Friday, November 13, 2015

Last Night’s TV: The Vampire Diaries, How to Get Away with Murder, and More (SPOILERS!)

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Last Night's TV PRIME TIME
THIS ISSUE: Project Runway Jr., The Vampire Diaries, How to Get Away with Murder, Sleepy Hollow, Master of None
TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
The Teens Make It Work
Lifetime
BECAUSE: The teens! The teens have gone wild! For sewing, pleating, and darts that is. Talk about the state of reality television all you want, but until you've managed to make it through an episode of Masterchef Junior without feeling immense joy, then you have missed out on a fascinating TV roller coaster. Project Runway Junior is looking to score that same kind of emotion-meets-raw-talent win and Thursday's series premiere of 12 competing young designers, ages 13 to 17, is equal parts adorable, inspiring, and Tim Gunn-filled -- consider us in.
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The Vampire Diaries
The CW
WHAT HAPPENED: Let's start with the facts: Three years in the future, Caroline is Alaric's fiancé and probably, definitely incubating his unborn twins. Now let's move onto the reaction: WHAT. What? What?! The vampire inside Jo -- please make room for all the impending crazy, Florence -- isn't merging well with her human body and soon she's dying, giving Ric one last chance to say goodbye to not-really-his-wife: "I'm sorry I'm not her. I wish I was. She was a lucky woman." "I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying," says EW recapper Dalene Rovestine and She. Is. Right. During this tragic time, Caroline tells Valerie that Kai killed not just Ric's wife on their wedding day, but their unborn twins, and Val comes up with her theory: the twins were protected and placed inside someone else. There's some magic-ing, yada, yada, yada, a map of blood ignites a small fire under Caroline's uterus, and... vampires can now carry children, apparently. Mazel Tov!
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The A.V. Club found Thursday's episode "the most satisfying episode of the season so far" less because of the blood-map babies and more because, "It features the hallmark of every good TVD story: Dangerous people with opposing objectives facing off against each other in some sort of battle." Here, it's the battle of the Salvatore brothers against Lily and Julian: Stefan wants to kill Julian because he killed his unborn child, Damon wants to kill Julian to hurt Lily, and Lily... well, Lily just wanted to throw a party. But unless she plans to go into the Julian-killing-party business, she should probably refocus her efforts.
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How to Get Away with Murder
ABC
WHAT HAPPENED: EW recapper Marc Snetiker having to reconstruct his theory that Oliver's abduction would be "the first of a series of unfortunate events that would lead to Connor’s undoing on the Night of the Fancy Mansion" a bit. Because, as it turns out, Creepy Phillip didn't kidnap Oliver, he "just wanted to talk." Sure, okay, Philip. And the Keating gang does some talking of their own when they discover AD Sinclair has the house bugged, tricking her into following a lead that makes an enticing plea deal she offered to Catherine and Caleb expire. Oh, Catherine and Caleb -- at the same time Caleb is trusting Michaela enough to tell her he found a gun stashed in the air vent, Catherine is having a secret meeting with Philip. So, it's looking like: The daughter, in her stupid painting room with the hidden gun and her secret cousin/half-brother, born of incest. Oh, did we mention Philip's DNA proves he's the son of Auntie Hapstall and Daddy Hapstalll? Well, he is!
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So we thought Philip was going to kidnap Ollie -- that didn't happen. And we thought virginal Catherine was innocent of her parents' murder -- that doesn't seem to be the case. We keep thinking Wes might eventually wise up and stop spouting innocence (and maybe investigate the truth about his family, bizarrely portrayed in one of Catherine's weirdo portraits) -- but that is probably never going to happen. And show creator Pete Nowalk has a reason for all that, divulged on EP Betsy Beers' Shondaland Revealed podast Thursday night: "With our viewers being so savvy and smart, they expect things a certain way. So, it's our job to circumvent those expectations." So congratulations, viewers, we're the reason this show is so freaking nuts!
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Sleepy Hollow
FOX
WHAT HAPPENED: It's a good day on Sleepy Hollow when Abbie and Ichabod are kicking it old school -- needless to say, the series was feelin' itself on Thursday night. As EW recapper Kelly Connolly said, "The members of Team Witness rush to save one of their own, giving [the episode] a sense of direction ... Also, everyone descends from the trees in harnesses to sneak up on some monsters, and that is exactly the kind of urgent nonsense that I signed up for." Abbie is left in charge while Daniel goes to DC, but when she finds out that Jenny is ever so slightly possessed by the Shard of Anubis, protocol has to be thrown out. Joe, Jenny, and the Witnesses spend the episode battling Norse Berserkers trying to save Jenny's life, but they also take the important time to tell each other how they really feel about one another. The adorable feelings are flowing from all four parties, but make no mistake: Jenny is still in grave danger.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Everyone is loving the return to form -- as the kids say, this one gave us all the feels. TV Line took the time to give a "quick sum-up" to each heart-to-heart. Basically, "Abbie is really worried that Jenny won't come out of this OK, and is quietly freaking about her lack of control," "Ichabod and Joe both need to make a freaking move on the women they love -- yeah, I said it. COME AT ME, anti-'shippers! -- and sometimes being a soldier was cool," and "[Ichabod] is afraid of losing [Abby] to an FBI promotion." So... much... LOOOOOVE!
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One More Thing...
Master of None Masters the Feeling of Young Adulthood
Netflix
GO ON, FEEL SOMETHING: If you've yet to watch Aziz Ansari's new comedy, Master of None, on Netflix then let us give you this advice: The weekend is prime for TV binging, and you can either spend so long looking for the best taco truck in town that said taco truck has closed by the time you get there, or you can saddle up to this completely unique and entirely relatable 10-episode series and just let the feelings flow.
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