Secondly, Washington is a wonderful actor. There wasn't a nuance he didn't hit, a note that he played false. To watch Oh and Washington in action as a couple negotiating crises or as student and teacher, was to be enthralled. Dempsey might have been McDreamy but Washington wasn’t exactly lacking in the fan department.

But then he also says things like this: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

If that sounds familiar or catchy, it’s because it’s ‘inspired’ by Network, an iconic satire about a venal television network that uses an anchorman’s on-air breakdown to fuel ratings.

And here’s what his publicist had to say:

“If they wanted to fire him,” Bragman asks, “why didn’t they fire him when [the incident] happened? Why did they say, ‘Here’s what you need to do if you want to come back… ‘ and then, when he did everything that was asked of him, he still gets fired. Why do you treat somebody like that?”

“If you made a mistake, you acknowledged the mistake, you went into counseling, you met with the groups, you did the PSA, you did everything that was asked of you, and then they still kick you in the gut? How would you feel?”

How can a man who works in an industry built around image be so clueless? How does he manage to land the one PR agent who basically all but comes out in the open and says his client has absolutely zero sincerity and it’s unfair that he got canned even after he made all the right noises? It’s going to be an enduring mystery to me. 

If you look at it one way, GA is the result of various race, gender, and sexual rights campaigns to achieve equality. It's a show created by a black woman, featuring black, white, Hispanic, and Asian characters playing highly successful professionals who have interracial and same sex relationships. But if you look at it another way, it shows you that you can't rid yourself of the baggage of those same struggles by simply averting your head.