Scandal Farewell Update: Final Season Episode Count Revealed 

TVLine has learned exclusively that the ABC drama’s seventh and final season will consist of 18 episodes. That represents a two-episode increase over Season 6, which was scaled back from 22 to 16 episodes due to leading lady Kerry Washington’s pregnancy. 

 is poised to end its seven-season run with a grand total of 124 episodes.

“Deciding how to end a show is easy,” Rhimes lamented in a statement last month. “Deciding when to finish is quite simple when the end date is years away. But actually going through with it? Actually standing up to say: ‘This is it?’ Not so much. So, next year we are going all out. Leaving nothing on the table. Creating this world in celebration. We are going to handle the end the way we like to handle the important things in our

family: all together, white hats on, gladiators running full speed over a cliff.”

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I hope all the regular characters can get through the season without being killed off, possibly excepting Fitz and definitely excepting Papa Pope. The former sorta deserves it and the latter does in spades.

Yes, unlike Huck who has tortured and murdered many…or the new head-Gladiator’s fiancee, who has also tortured and murdered people. Most of the people on this show have done deplorable things whose actions have resulted in tragic consequences. You simply don’t like Fitz and Pope, which is fine, but let’s not pretend that most of the characters on this show don’t deserve their comeuppances.

I want Vermont. I’ve seen the scene many times in my head and wish I could write it!

18 is ok but wish it was the full 22. Hope we get a happy Olitz in Vermont ending as well.

Now we just need a premiere date! My birthday is Thursday September 28 so it would be an amazing gift if TGIT returned that night :)

Happy birthday, buddy! Let’s hope it premieres then. :)

My OCD says can we have just one more to make it a clean 125 episode run? :)

My OCD still hasn’t forgiven when Revenge ended with 89 episodes. One more than the double-infinity (88), one less than a closed 90.

Weird my OCD tends to favor even numbers over odd ones so I like 124!

Hope the final season can continue with the creative upswing we saw in season 6.

I really hope that Olivia and Fitz don’t end up together. I despise Fitz! Charlie, Quinn, Abby, Susan, Mellie all need to survive. I kinda hope they kill off Rowan, but it would have been better if it had happened a couple seasons ago. Might be too little, too late now. I guess 18 is an okay number. I would have preferred at least 22, but it’s way better than the puny 13 I was afraid it would be.

They all need to get what is coming to them. Fans who have watched the show from the beginning realize none of them deserve a happy ending. Seeing them all suffer would be must-see TV. I think Huck and Rosen are maybe the only redeemable characters, but even they went along with some very bad things. Maybe have them all subject to a Congressional investigation. Bring back guest stars from seasons past recounting the wrongs that were done to them by Pope-ists. And have Sally Langston or Edison Davis end up as President. It would be pretty sweet to see them reject the requests for pardons.

Rosen I can possibly see saying is redeemable but wondering what criteria you use to determine redeemable with all of the things Huck as done. Not that I wasn’t to see either of them suffer- Well ok I don’t really care what happens to Fitz, Olivia, Rowan or Cyrus but the rest I would not enjoy seeing suffer.

I want Maya to be exonerated, run off with Papa Pope. I want everything brought down on Cyrus including his partner keeping the baby. Of course there has to be sadness so Jake somehow gets sacrificed because Charlie was playing Quinn all along. It was a GOOD CON, she believed it yet he can’t be a dad so he tries to eliminate both. Fitz realizes Mellie stuck by all the time, thick n thin and they stay together. Olivia realizes anyone with her is in danger so stays alone running the country in essence… Red and Quinn raise the baby.

I really can’t wait for it to end. Loved it in the beginning now I hate it, and all the vile negative content.

I have loved this show since the beginning and while it will be sad to see it go, it is definitely time. Getting 18 episodes to end this story is awesome, I really thought it would be a shortened final season just to tie up loose ends. So yes, please cover EVERYTHING, and leave nothing on the table!

I was hoping for a 22 episode season but oh well. Even though I have not liked Olivia as of late I do want to see her with Fitz in Vermont.

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