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THIS ISSUE: The Bachelorette, UnREAL, Reign, The Real Housewives of Orange County, The Fosters TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT JoJo's Other Chad ABC BECAUSE: The Bachelorette has officially moved on to Chad 2.0. As soon as JoJo's bros got meat-loving Chad out of their house, a simple trip to the barber shop revealed a magazine article about JoJo's ex-boyfriend -- also named Chad-- who says that JoJo is still in love with him and only broke up with him to go on the show. When JoJo finds out about the article (helpfully handed to her by a particularly UnREAL-like producer) and that her "guys" read it, she sobs with tissue in hand. Alas, the bros never really believed the article. They're busy doing what they do best: banding together to hate (a new) Chad.

UnREAL Lifetime WHAT HAPPENED: Shortly after we got a small taste of how the sausage gets made on the real-life Bachelorette, Quinn and Rachel went "in for the kill" to show new executive producer Coleman just how Everlasting gets its ratings on Monday night's UnREAL. Quinn demotes herself back down to "producing" the girls -- or as she says, "I'm going balls deep in this bitch." -- and Quinn skips straight over planting magazines to finding out that MMA fighter Brandi has abuse in her past and pumps her up before going on the insane obstacle course Chet has arranged. When she pulls Chantal off a climbing wall, Quinn has Rachel put Brandi in "the hole," triggering her childhood trauma of being abused by foster fathers. Naturally, they push Brandi to her emotional breaking point, put her on the date she technically won with Darius, and tell her she has to be totally honest. Darius is charming and carefully picks up all the pieces. Then they bring in an actress who pretends to be Brandi's mother and tells him that she's a pathological liar. When he sends her home, she physically tackles him and screams that they're all liars. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: And they are all liars. Monday's episode shows Rachel and Quinn's exploitation powers at their very worst, making USA Todayask, "Who is the real villain here?" Is it Quinn for manipulating a traumatized young woman for ratings? Or is it Rachel for buddying up to Quinn with the "good cop" assist while simultaneously hiding from her bestie that she's the reason Coleman is there at all? Following Monday's episode, USA Today thinks they have their answer, at least for the foreseeable future: "Quinn, who will likely rain hell on her distrustful second-in-command after she found out from Gary that Rachel went behind her back, and who probably won't care anymore about those matching best friend tattoos. Because nowhere on that wrist does it say 'friends.'"

Reign The CW WHAT HAPPENED: Goodbyes are never easy, especially following a beheading and a fan-favorite character's exit in Reign's season 3 finale. ButReign simply wouldn't be Reign without its losses. Shall we count them? In France, shortly after receiving Catherine's blessing to marry Claude, Leith is stabbed and left for dead, to which we say: NOOOO! In Scotland, Mary simultaneously loses the longtime companionship of Bash, who realizes he must leave Mary to seek druid training for his visions. He does at least make this promise: "I will come to you when you need me the most. Of this, I am sure." And in England, Lola's unfortunate life as a fancy hostage finally comes to an end. Following a failed attempt on Elizabeth's life, Elizabeth and Lola have a frank conversation in the dungeons -- "I march to my execution very soon, yet you are the one to be pitied" -- before Lola loses her head in the name of her convictions. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: They really did it -- Reign really killed Lola. (For our emotional sanity, we're not buying into Leith's death just yet). The A.V. Club calls Reign's go-for-broke approach to Monday's finale "about as perfect an episode of Reign as one could ask for ... mounting evidence that war is so much more robust than peace that the latter is impossible." Indeed, Lola's death seems like it will finally be reason enough for Mary to bring this fight for the throne directly to Elizabeth's English front door. And for that, we must thank O.G. Reign player, Lola: "Lola died as she lived -- a pawn -- and sure, it's an ugly way to go," says the A.V. Club. "But this show has never slowed down the plot wheels, and there's a war to mount now. Lola's a loss; Mary and Elizabeth have lost even the barest faith in each other. Peace between the kingdoms is all that's left to lose."

The Real Housewives of Orange County Bravo WHAT HAPPENED: At the top of EW's recap of the season 11 premiere ofThe Real Housewives of Orange County, recapper Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal reminds us how last season "was like a multi-episode arc of Houseas the ladies desperately tried to solve the mystery of whatever ailment Vicki Gunvalson's longtime boyfriend Brooks was suffering from." Mystery solved: It wasn't cancer, and now everyone kind of hates Vicki. And is Vicki remorseful? Well, she says this : "I wasn't in on a lie, but to do it again, I would defend my man." All the women want answers and apologies from Vicki, but she just wants to "put everything behind her." And what better place to do that than on a yacht where Heather Dubrow has gathered everyone under the guise of her husband overcoming a health scare. In truth, the event has been created specifically to lure an apology out of Vicki. By episode's end, Heather has her seeking of penance, but we don't yet have her answer. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Oh, and have we mentioned? Vicki is no longer with Brooks not because of his cancer lies, but because he left her. She even admits to weeping in the streets for him. All things considered, it seems highly unlikely that these women are just going to be besties with Vicki again any time soon. But as Vulture points out, they're old pros at that dynamic: "There is no group of Real Housewives that is more like coworkers than the women of the OC. Sure, they hang out and go on trips with each other. Sure, they have their allegiances and favorites, but these women are not really friends. Just like members of the Kansas Bay Buccaneer Rays (is that a baseball team? It sounds like a baseball team) they don't really hang out in the offseason. They only come together when the cameras are on and it's time to knock them out of the park." Exactly -- we don't need RHOC to be friends in season 11 -- we just need them to throw down. And you know what? They seem ready.

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So You Think You Get a Summer Vacation Fox SUMMER CUTS: So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation has finally moved into the Academy phase, and let's just say they're not grading on class participation anymore. Goodbye kid gloves, hello cruel reality.