We look at the relationship between ABC’s Scandal and its backdrop, our nation’s capital.

Fair Warning: This story contains Scandal spoilers.

It is an image we have all come to know so well; a symbol of American history.

In Shonda RhimesScandal, Washington D.C. is the framework for the show.

It oddly played out in real life, too.

As we all know during this last season, Harrison was gaining more of a backstory than ever before.

It reminds me of that moment when I first went to the White House.

It was still so far, but closer than I had ever been before.

These characters are put in roles with titles that make them almost untouchable in real life.

They appear in every way formal, business-like, and boring.

Its not just President Grant who is altered by the capital.

The adrenaline high it gave her…stuck.

She becomes infatuated with what Huck used to do.

She is later set up by a member of B613 and ends up accidentally murdering an innocent man.

She is instantly sucked into this horrible world of political scandal on whole new level.

A character finally discovering her place as one of Olivias gladiators completely flips her id.

Huck was known as the technological whiz and hacker of Olivias crisis management firm.

He snaps and immediately goes back to his ways of torture and murder.

Theres no way Huck could go back to that, right?

Well, he did.

But, as the episode goes on, we begin to learn more about Jake.

It was all too good to be true.

Of course its Grant who is really being the creep.

At some point you might ask yourself, Wait, do I even like any of these characters anymore?

Eventually, once loveable characters are transformed and become unrecognizable.

Eventually I accepted that deceit and destruction would always surround them.

This political world is suffocating these characters, trapped in a web of pain and torture.

These characters arent oblivious to the terrible lives they lead.

They are always talking about ways out.

Even Jake envisions a world away from there.

Its the only way he can see out of this life.

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