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THIS ISSUE: Mr. Robot, The Real Housewives of New York City, MasterChef, Big Brother TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Mr. Robot Roots Itself in Reality USA Network BECAUSE: Of all the drama -- and stone-cold homicides -- that went down on Wednesday's episode of Mr. Robot, the biggest shock had to be that we didn't catch a single glimpse of him in Wednesday's hour following last week's reveal that Elliot has been living in a world of his own hallucination while actually being incarcerated. No, this episode belonged to reality -- that of Darlene and the fledgling fsociety, and it's a doozy.

Mr. Robot USA Network WHAT HAPPENED: After getting over the shock that we wouldn't even be getting a hint at what's real in Elliot's prison reality, EW recapper Kyle Fowle came around to call Wednesday's hour "a taut, suspenseful outing; a needed investment in secondary characters; a solid riff on themes of estrangement; a welcome mental vacation from brain-hurty shenanigans." Indeed, Wednesday's shenanigans are more of the regular hurt-y variety. When E Corp lawyer Susan Jacobs returns to her smart house to find the core members of fsociety camped out there after exposing the FBI for violating the privacy of 3 million Americans, she seems a little peeved. Even more so when Darlene zip-ties her to the railing of her own pool. And when Darlene reminds Jacobs of her childhood memory of Jacobs laughing in the face of her father's death on television, she hits her with a stun gun and thrusts her into the pool. After that, she's just dead. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Darlene isn't finished yet. Fsociety is in shambles as Mobley makes it out of an interrogation with Dom, and Trenton is seemingly forced to abandon her family to go meet up with him. Meanwhile, Darlene heads back to Dark Army ally Cisco's house and explains to him how she doesn't even feel bad about killing Susan Jacobs. Then she takes a hefty swing at his noggin with a baseball bat. To shed some insight on what is going on with Darlene, actor Carly Chaikin chatted with EW about Wednesday's episode, saying it could have gone much worse for Darlene: "The whole cast isconvinced we're going to die. We always say to [creator] Sam Esmail, 'For financial reasons, this is something we would need to know.'" Chaikin sees Darlene's killer turn as a natural progression for her character, saying, "She wasn't planning on killing Susan. But throughout Darlene's life, this was the face of E Corp and someone she could target." And it looks like Darlene's targeting days are only beginning.

The Real Housewives of New York City Bravo WHAT HAPPENED: They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that seemed to also be true for New York in Wednesday's finale of RHONY. Bethenny knows just what to expect when she tells LuAnn that she has proof her fiancé was seen making out all over favorite social spot The Regency just a few days ago. LuAnn tries to pretend it's not happening before forcing Bethenny to show her the pictures. She tries to reason that Tom was so drunk that he doesn't remember doing it before going back to pretending like it never happened. For her grand finale, she turns her anger at Tom -- which seems to only ever be for the fact that he made out with someone for an hour where people they know could have seen him -- before turning it on Bethenny. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: Dorinda reports that upon LuAnn's decision to stick with Tom, the fiancé-in-question called her and basically tried to blackmail her into telling all the other Housewives that the make-out session never happened. At Bethenny's end-of-the-season fiesta, LuAnn storms over to Bethenny to tell her to stop talking about her when Bethenny was, in fact, talking about her $10,000 piñata, and then continues to yell at her to stay out of her business with Tom. So Bethenny tells her she's stupid, and our thirstiness for season 8's reunion reaches an all-time high. But don't expect much change from LuAnn; she was still singing her same forgiveness tune in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE about why she took Tom back. From the Countess herself: "I'm not going to let a stupid kiss ruin the rest of my life."

MasterChef Fox WHAT HAPPENED: The gates of potato hell have opened on Wednesday'sMasterChef. In the first half of the episode, the contestants are joined by guest judge and Top Chef winner Kevin Sbraga, who brings with him a Mystery Box full of upscale ingredients. The Vegas boys, David and Shaun, rise to the occasion, while Brandi from small-town Kentucky surprises with her ease using the unfamiliar ingredients. It's Shaun who takes the win for his lamb belly and black cod with balsamic reduction and tomatoes, though, and his advantage is to choose who cooks with a whole fresh salmon and who cooks with -- gasp --canned salmon in the Elimination Test. Shaun lobs the canned salmon at the heavy-hitters and Tanorria and Terry end up in the bottom two. Dry salmon cakes and overuse of thyme send sweet handyman Terry packing, but at least he avoids a torturous skills test that pits the chefs against each other in three rounds of potatoes. Brandi, David, Shaun, and Nathan are sent to safety in the French fries round; Tanorria and Dan eek it out on mashed potatoes; and the judges find Katie's use of raw sage a forgivable sin, while Eric's undercooked gnocchi is not. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: How we've managed to lose Terry but still hold on to Nathan at this point in the season, we may never know. (Personally, we blame canned salmon). But Gordon Ramsay spoke to The Hollywood Reporterthis week to shed a little light on what it's been like to work with season 7's rotating cast of guest judges upon the departure of Graham Elliot, saying the addition of so many new judges has raised the bar all around: "We're all puffing our chest out and making sure that we've put our best foot forward." Of Wednesday's guest judge Kevin Sbraga, Ramsay shared, "He's young, tenacious, and very ambitious. When you're on that crusade, there's so much more excitement behind their food."

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The Bearded One Goes for Gold CBS CONFESSION AGRESSION: With his back up against the wall on Big Brother,Paul pulls an incredible concoction of Obi-Wan Kenobi mind trickery on Nicole for putting him on the chopping block.