Season 3: Episode #6 "Icarus"

First of all, the devil is a LIAR. I was NOT going to let daylight savings time make me fall asleep before Pope & Associates.  NO ma’am, no sir. I propped my eyelids open and pressed my way.  I’m a gladiator afterall.  So anyway… on with the show!Did ya'll die? Cuz I D-I-E!!! Episode 306 was everything.

The episode opens with a flashback of Liv's mom saying goodbye. All of us had it wrong as far as who would play her mother. No shade to Khandi Alexander but she wasn’t on my radar at all.
I know we talked about this before and we all fantasized about Phylicia Rashad, Jane Hubert, Janet Lewis and others playing Mrs. Pope but those phenomenal women are old enough to be her mother in present day so that just wouldn’t work anyway. 

Liv is in a trance as she recalls her last interaction with her mother and decides she has to know the truth and there are only 2 people who can give it to her-Papa Pope (and you might as well roll that beautiful bean footage because he ain't talkin') and President Mush soooo, off to the White House we go.

Leo meets with Sally to discuss their dirty campaign strategies which paradoxically, they are planning to run from a religious angle.  Those damn Tea Partiers are the SHADE masters all while hiding behind the robe of Jesus.  Goodbye!

Mellie is running around announcing Liv's arrival and is as excited to see her as an Oompa-Loompa would be to see Willie Wonka. It was downright piteous to see her like that. President Mush is overjoyed as well and demands a private moment. Mellie and Cy scurry out of the room like peasants before royalty but it is no reunion. Liv is thinking about her mom and wants answers but Fitz decided to show us his presidential balls this week so it was a no-go. As much as we wanted INAPPROPRIATE SEX, Fitz shut Liv down. So she upped the ante and quit the Grant
campaign for once and for all.  Damn son! 

Mellie is pissed cuz Fitzy blew it. And can I just say that this new dynamic with Mellie being all
“yaaaaassss Liv, go head girl, you gotta cuff the balls!” is making me uncomfortable.  I’m used to her taking shit so I’m not really feeling all the groveling she’s doing.  Even if it is at the feet of our Liv and Savior. 

Fitz tells Cy that Liv knows about Remington and Cy acts too cool for school about it.  This kind of sets a red flag off in Fitzy’s mind. 

Cut to Quinn at shooting range. Awwww she’s purchased her first killing utensil. So cute!  She’s all tense and missing her targets but dammit she is determined to become a crack shot.

Liv, wanting to take her mind off everything, dives all the way into Josie's campaign and tries to turn her from a kitten to a cougar with the media.  Nobody thinks Josie has the chops to take on the
conservative machine and the way she was acting all “you betcha” in front of the cameras, we didn’t think she had what it takes either!  But she acquiesces to Liv’s plan for her campaign and starts rubbing elbows with all the repulsive fat cats from different industries to drum up some donations.

Cy goes for his secret meeting with Father Hooligan to tell him that Liv knows about Remington. Papa has no fucks to give and has a plan already in place. Cy gets stuck with the light work of getting rid of Josie and he'll handle Jake because he knows that Ballard is the only one who would have tipped Liv off.

Cut over to Jake meeting with his female connection.  He’s trying to get recordings from the plane crash when Livs mom was killed. The sexy brunette agrees but tries to get Jake to come along for a roll in the sheets.  *pssshhh* Oh she ain’t know?  Once you go black…well, you end up in a hole for months being tortured by your boo’s father. In this scene we also see some creepy ass
cracker listening in on the conversation. 

Josie doesn't want to do the mudslinging thing for her campaign.  She wants to fight fair and equitable.  Awwww, isn’t she precious?  Liv and Abbey have a plan to get her to bring out
her inner badass. 

Cy calls the Prince of Paisley, the High Priest of Houndstooth, the Don of all things Dapper, Harrison to make him use his persuasive power and get Liv off the Marcus campaign otherwise he’s going to
have to unleash some Swiss goon on his ass.  Cy, don’t make us come and whip
your pock-marked legs for messing with our Sultan of Shepherd’s check!

