(3-17-16)

I’ve been MIA for the past two episodes of Scandal…unfortunately, it dropped off as Must-See TV for me….but I tuned in tonight and was pleasantly pleased…So here’s your recap since judging from my timeline, only me and about six of y’all were watching…

This episode opened up with Dinner at Poppa Popes….Liv, Jake, and his new fiancée, hemming it up like they were the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ family. While Jake described Liv as the sister he never had….(if you screwed your sister), she grinned and seethed inside. She wasn’t feeling his new boo, so she set up a video feed to spy on them…and I would write more, but I really don’t care….I just wish I could fast forward through all the Jake and Liv scenes….Yawn.

My favorite Texan reappeared. That walking cliché known as Hollis Doyle. He met with Susan trying to bribe her in her presidential run and after Fitz was “San Antonio rude” Hollis went back to Mellie, who had met with him earlier trying to get money. Mellie worked her magic on that Redneck and got him to see the error of his racist ways. (Hey, Mellie…you think you can arrange a dinner with Donald Trump?) But alas, in true Trump fashion, Hollis took all of Mellie’s ‘We are the World’ ideas, stabbed her in the back and announced he was running for president in order to Make America Great Again….

Huck was spying on his son and saw his ex’s new man, Sean….he immediately thought it was Six-Toes, this guy Huck once tried to kill. Huck donned his Harold the serial killer persona and picked Sean up after he had “car trouble”. Meanwhile, the Gladiators went in search of Huck….as Marcus had a ‘what the heck did I get into’ moment once he found out “Huck ate people for a living.” As Quinn and Liv argued like two roommates fighting over who drank the last of the orange juice, Huck walked up with a body…. talking about ‘oops’…Sean wasn’t Six-Toes. Luckily, Huck only maimed Sean, then flashed him with the Men in Black wand so he wouldn’t remember anything when he came to.

Abby tried to channel her inner Olivia, then sipped some Powerade and got to feeling like she needed to be the President’s right hand….so when she found out Cyrus was working for the Democratic nominee….she sold out Cy, and Fitz gave her his job…first order of business, fire Cy. Again. Be careful Abby…in Cy’s world #SnitchesGetStitches.

This episode was definitely better than the last one I saw but I need to get #OliviaNeedsANewBoo trending….because I’m so ready to get off the Jake-Liv merry-go-round. Please, Olivia, for the love of all things scandalous, FIND SOMETHING TO FIX!!!

PS-Hollis is the king of one liners….did he really tell Mellie, “Are we gonna rub jeans or just lay here frustrated?”

PPS – Hey Shonda, if you need a boothang for Marcus, I’m available….since I had six lines in my movie, I’m a member of SAG (full disclosure…four of the lines got cut….) I tried to get you to make me Harrison’s love interest….maybe if you had, he’d still be around….

PPPS – Liv was watching Jake like he was the latest flick on Netflix (speaking of Netflix, did y’all know Let the Church Say Amen was on Netflix? Hey, if Zyrtec can have commercials in the show, I can have them in the recap). #WatchItThisWeekend

#UntilTheNextEpisode

rtb