People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
When a television show like 'Scandal' becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it's showing is that people want to see diversity.
People like scandals.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.