In the next scene we flashback to the plane crash in between more colossal glasses of red wine. The liquid courage gives Liv the audacity to call up Papa Hooligan and find out the last thing he ever said to her mom.  Being the boogeyman he is known to be, he tells her again to back down from her
investigation but that he will grant her an answer to ONE question. Liv asks the
wrong damn question. GAH! 

Over at the Beene/Novak residence, Cy tries
to convince James to slander Josie in his upcoming interview with the senator. 
He wants him to take her to task about her teenage pregnancy and James is like
“uhm, we’re gay, married, with our adopted black smushy baby and you want me to
do what? NO SIR!”
Josie is planning to have James handle her with kid gloves
when they have her interview and Liv was basically like “unless you want to be
the president of Candyland, you gonna have to say it witcha chest and go IN on
these fools!”

Harrison consults Huck for a favor. At ALL costs, he has to make sure that the Swiss goon does NOT get back into the states.  Huck being the adorable thug he is, is on it.

Lets go back over to the white house where dinner with the Grants, Sally and her man is taking place.  Who knew Sally had a boo! I always had her for a closet lezzzbian. And she’s got a young fellow too! Sally is making nice with Fitzy while Mellie and her fab strand of Chanel pearls and
perfectly coiffed bouffant is flirting with Daniel.  This scene cracked me all the way up because all four of them were gagging while trying to execute their personal plots. 

Cut to Quinn at range again and Charlie’s scary ass shows up. He gives her tips on how to shoot like a pro and she hits her target spot on. Back at Pope and Associates, she asks Huck about b-613. Cuz she wants to be down with the clique but she wants to know if she can just be a part time goon and still go out for pedicures and cosmopolitans with her girlfriends. No ma’am BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT!

While Liv and Abbey are prepping Josie for her interview with James she sees sexist defamation ad about herself. Just the ammo she needed.  James ass needed a protective style after she got in front of those cameras because Josie snatched his edges CLEAN OFF HIS SCALP!  I LIVED!  And Cy nearly died as he watched in horror from the office. Cy has to clean up the work that his man wasn’t able to take care of.  He calls the big wig preacher who Cy had planted to make sure that he carries out his end of the deal.  He told him “you get to keep your righteous indignation AND I'll raise you some endorsements”.  Way to sweeten the pot, Cy!  If there’s anything the Evangelical Right LOVES more than fire and brimstone, it’s fire, brimstone AND sacks of money! 

Mellie reports to Fitzy that Daniel is a flirt and they should use it as a part of their campaign strategy.  I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, MELLIE.  Yeah, this might be a part of your plot but don’t act like you’re not enjoying the attention too. I ain’t mad at you girl.

Cut to Jake who is going to meet his homegirl for the deets when he finds out it was a double cross. Ole girl was gonna kill him on the spot but the creepy dude from the coffee shop saved his ass and shot her in the head. Damn! These B-316 mofos have NO chill!

Josie's endorsements jump after the interview and the money is pouring in! Her sister/daughter is obviously jealous at the political prowess of Olivia and Co. Oh well child. Just sit back and let the
pros handle it!

Harrison meets Cy to let him know that he can’t betray his friend and Cy is like **Kanye Shrug** and immediately gets the ball rolling on bringing the Swiss goon into the States. 

Since there’s now a position open for a B-316 female, Charlie turns up the heat with recruitment. 
Quinn is ripe for the picking since she’s already got the taste in her mouth and her big brother Huck is still ignoring her. AWWW HELLL NO!! This is about to be some MESS. And I am here for all of it! 

Episode 306 ends with Mush showing up at Liv’s trying to get her on the campaign trail. This fool keeps thinking that he is gonna burst in her space and it’s gonna be like old times.  No SIR!  This scene also gave me life because it was all about nonverbals and facial expressions. Liv has been holding this big joker all episode and finally gets to slam it on the table.  She asks him repeatedly about Remington and his ass keeps tryin to be hard saying he doesn’t know anything….until she said her mom was on that plane.  I though Mush was gonna collapse on the carpet into a pile of… mush.  And he did, in a way. His right eye just completely wandered off the set.  He was devastated but still played coy.  Aaaand Liv put him out.  You gotsta be one bad girl to put the POTUS out.  REPEATEDLY! 
Woooooo!!!  I got my life! Did you get yours?

Written by Bree Maria
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