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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]
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 ...
After a multi-episode hiatus The A.V. Club began reviewing the series again after having stopped early in season two. Writer Ryan McGee admitted that he had been wrong in his "hesitation about the arc that would ultimately lift Scandal from "promising" to legitimately great television." He gave the episode a B letter grade. [2]
[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]
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.
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 second season of the American television drama series Scandal, created by Shonda Rhimes, began on September 27, 2012, in the United States, on ABC, and consisted of 22 episodes. The season was produced by ABC Studios, in association with ShondaLand Production Company; the showrunner being Shonda Rhimes.
Scandal episode: Episode no. Season 3 Episode 2: Directed by: Allison Liddi-Brown: Written by: Heather Mitchell: Original air date: October 10, 2013 () Guest appearances; Joe Morton as Rowan "Eli" Pope; Norm Lewis as Senator Edison Davis; Kate Burton as Sally Langston; Samantha Sloyan as Jeannine Locke; Episode chronology