Friday, October 23, 2015

Last Night's TV: Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Sleepy Hollow, and More (SPOILERS!)

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THIS ISSUE: Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Sleepy Hollow, How to Get Away with Murder, Project Runway
TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
Guess Who Came to Dinner on Grey's Anatomy...
ABC
BECAUSE: Why, it's the doctor that's partially responsible for killing Derek! And -- TWIST -- she starts tomorrow as a resident transfer at Grey Sloan Memorial. Needless to say, dinner is terribly painful, but Meredith ends the evening by telling Penny that she'll see her tomorrow at the hospital... so that should be fun for all parties involved. (On the positive side, which we totally feel guilty for mentioning, with all the emotions running high, this episode really felt like Old Grey's.)
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Scandal
ABC
WHAT HAPPENED: The tricky thing about an impeachable offense is that it's somewhat undefined, so a United States President could be impeached for running a meth lab out of the Oval Office, or just as easily for, say, having an affair with D.C.'s most notorious fixer. So, Olivia is hiring the fixer's-fixer to spin her and Fitz's relationship as the greatest romance of all time (what, has Shonda not done that already?) Cue two impassioned speeches for the Scandal record books: Liv's on-air interview about falling in love with her co-worker, and Cyrus, who's spent most of the episode stuffing his face with a variety of cheeses, until Fitz offers him his job back in the White House to keep him quiet about West Angola. He rails about his devotion to Fitz and how he's nothing but "the man you throw on the grenade," but ultimately takes the job with a few conditions. EW recapper Isabella Biedenharn thought the whole thing sounded "a bit stalkerish and insane," but admits, "Maybe I just haven't smelled whatever addictive pheromones Fitz gives off to have all these people falling at his feet." Now the question: Will the impeachment committee smell what Fitz is cooking?
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: At the end of all of this, the A.V. Club is declaring Thursday's installment as "Scandal's best episode in forever." Finally addressing the Fitz-Olivia problem in season 5 means that Scandal is finally taking it back to the old days of exploring how a seemingly impossible situation can be spun into a positive by Olivia Pope and Associates. The difference is, Olivia Pope is now the client, and you better believe she is spin-spin-spinning: "Of course as Olivia told the story of the show's main relationship to the camera, we would all flash back to that campaign bus, to that first hotel room, to the Defiance ballot box, the precursor to the West Angola tape. It's why we all started watching this show in the first place, and this episode not only reminded us, but rewarded us for that."
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Sleepy Hollow
FOX
WHAT HAPPENED: Thursday was just a pivotal night of television, folks. Of Thursday night's Sleepy Hollow installment, EW recapper Kelly Connolly says, "If the first three episodes of this season were an invisible monster -- creepy but obscure, spider-walking down a path that none of us could see -- 'The Sisters Mills' is the flash of silver nitrate that makes everything clear." That spider-walking reference is for Abbie and Ichabod's monster-of-the-week, the Tooth Fairy -- you read correctly, the Tooth Fairy, a nasty Assyrian demon that eats children's souls after they've lost a tooth -- and the flash of silver nitrate is, of course, emitted from a gun made out of Paul Revere's (a soldier in the supernatural war on evil, duh) old dentistry tools to illuminate the Tooth Fairy long enough for Jenny to stab it in the heart.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: And the clarity of which we speak, is a little light-shedding on Sleepy Hollow's most important relationships. In between calling himself adorable and flexing his emoji-using muscles, Ichabod also sheds a few tears for his leftenant when she's temporarily knocked out by the Tooth Fairy. TV Line says, "It's moments like this ... that are making me feel very good about the season so far." The titular Mills sisters also get some closure, admitting that they've individually found their father, but agreeing that they don't need a relationship with him and, "No matter what, we'll be fine. No fight is ever gonna keep us apart again." TV Line would just like to add: "PLEASE LET THIS NOT BE IRONIC FORESHADOWING OF THAT TURNCOAT TEASER." Seconded.
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How to Get Away with Murder
ABC
WHAT HAPPENED: Even in "an episode that takes the definition of linear storytelling, tosses it to the ground, and then throws ADA Sinclair on top of it," per EW recapper Justin Kirkland, Asher's story is all over the place. In present day, he's in court to testify against Annalise and get fitted for a wire to prove she killed Sam; in the past, Annalise is confirming to him that Bonnie is the one who killed Sam; in the future, Asher is waiting in Bonnie's car at the Fancy Murder Mansion as she runs past ADA's far too familiar dead body; in the slightly less distant future, he's deciding that even though he loves Bonnie, he's still going to testify with the new information that he knows, and then once again seeming to back out when it becomes clear his father's intentions to help him aren't so selfless; and in the most distant future, he's disappearing from BonBon's car at a gas station, post-fleeing the Fancy Murder Mansion.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: After waiting in the wings in killer (ugh) statement lipstick for much of season 1, for better or for worse, Bonnie is all over the main proceedings of season 2's murders and cover-ups. Liza Weil stopped by HTGAWM executive producer Betsy Beers' podcast, Shondaland Revealed to talk about her character -- "There might be some more crying in her future, but I think that will give birth to a stronger, more resolute Bonnie" -- and her seriously upped weeping game this season: "It's been easier to access because with what's been going on, it seems pretty warranted ... I'm also a fairly anxious person and terrified of failure so that's also a huge motivator for me." Sounds like Liza and Bonnie have that in common, but something tells us not letting down Shonda Rhimes is a much better alternative to Annalise Keating breathing down your neck.
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One More Thing...
And the Runway Lineup Is Set... Probably
Lifetime
PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE: Candice, Kelly, and Ashley are headed to New York Fashion Week for Project Runway's season 14 finale. Edmond made the red carpet dress of some disco diva's dreams, but it was not for the judges, and with his exit, comes an all-female finale -- or does it??? The Tim Gunn Save is still at large, and don't think we didn't notice that Tim didn't send Edmond to pack up his things... stay tuned, all.
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