Last Night's TV: S.H.I.E.L.D., Scream Queens, The Flash, and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scream Queens, The Flash, iZombie, Limitless TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT There's a New/Old Bad Guy in Town ABC BECAUSE: Your theories were right, nerds! But that didn't make the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reveal any less exciting, did it? Dr. Andrew Garner is, indeed, the big bad Lash, and thank goodness ABC sprung for the CGI to make him look as big and bad as possible. READ OUR RECAP Scream Queens FOX WHAT HAPPENED: "Now that the World Series of baseball is over, we can return to our regularly scheduled World Series of sorority sleuthing." That's EW recapper Amy Wilkinson welcoming viewers back to Scream Queens just as the Chanels welcomed back Chanel No. 2 from the dead with a good old fashioned séance. They're looking for some new intel on her killer, but ghost-y Ariana Grande just tells them the obvious: Chad is cheating on Chanel. Like, duh (to be fair -- was not expecting the goat). Our own suspicions of Gigi are only growing though with each new Fresh Prince of Bel Air jacket, but it's Dean Munsch who ends up in a straitjacket for the evening. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Much like Chanel giving the eulogy at one of her dear sisters' funerals, the A.V. Club's headline doesn't hold any punches on this one: "Scream Queens returns not with a bang but with a hell of a dud." The series was only away for a week, but still, a refresher on why people like the show (cough*Denise Hemphill*cough) would have been nice. Instead, this episode was full of Scream Queen's weaker bits: Pete and Grace as totally real and believable teen investigative journalists; Dean Munsch's muddled backstory; and the Chanels being separated from the rest of the action, as they were once No. 2 revealed from beyond whom she thinks is the real murderer: O.G. Chanel. Good thing she's the only one with enough leadership skills to appropriately plan her own death (poisoned bra, sugar party, and death by Prunex simply won't do). READ OUR RECAP The Flash The CW WHAT HAPPENED: Earth-2 Harrison Wells is a slippery one, but Cisco knows one thing about him, at least: the guy's "kind of a dick." The new "Harry" and Harrison Wells might share Tom Cavanaugh's face, but they're shaping up to be very different types of bad (??) guys, and as EW recapper Jonathon Dornbush says, "It's another distinct and powerful performance from an actor who has already portrayed two iterations of this character." But if the ever-growing presence of Earth-2 and Zoom is the darkness, then the romantic beats of Tuesday's episode are the light. Barry's first date with Patty hits a bit of a speed bump when he's temporarily blinded by -- get this -- Dr. Light, the Earth-2 version of his ex, Linda Park... awkward. But given that Barry is Barry (and Grant Gustin is Grant Gustin), those slight complications only make the date more adorable. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: This is a packed episode! We haven't even gotten to the fact that Cisco's metahuman powers were exposed to all his pals and now he's a bonafide superhero with a name and everything. And then there's Harry and Jay Garrick's ongoing argument about using Dr. Light to fight Zoom now that she's captured. Jay thinks it's a suicide mission, but Harry wants to destroy Zoom, like, yesterday. As these two storylines come together at the end of the episode, USA Today helpfully points out, "We seem to have made a tradition of ending the episode with people watching each other creepily from the window." That creeper would be Harry, watching Team Flash think of Cisco's new name -- meet Vibe, y'all -- and it looks like his impatience to take down Zoom isn't just for the betterment of Central City: in Earth-2, Zoom has Harry's daughter. READ OUR RECAP iZombie The CW WHAT HAPPENED: Let's start with the episode's title: "Love and Basketball." Then let's move to this line from EW recapper Samantha Highfill: "Well, if I ever have to store a human brain, this show has taught me that Tupperware is the way to go." iZombie is clearly the best. This episode is a kamikaze of plot action, so we'll stick with the facts for now: Following a makeout sesh, Liv decides to put her Major feelings on the backburner because she's afraid of turning him into a zombie -- boy problems, right? So the focus is fully on this week's case: the death of a security guard/basketball coach who, as Ravi puts it, was "shot through the heart ... and who's to blame." Well, Ravi, that would be... a random dude who worked in his building. But along the way to figuring that out, there are attempts at zombie cures, Major has a breakthrough, and best of all... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Liv as a motivation-spewing, life-encouraging basketball coach. Simply said: "motherflipping" fantastic. Or as IGN put it, "Pep talk Liv is a fabulous Liv." The pep talks in question include words to live by like, "Clear eyes, full stomachs, can't lose," and for Major, who needed Liv to eat a basketball coach's brain more than anyone could have realized, her words get him back on the right track: "You're Major motherflipping Lilywhite and you don't quit." Major flushes his drugs, shaves, plays a little b-ball with some tykes, and professes his adorable love for Liv. Too bad what was supposed to be the zombie cure is actually an anti-zombie cure, but thank goodness for that hilarious scene of Ravi and Blaine wrestling around with it on the floor. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Limitless Pays an Unexpected Homage CBS BUELLER? BUELLER?: When Limitless showrunner Craig Sweeny realized a few episodes into his new series that he's been subconsciously channeling one of his favorite John Hughes films -- the diagrams, the straight-to-cameras, the attempts to play hooky from the FBI -- he decided it was time for a Ferris Bueller's Day Off homage. And he was right; Brian's shot-for-shot remake of Matthew Broderick's opening Beuller monologue, complete with shower fauxhawk and John Lennon quotes is not to be missed. 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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