It’s Friday, But Thank Goodness It’s Thursday!

Did you watch television yesterday? No, really, did you??? Specifically, did you watch abc at 9:00 PM — or 8:00 PM, if you’re about that life? Yesterday was fire on abc. It started with Grey’s Anatomy at 8:00 PM. I can’t tell you how great the show is because I don’t follow it. I know it’s great, and I know the general story line, but I have missed so much of it that I don’t know how to start it now. But at 9:00 PM, my BFF Kerry Washington came back as Olivia Pope on Scandal.

I’m telling you, the only time I breathed while Scandal was on was during the commercials. As soon as the show came back on, I stopped breathing again. Olivia Pope came back with her hair laid and her waist snatched. Makeup was on point. I just wanted to reach in through the screen and be part of the action. Mellie has gone from trying to fix her marriage to throwing in the towel and sometimes not even washing her hair. But she was deliriously, disturbingly happy.

Jake was buried between Olivia’s legs and between her ears, trying to convince her to not be who he knows she is: Olivia Pope, the fixer. By the end of the episode, it happened as we thought it would: Olivia Pope is no longer #IslandLiv. Oh, and Harrison is dead.  That’s what happens when you get fired from a show: your character dies. Apparently, Fitz tried to commit suicide: for his dead son or for missing Liv? We’ll find out some day. Off topic, Mellie is so beautiful. Not so-off-topic, I love Quinn’s real life style. I follow her on Instagram. Her clothes are my clothes, in my head.

Then at 9:00 PM, Viola Davis came on with How To Get Away With Murder. She was so fierce.  When the show started, she had 25.7 thousand followers. By the time I went to bed last night, she had 32 thousand followers. It must be nice to be her. It’s only one episode in, but so far, I’m hooked. I want to know more. What happened to her husband? If you haven’t seen it, this is a good time to start.

From 8:00 PM t0 11:00 PM, Shonda Rhimes rules on abc. She has three shows showing back to back. She has three children and three shows on abc. How does she do it? Is she human? I can’t finish a novel and this woman who has 3 children has 3 shows on television? Father in Heaven, why hast thou forsaken me? How can only one Shonda have 3 hours or television for 3 shows? Where and when will my own show come on? Good God Almighty, Shonda is giving me life right now. I am so proud of her, you’d think she’s my aunty or something. Of the three shows, two have Black women as lead characters.

I need it to be my time already.