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THIS ISSUE: New Girl, The Flash, The Night Manager, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Voice TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT New Girl Ties The Knot With Tradition Fox BECAUSE: We've got two words for you: True. American. Alright and three more: First Ladies Edition! And what better way to celebrate Schmidt and Cece finally tying the knot on New Girl? Of course, True American has its next-day repercussions, and due to a series of hijinks, Schmidt didn't actually make it to his Cece... so those two crazy kids got married in the loft, and we are definitely, definitely not crying about Schmidt using the Douchebag Jar for his breaking of the glass. The Flash The CW WHAT HAPPENED: Get ready for a trippy tippety-trip-trip with Barry "The Flash" Allen -- for there is no outrunning tragedy. In Monday's episode, Barry wakes up in an alternate reality where various important players in his life act as a human visage of the Speed Force. The Speed Force has a mission for him before he can return to his world with his powers fully restored: there's a speedster running around outside and Barry needs to catch it. Oh, and there's also the small matter of facing the tragedies in his past, namely, his mother's death. In steps Mrs. Allen as the final Speed Force representative, and as EW recapper Jonathon Dorbush notes, this scene is all about Grant Gustin's moving performance: "The grief he portrays is so honest in the way it's conveyed, the desire to feel better mixed with the debilitating worry that youmay never be able to find that peace." But with the help of his mother, Barry does find some peace, and the Speed Force recognizes that he is ready to regain his powers. The rogue speedster is, of course, himself, and after he catches up with his speed, he's brought back to Earth-1 to reconnect with Iris (!!!), defeat zombified Girder, and prepare himself and his team for his inevitable face-off with Zoom. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: There's a good reason Tuesday's episode ofThe Flash seemed so... out of the ordinary: it was directed by prolific filmmaker and lifelong comic book fan Kevin Smith. In a narrative as trippy as his episode (more laughs than tears, though), Smith explained to EW in his own words how he came to direct an episode of The CW series, or as he calls it, "the shirtless boy network." Turns out, Smith got wind of the King Shark episode of The Flash, though that was a pretty ballsy comic book character for a TV show to take on, started watching the show, got hooked, posted a video of himself on YouTube weeping at the season 1 finale, and the rest was history (well, the rest is about 3,000 words written by Kevin Smith himself that you can find on EW.com). Of working with star Grant Gustin, Smith wrote, "Grant's process was amazing. This kid is going to win an Oscar one day." He quickly clarified, "Certainly not for playing The Flash, because it's a TV show, but they're lucky to have him and he's lucky to have them as well... The dude's true grit, he's an amazing actor." The Night Manager AMC WHAT HAPPENED: Get excited -- EW recapper Kevin Sullivan thinks Tuesday's The Night Manager is the series' best episode yet: "Characters are evolving, actions have consequences, and the stakes are very, very high."Those stakes are high because Jonathan Pine has completed his transformation into Andrew Birch, and apparently a thing that Andrew Birch does is sleep with Jed, which seems... perilous. Richard Roper is not a man you want to upset, especially after hearing Burr's breakdown of her history of him (and seeing Olivia Coleman's performance), telling Pine how Roper got into the arms game after witnessing a combo mustard-and-sarin gas attack, specifically engineered to make sure Iraqi schoolchildren suffered and no one survived. After finding out Pine has potentially compromised his position with Jed, Burr is ready to pull him even though they still have no hard evidence on Roper. So Pine makes his own call -- he sells out other agents to protect his cover. The question is: exactly who is he trying to protect? WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The New York Times wasn't quite as taken with the installment, saying that "the grimaces, the searching looks and thestock images of bureaucrats blowing gaskets ... the drum beats creating tension where we felt none; Dickie Roper's tightly clenched cigar. The burning sunset. The cool white house filled with hot Spanish blood," all rang mannered and fake. But even in a polarizing episode, no one can deny that Angela Burr is the highlight (and that's even in an hour featuring #Hiddlesbum), with theTimes calling her an always welcome presence on screen: "crisp, funny, and understated, keeping us off balance with sentences that seem to lack standard punctuation." Obviously, we agree. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Finally -- a Lincoln we can root for! So basically, a Lincoln that's being given explicit instructions by May on how to take down Hive, save Daisy, and probably not be killed in the process. Hooray for a good plan, hooray for May! Said plan: Lincoln convinces Daisy that he's trying to escape S.H.I.E.L.D. and to let a Quinjet into Hive's lair. But when that Quinjet turns out not to be manned by Lincoln, but by Lash, ready to monster mash it out with Hive, It. Is. On. Lash gives Hive his damnedest, and definitely harms the villain, though he doesn't end him, quickly switching his attention to removing Hive's parasites from Daisy, saving her from Hive's control and sending her back to the safety of S.H.I.E.L.D. only to be killed by one of Hive's men. When the team learns what happened, that Lash sacrificed his own safety to save Daisy, Jemma tells a heartbroken May, "That wasn't Lash." Goodbye, Andrew. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Tuesday's episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. was very much focused on the redemption of Lash, but the whole point of May and Lincoln's plan was to save Daisy. Only future episodes can tell us if it was all in vain. Fair warning though -- actor Chloe Bennett told EW that fans shouldn't expect the Daisy that returns to S.H.I.E.L.D. to be the same one that we've come to know: "She's so deeply broken up about it that she can't even exposehow she actually feels to her team. She's so upset that she feels like she can't even look at the team, let alone be upset about it in front of them." Feel better soon, Daisy -- it's going to take some teamwork to take down the Hive-man. One More Thing... The Voice Prepares for a Vocal Bloodbath NBC WINTER IS COMING: Paxton Ingram and Nick Hagelin battled it out for one last spot in the Top 8 on The Voice Tuesday night, which was surely a tough spot to be in -- but you know what's a tougher spot? Half of the remaining eight contestants (including survivor Nick Hagelin) being axed next week. Prepare yourselves.