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On December 7, 2013, ABC Studios, announced that due to Kerry Washington's pregnancy, the overall episode order would be trimmed from 22 to 18, [3] which led the season finale to air four weeks earlier on April 17, 2014. It was announced on May 9, 2014 by ABC that Scandal would return in the fall of 2014 for Season 4. [4]
[3] The A.V. Club’s Sonia Saraiya offered similar praise saying that Mellie’s speech “shot right to the top of my list of the best Scandal rage-speeches of all time” but was lukewarm on the rest of the episode which she awarded a B−. [4]
Scandal is an American political thriller television series created by Shonda Rhimes, that ran on ABC from April 5, 2012 until April 19, 2018. [1]Kerry Washington stars as Olivia Pope, a former White House Communications Director who leaves to start her own crisis management firm, Pope and Associates, where she works to keep the secrets and protect the public images of the country's most ...
The episode's total viewership was 9,22 million and in the key 18–49 demographic, the episode earned a 3.2 Nielsen rating, [5] up 12 percent from the previous episode in total viewers (8.27) and up 7 percent in the target 18–49 demographic (3.0) marking the 2nd-highest-ever episode in the key demographic 18-49.
The season finale was supposed to be episode 22, however due to the show's lead Kerry Washington's pregnancy, ABC trimmed the episode count by four episodes, to 18 episodes. [4] [5] Filming for the episode began on March 13, 2014, [6] and ended on March 27, 2014. [7] Information about the episode was kept under wraps.
Scott Foley may keep a low profile, but given the chance, he won’t hesitate to gush about his family. The father of three shares daughter Malina and sons Keller and Konrad with his wife, actress ...
She praised the material saying "It's the chance of the lifetime to have material like this and to have such a rich episode for them to trust me with is humbling and terrifying, wonderful and a blessing." [1] Meanwhile, co-star Kerry Washington referred to the episode as Mellie's Seven Fifty-Two referring to the season two Huck-centric episode. [2]
Director Ava DuVernay was announced as the director of the episode in July 2013. [1] The episode is also notable for being the first time that a black woman (DuVernay) directed a television show starring a black woman (Kerry Washington) that was also created by a black woman (Shonda Rhimes) on one of the Big Three television networks.