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THIS ISSUE: The Walking Dead, Shameless, Once Upon a Time, The Academy of Country Music Awards TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT The Walking Dead Finale Leaves Us Hanging AMC BECAUSE: Well, Negan, his barbed wire bat Lucille, and his tendency to completely misuse childhood guessing games finally made it onto The Walking Dead in the season 6 finale. But instead of eeny, meeny, miny murder, he only brought with him... another cliffhanger. We watched from the perspective of the captured Alexandrians as Negan lined up his bat and swung... and swung... and swung. As for who the victim was, it's only speculation until season 7. READ OUR RECAP The Walking Dead AMC WHAT HAPPENED: There are still a few major TWD finale questions to address, like: Exactly how many Saviors are there? Rick needs to get Maggie to the Hilltop to see a doctor, and takes along with them just about every person you care about in Alexandria who hasn't already been captured by Negan. Along the way, they run into huge groups of Saviors at every turn, telling them it's time to cave to Negan's demands. Or as EW recapper Jonathon Dornbush puts it, "[Negan's] just playing with his food first." Because the final Savior trap that they can no longer evade is the man himself -- Negan steps out of their very own captured RV, wielding his bat Lucille, to stand in front of all of Rick's crew, as well as Daryl, Michonne, Glenn, and Rosita. Negan wants their stuff, and they're out of maneuvers to keep it from him. And he's not going to kill them all because he wants them working for him -- no, he's just going to kill one. But it's so hard to choose... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Probably because the villain has almost every principal character lined up in front of him. So who's it going to be? In EW.com's poll of fans, Glenn has a big lead as the Alexandrian assumed dead, with Abraham and Daryl behind him. Or course, pregnant Maggie is also there, and the Rick/Michonne/Carl familial unit... it's all just too much! But if you're worried, TOO BAD, because executive producers Scott M. Gimple and Robert Kirkman went on The Talking Dead just after the finale aired to say, with this cliffhanger, they have us just where they want us. Kirkman said he was felling "oddly great" about where the show is headed in season 7, following the repercussions of Negan's mystery kill, and Gimple added on, "We want you to be one of those people in that lineup. We want you to feel that suspense and that terror and that pain, and we're going to deliver you a story next season that justifies it." Mission accomplished, fellas, now please -- please -- make it worth it. READ OUR RECAP Shameless Showtime WHAT HAPPENED: You've watched Shameless, right? There's no way anyone was really expecting for things to end up happily ever after for poor, forever-doomed Fiona... or, well, any of the Gallaghers. Let's get to the one good thing first: Ian went back to his boss, owned up to his bipolar disorder, and pleaded for his job back -- and he got it! Everything else, however, went terribly. Frank busts in on Sean and Fiona's wedding to expose Sean as a heroin user in front of the entire family and Sean's son. Sean admits to Fiona that he has been using for the last few months, makes no promises to stop, and tells her he has to go after his son. As Fiona presumably sang Avril Lavigne's "My Happy Ending" in her head, Youens -- operating on saint-level at this point -- drove Lip to rehab and promised to pay for it, and help him get a job afterward. We've seen Youens repeatedly stick his out neck out for Lip; earlier we saw a very Good Will Hunting-esque scene where Lip's loved ones tell him not to waste his winning lottery ticket; we don't, however, see Lip walk into rehab. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: But fear not, says actor Jeremy Allen White! He can't know for sure yet what happens with Lip either, but told EW what hewants to happen: "I hope that Lip walks in... Lip's struggle really for the whole series has been just to not end up like Frank. [Going to rehab would be] a big step in just trying to get away from becoming like his father." White knows that "this world we've created is harsh," and that getting help for addictions and self-destructive behavior just really isn't something the Gallaghers do... but just like the fans, he can't stop hoping for some kind of happy ending... really, we'll take anything! READ OUR RECAP Once Upon a Time ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Tasked with doing Hades' bidding, Rumple creates a portal from the Underworld into Storybrooke that is supposed to let only Hades come and go as he pleases. However, a little portal snafu quickly has it working in reverse, taking Belle, Zelena (?!) and Baby Hood down into Hades. And wouldn't you know it, Zelena and Hades have a past. While trying to conquer time travel together -- honestly, what is happening?! -- Hades began to fall in love with Zelena, but she rejected him, concerned that he simply wanted her Secret Family Recipe for time travel. But all these years later, now in the scenic Underworld, Hades tells Zelena he still loves her, he modeled the Underworld after Storybrooke just for her, and that baby snatching? Also in her honor apparently. But Zelena still can't trust him, because it's hard to trust evil -- just ask Belle. Reunited with Rumple, he explains that whole, "Saw that you were pregnant in a crystal ball, and oh yeah, I promised my second-born to Hades" thing, and it rightly makes her a little nervous. She's going to need him to get out of his Hades contract before she can trust their future together. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Once Upon a Time's villains have long made for some of the most fascinating character development, as shown by Hades and Zelena; but in Sunday's episode, the A.V. Club thought it went even further than that -- the villains right now are so good, it makes the rest seem bad: "OUAT has packed (some would say, overloaded) its cast with a ton of dead weight, which just makes vibrant performers like Greg Germann and Rebecca Mader stand out all the more. Germann can make someone as heinous as Hades sympathetic, and he musters up actual chemistry between himself and Mader's Zelena, on a bicycle yet." The solution seems simple: more villains, more bicycles. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... The ACMs Had Big Surprises and Even Bigger Hits CBS A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY: You can see the full lists of winners for the Academy of Country Music Awards at EW.com, but just know this: Chris Stapleton remains the reigning king of stunning awards show performances, Katy Perry and Dolly Parton have recently become best friends for life, and Carrie Underwood has a new song that you need to know about.