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The episode's total viewership of 10.57 million scored a series high in total viewers, [9] up 15 percent from the last season finale which aired in May 2013, and was the top TV show in the 10:00 p.m. slot, beating Parenthood by 162 percent in Adults 18-19. [10]
The episode focuses on the continuing auction of Olivia on the free market and how everyone tries to rescue her. Showrunner Shonda Rhimes explained on Twitter that the twelfth and thirteenth episodes were one extended episode and was therefore divided into two episodes; " Gladiators Don't Run " and "No More Blood".
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]
[3] USA Today 's Anika Reed praised the series in its entirety, not just the final episode, commenting the show "put a black woman as the lead of a primetime drama for the first time since 1974, with [Kerry] Washington as D.C. fixer Olivia Pope. The show arguably changed the makeup of the television landscape and created a space for shows with ...
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 ...
This man happened, the lead kidnapper that - at least for now - has bested Olivia Pope. Now Rhimes did warn us before the episode aired. She told the Hollywood Reporter , "Olivia Pope is never ...
At the hospital, Olivia visits her mother, who convinces her not to let anyone stand between Olivia and the White House. The conversation between mother and daughter leaves Olivia eager to act. At night, Abby persuades Quinn to stay in Washington and run OPA, saying that she will help in every way to take care of the unborn child.
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]