Last Night's TV: Jane the Virgin, Fargo, DWTS, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: Jane the Virgin, Fargo, Dancing With the Stars, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The X-Files TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Jane the Virgin (Mother) The CW BECAUSE: With its charming star and surprising debut success, Jane the Virgin's second season had a lot riding on its Monday premiere. So why not start the whole shebang off with a kidnapping plot -- Jane's pseudo-immaculately conceived baby in exchange for a dragonfly brooch, obvi -- and subsequent rescue, complete with a perfect pregnancy-waddle from Gina Rodriguez, all within the first 12 minutes? WHY NOT? (Better question: Why not watch Jane the Virgin? It's so weird and good!) READ OUR RECAP Fargo FX WHAT HAPPENED: Everyone will want to compare the new season of Fargo to its critical and cult darling of a first season, and there's some room to do so. Even though there's an all-new cast and case to explore, the seasons in this anthology series seem less like comparing apples and oranges and more like comparing... snow to slightly less snow. It's all about a vibe. As EW recapper Kevin Sullivan says of Monday's season 2 premiere, "Returning to FX's Fargo is like stepping outside on a crisp winter day and drawing in a cold breath filled with the smell of newly fallen snow...and blood and gun powder. It's refreshing -- especially having made it through the networks' spotty fall lineups -- to be back in the comforting hands of TV's most playful show." The Coen Brothers inspiration may still run throughout, but season 2 is a whole new shebang: The year is 1979, there's a new (old?) homicide case in Fargo, a North Dakota crime family is being targeted by the Kansas mob, and Landry Clarke (okay, Jesse Plemmons) is married to T-T-Torrance (okay, Kirsten Dunst). Yep -- like no other show on television. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Again, people are comparing -- there's no way around it. Especially in a fairly busy first episode where it's hard to know exactly where we're headed yet in season 2, it's nice to look back at an established past -- season 1 -- for some direction. The New York Times is feeling hopeful about the contrast: "The most striking immediate difference is swagger. Where the first season tried -- and occasionally labored -- to function as an austere TV analog to the movie, the second displays the bravado of a show runner who has reason to feel confident." Perhaps no one character jumps out as immediately as Billy Bob Thornton or Martin Short did in season 1, but the labyrinth of Gerhardt family members and Fargo Sheriff's department offers a deep pool of facial-hair-sporting, shearling-jacket-wearing potential. READ OUR RECAP Dancing With the Stars ABC WHAT HAPPENED: MAKSIM FOR PRESIDENT! Excuse us – we'll settle down. How about, just: Maksim for Len's old seat? Monday's episode of Dancing With the Stars brought a regular bevvy of treats, with not only the Bad Boy of the Ballroom Maks Chmerkovskiy on deck as the guest judge, but also the nervously anticipated Switch-Up round, where the stars swap around pros and see what happens when the fishbowl full of keys hits the judges table. And in season 21, the Switch-Up was actually really successful... maybe a little too successful, if you ask EW recapper Robyn Ross: All it took for Alexa PenaVega to nab the first perfect score for the season was one spin in Derek Hough's Emmy-winning arms; Mr. PenaVega finally had his elusive breakout moment; Alek and Emma are pretty much in love and will create a beautiful blonde-headed future together; and Paula still mostly shook her rear, but to slightly higher scores this time.  WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Everyone is all atwitter about the success of the Switch-Up. Though TV Line was initially worried that the pros ditching their established emotional connections for shiny new partner-things would be "all but ensuring mediocre performances of the Week 1 variety," they quickly changed their tune: "I wouldn't be surprised if the DWTS producers somehow found a loophole that kept all of the contestants with their new partners instead of their old ones." Keeping in mind the scores, the chemistry, and Maks' suit, maybe let's just call this episode a win and keep a good thing going, huh? READ OUR RECAP Crazy Ex-Girlfriend The CW WHAT HAPPENED: It's Felicity meets Glee; it's Jane the Virgin (CW sisters!) meets Flight of the Concords; it's... no, there's simply no putting this new series -- inspired by the crazy-in-a-good-way mind of Rachel Bloom, also its star -- in a box. Bloom's Rebecca Bunch, a successful New York lawyer, comes across a former summer camp boyfriend and decides to move back to her hometown, but totally not because of him. Totally. Along the way, she turns down a high-level junior partnership in New York, gets a job at a local law firm, meets TV's most interesting paralegal, dumps out all of her Xanax, and sings. Oh, yeah -- it's a musical. EW recapper Stephanie Schomer says the moment Rebecca first opens her mouth to belt her West Covina, California anthem is likely the moment Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will win its biggest fans and its biggest detractors. But considering the fun to be had here, we're hoping you all fall on the more joyful, dare we say, crazier side of that line in the West Covina sand. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Critics everywhere are telling you to watch this show. It's cartoonish, it's outlandish, and it's fun, but it's also important. The sensationally titled Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is reclaiming "crazy" from a patriarchal society that calls any undesirable female action crazy because minimizing something makes completely ignoring it more acceptable. But this show doesn't invite other people to minimize Rebecca; as Vulture observes, "Because the show so lives in Rebecca's head, we're aware of her self-awareness and of how she perceives her own decisions. Yeah, moving across the country is 'crazy.' But is that crazier than being unhappy forever?" READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Mulder and Scully Are Ready for This FOX THREE WORDS, ONE HYPHEN: X-Files. Animated. Teaser! Full of allusions to the original series and ominous snippets of audio, this 30-seconds of animation might make you feel like a kid anticipating a Saturday morning full of The Smurfs and three bowls of Apple Jacks all over again. 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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