Last Night's TV: CSI, Quantico, Once Upon a Time, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: CSI, Quantico, Once Upon a Time, Fear the Walking Dead, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man on Earth TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT The Crime Scene Has Been Fully Investigated CBS BECAUSE: After fifteen years and as many seasons, the mothership of compellingly binge-able crime procedurals with a catchy classic rock theme song has finally taken its exit. And not just with a sheet cake in the break room -- no, CSI went out with all hands on deck, bringing in Grissom, Willows, and apparently Willows' very grown daughter ("Where did she come from?" "My Virginia.") for the two-hour event. Even Lady Heather made her return as a key figure in the episode's case, proving that what happens in Vegas really does ... almost always have a lovelorn dominatrix at the other end. READ OUR RECAP Quantico ABC WHAT HAPPENED: You could call it How to Get Away with Homeland's Anatomy, and you would be right, but you might also be trivializing this new series' soapy appeal. Priyanka Chopra stars as Alex Parrish, an FBI recruit on her way to the first day of Quantico trainee camp alongside 50 equally (okay almost equally) attractive young FBI hopefuls. The series premiere had twists -- twins! -- it had turns -- Mormon with a dark secret! -- and it definitely had its fair share of flash-forwards. Oh did we forget to mention? Look ahead nine months and one of these recruits is suspected of executing the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. "Don't get too attached to anyone because he/she could turn out to be evil," advises EW recapper Dalene Rovestine. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Critics and fans agree that the series is inherently watchable in the soapiest and shiniest of ways -- have you ever seen a person look even lovelier when covered in ash as Chopra? But the A.V. Club thinks the plot's significance is just a little deeper: "Quantico may not be the best network pilot of the new season, but it's certainly the most exciting and most promising. And in its own way, it's the most culturally significant." The distance from 9/11 is far enough now that the injection of "sex scandal, levity, and humor" that Shonda Rhimes added to medicine and crisis management can also be brought to an action-drama about counterterrorism... whether it can be done so successfully is TBD. READ OUR RECAP Once Upon a Time ABC WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Like Harry Potter and Frodo before her, Emma Swan must fight the darkness within. Also like those two, she has her hella loyal friends to help, but alas... Emma is fighting a losing battle, if the closing flash-forward in Sunday night's premiere is anything to go by. Dark One or no, the series is still its wacky self; a sample from EW recapper Andrea Towers' recap regarding Henry and Hook's budding partnership: "Hook is possibly the only person on this show that Henry is not related to. Technically. If you don't count Milah a million years ago, whom Hook never married. But that's beside the point." Never change, OUAT. WHAT HAPPENED: If you've followed Once Upon a Time to its 5th season, then you're likely fully invested in its dagger-wielding, diner-dropping conceits, and US Weekly says Sunday's premiere had all the magic true fans have come to love: "Hearts were getting ripped right out of their chests, swords were being pulled out of stones, and a new Dark One started coming into her own." Oh, and Merida's hair. Don't forget Merida's hair! READ OUR RECAP Fear the Walking Dead AMC WHAT HAPPENED: Even for a show about "that pesky zombie apocalypse plaguing civilization," per EW recapper Jonathon Dornbush, Sunday's penultimate episode of Fear the Walking Dead's first season was, uh, pretty dark. The episode starts with Daniel giving his daughter's crush a truly torturous shave with a straight razor to get the National Guard's plans out of him, and ends with him standing before the Los Angeles Arena that's holding over 2,000 zombies inside about to make, likely, a questionable move. It's hard to call his plan before next week's finale, but this guys is a bit of a wild card. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Critics are feeling a little rushed by the progression of Season 1, as the characters continue to serve more as plot devices than as, y'know, characters. Forbes is scratching its head at the fact that, "We barely see Los Angeles fall, and then suddenly the military's come in and taken over a big chunk of the suburbs," while Vulture thinks viewers are getting short-changed on the main characters' real reactions to the worst block party ever: "Everyone's complacent acceptance of Daniel's actions would make more sense if we got to spend a couple more episodes with Travis and his neighbors, just to see what internment life is like." READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... To Laugh, or To Laugh At... ABC, FOX THAT IS THE DVR QUESTION: In the lesser of ABC's new primetime soaps, Blood & Oil, starring Don Johnson and Chace Crawford, also premiered Sunday night -- and just when you thought TV couldn't possibly produce one more show about North Dakota laundromat entrepreneurs turned oil barons! If you're looking for laughs that aren't, in fact, scoffs, check in on beloved comedies (both dark and light) Last Man on Earth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which also debuted their new seasons Sunday night. 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.