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THIS ISSUE: Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, Quantico, The Good Wife TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT HE'S ALIVE HBO BECAUSE: Jon. Snow. LIVES. Just to be clear: we don't know anything about that newly rediscovered consciousness, given to him by Melisandre and her tenuous channel to the Lord o' Light. All we know is that Davos asked her if she could help a Lord Commander out with a little resurrection action, she did her best, thought she failed, and everyone left the room only to have Jon's dark-as-the-Night's-Watch eyes shoot open faster than a wildling giant swatting a man to the ground. READ OUR RECAP Game of Thrones HBO WHAT HAPPENED: And that ain't all, folks! As far as anticipated storylines go, Sunday's was one of GoT'sbiggest ever. Let's see, where shall we start... the Three-Eyed Raven is in the building! Well, technically he's in some weird tree -- after not hearing from Bran for years, the lil' Stark is back and he's warging into the past with a new mentor, the Three-Eyed Raven. They see Ned and Benjen Stark chatting with their much-discussed sister, Lyanna. Over in Meereen, Tyrion is intent on becoming best buds with Dany's leftover dragons, and whether it is because of a special connection or extensive study in dragon obedience school, the half-man gets the dragons to trust him as a friend and he unbolts their chains. Yeah, hold onto that fiery-warm thought while you endure this turn of events: After hearing that Walda has indeed birthed a boy (and rightful Bolton heir), Ramsay takes the opportunity to stab and murder his father, tell the Maester/witness to send word that Roose was poisoned by their enemies... oh, and to call for Walda and the baby. And then he lures his step-mother and infant brother into the kennels and releases the hounds. Effin' Ramsay... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: And even beyond that there was so much more to this episode -- Arya is no one again! Sansa and Theon! Hodor used to speak, for goodness' sake! -- but it's hard to think much further past those all-important words: Jon Snow lives. EW caught up with actor Kit Harrington exclusively to get the lowdown on the secret he's had to keep for nearly a year, and this is what he wanted to say first: "Sorry!" Harrington continued, "I'd like to say sorry for lying to everyone. I'm glad that people were upset that he died. I think my biggest fear was that people were not going to care. Or it would just be, 'Fine, Jon Snow's dead.' But it seems like people had a, similar to the Red Wedding episode, kind of grief about it. Which means something I'm doing -- or the show is doing -- is right." Oh, buddy -- we cared, everything was not fine, and once again, everything will not be fine until we get some more answers about Jon and Melisandre's new party trick in next week's episode. READ OUR RECAP Penny Dreadful Showtime WHAT HAPPENED: Penny Dreadful is finally back, and leading lady Vanessaisn't doing so great. The crew has been flung far and wide -- Malcolm is delivering Sembene to Africa, the Creature is mercy-killing in the Arctic, and worst of all, Ethan is in America -- and Vanessa is dealing with it all in steely solitude. That is, until Ferdinand and his perfect scruff show up to help her get it together, honey. The man causing her such anguish is Ethan, who's currently being extradited across the Wild (Wild) West, only to be re-extradited from his extradition by a gang of bandits. It ends in a supremely bloody shootout, but no time to dwell on the gore because the focus zooms over to Zanzibar where Malcolm is being rescued by a mysterious man named Kaetenay who tells him together they must find and help "he who is almost my son," a.k.a., Ethan. And finally a little bit of that creepy action we love: Vanessa goes to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Sprewell, who's exciting not only because she's played by Patti LuPone, but because she's eerily familiar... as is the name of her creepy assistant who introduces himself thusly: "My name is Dracula." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: All of Sunday's episode centers on October 6, 1892, the day of Alfred Lord Tennyson's death. Vanessa hints in her letter to Malcolm that the Poet Laureate's death has zapped the light from London, allowing the shadows of the underworld to take its place. But Penny Dreadful'spremiere made it clear that season 3 will turn its otherworldly eyes upon much more than just London. As the A.V. Club points out in its praise of the premiere: "Writer John Logan and director Damon Thomas have vastly expanded the show's scope, and what was already a lavish production is taken to new heights. What was once pure Gothic horror adds elements of the Western to its palette, and the narrative moves fluidly from London to Africa to the New Mexico Territory and the frozen Arctic as it catches up with (most of) our regular characters and introduces a few new ones." Among those new characters: Henry Jekyll, college BFF of Victor Frankenstein, but of course. READ OUR RECAP Quantico ABC WHAT HAPPENED: After Sunday's shocking terrorist reveal, EW recapper Dalene Rovenstine feels it's important to remind: "Trust nothing. That is the theme of Quantico." For example, Sunday's episode has led us to believe that Drew is the mastermind behind The Voice. But do we really think that Drew -- pretty, pretty Drew -- organized all those terrorist attacks? Well, either way,he sure thinks he's an evil genius. Once Alex and Shelby discover in the present timeline that Drew is the John Doe patient with radiation poisoning similar to Will's, he wakes up and asks if they've gotten Ryan yet. See, when Drew was working for a private security firm, the Voice threatened his family if he didn't do some work for them. That work involved dropping a nuclear fuel core off in Yonkers two days ago, which he saw Ryan pick up. So he gives Alex a flashdrive that will help decrypt Ryan's passwords, and she of course plugs that sucker right in, but oh -- WHOOPS! She actually just downloaded a terrorist manifesto onto Ryan's computer because Drew has been framing him this whole time. He instructs Alex to head to Ryan's car, get in, and drive -- just ignore the bomb in the passenger seat, k? WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Hey Drew, WTF? What causes a former NFL star to turn against the FBI and start terrorizing his nation? Well, showrunner Josh Safran told EW that he always knew the terrorists on the inside would be part of the Quantico world, and once he decided that he wanted it to be someone from the vetting class, he knew it had to be Drew who had "the most to lose and the most animosity toward the FBI." Yeah, exactly what is up with all that animosity? According to Safran, "It's the FBI for failing him for something that was beyond his control, and something that isn't necessarily even true. [The shaking] could simply have been nerves or anxiety... it was beyond his control, and he lost so much. That was the motivation, not so much what he has against Alex." READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Rated "M" for Mares HBO A HORSE OF AN EPISODE: We're just going to come right out and say it: Sunday's episode of Silicon Valley featured a horse sex scene. Like... two horses... having sex... with each other... and Richard just a few feet away.