Who Are We Rooting For?

During the Lenten season, my pastor announced she was giving up Scandal for Lent, said she kept asking herself “who am I rooting for and why?” In case you don’t know, Scandal follows the escapades of Olivia Pope, a Washington, D.C. “fixer “who is also having a long-term affair with the President of the United States.

I admit I watched the first season, but when it was revealed it was the President’s chief of staff that ordered the murder of an intern, I wasn’t sure I wanted to help put that “v...