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THIS ISSUE: Dancing With the Stars, The Bachelorette, Blindspot, The Voice, Gotham TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT DWTS Freestyles to the Finale ABC BECAUSE: We'll hand the mic straight to DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba: "I have to say, in 22 seasons, that's the best dance I've ever seen." Now, our girl Carrie Ann is known to sling a little hyperbole, but after watching Nyle and Peta's dark and moving freestyle to a reworked "The Sound of Silence," we would definitely put it up there. But you can't score more than a trio o' 10s, and considering Paige and Ginger earned the same marks for their (also stellar) freestyles in part one of DWTS' season 22 finale, Tuesday night's part two is anybody's game.

The Bachelorette ABC WHAT HAPPENED: But don't think we've forgotten about fair JoJo! Ben may have only loved her second most on The Bachelor, but when it came to dating dudes and making them sweaty and speechless with her hotness, there was only one pick for America. It was simply impossible to pick one single moment from her debut as America's new Bachelorette on Monday night though: Was it that a guy showed up in a Santa suit and proceeded to mostly say "Jo Jo Jo Jo" all night? Was it that JoJo proceeded to keep that guy? Or maybe you'd hand the honors to Daniel, the male model who spent the night getting sloshed, taking off all his clothes, and trying to explain the "Damn Daniel" meme to JoJo, who's spent the last three months sequestered from the internet? Or was it that Jojo then proceeded to also keep that guy?! No, no, it was surely JoJo's authentic first-night connections with her new boyfriends: First came Jordan, brother of Aaron Rodgers and sweeper of feet to score the first impression rose, followed up by Chad, ruiner of lives and the absolute worst. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: There are pretty much three things everyone agrees on about Monday's much-anticipated Bachelorette premiere: Jordan -- what with his sexy kiss and sexy face and sexy career as a "Former Pro Quarterback" -- is the clear frontrunner for JoJo's heart; Chad is a complete and total butthead; and the only reason to get through two hours of awkward limo introductions is to get to the always-bonkers, always-full-of-misdirects "This Season On" trailer. We'll let YahooTV sum up the highlights in upcoming tomfoolery for you: "Jordan, Alex, Grant, and Robby confess their love; the guys decide Jordan the '27-year-old football player' is not here for the right reasons; Robby is accused of having an off-camera girlfriend; and Chad's "alpha-male" douchery continues. While I doubt he really beats James T. to a pulp as we're lead to believe, I am excited to see Harrison give Chad a talking to about his constant 'threats of violence.' Hooray for testosterone!" Hooray, indeed.

Blindspot NBC WHAT HAPPENED: Break out your flow chart because Blindspot has a mind-warping revelation at the top of its season 1 finale: Jane is not, in fact, Taylor Shaw. Weller's father confesses to killing Taylor Shaw years ago and Weller finds her buried at one of their favorite childhood spots, which is... a tough break, to say the least. Just as tough: Jane had to put an ax in Oscar's chest after he took her to a creepy house and threatened to wipe her memory again -- but before the axing, Oscar reveals to her that she's been following the direction of some sketch ball named Shepherd whose plan was to oust Mayfair and replace her with the less-corrupt Weller. Only, the less-corrupt Weller, being less corrupt and all, has already started to put all this together, is not really down for it, and arrests Jane on sight. Even though Jane was on her way to tell Weller the truth, we have a feeling they're going to have to put a pause on their occasional makeout sessions in season 2. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Speaking of season 2, fans of Blindspot don't have to just sit and twiddle their thumbs all summer long while they wait for Jane and Weller to return -- no, executive producer Martin Gero has a summer-long social scavenger hunt planned. Just as there was a plan and a purpose for the anagrammed episode titles in the first half of the season, the second half also had instructions hidden inside for fans (don't worry, EW has some helpful tips), which will yield a phone number when decoded, that kicks off the interstice adventure. And if you're thinking it might be simple, Gero tells EW, "We're working with [New York Times crossword puzzle expert] David Kwong, NBC, and Warner Bros to really build out some amazing and fun puzzles with some great prizes all summer... We just want to get people excited about puzzles." Don't we all, don't we all.

The Voice NBC WHAT HAPPENED: And then there were four: Laith Al-Saadi, Adam Wakefield, Alisan Porter, and Hannah Huston all had exactly three more chances to earn America's votes on part one of The Voice finale Monday night. First came the cover that needed to be better than all their previous covers combined -- we'll give that round to Alisan who infused "Somewhere" fromWest Side Story with enough elegance and romance to float a dinner boat, ending with one of her patented explosive finishes. Then came the duets, the least important of the finale's trio of performances, but it did give us that surprisingly satisfying and gritty Beatles medley between Laith Al-Saadi and Adam Levine. And finally, the all-important original song, and as far as which contestant won that round... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Well that's really up to anyone's interpretation. Fans of pop infused with a little country are sure to appreciate Alisan's emotionally resonant ballad, "Down That Road." And enunciation be damned, EW recapper Amanda Bell had to shout out Adam Wakefield's "Lonesome, Broken and Blue" as "[belonging] on the radio, like, yesterday because lyrically, technically, and everyotherwhichwayly, it's pretty perfect for its intended audience." But as TVLine points out, the return of the original songs makes it far fuzzier "whether the contestant with the strongest overall body of work/most impressive trio of Monday night performances ... can stand at the eye of the Coaching Popularity Hurricane (which is located at the edge of the Growth Arc Volcanic Precipice) (which can be found at the Song-Choice Downloadability Fault Line) and still take home the whole enchilada." For their part, TVLine dubs Hannah Huston's "I Call the Shots" a potential "Billboard-topping smash the likes of which no Voice finalist has ever been gifted," but also notes that it's not exactly a vocal showcase. This one really could be anybody's game.

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Gotham Finale Keeps the Villains Coming Fox BAD MAN BATMAN: Gotham kept steadfast to its "Wrath of the Villains" theme in Monday's season 2 finale... but a Bruce Wayne doppelganger with long hair? Now that might just be a step too far.