You know that commercial break that happens right before the last seven minutes of each episode of Scandal? The one that makes you want to yell or throw a shoe at the TV screen because you believe that the suspense might actually kill you? Well, for some of us, Scandal’s 10-week-long winter hiatus feels just…

I haven’t been home for Thanksgiving in almost 10 years. I typically reserve trips home to Houston for Christmas, weddings and family reunions (and that more somber occasion that starts with an “f”). For the several years that I spent Thanksgiving in Washington, D.C., I would spend the day with various combinations of cousins and…

On Thursday night’s How to Get Away With Murder winter finale, after all the cryptic flashbacks we saw all season, it was finally revealed who killed Sam. It was Michaela! Or Wes! Or Wes and Annalise?! Wait, what?  Let’s run it down. 1. First, Annalise and Sam get into a nasty fight.  Annalise is packing Sam’s stuff like Bernadine…

Thursday night, Scandal’s winter finale aired—an event so highly anticipated that President Barack Obama moved up his immigration speech to accommodate it. Thank you, Mr. President. Now, if only Shonda Rhimes could get the network to hold all commercials until the end of the show, we would greatly appreciate it. Seriously, why are there so many…

The seventh episode of ABC’s Black-ish aired this week, and as the show establishes itself thematically, one of the motifs that it consistently explores is parental trial and error. No matter how many books one reads or advice one stockpiles, parenting requires on-the-job training, and the perils of poor parenting decisions have served as prime comedic fodder for family-sitcom…

On last night’s episode of Scandal, Mellie slept with Andrew, who slept with Elizabeth, who is working with Kubiak, who was murdered by Huck, which was witnessed by Javi. Jake and Fitz engaged in the world’s cattiest pissing contest. And Olivia wore a winter-white pashmina-cape-snuggie number that was so sick I took some Theraflu on its…

Here are 52 reactions to last night’s Scandal episode: When we learn that Fitz has been calling Olivia every night since she told him there was still hope for them to get back together: 1. Fitz has that Obama ’08 “Yes We Can!” kind of hope. 2. If only the Democrats still had that kind of…

In addition to causing emotional upheaval for #TeamFitz, #TeamJake and everyone in between, Thursday night’s episode also taught us 10 life lessons: 1. You win wars by deploying weapons that your opponent doesn’t possess. In this episode, Olivia, Papa Pope and Fitz battled it out over Jake’s fate. Even though Papa Pope initially convinced Fitz…

Let’s discuss how Olivia Pope and her friends flew over the cuckoo’s nest on Thursday night’s Scandal. Olivia full-body cried. Olivia hadn’t seen or heard from Jake in days, and her gut told her that he was in trouble. Olivia’s gut has been wrong so many times at this point, she can’t even get anyone…

The complicated nature of relationships was front and center during Thursday night’s episode of Scandal. Fathers, mothers and daughters. Husbands, wives and lovers. Old Command, New Command and Tom. Here is everything you need to know about episode 4. Karen Grant went to Paris. Remember that time Vanessa Huxtable and her friends sneaked all the way…