Scandal Season 5 Episode 3 Recap: Mellie"s Revenge

Fitz and Mellie did all they could to save face on Scandal Season 5 Episode 3.

Or to save their marriage, at least, as far as the public is concerned.

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The President and First Lady sat down for a television interview after Olivia’s confession to close last week’s installment, telling the country that their relationship is fine and Liv is merely a friend.

Away from the camera, however, Mellie has a small meltdown over Olivia’s admission and then switches into full-scale war mode.

“Oh look, it’s the girl who can’t close her legs…or her mouth,” she (awesomely) tells Olivia the first time she sees her in the White House.

Enter Cyrus, who plots and schemes with Mellie and then learns the First Lady’s true goal.

“I want the Oval,” she (again, awesomely) says.

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Elsewhere, Quinn and Huck were taken aback by Olivia’s admission, yet they still set out to help their boss. But Jake? Not so much.

He goes for the vodka instead, though he does later tell Olivia he’ll be right over after she calls, expressing regret over her “Yes.”

Then there’s Abby. She confronts Olivia over all her lying, to which Olivia says she was merely trying to protect Abby.

“You didn’t want to tell me because you didn’t think I’d be good enough at my job to handle it…did you?” Abby explodes at one point.

But fences are mended between these two before the hour is over.

Back to Cyrus: he tells Fitz and Olivia that the former must support Mellie’s bid for the Presidency, while Olivia must stay on the sidelines.

They agree, though Mellie later screams at Cyrus that she wants more and Cyrus then gets turned down when asking Fitz for his old job back.

In the final scene, which has us dying for Scandal Season 5 Episode 4 to get here, Jake pays Rowan a visit in prison and asking about that mysterious fire at the Louvre.

“And Nero fiddled while Rome burned,” Rowan cryptically says, making a reference to Mama Pope.

Oh yes! Bring her back on!

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The Originals Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: Yes, Sires

What’s past is prologue. So William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest.

If this is the case, however, the past for Klaus Mikaelson may be the prologue to a very dangerous future, based on The Originals Season 3 Episode 1 at least.

After closing one chapter in May, this CW drama opened up a brand new one on Thursday night.

Yes, there were still loose ends to tie up from Season 2, namely the fact that Davina is Queen Regent (and having her power challenged by older queens in the Quarter) and also that Hayley is once again under the werewolf curse.

The latter proved to be a problem after a company named Kingmakers Inc. bought up all the land in the bayou and hired independent contractors to kill as many wolves as they could find.

Once Elijah came across these contractors, he dispatched of them in classic Elijah fashion.

But he also found a truckload of dead wolves and wondered if one of them is Hayley.

We know it is not because Davina used some kind of spell to summon Hayley and tell her she must do something for her because she can see her daughter.

Elsewhere, we met a detective named Will Kinney who sometimes uses Vincent to help with cases that appear supernatural.

He also called on Cami (who has been serving as Klaus’ actual psychologist) during the premiere to figure out what’s going on with victims that appears to have been killed by a vampire.

But this was the meant of The Originals Season 3 Episode 1:

• Via flashback, we see that the Mikaelsons (Finn, Kol, Elijah, Klaus and Claire Holt as Rebekah) decide to go undercover as a royal type of family in order to live a “normal” life soon after they are turned.


• They keep an underling named Lucien alive in order to help them with this guise and he proves to be very useful in offering the family advice on how to lie and how to live in an upper class society.


• Fast forward many centuries and Lucien shows up in New Orleans. It’s clear right away that he’s a vampire and that Klaus turned him.


• He warns Klaus that vampires around the world are feuding and they’ve realized that the best way to do away with their rivals is by killing the Original that sired them… because this would take down the entire line. He also hints that there’s some White Oak remaining.


• After using his psychic to prove his point that trouble is ahead, Lucien claims to be on Klaus’ side. His life is tied to Klaus, after all.


• But we close the episode by seeing that Lucian is behind Kingmakers Inc.


• We also cut to a scene in some distant land, where a woman is so disturbed by the news she receives in a letter that she kills the servant who brought it to her.


• This woman is named Aurora. We met her in the flashback when Klaus and company were undercover, with Lucien saying she a beauty they should stay away from.

