Scandal Team Teases Season 3′s 'Dark As You Can Imagine' New Twist and More
“Scandal” is back and star Kerry Washington already told the Tom Joyner Morning Show it’s going to be a doozy. So get ready. Here is a roundup of all things “Scandal” from more clips from tonight’s show – WARNNG – there are few mini-spoilers, and Twitter and Facebook pages, including our very own, so you can tweet and post to your heart’s content. Of course, you know you can catch the show at 10 p.m. Eastern on ABC, so here’s a viewer’s guide for you. Put your white hat on – “Scandal” is back!
Scandal left you with questions and we sought out answers, when the cast and creatives assembled this week at a Saks event in New York City.
WHAT IS BEHIND OLIVIA’S GINORMOUS DADDY ISSUES?
I mean, no one talks like that to She Who Wears the White Hat… right? Flashbacks in next week’s episode “further inform and make you understand [Olivia and Rowan's] relationship more,” Kerry Washington previews. “But it is also devastatingly confusing, because you just don’t comprehend how two people could have this dynamic.” P.S. TVLine hears that in addition to fleshing out Olivia’s history, these flashbacks may feature at least one other Gladiator.
CYRUS’ ‘KILL FILE’ WAS WRONG ABOUT OLIVIA’S FATHER — SO WHAT ABOUT THE REST?
Like, could her mother not be dead? Is Liv perhaps not an only child? “Whether or not anything on this show anybody ever takes at face value is the question,” exec producer Betsy Beers hedges. “Sometimes it is [true], sometimes it isn’t. But I ain’t saying!”
HOW BIG IS THE OPERATION REMINGTON BOMBSHELL?
After all, as Beers notes, “It definitely takes a lot to drop Cyrus’ jaw!” Series creator Shonda Rhimes attests that when it comes to threatening Fitz’s future, Remington will make MistressGate look like very small potatoes. “It’s complex,” she says, adding: “You discover things on top of things on top of things that really go to the heart of who Olivia is as a person.” Wait, back up — an off-book military op carried out by Fitz and Jake years ago in Iran is ultimately about Olivia? Yup! As Scott Foley puts it, “If you think about the darkest thing you can imagine about Olivia, it’s probably that. That’s how dark Remington is.”
WHAT’S NEXT FOR OLIVIA AND FITZ?
What’s the saying — “Twice bitten, thrice shy,” for the star-crossed couple? And could Remington’s “dark” truth turn out to be their ultimate ruining? In the wake of so much barely squelched rumor-mongering (and with Mellie on the highest alert), “They’ll have to define the new rules,” Washington says. “And as more information unravels, their relationship will continue to evolve.”
