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THIS ISSUE: MTV Movie Awards, Fear the Walking Dead, Quantico, Billions, Game of Thrones TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT MTV Movie Awards Get Serious With Trailers and Silly With Everything Else MTV BECAUSE: Trailers, and trailers, and clips -- OH MY! You may think you've aged out of the MTV Movie Awards, but if you were looking for intel on the years' biggest Blockbusters (or maybe just The Lonely Island doing a kick-ass medley of Generation Award winner Will Smith's best jams), it was the only place to be. The Movie Awards debuted brand new footage of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Suicide Squad, Captain America: Civil War, AND a first look at Kong: Skull Island. Okay, and there was also an extended shot of Zac Efron apologizing to Seth Rogen's testicles, so... never change, MTV. READ OUR RECAP Fear the Walking Dead AMC WHAT HAPPENED: Ain't no party like a Strand yacht party, 'cause a Strand yacht party don't stop... 'cause its running away from zombies and the captain has already met his "mercy quota." In Fear the Walking Dead's season 2 premiere, Travis, Madison, Salazar, and their remaining family members make it from Strand's mansion to his boat, but as EW recapper Jonathan Dornbush points out, "There are just as many threats and moral quandaries waiting for them on the high seas as there were on the streets of their hometown." Strand makes it clear that the Abigail only stops to drop people off, not pick them up, and that includes Alicia's new radio boyfriend, Jack, to whom she gives away their location. In fact, teenage discretion rules the premiere's final moments, as Chris decides to go for a random swim and Nick jumps in after him only to discover that walkers have also taken to the high seas; and when Alicia tells Jack they can't come rescue his boat, she gets this ominously calm response: "I got you. See you soon." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Quick question: is a walker still a walker when it's a floater? Sea zombies certainly set Fear the Walking Dead apart from its sister show, a move The Daily Beast wants more of as the show explores the"post-apocalyptic moral quandaries -- is there room for kindness and generosity in a world ruled by fear? Is it possible to survive without killing fellow human beings?" TBD. READ OUR RECAP Quantico ABC WHAT HAPPENED: They're no god, they're no good, they're no good, Shelby's parents are no good. But they are, at least, here finally -- in the past timeline, the NATs assignment has them trying to gain passport-less access to remote and unruly lands of Canada (ha. ha. ha.). That leads to a lot more nudity than expected for some, but for Shelby, it means she's able to finally meet her very-much-still-alive parents. Did you expect that parents who faked their deaths and ditched their own kid so they wouldn't get blamed for 9/11 would be no-good garbage people? Then you were right! Laura and Glenn only got in touch with Shelby so she'd give them money, but when Caleb figures that out, he gives them $5 million behind Shelby's back to stay out of her life forever. That seems like something that could eventually lead to the iciness we've seen from Shelby in the present timeline, where she's yada-yada-Will-yada suddenly revealed to be the getaway driver for The Voice (the terrorist group that's taking Will and Simon, not the bromantic NBC show). WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Okaaaay, so is Shelby a terrorist working for Team Voice then? Or maybe even the person behind this entire terrorist plot? Showrunner Josh Safran gave EW some answers... well, sort of: "All I can tell you is that the audience won't have to go very long before seeing [Shelby] again and learning a bigger piece of the puzzle. We were very excited about that moment for a very long time. When we came up with the arc for the second half of the season, we laid this out very neatly, and we always knew it was coming. The answers to Shelby's position will be clear in two weeks." Sounds like we'll just have to be patient then, and try not to fake our own deaths in the meantime. READ OUR RECAP Billions Showtime WHAT HAPPENED: "There are a lot of tough jobs out there," says EW recapper Ray Rahman: "Construction worker, welder, Donald Trump campaign manager. But probably no job out there is as hard as wife on Billions." The series really drives that home in its season 1 finale; while Lara merely has to come up with a plan to leave her entire life behind and escape with the kids to Europe should things go south for Bobby, Wendy Rhoades is the unlucky wife who has both Bobby and Chuck testing her trust. And, of course, they both betray it -- and both manage to lose Wendy in the process, making their already about-to-boil over rivalry all the more bitter. By the end of the finale, the gauntlets to set up season 2 have been thrown; Axelrod: "When I take a deal off the table, I leave Nagasaki behind." Rhoades: "The only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources is one with nothing to lose. And that is what you're looking at right here." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: And with that, Billions' finale proved that it's a series worth watching. And Variety's recap says that's for a pretty simple reason: "Sharply written and tailor-made to its two marquee stars, Billionsdeals with plenty of weighty issues but proved most enjoyable for an attribute that a lot of premium-cable dramas can tend to forget: Fun." Billions may not be the grandiose show that brings Showtime, well... billions, but as Variety points out, "In chronicling contemporary gamesmanship involving a certain brand of royalty, Billions has, both creatively and practically, yielded a pretty nice and consistent return on investment." So, really, there's only one thing left for fans to decide: Team Axe or Team Rhoades? READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Game of Thrones Is Coming HBO SECRETS, SECRETS: The first and only glimpse of the ultra-mysterious season 6 Game of Thrones premiere that will air before April 24th debuted at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday night. And while EW would lose its head for revealing any big secrets from the hour, we've got loads of first impressions to get you excited (but still unsullied). A little taste from EW reviewer James Hibbard: "There are some scenes that are genuinely shocking. As in: Even hardcore fans full of speculation about the new season won't see some twists coming."