Scott Foley and Joshua Malina provide the inside scoop in a special finale edition of Folina: AScandalHangover Blog.
JOSHUA MALINA:This is it, dude.
The last episode of Season 5.
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SCOTT FOLEY:Finally!
MALINA:Interesting thing: its actually spelled finale.
FOLEY:And look at us, we made it into the magazine proper.
MALINA:The ultimate achievement for two guys writing a free blog for a major entertainment publication.
So, this episode knocked everyone out at the table read.
I counted seven twists and six to eight turns.
FOLEY:Of all the things that Ive been pondering, that wasnt one of them.
MALINA:And that hurts.
FOLEY:The finale really lays out all of the pieces for next season, character by character.
Where they fall with regards to the upcoming election, what roles theyll play or not play in it.
What Sanders and Trump might call yuge.
And nothing any of us had predicted.
A lot of jaws on the floor in the table read room.
MALINA:And, of course, the Vice President is always just a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
And heartbeats often stop on…Scandal.
MALINA:Only on ABC.
I think Shonda would approve.
MALINA:Love you, mean it.
Scandalairs Thursdays at 9 p.m. A version of this story originally appeared in Entertainment Weekly issue #1413, on newsstands now or availablehere.
