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THIS ISSUE: The 100, Scandal, The Blacklist, Legends of Tomorrow, Project Runway All-Stars TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT The 100 Goes Radioactive... Again The CW BECAUSE: The 100 deftly deployed a nostalgia bomb on Thursday night, bringing back one of the lesser aspects of its pilot, and reclaiming it as a powerful moment. "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons played when the 100 landed in the pilot, and so, a much more emotional cover of the same song played in flashbacks of them boarding their ship in Thursday's episode. That, and the reminder of what the characters looked like when they were clean, well... like we said, nostalgia bomb. READ OUR RECAP Scandal ABC WHAT HAPPENED: It's important to just stay calm and remember that in the world of Scandal, Abby and Olivia could always come back together again. But as of now, they're on opposite ends of the playing field. In Thursday's episode, there's a key endorsement up for grabs from Florida's governor. Mellie and Susan -- and therefore Olivia and Abby, respectively -- are in a race to get it; though, it's not much of a race when Abby is preventing Mellie's plane from leaving the tarmac via Air Force One. So Mellie takes things into her own hands, marches herself off her plane, and right over to Fitz' to have a much photographed conversation with her ex-husband, and it's mostly normal and civil... y'know until Fitz tells Mellie that Liv killed Andrew with her own two hands. And let's just say that is a truth that Olivia isn't dealing so well with herself. Everybody makes it to Florida, Susan Ross gets the coveted endorsement, and -- would you look at that, it's Hollis Doyle who wins the primary anyway. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Them's politics! And that's fine -- Scandal'sversion of Florida can damn themselves to Doyle if they want to. ButScandal's showrunners have full control over their storyline, and must they pit Abby and Olivia, who are ever so much better when they're together, against each other?! Vulture has a laundry list of the issues with their enemy-status throwdown in Thursday's episode: "These silly women need to chill because they are both out of their minds. That's one. Two, Liv won the presidency for Fitz by breaking the law, so she didn't earn it. She stole it. Three, I'm sick of Abby (even though her hair is mad cute) because she didn't even want to be in power a month ago. This sudden character change has me bored to tears. Four, it's the middle of the night." Exactly! But however we weathered this storm, we seem to have made it through to the other side because the end of the episode has Abby and Olivia at least agreeing on a common enemy moving forward: Hollis. Doyle. READ OUR RECAP The Blacklist NBC WHAT HAPPENED: We're two episodes deep on The Blacklist's post-Lizzie world, and though we got a full hour of Red grieving her death last week, this Thursday showed us the full range of her friends and co-workers' mourning. Following Cooper's emotional eulogy at her (closed casket) funeral, Aram is having the hardest time dealing with Liz's loss, but he's also the Post Office team member who makes the most headway on their number one mission:discovering who was after Lizzie in the first place. Red, on the other hand, is still M.I.A. from his former team, seeking out anyone -- whether in his head, or this time, in the flesh -- who had a connection to Lizzie. That's how he finds himself at... her grandfather's doorstep! All this time we've been waiting for Katarina, and we got her father instead. He stayed away from "Masha" her entire life to protect her, something he says Red was unable to do. But Red must at least protect her in death, and after a rousing speech from Aram, he shows back up: "Strap on your bike helmet -- we're going to work." And Aram and Tom's sleuthing combined already offers up a good lead for him: guest star Famke Janssen who they've found hanging around all the wrong people, leading Tom to determine, "I think we're staring at Katarina Rostova." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: For as many plot explosions as there were -- Lizzie's first biological family member! Potential Katarina Rostova! -- this was a very emotional episode of The Blacklist that took the time to explore how each individual Post Office member might deal with the loss of a friend, finally giving us the opportunity to spend some extra time with Aram, who has always been the series' beating heart. Actor Amir Arison told EW, "Dealing with grief and trying to work, trying to do your job facing that amount of griefand that amount of feeling like we all failed, was probably the hardest thing I've done on the series." Of the future, Arison assured, "That hunt for justice I think is what keeps Aram, Red, and the team moving forward as opposed to just wallowing in it in a pit of self-pity or failure." READ OUR RECAP Legends of Tomorrow The CW WHAT HAPPENED: It comes down to a big ol' robot and a tiny lil' braceletwhen the Legends arrived in 2166 London, both the time and place that saw Savage at the height of his tyrannical power, and just a few days before he kills Rip's wife and children. Ironically, it's a chance run-in with Cassandra Savage, Vandal's own daughter, that gives the Legends a much needed advantage: Kendra spotted Cassandra wearing her Egyptian bracelet -- a bracelet they can use to kill Savage. But the crew discovers one more, ahem,hugely important thing while trying to save refugees from a Resistance camp: that would be Savage's ultimate weapon, a giant robot nicknamed "the Leviathan." After the Leviathan plays with the Waverider like a Tonka truck, Ray and Jax figure out a way to reverse-engineer his Atom suit to grow him instead of shrink him (or as we call it in the biz, "a Pacific Rim"). And after an insane fight, Ray is able to rip the Leviathan's head off, and Kendra nearlykills Savage with the melted down bracelet that his daughter forked over... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Only to discover that he currently has Carter working as his soldier, with no memories of his past lives. And if she kills Savage now, she'll never be able to save Carter. But still -- Vandal Savage is captured! And that's a big win for the Legends, and Thursday's episode is an even bigger win for the series. As IGN says in their review, "Legends of Tomorrow still has several weeks left before the Season 1 finale, but you almost wouldn't know it from watching this week's episode. 'Leviathan' was by far the most visually extravagant episode to date ... [Thursday's] episode was big, it was dramatic, and it was pretty much exactly what the show needed to start rebuilding momentum as it reaches the final stretch of Season 1." READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... And Then There Were Three Lifetime TO FASHION WEEK!: Nina Garcia in the house! And boy, did the Project Runway OG bring her patented sass to determining the final 3. At the end of Thursday's pattern-mixing challenge, the judges were still undecided on who to eliminate, so it came down to a one-hour design-off between Ken and Sam. And finally, after a full season of the other designers calling for his teacher's pet head, Sam had made his final jumpsuit.