Lawn Chairs

Oleh Peter

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If ever there was a "Scandal" episode when Gladiators may want to hold off on the wine — or gulp it down depending on their way of dealing with sadness — tonight's episode "The Lawn Chair" was just that. The importance of diversity in primetime “Scandal” took on the Ferguson tragedy in a powerful episode and showrunner Shonda Rhimes provided viewers insight about the making of the show via Twitter. As she does for every episode, Rhimes live-tweeted Thursday’s “The Lawn Chair” for the Even though it’s a show about a black woman, created by a black woman and written by several black writers, race is not the overarching issue on “Scandal.” Yet this episode allows us to address the obvious—Olivia is black—without making it about her. "The Lawn Chair," the 14th episode of the fourth season of Scandal, is at once a powerful experience and a strange one. It's powerful because it places the current Scandal plots on hold to address issues of police brutality against young black men as and all the black men and women dead at the hands of police brutality. As powerful as it was, episode 14, titled “The Lawn Chair,” hit too, too, close to home. Here, VIBE’s staff reflects on the emotional roller coaster that was last night’s Last Thursday night Kerry Washington and the rest of the world watched as the ABC hit show Scandal tackled a powerful new episode that centered on black lives in America. The new episode, Lawn Chair, was inspired by the Michael Brown Ferguson, Mo. .

Tonight on ABC Scandal starring Kerry Washington continues with another exciting episode in an all new Thursday March 5, season 4 episode 14 called, “The Lawn Chair,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, an unfortunate event But David was busy with White House matters, so Olivia became embroiled in the negotiation, clashing with a local activist, Marcus Walker (Cornelius Smith Jr.), who brought Clarence a lawn chair to sit on while he guarded his son's body. • Meanwhile Shonda Rhimes ripped Scandal Season 4 Episode 14 straight from the headlines, and if anyone is qualified to do so, it's her. "The Lawn Chair" was a story which ran parallel to the events of Ferguson, MO and which saw Olivia Pope determined to find the Last night’s Scandal ended with the embrace of two men who know what it means to lose their sons, Nina Simone pleading that she shall be released, and tears on the keyboard. I found myself crying not for Brandon Parker, the 18-year-old black boy whose .