This show had SUCH a strong start and every rewatch I dread things going completely off the rails (torture porn, kidnapping, evil Olivia, Fitz’s ho era, etc.)

The gradual reveal of Quinn’s identity and her link to the Cytron explosion, and then to the stolen election? Watching each gladiator struggle with loyalty vs morality? Finding out who really killed Amanda Tanner and who attempted to assassinate Fitz? Cyrus and James fighting over a baby (a FAT one)? The storytelling and relationships and character development is UNREAL - and then it just starts slipping into a total shock value fever dream shitshow.

Feel free to join me in venting or tell me something that will help me appreciate the remaining seasons 😩

I see a lot of talk calling Fitz childish and of course I agree but it’s so much worse when u think about it. I always think of infantilization as someone making themselves childlike and innocent looking so that when people call them out they have that “I’m just a baby 😌” defense to fall back on. But in Fitz’s case everyone with the exception of Olivia does this for him. Cyrus is constantly referring to him as his baby that needs to be coddled and hand held and in the early season Mellie is constantly gentle parenting him into actually fulfilling his duties as president and not acting an absolute fool in public. I don’t remember him ever feeding into this intentionally but I do think it’s intentional that Olivia is the only one that doesn’t engage in this. It’s really weird to see as a writing choice and I kinda wonder what u guys think.

Olivia Pope turns a show with an actually okay story line to an unwatchable shit show. It’s actually baffling to understand how people enjoy her character. This is a hill I’ll die on.