Last Night’s TV: How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: How to Get Away with Murder, Heroes Reborn, Scandal, Grey's Anatomy TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT How to Get Away with Murdering Your Lead, as Told by HTGAWM ABC BECAUSE: Who. Shot. ANNALISE KEATING?! Seriously, the woman just won an Emmy -- there's no way they're killing off Viola Davis, right? And yet, the season 2 premiere of How to Get Away with Murder ended with a flashforward -- a nice frame-of-reference switcharoo on the flying cheerleader flashforward that plagued us last season -- of Annalise bleeding out from a gunshot wound in the stomach inside the mansion full of lame paintings that belong to her new clients. READ OUR RECAP HTGAWM ABC WHAT HAPPENED: The administrator of Annalise's potentially fatal wound is up in the air at the end of this mind-boggling, murder-packed, mystery tornado of a season 2 premiere, but the question that plagued us all summer was finally answered: Who killed Rebecca? Well, Bonnie did it, of course; she was basically the only person we hadn't seen complicit in a murder thus far. Bonnie's motivations aren't totally clear, but EW recapper Marc Snetiker reminds fans that she still believes Sam to be innocent in Lila's murder: "Her devotion to the dead Mr. Keating hasn't diminished, and this is an act of bloody love that seals in her crazy like Norma Bates' Tupperware." The rest of the Keating 5 are trying not to freak out about Rebecca's disappearance and who the hell "EGGS 911" is, all while working on a new case of two adopted (probably guilty, definitely incestuous) siblings accused of murdering their wealthy parents who happen to be the owners of Annalise's future murder mansion. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Oh, have we mentioned Famke Janssen as Eve, the owner of the phone number Annalise slipped Nate after she framed him, his subsequent new attorney, and...ANNALISE'S FORMER LOVER??? At first Eve is all, "I won't let you ruin me, you life-ruiner," furious at Annalise for trying to rope her into her crazy schemes. But as Annalise tends to do, she somehow lures this woman back into her web and not only has her agreeing to represent Nate, but serving her a nice tall glass of warm vodka and making out with her by the episode's end. TV Line knows Eve "does not need to be dragged into the bloodied wallpaper of Annalise's orbit," but gives a slow clap for "Annalise's prowess in converting simple nookie to a lifetime of sometimes felony-level false testimony!" READ OUR RECAP Heroes Reborn NBC WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: We interrupt your regularly scheduled ShondaLand Thursday programming to bring you a reboot review: In entertainment-speak, there's jumping the shark; there's nuking the fridge; and then there's pulling a Heroes -- amazing first season, followed only by disappointment and unfulfilled potential thereafter. But the most we can hope for its reboot, Heroes Reborn, is the opposite: "Eh" starting point that continues to build into the best 13-episode miniseries to ever be carried on the back of a superhuman cheerleader. EW recapper Chancellor Aggard points out that while the original series was just about the only superhero show on network TV in 2006, "Heroes Reborn now has the added difficulty of distinguishing itself from the rest of the pack." And things are feeling pretty X-Men. Evos are much like mutants, forced to register with the government, and after Evo-supremacist Mohinder Suresh (returning castmember, Sendhil Ramamurthy) takes responsibility for a terrorist attack on a peace summit between humans and Evos, the world turns against them. WHAT HAPPENED: Critical responses to the reboot have been tepid -- it's not that Heroes Reborn isn't enjoyable (it has Zachary Levi, after all), it's more that many haven't found it a particularly fresh take. But the A.V. Club sees plenty to latch onto in the limited run's "reborn" potential: Claire's exposure of Evos at the end of the original series allows the writers "to skip the now-familiar origin story beats that bog down many a superhero introduction... rather than characterization or plot, these episodes get by on energy." Come for the mythology, stay for the new superpowers of mysterious briefcase full of pennies and probably ridiculous video-game-teleportation katana. READ OUR RECAP Scandal ABC WHAT HAPPENED: You guys... people did not love the last season of Scandal. On the bright side, that means season 5 doesn't have to do much to be better than what came before it, so Shonda & Co. are starting off with a bit of a fairytale -- Scandal-style. Ol' Fitzy is throwing a state dinner for fake-foreign-royalty Prince Richard and his wife Princess Emily, an American human rights lawyer (also, total commoner). Following the dinner, Emily promptly dies in a tragic car crash just after telling Olivia that once she was thrust into the public eye with Richard, people stopped considering her as a real person. Per EW recapper Isabella Biedenharn, "If you're keeping track, this plotline is a pretty expert braid of Princess Diana, Kate Middleton, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and, oh, Olivia Pope." But this is Scandal, so it can't all be subtleties about Liv losing herself if she goes public with Fitz now that he's divorcing Mellie, yada, yada -- no, Princess Emily was also having an affair with her bodyguard and pregnant with his baby, so Prince Richard's evil queen mom totally had her assassinated. Naturally, Olivia tells Richard and he forces his mom to abdicate. Ya' handled! WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: But the worst part of all this potential losing of self in the name of Fitz is that Fitz is currently being a whiny, reckless dummy about Olivia wanting to get their business in check before anyone more than Abby and Elizabeth finds out about their relationship. Unfortunately, profesh-journalist Sally announces on air that she has photos of Fitz and Olivia canoodling. At first, the recapper at Refiner29 "wanted to say I told you so, you should have got off the damn balcony" (see, so careless!), but these pics weren't from the balcony... they were coming from -- dun, dun, dun -- inside the White House. Whaaaaaaaat? READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Grey's Anatomy Takes It Easy ABC THE DOCTORS ARE ALRIGHT: Twelve. Seasons. And about as many deaths -- but not in this Grey's Anatomy premiere! No, this starter episode takes the time to just have a little fun (we make no promises for how many characters might encounter life-altering tragedies by the time the trees have changed color). So sit back, relax, and don't worry about where on earth Meredith's kids are while the new members of Alpha-Maggie-Amelia-Mer sorority house bang around in the middle of the 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.