Friday, October 9, 2015

Last Night's TV: Project Runway, Vampire Diaries, and More (SPOILERS!)

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Last Night's TV PRIME TIME
THIS ISSUE: Project Runway, Vampire Diaries, How to Get Away with Murder, Grey's Anatomy, The Originals
TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
Project Runway Hits a Snag
Lifetime
BECAUSE: We don't want to freak anyone out but... Tim Gunn raised his voice slightly and said the f-word on Project Runway. It's taken 14 seasons, but TG was finally pushed over the edge -- "What is the f -- ing point?" -- by a leather wrap-shirt and an elevated investment in the Real Women of Thursday's signature Real Woman challenge: female members of the Project Runway crew. The winning look? Leather overalls. What in the Nina Garcia is happening over there?!
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The Vampire Diaries
The CW
WHAT HAPPENED: If you've forgotten what's transpired in The Vampire Diaries leading up to Thursday's season 7 premiere, allow EW recapper Dalene Rovestine to remind you: "Sheriff Forbes died. Jo died. Liv died. That other twin died. Kai died. (RIP all, except Kai.) ... Oh, and Elena Gilbert is taking a very long nap." AH, that's right -- this is the season we find out what an Elena-less TVD is like. And... it's still pretty undead. The latest Big Bad in Mystic Falls, Lily's family of Heretic vampires (kind of a vampy-witchy hybrid) are getting a little out of control, and Caroline and Stephan's plan to evacuate the town somehow ends in Caroline getting Heretic-kidnapped. These are the days of Steroline, friends.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Indeed, the Sterek and Caroline romance isn't going to save Mystic Falls just yet (and maybe leads to Caroline trying to Heretic-murder him according to a three-year time jump, but hey -- that could be any blonde in a dramatic hood), but the A.V. Club is really digging what the show -- and Elena's absence -- has done for the complicated dynamics of Bonnie and Damon's friendship. Just take the most important three seconds of the episode, when Damon hesitates saving Bonnie from being hit by a truck: "Tying Elena's magic coma to Bonnie's life seemed like a smart way for the writers to lose their main character in a manner that made sense for the show, but it's clear after this episode that it gave them so much more than that. It gave them an ongoing undercurrent of tension, one that makes the friendship between Damon and Bonnie that much stronger." He did come out on the right side of those three seconds, after all.
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How to Get Away with Murder
ABC
WHAT HAPPENED: Raise your hand if you were surprised to hear that those sketchy, rich twins are sporting a minor case of twincest. Okay, okay, to be fair, they denied the accusations, but ADA Sinclair successfully planted a picture of the two looking, uh, intimate with the help of Asher, whom she's still blackmailing for "Trotter Lake." The theme of Thursday's episode is S-E-X: Who' having it, who's not, who's using it to commit a homicide, and who's using it to try to get to the bottom of one. The answers to those last two are "Annalise's client of the week whose case she somehow manages to win while chugging room-temperature vodka" and "Rebecca's foster brother, a.k.a., Eggs 911, a.k.a., the man who's about to give Michaela her first Big-O," respectively. Leave the explanations to EW recapper Marc Snetiker: "HTGAWM has always been a risqué show, but the season's third episode was a blush-inducing, highly combustive swirl of penises and vaginae that made season 1 look like The Wiggles."
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: But Thursday's episode isn't just about the active coitus-ers, there's also the characters who dabble in a little Unresolved Sexual Tension. TV Line reminds us not to sleep on the "parallel scenes where [Annalise] seems thisclose to having sex with Wes (after he kills a suffering rat in a basement trap in her home) and Nate (whose job she's restored with the Philly PD). But nobody ends up taking the bait." Perhaps that's because it's revealed at the end of the episode that Annalise's favorite playthings are in some kind of mysterious cahoots. Cahoots, we tell you!
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Grey's Anatomy
ABC
WHAT HAPPENED: Thursday night's Grey's Anatomy dealt heavily in heartbreak -- it "turned into Sophie's Choice," according to EW recapper Ariana Bacle, "and it was not fun." Karev is one of the remaining characters from yester-Grey's who can still really pack an emotional punch; add him having to choose which of two twin babies in need of new livers will get the one available organ, and you've got yourself a... well, Alex's Choice. And, bless the boy-turned-man, he does the best job he can: He decides to open up both babies and make the decision according to which baby looks like it will be most receptive -- it's a smart move, the right move, but he still has to tell the twins' mother that he's saved her daughter, but lost her son. If your throat is swelling and it feels like too much, just remember that this episode also features a wine-fueled rant by Maggie where she calls herself an alien with no home who just wants to have sex. And then... homegirl has the sex with the handsome intern. It's the little things, y'know?
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: A lot of people are buzzing about the special brand of feminism practiced on Thursday night's episode -- Bailey told Meredith she wasn't just going to give her the salary she deserves as Chief of General, she has to stand up and fight for it -- but Vulture's critic took the time this week to lay out her wildest Grey's Anatomy dreams, including double-dipping from Private Practice and bringing Addison back in the mix, and, in even loftier goals, inducting the fabulous Kelly Bishop into Shondaland: "My preference is to see her team up with Debbie Allen on Grey's, and in some capacity have both of them dance ... Shondaland has a lot of overlap with Gilmore Girls already, so why not aim for the top?" Dream a little Shonda-dream of perfection.
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One More Thing...
The Cuddle That Launched a Thousand Heart-Eyed Emojis
ABC
CAN'T FIX THIS: "Sit down. Sit there, and watch me choose you," Liv tells Fitz as she prepares to watch Abby tell the press the truth about her relationship with POTUS. That's right: after four years, the most ill-conceived lovebirds in Washington D.C. are doing the damn thing -- no, really! -- they're going legit. The President of the United States is publicly divorcing his wife for his political fixer mistress. This should go well.
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