraction universe.
So far, we don’t understand precisely who it was who bought Olivia’s kidnapping; although Ian the fake prisoner was the head kidnapper, there’s definitely somebody additionally up the food chain who sent him in to snatch Liv. My money’s on the Vice President, however this episode has left me so disoriented that I cannot describe why I believe that. It just feels right.
Tune in next week to see which premium cord prestige drama Olivia will be imprisoned in next; my assumption is true Detective.