The effectiveness of the show comes four different kinds of performance, these include everyday life, business, technology and sex. Rhimes incorporates each and everyone one of these performances in every episode. Depending on the storyline of the episode, each character will perform one of these actions. A good example of all these actions working together is in season one, episode two, “Dirty Little Secrets”. “Olivia Pope's client Sharon Marquette is a madam in Washington, D.C. Marquette has a client list filled with high-profile figures, including Patrick Keating, who is likely to become a Supreme Court nominee” (Rhimes). This episode mirrored the scandal of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam. This is a prime example of how
