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THIS ISSUE: NCIS, The Flash, Persons of Interest, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT FLOTUS in the (White) House CBS BECAUSE: With so little time left with one of the best FLOTUSes to ever FLOTUS, we'll take a little Michelle Obama wherever we can get her, and that includes in a guest stint on N.C.I.S. chatting with the one and only Leroy Jethro Gibbs about the sacrifices of our military families and veterans. We know she's probably already got a few ideas for what she'll get up to post-White House, but might we suggest... a career in CBS procedurals? She was a natural! READ OUR RECAP The Flash The CW WHAT HAPPENED: No matter how many father figures he has, it is Barry's decision alone whether he should follow Harry's plan to recreate the particle acceleration explosion to (uh, hopefully) restore his speed. But it feels a little like the decision is made for him when Zoom comes back to town with the knowledge that S.T.A.R. Labs has been running around a Tupac-style hologram in The Flash's place. Add in that huge admission from Iris -- "I can't help wondering if we're meant to be together... I need you to know that it doesn't matter to me if you're The Flash or not. You are who I want to see if I have a future with" -- and we've got a conflicted superhero on our hands. But there's no defeating Zoom without The Flash, so Harry straps Barry into the machine, Cisco does some lightning business on the roof, and Barry gives a tearful speech to Henry about being the best version of himself again. And then... the explosion. A planned explosion, yes, but what wasn't planned was the blast waves appearing to disintegrate Barry, leaving only his burnt speed suit behind when the dust settles. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Well, vaporizing your main character is certainly one way to up The Flash's stakes as we head into the final two episodes of the season. And as IGN saw it, "If [Tuesday's episode] of The Flashproved anything, it's that the show can give Arrow a run for its money in the darkness department ... as a particularly brutal and gut-wrenching addition to Season 2. It certainly elevated Zoom into a more terrifying villain than ever, and it forced Barry to make the ultimate sacrifice in his quest to protect his city from his twisted foe." And don't think we didn't notice that casual "Your grandmother was a Garrick, Barry" mention or that Wally and Jesse got a little extra particle acceleration blast. We noticed -- oh, we noticed. READ OUR RECAP Person of Interest CBS WHAT HAPPENED: After almost a year off screen, Person of Interestheaded into its fifth and final season on Tuesday night. First we got a flash forward (things ain't looking great!), then a few flashbacks, but as always, it all comes down to Finch and his Machine. As he races to get away from the bevy of Samaritan operatives after them in the season 4 finale, Finch has a lot to consider -- he used to erase the Machine's memories every night to prevent it from turning into something like the Samaritan. But now he's faced with that decision again, and ultimately, things start to prematurely decompress, facing the Machine (and Finch -- ugh, the feels!) toward a tragic end. Luckily, Root is out there shooting Samaritan ops with a stolen shotgun while hanging off of a subway car, and once Reese swoops in to lend a hand, they're able to escape and make it back to Finch with a couple hundred life- (data?) saving PlayStation 3s. By episode's end, the Machine is starting to wake up, and we are oh-so-ready for the rest of season 5. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: In a telling moment, when the Machine is closest to its end, as Finch grapples with the decisions to alter the Machine in the past, he tellingly refers to his creation as "she." In its overall positive review of Person of Interest's return, The New York Time points out that "The most crucial element of the show's success remains the same: [Michael] Emerson's tremendously appealing, oddly moving performance as Finch." In Tuesday's premiere especially, "Mr. Emerson has to play a number of very emotional scenes with a computer monitor, carrying on passionate conversations with the blinking cursor. Not one moment of this will tempt you to laugh (in fact, you might have to blink back a tear), and that's a bit of magic as impressive as any string of computer code." READ OUR RECAP Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC WHAT HAPPENED: You know it, we know it, even Lincoln probably knows it (and that guy can be a little clueless): Tuesday night's episode of S.H.I.E.L.D.was a setup episode for the final two which promise to be explosive. Y'know... because of all this setup. So let's get right down to it: Hive's plan is to use a little of his Kree blood to turn all humans into Inhumans. Only problem -- Hive is super dead, so his blood is kind of null. Send in the Kree! Hive somehow sends a signal to the Kree, and the two reapers that created him come on down to Earth... via a satellite... that arrives like a missile. And at the exact same time, May and Mack are arriving to try and save Daisy. Only think is: Daisy is a total lost cause. The Hive Kool Aid has been well and truly DRUNK, and though Mack refuses to do anything but try and save his partner, Daisy does everything she can to hurt him. Mack and May narrowly make it back home, and Hive is pretty peeved at Daisy for lying about her tight ties with S.H.I.E.L.D. But she swears it's not biggie. And to prove it, she tells Hive that unbeknownst to him, she has Kree blood and Inhuman blood running through her veins, so if he wants to get this experiment going -- he can DRAIN HER. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: On the other side of the equation, but in the equally bad decision lane, Fitz and Simmons came up with an experiment that could save Daisy from her Inhuman Hive spell. Only problem -- it could be super deadly. So Lincoln is obviously all, "Anything for love, lay it on me." They won't do it but he sneaks the potion anyway, though it ultimately leads to a whole lotta nothin'. Speaking with EW about Lincoln's recent decisions to wear the murder vest and take the antitoxin, actor Luke Mitchell explained, "He doesn't have a death wish. He makes these decisions, but you still see the fear in him when he does this. It's not just bravado. He cares about his life... but he doesn't see anything without Daisy in the picture. He'll do whatever he has to do, which makes him dangerous." Ah yes, but isn't everyone these days? READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... Lisa(s) in the Hot Seat Bravo THE M WORD: Everyone has had it out for Lisa Vanderpump on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills three-part reunion special, but at the end of it, we think even she can be thankful for one thing: May no one ever say the word Munchausen again. EVER. AGAIN.