Scandal Helped Define The Obama Era. And Maybe Predicted Trump’s

Daniel D’Addario, Time: Entertainment
Thu, 04/19/2018 - 3:00am

The D.C. soap opera Scandal, which ends its seven-season run on ABC’s air on Thursday, outlived its own era; the series effectively ended with the election of Donald Trump. That’s because the show was so closely tied to the national mood of the Obama presidency that it became one of its defining shows.

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