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THIS ISSUE: Bachelor in Paradise, Pretty Little Liars, Zoo, The Hills Reunion Special
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Chad's Second Chance Goes Bad
ABC
BECAUSE: Think all the Chad stuff on The Bachelorette was some kind of performance? Well it might be, but the lunchmeat-loving fellow sure gives one heck of an encore on Tuesday's Bachelor in Paradise premiere. It all starts with a little play-flirting with Lace that turns into fight-flirting that turns into him unloading so many expletives there's no telling what he is calling her. So when sweet Sarah informs him that he's being disrespectful to women, he bellows, "F--- that one-armed bitch." Everyone else leaves him to pass out in the sand, where, apparently, he poops his pants.

Bachelor in Paradise
ABC
WHAT HAPPENED: It's all in a day's work over on Bachelor in Paradise!But in actuality, Chris Harrison is the only one working over there (well, Jorge, too). With Chad's behavior, even he can't do his job. Harrison is of course tasked with kicking Chad off the show after he wakes up from a night filled with slurs and insults: "We all came here to be in paradise. In a matter of one night, you have turned this into hell," says Harrison, later adding gravely: "You told everybody at this hotel last night to suck a d---." Not ready to stop his hellish reign, Chad refuses to leave, and Harrison refuses to get back on camera with Chad. That's when his insults turn to the host: "What are they going to do -- air you watching the show from your motel room 1,000 miles away? F--- you, Harrison! Come at me!" And if you're wondering if any non-Chads get any screentime before the "To Be Continued" sign flashes up, the answer is kind of. Jubilee is there, and she takes Jared on a seemingly fine date; Carly is back for love and to be the narrator again; Daniel is mostly unimpressed with the women in paradise ("An eagle doesn't settle for a pigeon, right?"); and the twins are back on two-for-one special.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: But really, Chad and his unprecedented faceoff with Harrison are the only things that matter on Tuesday's premiere. In Harrison's Bachelor in Paradise blog for Yahoo TV, the host with the most (franchise opportunities) explains that they let Chad come back because he "felt misunderstood" on JoJo's season: "In no way am I saying that I felt that Chad was in the right," writes Harrison. "But just as people often deserve a second chance at love, people also deserve a second chance if they behave in ways they're not proud of." Wonder if he's rethinking that one now? As for his exit, Harrison says they just waited for The Chad Bear to fall asleep so they could hopefully have the exit conversation without him getting violent: "It was not a difficult decision. Chad had promised us he would behave himself, and he very clearly did not. As a result, he had to go." Except, he still isn't gone. To be continued.

Pretty Little Liars
Freeform
WHAT HAPPENED: Hopefully you weren't looking for clarity on who's alive and who's actually dead in Rosewood, because we're not getting it in Tuesday's episode of Pretty Little Liars. Adds EW recapper Isabella Biedenharn: "Especially because anyone can have a twin or a body double or an organic, homemade, artisan latex mask on at any time!" On that note, while Hanna is in charge of Rollins' burner phone, she gets a call from someone who sounds mysteriously like the guy, saying, "Next time you bury someone, make sure they're dead." Ah yes, the other golden rule. Jenna finally explains her own connection to Rollins: She felt bad for Charlotte wasting away in Radley, so she went to visit her. Since Charlotte saw her as a celebrity (Mona had told Char all about Jenna, of course), Jenna decided to go ahead and help Charlotte find her birth mother, help Rollins get his new identity, and bring those two crazy kids together.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: One more call from the burner phone reveals that someone is after Ali in her house, and that someone is dressed as a cop and spray-paints "HONEY, I'M HOME!" on her wall, and then starts choking her from behind. The other Little Liars rush to the house to save Ali, but Sara Harvey isn't so lucky: A hotel maid finds her looking dead in her bathtub. While that's sad and all (and pretty ironic that Sara's death happened in a running shower), Refinery29 is feeling a little cheated by all the build up to this Tuesday's murder. They run through all the other murders that have gone down in PLL's seven seasons -- Ali's fake murder, Mona's fake murder, and Charlotte's real murder, to name a few -- and point out that "most of these murders were not announced ahead of time, which foolishly gave us hope tonight's murder would be a big deal." It wasn't. But Refinery29 also advises fans not to get too comfortable: "There's already speculation that one of The Liars' beloved love interests, Toby, might die before the summer finale."

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Zoo
CBS
WHAT HAPPENED: Five minutes into Tuesday's Zoo, Jamie already has the line of the episode: "So you're saying that some traveling carnie grifter from the 1890s inadvertently invented the triple helix?" You bet! Mitch has figured out the origin of the radiation that caused the original triple helix mutation in 1895: a man named Leonard Price who stole the first X-ray technology and took a little tour of the world. He spreaded radiation to certain humans and animals who then passed the mutation down to their descendants. Abe and Jamie track down the bones of the animals Pierce X-rayed in England while Logan and Dariela take care of the town that's currently living in misery of surprise cicada attacks...and also, panthers. But most importantly, Mitch and Jackson stay back to recover some of Jackson's memories after one of his bouts with mutation rage reveals he knows part of the "ghost gene's" genetic sequence. All it takes to recover the rest of the sequence is being hypnotized to remember that he burned his father's office down as a child; he may have caused the animal apocalypse; and before they parted ways, his father secretly shot him up with the ghost gene. Cool.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: You are not alone if Tuesday's episode had you wondering, "Why do I love this show so much?" Vox dedicated an entire article to preaching the good word of Zoo, deeming the series a "friend," and explaining, "She's terrible -- unfocused, chronic rambler, paces herself like a restless bachelor party -- but god, I think I love her." And Vox says that in the second season, the series is better than ever, finally having figured out what kind of show it is: "The series has journeyed beyond the boundaries of [author James Patterson's] vision, and it is bravely forging its own increasingly bizarre path in the name of mass animal deprogramming, or whatever it is the characters are trying to do." Whatever it is, we're watching (and always hoping for more bears).

One More Thing...
The Kids Are Alright
MTV
THE REST IS STILL UNWRITTEN: The Hills returned to MTV for a 10th anniversary special on Tuesday night, and while it didn't exactly "address it all" as Lauren Conrad had promised -- hello, Speidi?! -- it was nice to see that the kids turned out okay.

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