This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments: ‘Scandal’ Takes on Police Brutality

There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you sort through all that television has to offer, Flavorwire is compiling the five best moments on TV each week. This round, Scandal tackles #BlackLivesMatter in a heart-wrenching police brutality plot.

Scandal Takes on #BlackLivesMatter

The title of “The Lawn Chair” comes from the wrenching act of protest Brandon Parker’s father commits after the death of his 18-year-old son at the hands of a police officer: he sets up a lawn chair over his child’s corpse, shotgun in hand, and demands the officer come forward. Olivia initially takes the cops’ side, gets viciously called out by a community activist, and Scandal goes where most network dramas don’t dare — straight to the heart of America’s ugliest, and most shameful, national trauma.