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You knew it would happen. And it did. For its 40th season premiere, Saturday Night Live went after the NFL for its various scandals involving domestic abuse.

Recent domestic abuse scandals involving high-profile players including Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson have generated massive negative publicity and outrage in the US, stripping the season's opening weeks of their traditional lustre and leaving the game

Admittedly, we went into last night's season premiere of Scandal with some trepidation. We'd been burned before, after a season of derailing into hyperbolic crazytown. Yesterday, we carefully and nervously laid out four hopes for the new season.

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Things were looking pretty good for Olivia Pope (er, Julia Baker) at the start of “Scandal”s highly-anticipated season premiere. She was in stealth mode on a pristine beach with a very attentive Jake and a copy of “Gone Girl” by her side. But a Pope by