Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Last Night's TV: Dancing With the Stars, Fargo, and More (SPOILERS!)

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Last Night's TV PRIME TIME
THIS ISSUE: Dancing With the Stars, Fargo, Jane the Virgin, Blindspot, Gilmore Girls
TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
Dancing With the Stars Scores on "Famous Dances"
ABC
BECAUSE: That Singin' in the Rain couch topple; that Dirty Dancing lift; that Magic Mike, uh, grind -- Monday's "Famous Dances" episode had all the costumed, bejeweled dramatics we hope for in DWTS, and some of the highest scores of the season to match those iconic moves.
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Fargo
FX
WHAT HAPPENED: Two weeks into the "Massacre at Sioux Falls" and EW recapper Kevin Sullivan has figured out what's so different about Fargo's second season: "This show is strutting." It's less like a reinvention of the odd, exhilarating season 1 and more like the creative team saw how much people liked it and said, "Well, if you like that, wait until you see this!" for season 2. The "this" that showed up in Monday's episode is everyone -- the Gerhard family, Ed and Peggy Blomquist, and the Fargo Police Department -- trying to figure out how to clean up their role in Rye's cocaine-and-waffle fueled murder spree and subsequent death from last week's episode. The answer: meat grinder, of course.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Of Fargo's second season, The Guardian says, "It's Fargo all over, in its look, and its atmosphere, black humor, white landscapes, in its chilliness spattered with human warmth." Indeed, that the show manages to be funny and, at times, quaint, while blood spatters the snow and crazed murderers only hit the windshield before they hit the meat grinder is an atmosphere all Fargo's own.
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Jane the Virgin
The CW
WHAT HAPPENED: Jane is in great need of Chris Harrison, a duo of helicopter dates, and a little guidance. Jane the Virgin is going full-Bachelorette and finally cashing in on that love triangle -- "the underlying issue that has kept fans in a frenzy," per EW recapper Nina Terrero -- by finally acknowledging that sooner or later Jane will have to choose between Rafael and Michael. She can't love both, even if she can tell both that she loves both... not her best move, but those two are so head over heels for her, they don't even care. Rafael, the real father of Jane's surprise-you're-a-pregnant-virgin baby, offers the traditional family Jane so wants, whereas Michael is a person who knows her better than any other. But two one-on-ones and one two-on-one lunch date later, and Jane still can't make the math work in her favor.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The Bachelor allusions just make so much sense here. Vulture marvels, "In a move so brilliant and so unexpectedly effective... Jane the Virgin figured out that the best way to deal with its ongoing #TeamRafael vs. #TeamMichael love triangle was to go all in and let Jane be guided by a hallucinatory Bachelorette version of herself." We didn't know we needed "Bachelorette Jane" as a sort of Ghost of Virgins Future shouting at regular-Jane to, "Have SEX with him, FOREVER AND EVER!" when Rafael wants to kiss her, but of course we did -- from the audience's mouth, to Bachelorette Jane's mouth, to Jane's confused, conflicted, virgin mother ears.
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Blindspot
NBC
WHAT HAPPENED: Another episode, another tattoo, another government controversy -- Jane Doe's body really is a wealth of information, isn't it? But now, instead of just relying on her ink, Jane's flashbacks are becoming more frequent, but they're also causing problems: During a dinner with Weller's family, she rushes out mid-panic attack. She's remembered her abduction as a child, the dark, dirty quarters she was kept in, and given that Weller thinks she might be Taylor Shaw, the memories are eating both of them up inside. Of course, one of Jane's tats also magically helps the FBI and CIA crack a case, and as EW recapper Liz Prugh says, "I'm still a little confused as to how they put two and two together so quickly, but this show always moves a few notches above realistic." Jane was born in a bag in the middle of Times Square just a few weeks ago and is now assisting the FBI, after all.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Aside from getting a little giggly at the "ludicrous guns-drawn stare-down" between the FBI and CIA, The New York Times is declaring, "There's room for more lighter moments in this show." Unintended humor at occasionally preposterousness is not enough to liven that place up. Some people have been noticing Blindspot's constantly grim characters; the Times has picked up on that too, and compares the atmosphere to 24, but says 24 had one thing that Blindspot does not: Chloe. A light spot! Give us a Chloe -- hell, just go ahead and bring in Mary Lynn Rajskub, she'll get the job done, no questions asked!
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One More Thing...
Mother/Daughter Duo, Part Deux
Netflix
RING THE ALARM: Put on your finest Chilton skirt and get ready to rush the Stars Hollow town square because Monday evening brought the news that Gilmore Girls is likely getting a limited-run revival on Netflix in the form of four extended episodes. Sure, that should be enough for us to obsess over for the next decade. And don't worry, Lauren Graham has already told EW that she thinks present day Lorelai and Rory are even bigger and better BFFs than ever before.
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