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Olivia Carolyn Pope is a fictional character created by Shonda Rhimes for the political drama television series Scandal. [1] This character also played a small role in the series How to Get Away with Murder on its 4th season produced by Shonda Rhimes where she plays a crisis manager who helped Annalise get her class-action case heard by the Supreme Court. [2]
Olivia is shown to have a contentious relationship with Mellie, the First Lady; the two women cannot stand each other but tolerate each other for the sake of the presidency. Olivia's father, Eli Pope, was the leader of a secret government organization titled B613.
Olivia worked on the presidential campaign of the then-Governor Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III, with whom she began an affair. After the election, the affair ended and Olivia started her own crisis-management firm called "Olivia Pope & Associates". Darby Stanchfield as Abigail "Abby" Whelan, who worked as an investigator in Olivia's firm.
Although Kerry Washington finds the fact that she’s receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame “surreal,” her father, Earl Washington, thinks she should’ve gotten a star a lot sooner.
The season focuses on Olivia Pope and her new position as Chief of Staff of President Mellie Grant and the Command of B613. It also depicts Quinn Perkins as the boss of her crisis management firm Quinn Perkins & Associates, and its team, as well as staff at the White House in Washington, D.C., in their efforts to deal with and contain political ...
The episode was well received by television critics, with many praising show creator Shonda Rhimes for the way in which she integrated Olivia Pope's decision to have an abortion into the episode. Ben Philippe at The A.V. Club wrote an essay about the abortion, praising it for making the show "actually political". [3]
Shonda Rhimes made us wait two months for tonight's episode of 'Scandal' and it was ... different. While the episode focused on Pope's kidnapping and vaguely answered who kidnapped the Olivia Pope ...
The episode focuses on Quinn Perkins being hired at Olivia Pope & Associates and the team working on a case involving Lt. Col. Sullivan St. James, while at the meantime Olivia must handle a crisis regarding President Fitzgerald Grant. In early 2011, it was announced that Shonda Rhimes was developing a new pilot.