Scandal's Original Ending Revealed

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9 years ago

If you never thought you’d see the day that President Mellie Grant would be running the country, you’re not alone.

Bellamy Young confirmed that Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes originally intended for the series to end with Mellie being sworn in as POTUS, which happened at the end of Season 6.

Young recalled, “We asked her at the beginning of the year. We went out to dinner and asked, ‘Is it ending like you always thought it would, or has anything changed?’ And she said that, no, it was going to end at the inauguration, so we got an extra year. It feels like such a gift from heaven.”

This firms up a notion Young first shared with TVLine last month, speculating that the series “was supposed to end with Fitz leaving office, but then the world changed, and I think [Rhimes] realized she has a few more things to say about racial injustice and gender politics and the state of our world as it is.”