I have no words. Seeing him get shot was already enough but to then watch Cyrus wail and sob at the press conference after all the beautiful flashbacks of how the two of them met?? and THEN the flashback where Jake kneels beside him as he dies because he had to make his death agonizing and messy to look like a carjacking. And finally, the absolute horror and terror in James face as he gurgled his final word, “Ella” the sweet baby girl he begged his husband for. He was sucked into this horrible, horrible world by his power hungry monster of a husband and I’m just so sad. I sobbed for the first time watching this show after this episode.

None of that was easy to watch. I’m queer myself & James being gay, and not getting a happy ending when it was literally all he ever wanted - which is SO common with queer media just breaks my heart so so much.

Please don’t spoil I’ve only watched this far and just really needed to vent about it 😭

lol rewatching & I must be late to the party but Shonda recycled Amanda Tanner from Season 1 of scandal & put her in HTGAWM

Watched the show every Thursday when I was high school and I ATE IT UP. Thought it was one of the coolest shows ever and was so obsessed and hated waiting a week for the next episode.

Im almost 30 now and my god I’m not having fun with this rewatch. Every character is pissing me off. My suspension of disbelief is getting harder and harder. Every character just deserves the electric chair my god. They’re all insufferable and truly evil. On season 7 now and I’m just so confused why I thought this show was amazing. (This is very unserious of course and I know its just a tv show but does anyone else feel the same? XD)

I am rewatching scandal and I am on season 3. What is Jake’s job. It seemed like he worked at the pentagon as a high ranking Naval officer then he started spying on Olivia for fitz, the Rowan locked him away for days and now him and huck trying to get at Rowan. It seems like he doesn’t have a day job. I know later on he becomes director of the NSA, but there is so much gap with his job. Is he still with the pentagon in season 3?

Someone else already pointed out how bad weekly episodes would have been to endure, and I’ll give them that. However, I’m at season 6 and starting episode 8, and I’m ready to pull my hair out. I think weekly episodes of season 6 would have been worse than the previous ones. I am losing it on this season more than any other. What is even happening?

I feel like on two occasions Mellie and Fitz both say they attended Yale undergrad before going to Law school. In episode 6 or 7 of season 3 Big Jerry says Fitz goes to Yale, then harvard law before the navy. I feel like Mellie said she also went to Yale.