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THIS ISSUE: Kingdom, Mr. Robot, Wayward Pines, Suits, The Late Late Show With James Corden TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Kingdom Rips Our Hearts Out AT&T's Audience Network BECAUSE: EW recapper Samantha Highfill says Wednesday's episode ofKingdom potentially contains "the show's most powerful story to date." Lisa and Alvey have lost their baby, and while the show's final scene of them holding each other for so many complicated and compelling reasons is gut-wrenching to watch, the performances by Kiele Sanchez and Frank Grillo and the raw truth with which Lisa and Alvey's story is told are not to be missed. Mr. Robot USA Network WHAT HAPPENED: This episode of Mr. Robot might make your skin crawl. Not only do we see the death of the previously MIA Romero (plus the origin story of fsociety's headquarters!), but Elliot is back on drugs. Instead of morphine, Leon scores him Adderall, which Elliot thinks will help rid him of his Mr. Robot delusions. Some bad things come of that: First, Elliot overdoses, and with the help of Mr. Robot, he's forced into a hallucination that he's getting cement funneled into him by mysterious men in suits. Cut to Elliot vomiting all over his bedroom floor in real life, and then picking out the pills and swallowing them again because he refuses to be controlled by Mr. Robot. Second, Elliot is taking so much Adderall to keep Mr. Robot at bay, his entire body and mind start to go into an "internal fatal error." But about the time Elliot explodes at church group, his mysterious new not-friend Ray steps in to tell him he's got some issues of his own. We know from a previous scene that Ray dabbles in some tricky business practices that involve having men beat up for IT knowledge -- something which he undoubtedly wants from Elliot now. Knowing that he deals with having one-sided conversations with his dead wife every morning without vomiting up and choking back down Adderall, maybe he can actually help Elliot with Mr. Robot. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: As for the outside world, Angela is getting closer to Price -- well, if you can get close to Price -- and he gives her some intel that could take down her mother's killers, if only she can "remove emotion" from the equation. Romero's death causes a freak out in the fsociety ranks, and maybe it should: Agent DiPiero (an intriguing bird if ever there was one) just followed a party flyer all the way to Coney Island, right in front of fsociety's headquarters with the dilapidated "F... SOCIETY" sign out front. "You've got to be f---ing kidding me," she says. Of that delicious light bulb moment, and others like it in this episode, TVLine comments, "Coming off of the two-hour premiere's somewhat indulgent pacing, episode 3 managed to be both beautifully crafted, at-times haunting/disturbing and yet also plot-stirring." Indeed, details and side characters seem to be coming out of an Adderall-induced haze in Wednesday's episode, but remember thatcontrol is an illusion. Wayward Pines Fox WHAT HAPPENED: In an hour that is almost entirely devoted to exploring Jason's history, we find out in flashback that Kerry is Jason's mother. We repeat: Jason, jerk extraordinaire, is currently in a loving, romantic relationship with his mother. How did such a thing happen? Pilcher, root of all chaos, of course. As it turns out, Pilcher has a baby named Jason all lined up with some mother named Abigail, but when Abigail was in an accident that lost the unborn child, Pilcher headed to Boise, Idaho, to nab another spawn from a woman named Kerry. But he became so enamored with Kerry, he wanted to bring her along too, so he went ahead and tacked her photo onto Abigail's case file. Later -- much, much later -- when Jason got ahold of that case file, he had his people wake her up, not knowing he was waking up his mother for a romantic relationship. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Despite the shock of that reveal, Wayward Pines' penultimate hour is actually a pretty uneventful one. As Vulture lays it out, "Like last week's episode, 'Walcott Prep' is yet another time-killer, prolonging the eventual war between the humans and the Abbies. Still,Wayward Pines certainly bides its time with an 'Oh, shizzle!' moment." Of course, that oh-shizzle moment comes when Jason, doing some light file snooping, finds the one that declassifies Kerry not as Abigail, but as his own mother. Jason freaks the hell out and demands to know about Kerry's baby, who Pilcher told her had been sent to Texas. Jason draws his gun. As Kerry tries to wrestle it away from him on top of the miniature Wayward Pines table model, a shot rings out -- and someone's blood starts to run through the tiny little post-apocalyptic streets. "How's that for dead-on symbolism?" asks Vulture. Suits USA Network WHAT HAPPENED: You know a bad place to be? Prison. You know an equally bad place to be? Pearson Specter Litt, according to Suits. Sure, Mike is nearly getting shanked every time he goes in the cafeteria, but Harvey is having to give up duck paintings! (Okay, admittedly, that was very sad). Partners are coming out of the woodwork to try and prevent Jessica fromusing the partner buy-ins to save the firm, but through a careful combination of groveling and personal loans, Jessica works it all out. "It's a remarkable moment of vulnerability for her, further confirming Jessica as the most nuanced and interesting character on this show," says EW recapper Chancellor Agard. As for Mike, he gets in a fight with Frank and has his visitation rights revoked, which means no Rachel. That does lead his lawyer Harvey over to the clink, though. There, he finally learns about Frank's vendetta against him, and now Mike. So naturally, Harvey twists his finger and threatens to kill him if he touches Mike, which is just not how things work in a prison that Harvey isn't in. Luckily, Mike finds another protector in the form of his roommate, who keeps him from getting shanked. But you better believe this isn't over. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: That's that -- Mike in prison and Harvey, Jessica, and Louis failing hugely and then succeeding small seems to be the new normal for Suits. "Rarely is a show afforded the opportunity to shatter its premise," says Forbes. "Even more rarely does that shattering lead to an end result that actually works...Last week, we witnessed what amounted to a prologue-giving audiences a tease of what the show's new world would look like. This week, however, that same audience witnessed the true first chapter of volume two." It has a lot more near murder of main characters than we would have expected in the beginning, but hey, when the original premise is based on fraud, perhaps we really should have seen this coming. One More Thing... Michelle Obama Gets Her Freak On CBS CAN'T COPY THIS: After a week in which Michelle Obama's name has been brought up quite frequently, the first lady took control of her narrative. What better way to do that than with a little Carpool Karaoke courtesy of The Late Late Show With James Corden? And who better to join them than Missy Elliott?!