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Lisa Kudrow Is Saving Scandal from...
Lisa Kudrow Is Saving Scandal from Itself
Separately, Scandal’s Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) are fascinating—sympathetic, but morally nuanced. Together, they form the worst part of one of most exciting shows on TV.
She devolves from a savvy and ambitious Beltway “fixer” into a weepy and lovesick invertebrate. He mutates from a fair and compassionate commander-in-chief into an angst-ridden and self-indulgent control freak. Their tortured back-and-forths could convincingly fill the pages of the cheapest romance novel. But as presidential chief-of-staff Cyrus Beene said at the end of Season 2, “Life isn’t a romance novel.”
Unfortunately, there is no Scandal without “Liv and Fitz.” Creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice) has built an entire universe around the affair. It’s the titular scandal, the narrative glue that binds together two separate but equally compelling worlds: that of the clandestine crisis-management firm, cleaning up after misbehaving elites; and that of the moderate Republican White House, rebuffing extremist elements from within its own party. Without #Olitz, these stories run parallel, unconnected.
Which is why Montana congresswoman Josie Marcus, played by Lisa Kudrow, is such a gratifying third-season addition.
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