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THIS ISSUE: iZombie, Game of Silence, The Mindy Project, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Brooklyn Nine-Nine TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Everyone Is Feeling A Little "Unwell" The CW BECAUSE: The iZombie season 2 finale was full of game-changing revelations (Clive knows! Clive finally knows!!), but we have to hand the most hilariously surprising moment to that Super Max launch party ending in a human buffet that included Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas as "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. I know right now you can't tell..." played in the background. Considering one of the show's creators is also named Rob Thomas, that was one deliciously metaphorical brain munch. READ OUR RECAP Game of Silence NBC WHAT HAPPENED: If you loved Sleepers but wish that they'd spread the trauma out over a TV season and set it in Texas, then you're in luck! Okay, okay, maybe no one was actually looking for an unofficial Sleepers reboot... but still, Game of Silence has some bones to it and as EW recapper Ariel Kay says, "[The new series] does a good job in the pilot of establishing the moral code of its universe and what's at stake for each character." Those characters are Jackson, Shawn, and Gil, who are all brought back together in their small Texas town when their other childhood friend Boots is arrested for nearly beating a man to death. The man in question is Darryl, one of the boys' tormenters when they were 12-year-olds locked up at Quitman Youth Detention Facility for stealing a car and causing a near fatal accident. Forced to relive their traumatic -- and we mean capital-T traumatic -- time at Quitman, the boys-to-men set their sights on revenge, finishing the job Boots started. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Jackson, the now-successful lawyer who escaped his small town life, is treated as Game of Silence's semi-protagonist, but The New York Times says it's Gil who will hook the audience: "Every story about a group secret needs a loose cannon ... and Michael Raymond-James' portrayal of him injects a sense of ominous unpredictability into this well-made revenge thriller." This pilot isn't perfect, but as with its spiritual prequel, given the brutality at play here, Game of Silence will live and die on its characters and performances just as much as its secrets and lies. Gil gives the pilot that promising thrum of tension. READ OUR RECAP The Mindy Project Hulu WHAT HAPPENED: Uh oh -- there's Drama in RomCom-land. Fans finally got the answer to that will-they-or-won't they question (the decidedly less fun kind) in Tuesday's Mindy Project midseason return via a lovely little vignette montage, which ended with Mindy returning Danny's engagement ring. And by episode's end, with a little encouragement from finding a strange tube of lipstick in Danny's apartment, Mindy has decided if she's ever really going to get over her grumpy former dream man, she's going to have to make a clean break, aka, no more eggplant emojis (to indicate fresh eggplant parm, of course). The question now is how Danny will continue to fit into the show. Consider us signed onto EW recapper C. Molly Smith's dream: "The woman who left lipstick at Danny's discovers Mindy stole it and confronts her about it, surprisingly sparking a beautiful friendship between the two that endlessly perplexes the man who brought them together -- and, more importantly, Leo becomes the star his mother wanted him to be, launching Mindy's new chapter as a (part-time, of course) stage mother." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: While it's definitely an interesting (and, ugh, realistic) move to split up the couple that this rom-com has been working on getting and keeping together for seasons, one has to wonder where it's all headed. That's why EW spoke to Mindy Kaling herself, and don't worry, the series is in very good and serious hands: "Most of the plot moves on this show are the result of consultations with my psychic, Madam Mysterioso. She thought it would be fun to watch a show where Mindy tries to date as a 30-something single mom. She told me that in real life there are no happy endings, and to beware the number 17. We have a great relationship. I showed her how to put Hulu on her TV." And to answer your question, Mme. Mysterioso was keeping totally mum on the chances of Mindy and Danny reuniting -- boo! READ OUR RECAP Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Once Hive (née Ward) came into the S.H.I.E.L.D.,Gideon Malick became kind of a second-fiddle villain. But in Tuesday night's episode, the show works to give him a little history, to mixed results. We get flashbacks to little Malick that show his once strong relationship with his brother... y'know until he remembered that he's a thoroughbred villain and as aBachelor contestant once said, "Villains gotta vil." Indeed, Gideon gets his brother a one-way ticket to becoming a Hive sacrifice. Of course, now that Hive is back on Earth, wearing Ward like a slimy sleeping bag, and given that Hive absorbs all of his sacrifices' memories, that leads to an extra-creepy Hive/Malick stand-off in which Hive hisses, "What happened to, 'Together to the end,' brother?" But in a twist, instead of returning the deathly favor to Malick, Hive consumes his daughter Stephanie... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Who, despite being played by the always splendid Bethany Joy Lenz, we barely knew anything about. We'll point you to Vulture to for some commentary on how Stephanie's death was "the supervillain equivalent of a 'fridging'" because there's one other big thing we have to get to: Secret Warriors -- ASSEMBLE! Well... almost. While Malick got his backstory, the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were hunting a Kree artifact to help stop Hive, but everyone got themselves taken hostage by Giyera in the process. Well, everyone except Daisy and Lincoln, who invoke the name of the mysterious "Secret Warriors." That's why EW caught up with executive producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen to get a little extra scoop on what to expect: "There should be some excitement," Whedon offered. "I can't say much, but we have two other people out in the world now with their little watches waiting for a call, so it should be fun seeing them get it." We'll be waiting patiently on that call, as well. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Holt Is Such A Samantha Fox BROOKLYN AND THE CITY: A few lines from Tuesday night's funnier-than-funny Brooklyn Nine-Nine to whet the palette (and wouldn't you know it, they're both from Holt as a well-researched fan of Sex and the City ): "Quite a big package you've got there. Oh, I apologize for the double entendre. I can be such a Samantha," and "If you ask me, they never should have made the movie. Abu Dhabi? Abu don't bother."