So, in other words… WTF?!?

It’s safe to say we’ll learn a lot more about Aurora and Lucien and this pending danger on The Originals Season 3 Episode 2.

And it’s VERY safe to say we’ll be tuning in to see where this new storyline goes from here.

Will you?!?

The Vampire Diaries Season 7 Episode 1 Recap: There Goes the Neighborhood

Elena Gilbert, who?!?

Okay, that may be an exaggeration. It may still take us awhile to fully adjust to life in Mystic Falls without Nina Dobrev’s beloved character.

But The Vampire Diaries Season 7 Episode 1 gave us plenty to focus on while Damon waits many decades to be reunited with his sleeping girlfriend.

The Heretics have very much arrived… and they mean sinister business.

Not Lily, though. Damon and Stefan’s mother spent most of the premiere trying to make peace, trying to teach her proteges how to simply fit in to this new world.

But that’s never an easy task for a vampire, especially not after Stefan, Matt and Caroline try to do away with the Heretics for good by blowing up their house.

This plan backfires, however, after the Heretics survive… and get really angry in response.

They kill numerous residents at a town square gathering (where Matt receives his police badge, hooray!), forcing Stefan to come up with a new plan in order to keep everyone safe.

He actually makes up a story about imminent (non-vampire-related) danger and goes about evacuating Mystic Falls. Stefan strikes a deal with Lily that basically puts the Heretics in charge (heck, they move in to the Salvatore mansion!), as long as they promise not to go after Stefan and his friends.

But then Damon arrives home from a drunk trip to Europe.

He went there to drink away his sadness over Elena, while Alaric joined him to do the same regarding Jo’s death. Oh, and Bonnie served as their chaperone.

After viewers learned that Alaric has stolen some kind of mystical item (one desired by Lily) and, behind Damon’s back, is somehow trying to bring Jo back to life… Damon and Bonnie returned to their sparse hometown.

Not a fan of Stefan and Lily’s peace accord, they teamed up to kill Malcolm, a Heretic especially close to Lily.

We can only imagine the ramifications this will have on The Vampire Diaries Season 7 Episode 2.

Elsewhere:

• Enzo chose a side… and he made the wrong choice. Toward the end of the hour, he knocked out Caroline with a syringe.


• We opened the episode with a flash forward to three years from now in Brooklyn. And we saw a panicked Stefan wake up a sleeping Damon from his coffin.


• For what reason? Well, we closed the episode with the brothers on the run from a woman equipped with some impressive weapons.


• We also see that Stefan now has a tattoo, the same tattoo a mute Heretic named Beau has, and that it’s coming alive in this woman’s presence. WTF?!?!?

Is the woman after them Lily? Why are the Salvatores in Brooklyn? What the heck is going on here?!?

Go watch The Vampire Diaries online to see if you can make sense of these flash forwards and then sound off: What do you think of the Heretics? Of what Alaric is trying to do? 

Of The Vampire Diaries without Elena? Will you continue to tune in?

Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent: MARRIED?!

It’s been a big day for wild rumors about celebrity couples.

First we heard that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kelly Rohrbach are engaged.

Then we found out that Drake and Serena Williams are engaged.

But while both of those rumors are almost certainly BS, the reports circulating around the on, off, on-again, off-again-with-a-restraining-order couple of Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent might actually be legit.

In case you’re not familiar – no, Cara is not hooking up with some 15th-century medieval martyr. St. Vincent is the stage name of singer/songwriter Annie Clark. 

She and Cara have been having hip, trendy sex since for at least six months, and now the word around the runway is that the fashionable twosome may have secretly gotten married.

That’s Cara and Annie at Chanel’s spring fashion show in Paris yesterday (Yes, the fashion world is gearing up for spring while you’re still trying to get the mothball smell out of your flannels.), and witnesses say they were both rocking very large diamonds on their left ring fingers.

So are they engaged? Married? Just messing us with us?! 

Heck, it’s possible they just felt like rocking matching bling for no reason at all. But that’s boring. We prefer to think that they’re married and…in talks to adopt one of Brangelina’s kids. Sure, why not?