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Thats a good thing, inasmuch as we want to see Olivia complete her journey back to white-hat status.

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As recently as the beginning of this season, thwart treasonous coup would have landed at No.

6 on Olivias to-do list.

The newly baptized Olivia spends an entire episode flinching at precisely the moment she should be flexing.

Sound at all familiar?

To use the struggle between Mellie and Cyrus as a symbol for our democracys current struggles is ambitious enough.

(Mellie actually says, Times up!

as Jake watches her on surveillance monitors, in case its not on-the-nose enough.)

Is Cyrus supposed to be scared of Jake or something?