 |  | | VIEW IN BROWSER |  | |  |  |  |  | |  |  | | THIS ISSUE: The Flash, Scream Queens, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce |  |  |  | |  | | The Star City Gang Heads to Central City |  | | The CW |  | BECAUSE: If we were a tabloid, and they were a celebrity couple in 1999, we would dub them Flarrow -- we're not, and they aren't either, but hell, we're gonna do it anyway! Tuesday brought the annual Flash/Arrow crossover. Team Flash calls in Team Arrow for some backup as they deal with mega-baddie, Vandal Savage -- a villains name if ever there was one. But probably most importantly, the episode introduces Hawkman and his attempted rescue of Kendra (a.k.a. future Hawkgirl), just in time for their D.C. spinoff, Legends of Tomorrow. |  | |  | | | |  |  | | Scream Queens |  | | Fox |  | WHAT HAPPENED: You know that old saying -- fight murder with murder? Oh, you don't? Well, the Kappa Kappa Taus, ever a bunch of old-fashioned gals, seem to think that's their best bet with presumed remaining Red Devil, Dean Munsch, and set out to kill her with a number of whimsical schemes: First comes cider infused with puffer fish venom; then comes the cryo-freeze attempt; and finally, a classic -- drowning! But nothing works: "It appears the dean is indestructible. Like Jason. Or Michael Myers," says EW recapper Amy Wilkinson. It's probably for the best though because Pete is starting to look like the guiltiest party on campus. Y'know, considering he ends the episode by telling Grace that he won't have sex with her because he doesn't want her first time to be with a murderer. Yeah, maybe look into that guy. |  | WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So, are the stars of Scream Queens... all Final Girls? Because people can't help but notice that while everyone on the show is always talking about death, the core crew remains noticeably un-murdered. The A.V. Club points out, "Every Ryan Murphy production has a moment (or moments) where it feels like he... is simply playing a trick on his audience... I'm of course talking about the show's unwillingness to be a slasher series that actually slashes characters, which is played for its biggest laugh with the failed assassination attempts on Dean Munsch, the Rasputin of Wallace University." That's not to say that it doesn't work, or that we want to see any of the Chanels die a slow, slow death from poisoned cotton balls. It's just... odd. |  | |  | | |  | |  |  |  | | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |  | | ABC |  | WHAT HAPPENED: Well that was cold-blooded in more ways than one. Poor Rosalind...how could she have known the staggering mortality rate of Coulson's love interests? While attempting a casual at-home dinner date, Grant Ward had to go and ruin Coulson's life by straight-up assassinating Rosalind midway through her burger. With the full weight of Coulson's grief wrath on Hydra, things were bound to get messy. First Coulson kidnaps Ward's brother for a little torture, but when it turns out Ward doesn't really care (Cold. Blooded.), they just keep him on the phone long enough to trace him to the castle in England where the portal was first opened. Good thing too, because that's where Malick is holding a kidnapped Fitz and Simmons, trying to get information on how to get back out of the portal once on the other planet. And when they don't give it up, he just sends Fitz through the portal with Ward and his men on a mission to find the legendary Inhuman that lives there... |  | WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So, it's a good thing that Coulson showed up to the castle and renegade-dropped into the portal just behind Ward's crew! Less great is that, though his drop-in remained unnoticed by Ward, he bonked his head and maybe passed out upon arrival. But considering Clark Gregg told The Hollywood Reporter that the planet's "terrifying creature" in next week's winter finale "will be more than Coulson and Fitz ever imagined," it's safe to say ol' Coulson will eventually wake up and get to being the hero, with his remaining grief over Rosalind's death releasing a "new vein of Coulson," said Gregg. |  | |  | | |  | | |  | |  |  | | The Voice |  | | NBC |  | WHAT HAPPENED: Five out of nine remaining contestants will be axed faster than Carson Daly's Movember beard next Tuesday, but the group (and the audience) might have been better served if The Vocal Hunger Games had occurred this Tuesday night... because, boy was that a rough Twitter Instant Save sing-off. (And as EW recapper Ariel Kay says, safety for the lesser contestants this week is basically just suspending them in Voice purgatory for the next seven days.) Korin -- the survivor of two previous Instant Saves -- sang Colbie Caillat's "Try" for her save-me performance, but forgot most of the words and ironically continued to repeat, "you don't have to try" over and over. Braiden Sunshine, also on the bottom, sang Maroon 5's "Harder to Breathe," and at least got most of the words right, but it's hard to get past the fact that he's a 15-year-old singing those sexually charged lyrics. Apparently not for Twitter (home of the sexually charged teens), though -- Braiden is safe! We never thought we'd say this, but... bring on the Voice bloodbath. |  | WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Before we get there though, TV Line has a humble request for "Carson 'Babyface' Daly," or more specifically for his writers. Filling and hour with 15 minutes of content is surely not easy, but, "there's got to be a better strategy than asking freaked-out contestants the kinds of banal questions that would make a county dairy-queen contestant wince with incredulity." (We get it -- everyone wants world peace.) TV Line even has some suggestions: "C'mon -- ask these kids about the first record they ever bought or their willingness to switch up their musical styles or the types of albums they'd like to make in a post-Voice world!" Perhaps Carson will give a few of those a try next week once this crew is down to a manageable Final 4 -- you've got this, Babyface! |  | |  | | |  | One More Thing... | |  |  | | Girlfriends' Guide to Bravo |  | | Bravo |  | ART IMITATING LIFE: Or is it Life imitating Art? Either way, both The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and the second season of Bravo's first ever scripted show Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce premiered on Tuesday night. There were more strappy tops and daytime stillettos than you could possibly hope for, but though Jake and Abby look to be rekindling some romance on Girlfriends' Guide, things unfortunately aren't going so well for the real Real Housewives. |  | |  | | |  | 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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