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The two-part  Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  finale opens with a staggering revelation: Everyone is dead, except for Daisy and Coulson. "I knew someone was gonna go. I just didn't know everyone was gonna go," Daisy says. The duo are apparently stranded on Maveth, the deserted alien planet on which Hive spent thousands of years. Daisy is busily attempting to fix their shuttle so they can get back to Earth, then Coulson drops the second  crazy twist: "Daisy … this is Earth." For a moment, it looks like  Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  will burn it all down — until Daisy wakes up. It was just a nightmare, so we're back to business as usual. Unlike Daisy's nightmare, the season finale plays out almost  exactly  as expected — right down to the character who dies. The scripts for "Absolution" and "Ascension" don't hold any surprises, but the finale still manages to connect on an emotional level. It starts with Daisy, who's struggling th...

Ivonne Coll as Alba, Gina Rodriquez as Jane, Andrea Navedo as Xo. If I could write this whole recap with emojis, there'd be several varieties of hearts, the running man, the dancing woman, and lots and lots of fires and heart-eyed faces. Those creepy dancing twin girls would also make an appearance. And there'd be a gun. My imaginary emoji recap is appealing because it's incredibly hard to come away from a blockbuster hour of television like "Chapter Forty-Four" and pull together coherent thoughts that aren't just "AHHH!" or "WHY would you get ICE for the DAMN CHAMPAGNE?!" or "OMG FACE OFF MASK!" or "Why isn't all of life just Jane and Rogelio doing that father/daughter dance forever?" But I'll give it a try. Jane the Virgin 's season finale is a narrative fireworks display, a shock-and-awe storytelling spectacular that short-circuits emotional processing centers with blazing confidence. It drops j...

The president offered his thanks, Brian Dunkleman forgave Ryan Seacrest, JLo reminded everyone how it’s done, and Simon Cowell and his chest hair were once again reunited with Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. Oh, and in big upset, Trent Harmon won the thing. But even in the 15 th  and final finale of “American Idol,” it was tough to beat Kelly Clarkson. See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour >> The competition’s first winner was one of the few famous Idols who did not appear live at the Dolby Theater for the blow-out farewell; as Seacrest explained, she is closing in on the due date for her second child. She did, however, manage to tape a mini-concert of her biggest hits when she visited the show in February. Which, for reasons of their own, the producers chose to run early in the finale even though it could easily have been one of the climactic numbers. Many have said, with a regularity that borders on mania, that no other ...