Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), the media fixer and crisis manager at the center of Shonda Rhimes’s Scandal is, at her best, an endlessly watchable moral conundrum. She is always immaculately dressed; lives a bougie, high-end lifestyle; owns her own business; and has a team devoted to her. She operates at the highest levels of power, holding her own with people who make up the very system that is designed against people like her (as her villainous father constantly reminds her, she has to be “twice as good as them to get half as much”). Olivia’s professional instincts are flawless and highly
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