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| THIS ISSUE: Criminal Minds, Arrow, Survivor, The Americans, Supernatural |
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| Criminal Minds' Uncertain Future |
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| CBS |
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 BECAUSE: Mind control! S.W.A.T. raids! Identity theft as advertised on TV! The Criminal Minds season 11 finale had it all, and it ended with some kind of cliffhanger: 13 serial killers just escaped from prison, including the one trying to frame Hotch as a terrorist. Not great. Worse? We don't yet know if the series has been renewed for season 12... |
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| Arrow |
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| The CW |
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| WHAT HAPPENED: Family drama and supervillains hashing out their super evil plans? Yep, the gang's all here on Wednesday's Arrow. The time has finally come for Diggle to take on his little bro -- Andy gets one good stab in on big brother and even manages to trick Diggle into leading him straight to Lyla and Sara, but Diggle lures him away by busting out of the truck on his motorcycle (with little Sara Baby Bjorn-ing it on the back!). Once Andy suggests to Diggle that he'll never be able to protect his family from what's coming, it's all over for the little sib... at point-blank range. So what is coming? After Oliver saves Lyla with a little help from Constantine's "immortal shaman" pal Esrin Fortuna and her "light magic," they start to figure Damien Dahrk's whole deal out: He obtained the top-secret Rubicon program from the subdermal implant in Lyla's arm; next step is to use it to launch a nuke and wipe out humanity; and then conveniently restart it with his own little ark, a.k.a., the Truman Show-like oasis town Thea happens to be vacationing in with her Ghost-boyfriend, Alex. |
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| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The stage has been set and the stakes are clear; despite Ollie's dabblin' in light magic, and the lovely healing powers of Felicity's voice, Arrow went full-dark (or, ugh, Dahrk) in Wednesday's episode. IGN posits much of that was because, "There was a certain direct brutality to the action this week that comes from stripping away the costumed vigilantes and the fancy weapons and just focusing on hardened soldiers waging war on one another. Diggle showed just how deadly efficient he can be by turning the tables on his captors and disarming his brother." And rather unexpectedly as of just a few episodes ago, "Instead of Diggle redeeming his brother and proving to Ollie that you have to keep faith in your loved ones, he literally has Andy's blood on his hands." But he knows, and we know -- it was the right move. (And as a special bonus in Wednesday's ep: No flashbacks!) |
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| Survivor |
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| CBS |
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| WHAT HAPPENED: It was time -- time for Jason to go. Sure, Joe can't spell "immunity" to save his life and Tai tends to take his advantages and light them in Tribal Council flames ... but once an alpha gets dethroned, he's got to be put down. Especially if his main gameplay is to be so lazy that people hate him enough to take him to the final ticket as a goat. After an episode finally free of blindsides, but still full of Tai wasting his extra-vote advantage by gunning for Michele all on his own, EW recapper Dalton Ross assess the remaining five's chances: "I think you have to consider Aubry the clear frontrunner at this point... She's performed well in challenges, avoided personal beefs, and can point to flipping Tai away from Scot and Jason as her big power move." Tai has similar credentials but much more blood on his hands. Joe is not even a consideration to win, while Cydney is definitely still in the running. And in a final-two situation, Michele could have a shot. Which leads us to wonder... |
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| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Final two or final three?! Answer the question, Jeff Probst! Listen, the host master extraordinaire didn't give EW a direct yes or no answer as to whether Survivor will ever make its way back to a final two, but he did give us something: "I mean, with all the evacuations we've had, it would make sense ... Is it possible that we are, at least for this season, going back to a final two? Yes, it is... possible." And it is possible! Here we'll do the math for you: There are only five players remaining heading into the penultimate episode -- one out there, and then the usual two cut in the finale, and what are you left with? Final. Two. |
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| The Americans |
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| FX |
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| WHAT HAPPENED: Goodbye, dear Martha -- you will be missed. Well, Philip is hoping that she won't be missed as she takes off in a tiny plane to Russia; but fans will surely miss her, as Wednesday's cold open didn't suggest a side plot in her future (and barely suggested a future). All this leaves Philip a wallowing mess -- and it leaves Elizabeth finally back front and center, and attempting to pick up the pieces without going into an anger rage blackout. Trying to understand Philip's obsession with EST, she attends a meeting and deems it, "very American, the whole thing." By that, she of course means, overvaluing these "precious" things called emotions, something that chaffs at her both about her husband and her daughter all episode, even as she's forced to kill Lisa. But even Gabriel knows it's too much and tells the Jennings they're not getting any more new missions. So they go home, sit down as a family, and watch David Copperfield disappear the Statue of Liberty: "Sometimes we don't realize how important something is until it's gone." |
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| WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: BOOM -- flash-forward seven months where the Jennings paint the picture of the perfect street hockey-playin' family, but on the inside, Paige is giving daily briefings on Pastor Tim, and on the outside, Gaad is warning Stan, "You can't lose sight of who these people are." Wednesday's Americans was a beautiful episode, hailed by many critics as the best of the season. It may have been sad to see Martha go, but it sure was nice to have Keri Russell back front and center, and at full force. In Vulture's recap, they wondered earlier in the season if her diminished role might have been due to Russell's pregnancy, but now realize, "The Americans has beenmethodically laying the groundwork for this explosive midpoint. This episode is a showcase for Russell -- perhaps that's why her partner [Matthew] Rhys chose to direct it -- allowing the actress to show off this complex character she's developed over the last three-and-a-half seasons." (Wednesday's episode will also be remembered as "the one where we got to know the pulsating rage-vein in her eye," says Vulture. |
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| One More Thing... |
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| What If God Was On The CW? |
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| The CW |
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| NUMBER ONE DAD: As many Supernatural fans have long guessed, Chuck Shurley is in fact God Himself -- but he really prefers Chuck, as revealed on Wednesday's episode. What's he been doing while the world's been going to trash? Looking at cat pictures online, trying to figure out Snapchat, exploring the Kinsey scale, and working on his debut book series, Revolution, but of course. |
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