Down. Down. Down. Sad.

Well, not surprised at all. Anything to do with elections right now is a turn-off, plus Olivia is downright unlikable right now. Ratings will definitely drop with this direction of writing. If they went back to fixing cases and make Olivia great again then things might change for the better. JMHO

Boy are they hating on this show over at the AV Club.

@Sideshow Bob said:

Boy are they hating on this show over at the AV Club.

Lol, the gave it a -. I've never even seen that before.

@preshusbabe said:

@Sideshow Bob said:

Boy are they hating on this show over at the AV Club.

Lol, the gave it a -. I've never even seen that before.

I think it's at the point where they just won't bother reviewing an episode sometimes. Instead they'll just put up some observations about the episode. lol

I'm not surprised either, I'm personally not as enthused about this show anymore. I just don't really care about the characters and the storylines like I once did. I'm not really an Olivia fan and it's pretty bad when you can't get into the main character anymore. I feel like her character has changed for the worse. I know Olivia has always loved control, but she had other layers to her, now she just looks like a power hungry woman and that's it. Useless characters whose storylines should have ended seasons ago i.e. Jake and Liz North are still on the canvas just because. This whole murder mystery of Frankie Vargas is taking up too much of the season. We only spent a few episodes with Frankie, so it's not connecting to make everything about his death for this long. As much as I love Papa Pope, he always has his hands in everything and even though he was presseured to kill Frankie, he still did it. I also didn't like the fact that Papa Pope has always been 10 steps ahead of everybody, now all of a sudden he's scared of some random people and doing their bidding. And it looks like next week Olivia and team are trying to kill Papa Pope again. Every character is OOC to me along with this season so far. I'm loyal and I will see it out till the end, but I hope the writing changes for the good soon.

@danithang said:

I'm not surprised either, I'm personally not as enthused about this show anymore. I just don't really care about the characters and the storylines like I once did. I'm not really an Olivia fan and it's pretty bad when you can't get into the main character anymore. I feel like her character has changed for the worse. I know Olivia has always loved control, but she had other layers to her, now she just looks like a power hungry woman and that's it. Useless characters whose storylines should have ended seasons ago i.e. Jake and Liz North are still on the canvas just because. This whole murder mystery of Frankie Vargas is taking up too much of the season. We only spent a few episodes with Frankie, so it's not connecting to make everything about his death for this long. As much as I love Papa Pope, he always has his hands in everything and even though he was presseured to kill Frankie, he still did it. I also didn't like the fact that Papa Pope has always been 10 steps ahead of everybody, now all of a sudden he's scared of some random people and doing their bidding. And it looks like next week Olivia and team are trying to kill Papa Pope again. Every character is OOC to me along with this season so far. I'm loyal and I will see it out till the end, but I hope the writing changes for the good soon.

I agree with every word.

Well it looks like I'm the only one really liking what they're doing so far. I find the main storyline interesting and I like how Papa Pope is beginning to sweat a little. Intrigued over who's the boss of B613 is.

@MDBAddict said:

Well it looks like I'm the only one really liking what they're doing so far. I find the main storyline interesting and I like how Papa Pope is beginning to sweat a little. Intrigued over who's the boss of B613 is.

I was actually loving this season until the last two episodes. Mostly because I don't like Jake or PP or episodes where they focus on one person and leave out most of the cast. The next episodes look better though.

@danithang said:

I'm not surprised either, I'm personally not as enthused about this show anymore. I just don't really care about the characters and the storylines like I once did. I'm not really an Olivia fan and it's pretty bad when you can't get into the main character anymore. I feel like her character has changed for the worse. I know Olivia has always loved control, but she had other layers to her, now she just looks like a power hungry woman and that's it. Useless characters whose storylines should have ended seasons ago i.e. Jake and Liz North are still on the canvas just because. This whole murder mystery of Frankie Vargas is taking up too much of the season. We only spent a few episodes with Frankie, so it's not connecting to make everything about his death for this long. As much as I love Papa Pope, he always has his hands in everything and even though he was presseured to kill Frankie, he still did it. I also didn't like the fact that Papa Pope has always been 10 steps ahead of everybody, now all of a sudden he's scared of some random people and doing their bidding. And it looks like next week Olivia and team are trying to kill Papa Pope again. Every character is OOC to me along with this season so far. I'm loyal and I will see it out till the end, but I hope the writing changes for the good soon.

Amen to all of this!