Last Night's TV: Homeland, The Walking Dead, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: Homeland, The Walking Dead, The Good Wife, Quantico, Once Upon a Time TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT One More Time Around the Bend for Carrie Mathison Showtime BECAUSE: Guess who's back? Back again. Carrie's back... to laugh-cry hysterically again. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Homeland fan who was salivating for the return of "Crazy Carrie" in season 5. There's no denying, however, that Claire Danes' ability to sell Carrie's conviction that going off her bipolar meds is the "super power" she needs to figure out who's after her might be a super power in itself. READ OUR RECAP The Walking Dead AMC WHAT HAPPENED: Oh hey, did you think it was bad enough when one of the largest group of walkers in six seasons of The Walking Dead started ambling toward Alexandria in last week's season premiere? Then perhaps you weren't accounting for one thing: WOLVES. Well, not wolves, but Wolves, the group of hostile survivors who have arrived at our mostly-not-hostile survivors' doorstep looking for a fight. Oh, and they get one, from Carol and Morgan in particular, but the two leaders in the town's defenses have different methodologies -- Carol's pragmatism vs. Morgan's mercy -- on just how ruthless one must be to maintain the peaceful life they've been enjoying there, baked goods and all. EW recapper Jonathon Dornbush lays out the episode's query: "Is there a less deadly way to make a life in this type of world, or do violent, brutal attacks call for a proportionate response?" The few Wolves that Morgan spares will likely answer that question in the future. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The A.V. Club gets it, they do. But they find The Walking Dead's driving question -- "What do you have to become to survive in a world like this one? -- a little single-minded and limiting for a series that, at this point, has no end (or answer) in sight. BUT, they also find a new layer of complexity in the title inspiration for Sunday's episode: "JSS," Enid's shorthand for the mantra, "Just survive somehow." "Most of the time, The Walking Dead is about how no one can ever be hard enough to really last ... but the weariness in that 'Just' feels a little more complicated. It's not your fault if you die, the message says, and it's not your fault if you live." Just do either one... somehow. (Did we mention that the herd of walkers are still walker-walking their way toward town? They are. JSS, ye Alexandria citizens -- JSS.) READ OUR RECAP The Good Wife CBS WHAT HAPPENED: If you can't stand the heat, get out of Alicia's bond court. The woman can barely even keep up with all the fires she's simultaneously starting and putting out in Sunday's episode herself, so how could any mere fan or fellow attorney hope to stay afloat in the -- per EW recapper Samantha Highfill -- "tangled web of lies and deceit?" But Alicia runs in the big leagues and she pairs off with plenty of powerhouses Sunday night: the good (Alicia and Lucca, even opposing each other in court, are an unbeatable new lady-duo), the bad (oh, Alicia and Diane, don't you remember your joyous lady-duo days?), and the ugly (Alicia and Veronica are not meant for the kitchen, and their relationship is definitely not meant for a television audience). WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: After this episode, TV Line was reminded that watching The Good Wife can be "a little like keeping track of a tennis match -- back, forth, back, forth, back, forth -- except there are 17 players in the mix, the ball is on fire and the chair umpire is firing a rifle toward a random spot on the court every 30 seconds." That ball on fire might be what's to come from Eli tipping off the bail court judge that Alicia's client with supposed drug charges was actually an FBI agent in the middle of a sting operation on the corrupt judge, all in the name of a favor. Will Alicia face repercussions for giving Eli details on her case? Is there any way to still take that shady judge down? And, could Eli possibly be any shiftier? Hopefully not, hopefully so, and surely not -- in that order. READ OUR RECAP Quantico ABC WHAT HAPPENED: "Miranda's secret is (kind of) exposed... only 100 more to go." -wise words, written by EW recapper Dalene Rovestine regarding everyone's favorite show about espionage and eyelashes. In its fourth episode, Quantico is still a twisty, turny, silly thrill-fest, but instead of the wide-eyed/maybe-terrorist FBI recruits getting it on like new residents at Seattle Grace Hospital, the crew in blue (henleys) are already at each other's throats. At recruit camp, Alex has found out that her father was both a hero and still not a great guy, bringing her -- and many others, for various reasons -- to a near breaking point. And six weeks in the future, Simon has double-crossed the FBI to help Alex escape, triple-crossed Booth by briefly considering not trading on the FBI, and Sydney is feeling her allegiances all kinds of torn (or is she??) when Alex, Simon, and Booth all show up in her house wanting to know why a wire made by her family's apartment was in Alex's framed apartment WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Sunday's episode of Quantico teaches us some supposed law enforcement slang -- "blue flamer," a promising recruit who shines early on, but burns out in the end -- that has Vulture wondering if "it might also prove to be an apt metaphor for Quantico ... will it burn out, or will it steadily crackle into something consistently good?" Quantico has been doing its thing for a while now and that thing has been pretty consistent: flashy, twisty, ridiculous, lots of plates in the air. But as those plates begin to all spin at maximum velocity, we'll have to watch to see if they make a beautifully complicated Van Gogh (okay, Van Gogh print in a museum gift shop) or if we've just been briefly tricked by the façade of spaghetti flying straight off of them. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... (Cam)-A-Lot of Magic Sand! ABC WHAT'S IN A DAGGER?: The Once Upon a Time writers take their liberties, but they sure are doing a number on the King Arthur origin story, huh? The guy has gone from a bit of a trickster to a wife-warping, scroll-obsessed, bro-trader with a magic vial of sand that he seems to only know how to use for the worst possible reasons all in a week's time. We need Light Emma. 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. 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