No, Scandal, I will not get excited about your ‘winter finale’
The promo for Scandal’s episode this Thursday reads: “There ain’t no finale like a Scandal winter finale.” While that may be the case, you’re probably thinking exactly what I’m thinking: “What the heck is a winter finale, and when the hell did this become a thing?”
The winter finale is actually the last episode before a show goes onits holiday break. Why does this happen? Ratings traditionally sag between Thanksgiving and New Year because people are so busy with holiday parties, decking the halls, and other winter activities. For some of us, life is just busier. For the Scrooges out there, it is exactly the time they need televised entertainment to distract them from all the merriment they haven’t been invited to or are willfully sitting out. My favorite show’s absence is now something I’m supposed to get excited about?
How to Get Away with Murder is getting a similar treatment in its promos. In a common move, ABC is revealing the identity of whomever perpetrated the season’s central murder so that everyone will be sure to tune in. While it’s more of a revelation than a cliffhanger, it’s meant to keep us interested through the break and bridge the lag before the season’s second half. However, How to Get Away with Murder is going to air its season finale on 26 February. That means we’ll get about six more episodes between the “winter finale” and the “finale finale”. I don’t know how you feel, but I feel kind of ripped off.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/20/scandal-winter-finale-manipulation-on-demand-tv
Amen!
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It sucks to not have a vibrant social life, and then have nothing decent on tv to watch...only to get bombarded with DVR conflicts when they ALL "debut" their "second-season"..
and they wonder why so many people are defecting from network tv..
Scandal's Joe Morton: Rowan Isn't "Un-Killable" — But Will Olivia Take the Kill Shot?
There are three certainties in life: Death, taxes and Papa Pope having the last laugh.
"He always finds a way!" Joe Morton tells TVGuide.com of his Scandal super-villain. "One of the joys of playing the character is people love to hate him. People say to me all the time on Twitter, 'Love the way you play the role. Don't like the character,' which is perfect. You want his demise, but at the same time, it's wonderful the way he manages to evade all this stuff. How is he going to get out of this again?"
Indeed, Rowan might as well be on Survivor. There's almost no one he hasn't outwitted, outplayed and outlasted during his reign of terror in and out of the B613 Command post. "Against me, you will lose," he warned Olivia (Kerry Washington) two weeks ago. So far, she has, after her amateur hour game plan to take down pops — offering herself, the "shiny new object," as bait — with Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) and Jake (Scott Foley) backfired badly last week. Rowan, naturally, figured it out and went Full Terror Monologue on her."You think the world is so terrible with me in it, wait 'til you see what it's like without me," he growled. "I think what he's referring to is she lives behind an invisible wall of protection she's not aware of," Morton says. "If I remove myself, we'll see how you survive on your own."
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Scandal-Joe-Morton-Rowan-Olivia-1089457.aspx
loved him in the Terminator movies. 