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"Scandal" (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) has always been bat-guano crazy — and tonight's episode may be the craziest yet.
No spoilers here. I don't want to ruin the experience for you. And you had to wait an extra week, because the Season 6 premiere was delayed.
Yes, we find out who won the presidential election — was it the current president ex-wife? Or was it her opponent, whose running mate was the current president's gay ex-chief of staff, who's married to a gay ex-hooker?
Yes, there was already a firm foundation of crazy here.
But tonight's episode is utterly insane.
I blame Donald Trump. The fact that a racist, sexist, lying buffoon who bragged about sexually assaulting women ended up in the White House means that fiction has to go way over the top to be crazier than reality.
Sigh.
• Also tonight, it's the premiere of a show I really like — "Riverdale" (8 p.m., CW/Ch 30): This new series, re-imagined from the Archies Comics characters, is sort of a cross between "Dawson's Creek" and "Veronica Mars" — with a bit of "Everwood" thrown in. Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie, Josie and the Pussycats, Mr. Weatherby and Miss Grundy (who's young a beautiful) are all part of the plot — which revolves around the murder of a high-school student. This is great fun and very entertaining.
For more on "Riverdale," click here.
Elsewhere on TV ...
• "Grey's Anatomy" (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): Bailey, Arizona and Jo treat a violent teen and her unborn baby at a maximum security women's prison.
• "Hell's Kitchen" (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): The chefs create a unique dining experience for a group of well-known chefs.
• "Supernatural" (7 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Sam and Dean have to escape from a government-run detention facility.
• "Project Runway Junior" (7 and 9 p.m., Lifetime): A fire drill sends the designers out of the workroom to meet their new clients.
• Women's college basketball (7 p.m., BYUtv): Santa Clara at BYU
• "Lip Sync Battle" (7:30 and 8 p.m., Spike): Nina Dobrev vs. Tim Tebow; Ruby Rose vs. Milla Jovovich
• "My Kitchen Rules" (8 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): Andrew Dice Clay and Valerie Silverstein are the celebrity contestants.
• "Portlandia" (8 p.m., IFC): Toni and Candace retire; Drew and Andy re-imagine gingerbread cookies.
• Men's college basketball: Oregon at Utah (8:30 p.m., FS1); BYU at Santa Clara (9 p.m., ESPNU)
• NBA (8:30 p.m., TNT): Los Angeles Lakers at Utah Jazz
• "Pure Genius" (9 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Angie wants to use radical nanobot technology on her mother; Walter, Malik and Zoe want to use suspended animation on a graffiti artist with a clotting disorder; Julianna discovers James used an unapproved on Louis Keating. (Series finale. OK, it hasn't been officially canceled, but the chance of it returning are slim.)
• "How to Get Away with Murder" (9 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): The Keating 4 struggle to cope with the death of Wes.
• "The New Edition Story" (10 p.m., BET): The members of New Edition must either put their differences aside or their unresolved wounds will be the end of the group. (Part 3 of 3)
• "Top Chef" (10 p.m., Bravo): Previous winner Michael Voltaggio gives the remaining chefs a blindfolded taste test.
• "Nashville" (10 p.m., CMT): Scarlett and Damien George fight; Clay and Maddie's relationship builds.
• "Baskets" (11 p.m., FX): Chip gets the chance to pee in the cowboy toilet.
• "Colony" (11 p.m., USA): Will, Devon and Charlie go home; Bram makes friends at camp.