Last Night’s TV: HTGAWM, Scandal, The Blacklist and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal, The Blacklist, Grey's Anatomy, Marvel's Jessica Jones, The Man in the High Castle TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT We Finally Know Who Shot Annalise Keating... ABC BECAUSE: She shot herself! (Well, no it was Wes.) But she told him to! (But she said to shoot her in the chest and he went for the stomach instead.) But she lied to him about Rebecca! (But you still can't just shoot people.) But she knew his secret childhood name! (And probably had something to do with his mother's "suicide.") CRISTOPHE!!! Ugh, we're exhausted. READ OUR RECAP Scandal ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Thursday night might as well be marked down as The Night Everybody Shot Everybody in Their Mid-Season Finales (not the catchiest holiday name, but hey, there's a lot of seasonal competition right now), and that includes Jake shooting Russell on Scandal. It's actually the Christmas season in D.C. though -- perfectly fitting for the series according to EW recapper Isabella Biedenharn, "After all, aren't red (wine) and white (popcorn, coats, Liv's boyfriends) two of the holiday season's main colors?" While Mellie channeled her inner defiant politician, filibustering on the Senate floor for 16 hours to protect Planned Parenthood funding, Olivia took her participation a step further -- she got an abortion. And we didn't even know she was pregnant. Nor did Fitz. This came on the heels of watching Mellie do this important thing while she was feeling completely stifled at the White House, and all of these things together led to a huge Olitz blow up... and the end of Fitz and Olivia. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So, after five seasons of back and forth, apparently... they won't: "There is no Vermont. No jam. No future. Not anymore." Fitz and Olivia have had their struggles, their blow-ups, their morose moonshine binges before, but this time it seems everyone, including EW, "can't see a way back from this." TV Line called their quarrel "seemingly irreparable," Refinery29 keeps it simple, "Olitz is done," and straight from the president-horse's mouth himself, Tony Goldwyn told executive producer Betsy Beers on her podcast Shondaland Revealed that Olivia and Fitz's realized relationship proved to be "tragically impossible, or so it seems." Or. So. It. SEEMS. READ OUR RECAP The Blacklist NBC WHAT HAPPENED: "Elizabeth Keen, you're under arrest." Liz, Reddington, and Reddington's fedoras have been on the run all season long on The Blacklist, but it just took one group of knuckle-tatted Appalachian thugs (and one baby doll shiv) to finally put Liz in the hands of the FBI. After Red is abducted by random carjacking crew, the Kings of the Highway, both Liz and Ressler end up on his tail. Ressler is alone in his pursuit because he fired Samar after finding out she secretly aided and abetted Lizzie; Aram is alone at the Post Office because he's the one who tattled; and Reven Wright is dead on Chairperson Laurel Hitchin's living room floor because, duh, Hitchins is part of the Cabal, and EVERYTHING IS IN SHAMBLES. Oh, and there's also the little matter of the "Care Package," the final key in exonerating Liz that she ultimately trades with the Kings of the Highway in exchange for Red's freedom, and what EW recapper Jodi Walker calls "the most mysterious Blacklist item since the Fulcrum." Sound it out: suh-spish-us...suspicious! WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: If you found it odd that the "Blacklisters" that finally caught up with Reddington were just a random bunch of highway thugs, you weren't alone. But have no fear, executive producer Jon Bokenkamp told EW that Red will be back in fine Lizzie-saving form come the series' return in January: "What the audience is going to see is we've been laying in these breadcrumbs over the past eight episodes, everything from hits against The Cabal to the plan with Marvin Gerard in the second episode. It's a very complex, and yet simple plan that he's been hatching since the end of season 2, quite frankly." Slap a tiny bib on us and call us hungry ducks, because we're ready for them crumbs. READ OUR RECAP Grey's Anatomy ABC WHAT HAPPENED: There's nothing like a little family dramz to really get you in the holiday spirit, and Grey's was bringing it from every angle on Thursday night -- fake family, half-family, secret family, the gang's all here! Amelia gets angry at Meredith for not telling her what she finds out from Owen's mother about Owen's tense connection with Riggs, and Mer fires back, "You are not my sister -- Cristina is my sister. You are Derek's sister, and Derek is gone." Okay, so that's pretty damn clear; less clear is still the animosity between Owen and Riggs, but we do get this much from Meredith to Owen regarding what she found out: "I didn't know you had a sister." Well we didn't either! (And it's worth noting, as EW recapper Ariana Bacle does,"Penny barely shows up in this episode because Grey's Anatomy apparently wanted to leave its audience with a gift before going off the air for a few weeks. How sweet of you, Grey's!" WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: TV Line noted that emotions were running especially high in this episode -- "tempers were so hot around the hospital that the docs were lucky they didn't set off the sprinklers" -- and that ended up being cause for a few unwise decisions. Angry that Alex always prioritizes Meredith over her, Jo tries to leave him, and he responds by proposing marriage to her. We don't get to hear her answer, but rest assured, that is a totally solid foundation for legally binding matrimony. But worse, recovering from her blow-up with Meredith, Amelia sits down at the bar for a normal drink, and ends up with a vodka soda, officially breaking her hard-earned sobriety. 'Tis the season for bad decisions, y'all. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... An Instructional Guide On... Netflix HOW TO NEVER SEE SUNLIGHT AGAIN: Step 1: Watch the Jessica Jones opening credits sequence at work and get excited. Step 2: Return home, binge watch all of Marvel's Jessica Jones episodes, now available on Netflix. Step 3: Come up for air. Step 4: Build pillow fort and prepare to binge Man in the High Castle with EW's helpful guide to the new series. Step 5: Watch every episode of Amazon's dynamite Man in the High Castle, available now. (Optional Step 6: Probably get some snacks.) READ OUR RECAP Also Check Out... Recommended by Copyright © 2015 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. 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