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| THIS ISSUE: Dancing With the Stars, Better Call Saul, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Supergirl, RuPaul's Drag Race |
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| DWTS Waltzes into a New Season |
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| ABC |
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 BECAUSE: How do we love season 22 of Dancing With the Stars? Let us count the ways: Antonio! Jodie! Ginger Zee! WAYNA! (Maybe less so returned judge Len Goodman's "harsh" comments for a doing-her-best Mischa Barton). But surely the stand-out sparkling star of Monday night was Nyle DiMarco, the most recent winner of America's Next Top Model who was concerned that being deaf would put him at a great disadvantage, but ended up cha-cha-ing real smooth all over that ballroom with partner Peta Murgatroyd. His good looks were only outdone by that stellar attitude and fancy footwork. |
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| Better Call Saul |
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| AMC |
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| WHAT HAPPENED: That dream job, it ain't everything. Jimmy can only fall asleep in his old nail salon office even though he took the Davis & Main job to get out of there, and Kim, feeling indebted to Howard, struggles to make a decision on a fancy new job offer. But nothing like a little griftin' to bring these two love birds back together while they work through their dilemmas -- shockingly, instigated by a dissatisfied Kim this time. Over on a much different occupational playing field though is Mike, who discovers that last week's surprising emergence of Tio will not be a one-time thing. Hector sends "The Cousins" from Breaking Bad to do some lightly terrifying long-distance threatening toward Mike's precious granddaughter if he doesn't come through on telling the DA that the gun Tuco had was his. Mike says not a chance unless Tio ups the compensation to $50,000. And you know what? Mike gets $50,000. Because Tio thinks Mike has "giant balls." |
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| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: THE COUSINS!!! Some fans might be happy ifBetter Call Saul were comprised entirely of Breaking Bad easter eggs, but many critics have been wary of the line between overlapping worlds and gimmick when it comes to guest appearances. However, everyone is in agreement here: The Cousins worked. As HitFix said simply in their recap, "The Cousins don't do much, but the image of them glaring down at Mike and Kaylee from an opposing rooftop sent shivers down my spine, and their presence was all Mike needed to realize he had to find a way out of this mess." But IGN also points out that the success of Mike's storyline is exaggerating a growing BCSproblem: "Jimmy's storyline, while solid, doesn't carry the same weight that Mike's does at this point... the balance is off in a show called Better Call Saul." Alright you got us -- let's put Saul and Tio in a room and see what happens. |
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| Crazy Ex-Girlfriend |
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| The CW |
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| WHAT HAPPENED: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was simply Dickensian on Monday night! But before we get to that, let EW recapper Michelle Newman sum upwhere things left off: "Josh doesn't love Rebecca. The end." That's what Rebecca is reflecting on with her seat neighbor, therapist Dr. Akopian, as she takes the five-hour flight back to New York because life in West Covina is a "pile of garbage and turds." But WAIT! Turns out, Dr. Akopian is a ghost... or some vague, sleeping pill/Bloody Mary-induced dream interpretation of a ghost... whatever, doesn't matter! With fellow dream ghosts (Amber Riley and Ricki Lake in full wigs 'n sequins) by her side, the doc takes Rebecca through her non-Christmas ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, which is just the best little emotional romp through Rebecca-land that all boils down to this: "Maybe it's not that you don't have love in your life; maybe it's that you don't recognize it when it's there." Cue Paula, Darryl, Josh, and even Greg frantically searching for her back in WC, and all of our tears. |
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| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: What an episode! Monday's hour was chock-full of wisdom nuggets and psychoanalysis, but the A.V. Club loved one DreamGhost's line the best: "Forget about the guys! That's the worst part about being a ghost and working with women. So much talk about the guys. It's not the guys. FORGET THE GUYS!" Need any more clarification? The A.V. Club elaborates, "We can't totally forget the guys, of course, but... the ghost of Therapy-Yet-to-Come reminds Rebecca (and all the 'shippers out there, this one included) that neither Rebecca's happiness, nor her unhappiness, is about the guys. Forget about the guys! It isn't about Josh, or Greg, or the jerky senior, or the awkward nice guy. She may have moved to West Covina for Josh, but actually, the situation's a lot more nuanced than that." Thank goodness there's more Dr. Akopian in Rebecca's (conscious and awake) future. |
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| Supergirl |
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| CBS |
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| WHAT HAPPENED: No, the Flash isn't in National City yet; but Monday night's episode of Supergirl is all about flash...backs! (Eh? Eh? ) Yes, the character-building in this episode is brought to you by Lucy Lane and Col. Jim Harper's military task force to investigate the DEO after Hank's sudden outing as J'onn J'onzz. Here's what we find out: J'onn adopted the Hank identity after meeting Jeremiah Danvers in the Peruvian desert. Danvers was part of the real Hank's task force to kill the Martian Manhunter and when Danvers attempted to save his new alien pal, it resulted in both his and Hank's deaths. J'onn was tasked with keeping the Danvers daughters safe, and he did just that by taking on Hank's identity and giving Alex an opportunity to join the DEO and leave her partying lifestyle (and long hair) behind three years ago. After all that confession, Col. Harper still carts Hank and Alex off to a genetic engineering facility, but Kara's last ditch effort to reveal herself as Supergirl to Lucy works, and they're able to get Hank and Alex back. |
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| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Oh and one last small thing: When Hank goes to wipe Col. Harper's memory he accidentally sees inside his mind that Jeremiah Danvers is inside the facility and alive. Say what?? So, obviously this slower-paced Supergirl installment is nothing to spit at, but everyone can admit it... we've all been counting our episodes until The Flash-Supergirlcrossover, and it's finally almost here! Melissa Benoist recalled her initial feelings on filming next week's crossover episode alongside Grant Gustin to EW: "This is crazy. What are we doing? What are we wearing? Where are we?This is so cool." Our thoughts exactly, Melissa -- our thoughts exactly. |
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| One More Thing... |
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