Fitz and Mellie’s relationship could have worked.
“We’re a team”
6 min readJan 22, 2022
I like numerous things about Scandal, however, this show made us encourage an affair while depicting the wife to be some putrid depression-inducing monster. To Olivia choosing someone other than Fitz would seem to be a betrayal as she said and I sort of understand this because:
- of all they had been through (history).
- of all they went through in their history.
- of the consistent sneaking.
- Fitz’s dependency on Liv.
- the precious Doux Bébé “sweet baby” ring Fitz gave her.
- he declared war to save her.
- she has had positions in his campaigns
- of the Vermont dream.
- of the house they have.
- of the two press cycles of Olivia being his mistress.
- of his depression when he couldn’t find her (as she was on the Island)
- of his consistent attempts to leave everything for her etc.
Yes, they loved each other which is great but this man was married, a father, and THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, he couldn’t be more unavailable. Everyone acknowledges this. Olivia knows this but still follows through with it because they keep…
