Olivia Pope, former communications director to the president has just moved on with her life by opening her own crisis management firm, but somehow she is still entangled to her past ordeal.
Maybe it's more to the point to ask whether this show, full of sex and far-fetched plotlines, will feel more relevant or increasingly irrelevant as the country focuses on the serious business of choosing a real-life president.
It has that elusive, alchemical magic that those in the industry spend their lives chasing and the more it supplies, the greater the craving for it becomes.
Ditching the boring procedural element that defined much of its shortened first season, Shonda Rhimes's D.C.-set serial went full-on soap in Season 2 and improved immeasurably for it.