 |  | | VIEW IN BROWSER |  | |  |  |  |  | |  |  | | THIS ISSUE: The Walking Dead, Quantico, The Leftovers, Once Upon a Time, The Affair |  |  |  | |  | | It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Negan |  | | AMC |  | BECAUSE: Sunday Night's Walking Dead midseason finale revealed what happened when walkers stormed the gates of Alexandria -- panic, mostly -- but it was really all about that sneaky coda that aired during the first commercial break of Into the Badlands. In the prologue of what's to come in the second half of season 6, Daryl, Abraham, and Sasha are confronted on the road by a biker gang. The gang members tell them to hand over everything from their truck to the "little stash of emergency napkins you got there in the console." It all belongs to Negan now. See you in a few months, Jeffrey Dean Morgan! |  | |  | | | |  |  | | Quantico |  | | ABC |  | WHAT HAPPENED: Quantico may have taken two weeks off the air, but its return has only made everyone seem guiltier (and their hair, somehow even more lustrous). EW recapper Dalene Rovestine wonders if they'll continue to throw so many suspects at us so that we'll miss the most obvious culprit -- and it couldn't have gotten much more obvious than Simon on Sunday night. That's right, Ol' Four-Eyes McNotGay finally met up with his bomb-making phone pal and they looked over a few blue prints... of Grand Central Station. But Simon is still on Team Alex in the present-day scenes, a group that now also includes Liam. So maybe we can finally take him off the suspect list? Or maybe not? Maybe it was ALL OF THEM! Or maybe not... |  | WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Okay, here's what we actually know: that we'll likely get an answer as to who the terrorist is by the midseason finale in December. At least, that's what showrunner Josh Safran said, adding that, "[Fans] may actually get an answer, much, much, much sooner than they think." Well that's enticing, vague, and mildly threatening. Even more so: "The question is: Is it the only answer?" Alright, we're back to questioning everything again. |  | |  | | |  | |  |  |  | | Homeland |  | | Showtime |  | WHAT HAPPENED: Carrie and Saul finally team up again on Sunday night to take on their favorite frenemy, Allison. And how do you solve a problem like Allison, especially without technically being CIA agents at all anymore? Well, you bring in Astrid and Adler (not actually Muppets) of the BND, of course. Saul uses his specific style of, er, romantic persuasion to plant a bug on her, A&A bate her by telling the CIA that the BND is about to deliver a Russian defector, Allison goes on the run, Carrie -- "the Drone Queen herself," according to EW recapper Shirley Li -- keeps air-eyes on her, and once she arrives on Krupin's doorstep, it's enough to arrest her. And Dar is even happy with what Carrie and Saul have pulled off... until Alli-girl convinces him that she's simply a CIA agent who's been using Krupin to get intel on Moscow for the last decade. Harumph! |  | WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Some fans are complaining that this season has gone too Allison-centric, but Variety points out, "This hour is rooted in a relationship that has been the core of Homeland from the beginning. The master and the protégé. The sensei and the student. Only this time, the tables are turned for Saul and Carrie." Indeed, it was good to have Carrie and Saul on the same team again, and with a slightly altered dynamic. However, we wish they'd focus just a little more on bringing everyone's favorite terrorism janitor Quinn back into the mix, and less on actively trying to make him excrete his own insides with sarin gas. But we get it -- one thing at a time. |  | |  | | |  | | |  | |  |  | | The Leftovers |  | | HBO |  | WHAT HAPPENED: When an episode is able to combine John Milton's Paradise Lost with the 1980 Olivia Newton-John musical, Xanadu, it seems only fair for EW recapper Jeff Labrecque to call it "a master stroke of storytelling jiu-jitsu." We could add a lot of puns here about "Thanksgiving Leftovers" or extensive Meg psychological analyses -- actually, that's a pretty quick one: stone-cold sociopath -- but why don't we just do everyone a favor and skip to that last scene: Evie... and her two friends... revealed to be hanging out in a silver Airstream trailer... bathed in a golden light... and a past that connects them to Meg... who has some sort of, uh, explosive plan for the bridge to Jarden. Bring on next week's finale. |  | WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Okay, so that stuff we skipped over, it was all about creepy, cult-y Meg, her cracked-out (literally) backstory, and even crazier and more mysterious secret plan for Miracle. And it was a little bit divisive. While the A.V. Club was on the same page as EW, calling The Leftover's "narrative sleight-of-hand tricks" "unparalleled," this penultimate episode left Vulture cold: "If we'd seen more of Tom and Meg along the way ... it might feel a little less like they were pulled in from nowhere to make everything super awful. These two feel like a deus ex machina gone wrong; instead of swooping in to save everyone, they're swooping in to blow everything up (perhaps literally)." Perhaps an explosion is just what's needed to warm everyone back up. (But also: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) |  | |  | | |  | One More Thing... | |  |  | | Sunday TV Twilight Zone |  | | Showtime, ABC |  | CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Sunday was just kind of a wonky night for TV. On Once Upon a Time (no stranger to wonkiness) Emma is Dark Emma and Hook is Dark Hook, but apparently Dark Hook is the darkest of the Dark Ones, and somehow that is what leads to the Storybrooke memory wipe. And The Affair finally lifted its one-person's perspective policy to show all four main characters in four different stories for completely mysterious reasons. |  | |  | | |  | Also Check Out... | |  | |  | |  |  |  |  | | |  | 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
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