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THIS ISSUE: Sharknado 4, Preacher, The Night Of, BrainDead, Teen Choice Awards TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Fourth Time's a Charm? Syfy BECAUSE: Sharknado is back with its fourth installment, and this time things are getting serious. Just kidding -- Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakensfeatures environmental challenges such as bouldernados, oilnados, lightningnados, and nuclearnados. The movie faces those challenges head-on with solutions such as a dancer hip-thrusting a shark flying at his crotch, a counteractive cownado, two lead characters gaining the ability to fly, and April (Tara Reid) saving Fin's (Ian Ziering) life by making a defibrillator out of two baby sharks. Perhaps we'll see them again next year for No. 5! Preacher AMC WHAT HAPPENED: There was a lot riding on Jesse's preaching of the good word in Sunday's season finale of Preacher. See, he sort of promised a few people that God would be showing up in the congregation. Then, God sort of didshow up to the Sunday service. Jesse reasonably asked the white-bearded deity, "Why don't you act like a father, take some time out of your busy schedule, and answer some goddamn questions?" God tells Odin that his daughter is in heaven and that Eugene was also saved. But the latter exposes "God" as a fake (everyone knows Arseface is in hell). With the realization that this mystical man wasn't God and didn't know anything about Him, Annville descends into violent chaos that ultimately gets the whole town blown to smithereens. Luckily, Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy are long gone, having previously agreed that no matter what happened in that church, they were getting French fries afterwards. Plus, they're on their way to find the real God, and if need be, kick his butt. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: With that, it seems Preacher is saying goodbye to Annville and hello to the Godliest road trip there ever was. The finale's abrupt dismissal of Annville had HitFix asking, "Ultimately, was there enough of a bloody point to Annville and its people to devote 10 episodes, and this entire first season, to it?" HitFix conceded that there could be a justified reason for ditching Annville in such an unholy way, saying perhaps it was "the series finally coming to grips with the realization that staying in Annville this long probably wasn't the best idea, and that the quicker Jesse got out of town to start pursuing God (and maybe save Eugene in the process), the better." And away they go. The Night Of HBO WHAT HAPPENED: Naz has some decisions to make in Sunday's episode ofThe Night Of: confess to a crime he doesn't think he committed for a shorter sentence or maintain his innocence and risk a lifetime in prison; stick with a high-powered attorney he's not sure he can trust or go back to the low-rate lawyer who actually cares about him; and figure out what to do about Freddy's growing interest in him. Yikes. Naz's new lawyer Alison works out a 15-year sentence with the DA if Naz pleads guilty, and Alison advises that's a lot better than rotting away in a cell. But when Naz gets on the stand, he can't make himself confess to something he doesn't remember. Alison quits the case and passes it onto Chandra (who, for the record, asked Naz if he killed Andrea, and advised, "If it's yes, then take the deal. If it's no, don't"), and tells his parents it's no longer pro-bono. Luckily, Stone is still working on the case behind the scenes -- and selling intel to Chandra. Less luckily, after getting his arms slashed and scalding baby oil thrown in his face, Naz finally caves and tells Freddy, "I need your help." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Between Naz's non-confession potentially sealing his (probably) unjust fate and the ambiguous nature of what Freddy wants with the newest It Boy at Rikers, the tension in Sunday's The Night Of is nearly unbearable. But on a smaller level, as Slate points out, "we begin to learn about Andrea, the woman whose death starts the story," and whose personal life -- her many stints in rehab, the fight Stone witnesses between her step-father and a dark-haired man -- might be the only key to winning Naz's case. The exchange of that information also leads to what Salon calls "that wry levity" between Chandra and Stone: "She is as buttoned-up as he is fast and loose, and I'm hoping that, given the other major event of this episode, the show is maneuvering the two of them as Naz's new legal defense counsel." BrainDead CBS WHAT HAPPENED: What will BrainDead come up with next? At the end of the previous episode, it seemed that Laurel's brain was about to be infested with space ants, but it also seemed like (as Sunday's intro song stated), "That isn't supposed to happen to the main character." But it did! Laurel wasinfected. Instead of going the green smoothies route, Rochelle and Gustav come up with a kind of cure: bad TV, even worse music, and lots of sex. It's sort of a counterbalance to the behavior the bugs usually bring about. After it works on Laurel -- the bugs crawl out of her ear after a bedroom session with a slightly confused Gareth -- she tries it on her infected friend Stacy. And while Stacy politely avoids getting drunk and hooking up with ex-boyfriends at first, the bugs then take over: "We know what you're doing. It's not going to work. She's gone," they tell Laurel. And when she asks what the bugs want, "Stacy" simply replies, "Everything." WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So that's not great. But Rochelle and Gustav do make some headway on the origin of the bugs. After finding that 10 percent of their chemical makeup is material not found on Earth, and matching a slow version of The Cars' "You Might Think" to space sounds captured by NASA, even Rochelle finally has to admit that these little critters are aliens, continuing the balance between dire stakes and total absurdity. It's a commitment to"sheer, dumb fun" that Vulture is learning to love: "Claiming that the only cure is to use your right brain skirts a little too closely to 'The secret weapon is love' for my tastes. But who cares? ... It's both funny and highly relatable, because who among us has faced down something that a bite of salami, a bite of chocolate, and some really vigorous sex couldn't fix?" Indeed, who among us? One More Thing... Teen Choice Goes Topical Fox TEENS!: The Teen Choice Awards featured moving moments, impressions,and advice from Justin Timberlake, giving teens more than their typical Sunday night.