Fans who have been missing “Scandal” on the fall TV schedule are about to miss it even more. As the successful ABC drama awaits a midseason debut thanks to Kerry Washington‘s real life pregnancy, the Alphabet network is hoping another politco drama can take its place in the form of Hayley Atwell‘s “Conviction.”
The series, which was created by Liz Friedlander and is obviously designed as a star vehicle for Atwell – the former Agent Peggy Carter on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – is a mess from beginning to end, full of clichéd characters and confusing rules. Viewers meet leading lady Hayes Morrison in the opening minutes at “her worst,” which for her means looking perfectly coiffed and in jail following a supposed bust for cocaine.