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THIS ISSUE: Legends of Tomorrow, Scandal, Rush Hour, American Idol, The 100 TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Legends of Tomorrow Digs Deep The CW BECAUSE: Now that's how you time travel! With rules, regulations, and two-year stints in one place. After getting stuck in 1958, Sara, Ray and Kendra found themselves in Hub City until 1960, when their friends thought they'd finally pop back in the Waverider. To be fair, Leonard had been a little busy freezing and shattering his own hand to escape Chronos -- because Chronos, you see, is actually his old partner, Mick Rory, Heat Wave 2.0, turned by the Time Masters. This is going to take a lot of couples counseling. READ OUR RECAP Scandal ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Oh, so that was the big secret about Susan Ross: Not only was her deceased war veteran husband not ever actually her husband, he's also not Casey's real father -- Casey's real father, Susan's high school sweetheart, is in prison on drug charges. So yeah, that is pretty scandalous, and Olivia plans to release the bomb after tempting Ronnie with an early prison release in exchange for a paternity test. But as she's wont to do, Liv pushes too hard, and Ronnie hangs himself in prison. The Vargas brothers' secret-slingin' on Edison Davis doesn't go that well either, thanks to a rehab nurse who's down to lie to the American public for Papa Pope. Thank goodness then that Fitz grew a moral backbone somewhere in the last few weeks and steps in to counsel both Olivia and Susan on running a clean race (y'know, unlike him). By episode's end, Liv and Fitz are sharing a drink and toasting to this fancy new clean race they're going to be running. Will it stick? EW recapper Jessica Derschowitz's cote: "a very diplomatic (dare I say political?) 'Maybe.'" WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Check out that ABC synergy! While Susan Ross and Edison Davis were fighting off (true) rumors, Mellie was just trying not to be quite so hate-able. And there's only one place to pull off such a feat: Jimmy Kimmel Live. Scandal's ABC brethren stepped up to the guest star plate for a "Mean Tweets" segment where Mellie read tweets like, "I didn't know they let old ass pageant rejects run for president #gocryinyourcrown." Kimmel hasn't gotten any real-life presidential candidates to take part in "Mean Tweets," but judging from actor Bellamy Young's comments to EW about how closely she's watching the 2016 election, something of the sort might not be far off: "Some of reality goes far further than our fiction would ever dare, because some of that stuff you just can't write." READ OUR RECAP Rush Hour CBS WHAT HAPPENED: Hey, Limitless has done it pretty successfully -- why couldn't CBS take one more random movie with a coupl'a charming leads and turn it into a TV series? In Rush Hour, Jon Foo takes over for Jackie Chan as Lee and Justin Hires replaces Chris Tucker as Carter (big, fast, and high-pitched shoes to fill). As this series is a procedural, the premiere sets up its baddie and Detective Lee's reason for making his way from Hong Kong to Los Angeles:he's tracking down a baddie who deals in illegal artifacts -- oh, and whokidnapped Lee's sister. But wouldn't you know it: she was in on it the whole time. By the end of the premiere, the season has been set up for brother to be pitted against sister and the two detectives to be reluctant partners/best friends for life. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So yeah, that all sounds a lot like the movieRush Hour, but make no mistake -- Hollywood Reporter insists that the TV series is at least "better than" Rush Hour 3. Which, if you're a Rush Hour-head, you know is not particularly high praise. The point of reference should of course be the first movie, and there it falls short on reaching the humor or the charm of the original performances, though Hollywood Reporter points out that the series does improve on the movie's tendency toward lighthearted racism and xenophobia: "Mostly, when it comes to avoiding the unsavory undercurrent that plagued the movies, my response here was consistently, 'Well, it could be worse.'" Lee speaks near-perfect English so his syntax-for-laughs only gets as wonky as, "The booty is noted," and Carter's stereotypes are at least pointed out as stereotypes. So yeah... it could be worse. READ OUR RECAP American Idol Fox WHAT HAPPENED: Grab your Kleenex and your nerves of steel, it's time for Hometown Visits. And that means getting to see someone be totally adorable with their (weeping) family and (weeping) friends, and still knowing that it's their time to go. The fourth place finish could have reasonably gone two different ways on Thursday night, but it was ultimately the adorable MacKenzie Bourg who just missed making the last ever American Idol Top 3. And in honor of the Top 3, Trent Harmon, La'Porsha Renae, and Dalton Rapattoni were left to perform in three different rounds: hometown choice, Scott Borchetta's choice, and the judges' choice. We'd say Dalton did his best on Borchetta's choice, Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark"; Trent showed all his range in the judges' pick, Parson James' "Waiting Game"; and it's a toss-up on La'Porsha's vocally perfect performances, but for balance's sake, let's give it to her hometown's choice, "Glory" by John Legend and Common. Of course, there was also that ever so slightly controversial moment with La'Porsha... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: After singing Scott Borchetta's choice for her, "Stay With Me Baby" by Lorraine Ellison/Bette Midler, Harry asked her why she was hesitant with the song. It was simple: she would never encourage a woman to beg a man for anything. In a show where the contestants are pretty much at a base level of "grateful for everything ever, including song choices I'm not into," that pushback could potentially rub some fans the wrong way. But Vulture loved both the performance and the commentary equally: "This slightly modern take on classic R&B is exactly the kind of thing [La'Porsha] should be doing, and nobody else is even approaching it right now. It's out of this world, especially when it ends and she gives a little sass, saying she wouldn't have chosen it because she's not about to beg a man to stay. Work." Work, indeed. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... They're Not Kidding Around on The 100 The CW NOOOOO: Showrunner Jason Rothenberg wasn't joking when he said he was down to kill anyone who The 100's world can no longer allow to survive (and possibly anyone who's cast in another show). While Clarke and fans were still reeling from Lexa's death a few weeks ago, we were forced to mourn all over again at the loss of Lincoln -- LINCOLN! -- in Thursday's episode.