Last Night's TV: Supernatural, Survivor, Nashville, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: Supernatural, Survivor, Nashville, Arrow, Kingdom TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT The Winchester Boys Still Got It The CW BECAUSE: Supernatural has never been afraid to bend the rules of format, so what do they do after 11 seasons? Why, they spend the entirety of Wednesday night's hour telling the story from the point-of-view of Dean's -- and fans' -- beloved Impala, Baby. Needless to say, hilarity and road trips ensue. READ OUR RECAP Survivor CBS WHAT HAPPENED: Old school, new school… how does one really classify a Woo? He is fierce, he is loyal, and he has the innocent, dopey instincts of a two-month-old Goldendoodle -- basically, he is the perfect candidate for a blindside. But in Wednesday night's episode, it was Andrew's lack of finesse that got Woo voted out. When the three existing tribes were hit with yet another switch-up, they're taken back from three tribes into two. The original Angkor tribe now makes up two-fifths of the current Bayon tribe and Savage decides it's time to eliminate outlier and threat, Spencer. He's right -- it is -- but he's wrong to tell everyone how they'll be voting, assume it's totally fine to bring his new pal Woo into the old alliance willy-nilly, and then offer up Ciera as the pawn they'll tell Spencer they're voting out. Take it from EW recapper and Survivor historian Dalton Ross: "Survivor Rule No. 1: Ask instead of tell." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: And then there was Terry, who, upon waking to the dulcet tones of Jeff Probst at camp, was told that his son was in the hospital. Terry didn't hesitate in saying, "No question. I'll go back, grab my bag, and then we'll go," before, well, grabbing his bag and going, leaving an emotional bunch of empathetic castmates in his wake. And while it turned out to, indeed, be very serious, the episode tag with happy father and son telling us that Danny had been found to have an enlarged heart, and went on to have a successful heart transplant, gave all new meaning to the word "survivor." Swelling emotions, blindsides, Stephen Fishbach weeping, and everybody dry-heaving -- oh, did we not mention the gross-out eating challenge where Tasha straight-up shotgunned a balut -- surely makes The A.V. Club right in calling Wednesday's hour the "best episode of the season." Or as Probst said during the episode itself, "a little bit of guts in there; a little bit of juice." READ OUR RECAP Nashville ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Wow… Just. Wow. You don't have to look far to find a Nashville fan ready to rag on resident skeeze Jeff Fordham, but if you're like EW recapper Kyle Fowe, after Wednesday night's episode you might be thinking, "Now that he may be falling to his death… it doesn't seem totally appropriate to pile on." Fair enough, Kyle. After all, Jeff was our skeeze, the one many fans loved to hate, and given that Jeff first covered up Juliette's assault of a fan, and then fell to his likely death trying to prevent her from jumping into Atlanta traffic while brimming with pills and booze, his (again, probably) death is a painful one. No one does take-you-by-surprise redemption arcs quite like Nashville. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: But this is a serious -- uh, grave, even -- shake-up that the series was in desperate need of. As the recapper at TV Line said, "It's been a while since the ABC drama surprised me… maybe the last time was when Rayna showed up on Deacon's doorstop to declare her love in Season 1. But Jeff's death… took me unawares and set up an interesting situation for Juliette moving forward in the season." The exit of Oliver Hudson isn't surprising, as he's one of 1,800+ potential Red Devils over on Scream Queens; but it was beginning to seem like Juliette might never recover from this spiral she's boots-deep in. And while recovery certainly isn't imminent, the vodka has kind of hit the fan, here -- everything in her life is surely about to change. Here's hoping for JuJu's redemption arc (well… her next in a series of redemption arcs). READ OUR RECAP Arrow The CW WHAT HAPPENED: While the rest of Wednesday night TV made flashy plot moves, Arrow was dabbling in some good old-fashioned character development. You know, if you consider a father trying to kill his resurrected daughter because she's a feral shell of her former self as "old-fashioned." That's the situation as Laurel finally reveals Sara to their father and he sees what she's been refusing to: that this isn't really Sara. And this won't end well. As EW recapper Jonathon Dornbush says, "Paul Blackthorne sure knows how to deliver the heartbreak, mixing all of Quentin's fury, sadness, shock, and maybe even a sliver of happiness." But all of that complexity doesn't put Captain Lance anymore in the right than his Laurel: He's still in begrudging cahoots with Damien Darhk, something that Oliver discovers in this episode and is none too proud of. But at least things are looking the smallest sliver of up when Oliver advises that Quentin should keep his ill-advised partnership with Darhk in order to be Team Arrow's man on the inside. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: In a slightly more upbeat plot, Team Arrow has created yet another kickass new lair -- because, hey, Oliver has to run his mayoral campaign from somewhere, right? Aside from the new gadgets though, this episode is mostly despair, despair, despair. We haven't even mentioned Quentin's breakdown when Laurel arrived to find her father's gun pointed at Sara, ready to take her out. It's a moment that Blackthorne told Variety, "goes against Lance's instinct to kill anybody, but particularly your own offspring." But wait -- there is some hope! Just a bit! Blackthorne also tells Variety that though his character has been skeptical in the past of the type of "mumbo-jumbo" that brought Sara back to life, "At this point, Lance would try anything, and if there is such a thing as magic or supernatural power going on out there… I think any father would try anything to bring the spirit of their daughter back." Looks like it's time to get to work. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... 'Til Kingdom Come DirecTV BALANCING ACT: If you just think of Kingdom as "that Nick Jonas show" on a network you've never heard of, might we recommend that you check out Wednesday night's perfectly balanced, perfectly emotional, perfectly eventful episode? (Plus, Nick Jonas gets knocked out if that's something you're into. Okay, and he's shirtless a lot of the time if that's something you're into.) 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. For further communication, please click here Your California Privacy Rights Entertainment Weekly Customer Service ATTENTION: CONSUMER AFFAIRS 3000 University Center Drive Tampa, FL 33612-6408 You are receiving this email because you are a friend of Entertainment Weekly. To unsubscribe from these updates, please click here.