Scandals' season 4 premiered last Thursday 25th of September, and it had Kerry Washington's character, Olivia Pope, coming out of her chosen retirement with Jake Ballard (Scott Foley) to patch things up and prevent scandal between two Senators, one male and one female; but how did Scandal's season 4 premiere do with critics?
Scandal's season 4 premiere started with Julia Baker (Olivia Pope's fake name as she left all behind to be with Jake) enjoying a glass of wine far away from her everyday work issues ... a wine that would be just what drives her back to Washington D.C., as Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes) tracks the crisis management expert just through her taste in rare wines, addressing a letter to her fake name to her new address. And this is where Scandal's season 4 really kicks in.
This is just the outline for what sets the action going for Scandal's season 4 - however, it doesn't say much about how it did with critics and audiences, after a preceding season with mixed reviews and messiness from hiding Kerry Washington's growing pregnancy throughout most of the season.
The premiere episode, entitled Randy, Red, Superfreak and Julia, was directed by Tom Verica and written by the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes (who also created other hit show like long-running medical drama Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off series Private Practice).
CBS' TV.Com website said that the Scandal season 4 premiere had to be "one giant breath of fresh air" to make up for last season's messiness, a fact it achieved according to reviewer Cory Barker, who raved about it: "there was so much good stuff going on. Every series regular was well-served, though the winner in the clubhouse had to be Mellie, who after the death of her son rightfully decided to just traipse around the White House wearing PJs and eating Fruit Loops."
In the meantime, The Daily Beast called Scandal's season 4 premiere "campy, impossibly sexy, thrilling, heartbreaking, and pretty much perfect."
Let's wait and see what this new season brings!
