Does the TV show "Scandal" get better or continue to go downhill?

I watch TV via Netflix for 3 reasons: the shows are commercial free, are available when I want, and I can stop and go back in case I miss a word or two. That means I am always watching something at least a season of two behind. I’m fine with it.

I watched the series “Breaking Bad” and absolutely loved it. Someone suggested “Scandal” to me so I thought I’d give it a try. I finished the first season and am nearing the end of the second but I am find every episode stupider than the previous.
She “can’t do this any more” but sleeps with him anyway. He “can’t do this any more” but sleeps with her. It seems like half the dialog is a repeat of the previous sentence only spoken louder and more slowly. “I can’t do this any more.” “But I need you.” “I – can’t – do -this – any – more.”
Every person appears to be unaware that offices can be bugged – yet they use bugs for their purposes. Door locks are picked in seconds and no one uses even the simplest of alarms like magnetic switches, or even a coke bottle with a piece of string and scotch tape.
Before I get further in and invest more of my life on the show can someone please tell me if it gets better?

And while we are at it. How the heck does the Pope manage to keep her hair and makeup perfect all the time even after doing what she can’t do any more? Likewise what hormone are the guys taking that give them facial hair that grows to a length of 1.5 mm and stops?

I don’t need to know the plot. I just want to know if I should continue. All opinions are welcome.