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THIS ISSUE: Big Brother, The Night Of, Power, Preacher, Vice Principals TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Big Brother Turns On the Gameplay CBS BECAUSE: In advance of the golden fountain of drama that social media and the ever-winding Kardashian-West/Swift feud would later provide, Big Brother was the first to bring out some perfectly timed gameplay on Sunday night. Tiffany won the Roadkill competition, then attempted to establish BFF-dom with Da'Vonne by confiding in her (of note: while they're in the shower). Frank finally stepped up his game by seeing Tiffany's win as an opportunity to pull one over on the majority, resulting in the third nomination of Corey. But no matter -- Paulie's confidence that Tiffany will be the next one out is as high as the probability that he'll continue to resist any and all shirts. If only Big Brothercontestants had Snapchat...

The Night Of HBO WHAT HAPPENED: Just as Naz describes Detective Box to his parents in Sunday's episode, we might describe The Night Of as a "subtle beast" of a series thus far. Technically, there's very little action in the latest installment, but the dread is building, and the hazy truth of the justice system is coming into the spotlight. This is what we know: Naz's lawyer Stone might not be the ideal choice for such a high-profile case, but that doesn't mean he's ill-equipped. "The truth doesn't help you," he tells Naz as he refuses to hear his full side of the story. "If you can't get that through your head, you can forget about the rest of your life." And the rest of Naz's life seems, for now at least, to be fully in the hands of Box, who tries and fails to get a speedy (and slightly coerced -- what's new?) confession, but fails thanks to Stone's prior counsel. And in new characters who could make Naz's situations infinitely better, or wholly worse, there's Andrea's sketchy stepdad who tosses out that Andrea had recently received her mother's inheritance, and there's the D.A., who has at least already shown a suspicion for Box's blinking habits. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: The episode ends with Naz's bail being denied. He's then carted off to Rikers, and literally descends into the darkness of the fearful unknown. As far as action goes, it's about the only thing that happens in Sunday's episode, but as TVLine notes, that's not necessarily a problem: "What this week's The Night Of lacks in plot development, it more than makes up for in terms of nameless dread and nagging questions -- and I say that as nothing but a compliment." Among those questions: the robotic step-dad, of course; those weary but seemingly trustable beat cops; and for TVLine, "What's that deer head got to do (got to do) with it? Or is "deer head" the new "red herring"? (It did get swabbed by the CSU techs, though, so maybe it will yield something interesting -- although probably not a Scooby Doo-esque set of guilty human eyes peering out from behind it.)"

Power Starz WHAT HAPPENED: "When I'm in here, call me James. There's no more Ghost," James "Ghost" St. Patrick tells Andre, his slightly unwilling mentee, early in Power's season 3 premiere. But could it be true? Is there really no more Ghost?! Angela isn't so sure when she catches James talking to a man with a "718" tattoo on his neck -- a.k.a. drug associate Julio -- at the club, but James insists that life is behind him. But Angela has a "not so fast" secret of her own to reveal: Lobos is still alive, and she's working on getting him a "John Doe" prosecution. Given that Lobos won't supply Tommy with drugs until he takes out Ghost, that's not great news. Also not great: the bloody tarot card James-not-Ghost catches Tatianna putting on his desk in security footage. Y'know...just like the tarot cards Ghost left on the bodies of all his victims from the end of last season. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: All season long, Lela Loren -- a.k.a. Angela Valdez, the feisty and frustratingly moral federal U.S. attorney -- is taking EW behind the scenes of Power to share her favorite moments. And for the premiere, the first-time blogger had a doozy of an on-set anecdote: "We all watched the first episode in a crowded theater during a premiere, and I couldn't stop laughing at Tommy pushing those two thugs off the roof. Terrible, I know... But it reminded me of a physics contest that was held in my elementary school where you had to find a way to throw an egg off the roof without cracking it. I can't help but think that Tommy had just 'modified' this lil' experiment in his own way... like a partial 'humpty-dumpty,' but with drug dealers." Question of the hour: Can a drug dealer be put back together again?

Preacher AMC WHAT HAPPENED: In Sunday's episode of Preacher, Jesse Custer really has it coming to him from all angles. Odin "god of meat" Quincannon and his militia are coming at Jesse with force, trickery, and remembering-the-Alamo to get the church's land. Of course, Jesse has the power of God (literally) on his side; but ever since he accidentally damned a teenager to hell, he's kind of been questioning that whole aspect of his personality. So Preacher strikes up a deal with DeBlanc and Fiore: they can have Genesis if they help Jesse get Eugene back from hell. They say sure, use the "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" method of extraction, then renege on their promise to save Eugene, so the entity escapes its tin can holding cell, and goes right back into the questionably-good preacher. In the end, Jesse tells Quincannon he'll require one more week before he gives up any land. If he can't bring Annville to God, he's going to bring God to Annville. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So a few hallucinations does not a Eugene bring back, but HitFix thought Jesse's visions of his teenage pal were just whatPreacher needed, at just the right time (also helpful, that the show didn't reallytry to trick us into thinking it was all real). "The hallucinatory version of [Eugene] forces Jesse to muse on the poor kid's fate, the angels' lack of interest in helping, and the thought that God would allow Eugene to suffer for Jesse's mistake," says HitFix. "For most of the season, [Jesse's] steadfastly believed in the righteousness of God's plan, and convinced himself that he not only got Genesis as part of that plan, but that he should use the power to spread God's word. Now, though ... Jesse seems finally ready to question the plan, the nature of his power, and what he's been trying to accomplish during his time in Annville." Enter God, stage right.

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Vice Principals Takes the Man-Child Cliché to School HBO VICE AND VIRTUE: From the absurd minds that brought you Eastbound & Down, Danny McBride and Jody Hill now offer up the sordid lives of vice-principals in the Sunday premiere of, well, Vice Principals. EW gives it an "A-".