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Joe Morton is Evil?!? Does Not Compute

By Chris Hall
November 2, 2014
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One of the reasons I finally surrendered and started watching Scandal was I heard that Joe Morton had a role on it. Now that we’ve hit season three, I’m having a really hard time thinking of Joe Morton as evil. The man could read the phone book and make it into a major dramatic performance, but in all his roles, there’s always been a fundamental decency to his characters. Even when he seemed like he was kind of a dick, as in Lone Star, there was still the sense that he was trying to do the right thing.

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At the very least, Morton’s characters never seemed like the kind of people who would toss you into a hole for months on end because you refused to torture and kill someone else.

Rowan Pope (Joe Morton): Not the kind of person you want to meet in a dark alley -- or even in a brightly-lit, comfortable room with lots of people around.

Rowan Pope (Joe Morton): Not the kind of person you want to meet in a dark alley — or even in a brightly-lit, comfortable room with lots of people around.

Scandal is definitely filling my need for extreme, paranoid conspiracy theory. I know a lot of people might look down on it for being unrealistic and sensationalistic, but seriously — once you’ve accepted that the Republican President has an openly gay Chief of Staff who’s married to another man, you’ve pretty much given up any commitment to realism.

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Filed Under: Quotables, Ramblings Tagged With: Joe Morton, Olivia Pope, Rowan Pope, scandal, television

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