Anyway, why does Olivia deserve better than Fitz? Because we all deserve better than Fitz. Did you hear me, O Women Of The World? If you are reading these words, you deserve better than Fitz. Unless, that is, you are Mellie, Fitz’s wife, who exactly deserves Fitz, which is part of what makes the show’s central romantic mythology kind of hard to give a hoot about. If Olivia had a lick of sense, she would make the “that’s that” motion with her hands like she’s smacking the dust off, say “ptooey,” and go have sex with someone more worthwhile. Meaning: anyone.

And Fitz and Mellie would go off and have a whole bunch of evil babies and tour the world like the Von Trapp Family Singers, only they would be a troupe of lying, well-dressed hypocrites who would cry and complain instead of singing “So Long, Farewell.”

Because honestly, Fitz is the worst. He is the absolute worst. In case you don’t believe me, I am prepared to present my list of reasons.

Notes On A ‘Scandal’: Fitz Is The Most Dumpable Man On Television : Monkey See

There are spoilers on the other side of this link. — tanya b.

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Honestly, I stopped watching the show because I thought Olivia deserved better… (also I got really behind after missing a couple episodes.)

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Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?

Rhimes observes that people, even the ones who like “Scandal,” describe it as “ridiculous,” which she can live with, or a “guilty pleasure,” which she ardently despises. The worst reaction, she says, is when people dismiss it as a show for women, the TV version of chick lit. “It’s superinsulting that because Olivia is a woman, and the girl who wrote ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ wrote this, it must be for chicks,” Rhimes says. “Like if it’s geared for women, it’s somehow not as serious as if it’s geared for men.”

These slights — that it’s just a prime-time soap opera — obscure the series’ ambition and intelligence. We’ve been trained by the great TV shows of the last two decades to think that quality television has to come draped in a shroud of somber respectability. But that’s just not Rhimes’s style.

sesamestreet:

Someone new is moving to Sesame Street! Join us for this three part series that chronicles our journey to find the newest addition to the neighborhood. Part one, today, features the open casting call held in New York City. Part two comes out Wednesday!

Seeing Sonia Manzano as herself and not Maria reminds me of how jarring I found it when I spotted Gordon on an episode of Sex and the City.

multiprises:

Elisabeth Moss dans Top of the Lake, 1.03

First thing I watched yesterday when I restarted my Netflix Instant account: Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake.

Now, unlike the rest of America (or so it seems), I do not care for Mad Men. But Elisabeth Moss in this mini-series, wow.  I’ve only seen 3 episodes, so no spoilers…

Leading Men Age, But Their Love Interests Don’t -- Vulture

The results confirmed our suspicions: As leading men age, their love interests stay the same, and even the oldest men on our list have had few romantic pairings with a woman their own age (or even one out of her mid-thirties). If our actor was sharing the screen with an A-lister of commensurate star power like Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie, the age difference would drop somewhat, but in movies that relied solely on our guy’s big name, the lesser-known love interests would nearly always be decades younger.

I’ll admit, this (is one of the many things that) bothered me about Oblivion.

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rectumofglory:

Vicious - Brand New British Comedy Coming Soon to ITV

so i don’t know about you, but i’m pretty excited to watch derek jacobi and ian mckellen pretty much play themselves, but as a couple who have been together for nearly 50 years throwing shade all over the place every week on my tv. 

AND LITTLE BABY IWAN RHEON AND MADAME MAXINE

I’M SO EXCITED

oh man oh man oh man

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