Scandal Season 7

What BollyAI Thinks

Scandal's seventh and final season aired from October 2017 to April 2018, earning 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Shonda Rhimes-announced planned conclusion gave the writing room to wind down arcs rather than simply dropping them, and the press appreciated the attempt at a coherent ending for a show that had accumulated extraordinary narrative complexity. The season's Olivia-Pope-as-power arc gave Kerry Washington the most morally unambiguous dramatic material of the run. The overall Metacritic series score of 66 (based on 33 critics from the debut season) significantly understated the show's trajectory - Scandal improved substantially season-on-season from that modest opening benchmark.

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The Room

Season Over Season

A more measured wind-down than the show's explosive middle seasons, but the planned ending structure gives the finale more dignity than most Shondaland endgames.