Last Night's TV: The Big Bang Theory, Gotham, The Voice, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: The Big Bang Theory, The Voice, Gotham Blindspot, Minority Report, Life in Pieces, Scorpion, Dancing With the Stars TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Shamy Says Goodbye and Leonard-and-Penny Say Hello CBS BECAUSE: Leonard and Penny got married in Vegas on Monday night's Big Bang Theory season 9 premiere, inspiring beautiful blonde women everywhere that they, too, can marry short, near-sighted scientists if they just live next to them long enough. But because the BBT gang has always been more adept in physics and dramatic haircuts than relationships, Leonard and Penny immediately get into a fight about the woman he admitted to making out with pre-Toy Story vows and return home separately. Was this the epic union nearly 20 million weekly viewers have been waiting for through all the wooing and dumplings eaten on the floor? And Sheldon and Amy officially called it quits?! Surely romance is dead... but at least we'll probably have nine more seasons to explore why. READ OUR RECAP The Voice NBC WHAT HAPPENED: Guess who's back/back again/Gwen is back/to be your best friend. There is truly magic in the air when Gwen joins back up with Adam, Blake, and Pharrell, who all legitimately seem to adore her -- even if Blake "literally gives her a bag of dog s -- tied to balloons" as a welcome back gift, according to EW recapper, Ariel Kay. After taking only four months in between seasons to restock its talent stores, The Voice came back for season 9 with vocal guns blazing in the form of 15-year-old Siahna Im who speaks like Marcel the Shell, but sang with Ray Charles soul (Team Pharrell); angel-voiced Jordan Smith who sang "Chandelier" as dynamically as Sia, a nearly impossible feat (Team Adam); and wholesome-hot teacher/dad Barret Baber who has almost as much All-American-boy swagger as his new coach, Blake. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Speaking of all-American boys, Refinery29 enjoyed the season 9 premiere, but still felt the show's "casual sexism" at play throughout: There were plenty of comments that implied Nadjah Nicole's main strength as a performer was how pretty she is, "and it seemed like every time a male contestant chose Gwen as his coach, the guys all chocked it up to her, you know, being really, really pretty. (And def not her two-decade career and 30 million in album sales.)" Gwen can laugh her pretty self all the way to the mentor bank when that 30 million in experience nets her team a win. READ OUR RECAP Gotham FOX WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The people of Gotham are chillin' like villains, y'all... actually, that phrase doesn't make a lot of sense because villains stay plotting. Take, for instance, the new billionaire bad guy in town, Theo Galavan: he's turning all the rinky-dink villains (Edward "Riddler" Nygma, and Jerome "Joker" Valeska, for example) into super villains with some villain-y gas. And even the good guys like Jim Gordon are being told by good boys like Bruce Wayne that "sometimes the right way is also the ugly way," so go on and kill Ogden for the Penguin so that he'll kill Commissioner Loeb to usher in Commissioner Essen and you can be rehired with the Gotham City Police. Sure, that seems on the up and up. EW recapper Keertana Sastry is a little less black-and-white: "Gotham and its citizens are in a state of transition, which leaves room for weakness and vulnerability, even among the strongest and most morally secure characters." But still... WHAT HAPPENED: While there's still plenty of time to get season 2 right, "Rise of the Villains" leaves room for concern that this "state of transition" might make for a needlessly dark turn in the series. Vulture thought that the fall of over-the-top Fish Mooney and rise of "note-perfect Oswald Cobblepot" at the end of last season signaled "a stabilizing step in the right direction for the show's tone, which generally vacillates between over-the-top, pseudo-mature camp and light, Batman: The Animated Series-style humor." But now, with season 2's more adult violence, they're left wondering, "Who is this show for?" READ OUR RECAP Blindspot NBC WHAT HAPPENED: Sometimes it's a $20 bill, sometimes human feces, sometimes it's a naked lady in a bag... usually it's urine. You just never know what you're going to find on the streets of New York City! Monday night's premieres aren't all about singing and superheroes; there's a new FBI procedural, of course, and Blindspot is coming in with a bold, Memento-meets-Bourne premise. Jane Doe wakes up in a duffel bag in Times Square with no memories, the skills of a Navy Seal/assassin, and tattoos all over her body, the largest of which reads: Kurt Weller, FBI. That's no drunken mistake: EW recapper Lindi Smith says, though the sparks aren't flying yet, the chances that the relationship with Weller will remain platonic "seems doubtful -- this is a network procedural after all." Working together with Weller and the FBI, it's discovered that Jane's tattoos are clues -- oh, did you think they were just artistic expressions? -- one of which leads to apprehending a man planning to set off bombs all over NYC. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Series creator Martin Gero tells The Hollywood Reporter that Blindspot "can be a procedural for people who don't like procedurals and it can be a character drama for people who don't like character dramas." Or at least that's the hope. Yahoo TV liked the actors -- Jaimie Alexander as Jane seems to be an all-around hit -- and the fast pace, but while the premiere "didn't leave room for any boring moments, it also left no room to get to know these characters." We're gonna need to learn some favorite colors and hometowns if this thing is really going to reach beyond its standard procedural potential. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... A Very Special Skip & Save NBC, CBS WHAT TO WATCH ON MONDAY NIGHT: Even with all of those premieres, there are still more new and returning series. So please accept this cheat sheet of suggestions on which premieres to Skip & Save from your overflowing Monday night DVR list: SKIP -- Minority Report: Just watch the 2002 Steven Spielberg film ("a virtuoso high-wire act," per Roger Ebert) which got it right the first time. SAVE -- Life in Pieces: Mostly we say, give it a try. Its vignette family sitcom style might not be for everyone, but it could be for you... the stacked cast is worth watching to a second episode, at least. SKIP -- Scorpion: The outlandish plot lines and forced relationships can feel pretty unrealistic, so unless you reeeeeally loved it the first go-round, you probably don't need to pick up Scorpion in season 2. But if you're a McPhee-head looking for a fix, by all means! SAVE -- Okay, it's already on its second week, but make sure you're keeping up with one heck of a Dancing With the Stars season: Alek Skarlatos is quickly becoming America's Heroic Sweetheart, Bindi Irwin will make you go from grinning to crying faster than Derek can count his Emmys, and Nick Carter is an adorable nervous wreck to root for. READ OUR RECAP Also Check Out... Recommended by Copyright © 2015 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved. WANT MORE? To subscribe to any of EW.com's email products, please click here. PRIVACY POLICY Please click here for our privacy policy. For further communication, please click here Your California Privacy Rights Entertainment Weekly Customer Service ATTENTION: CONSUMER AFFAIRS 3000 University Center Drive Tampa, FL 33612-6408 You are receiving this email because you are a friend of Entertainment Weekly. To unsubscribe from these updates, please click here.