Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, May 17. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
The Flash (The CW, 8 p.m.): The Flash is damn close to the only Tuesday-night show that’s not airing its finale this week, but we’re still deep into the endgame here as the evil Zoom sends his meta-human army to take over the Central City of Earth-1. And, just to really twist the knife for all involved, Zoom’s commander in the field is none other than Black Siren, the evil doppelgänger of Arrow’s Laurel Lance. Scott Von Doviak urges none of you to tell Laurel’s dad, Officer Detective Captain Lance. (We believe that’s his full name.) Guy is already mobbed up to the eyeballs in grief.
Person Of Interest (CBS, 10 p.m.): This is the other major network show that’s not airing its finale this week, though given that CBS is now airing back-to-back episodes on Mondays and Tuesdays, that’s really not for lack of trying. Anyway, tonight finds Reese protecting an NYPD analyst who has run afoul of Samaritan after discovering a software glitch. Alexa Planje looks forward to a future arc in which Samaritan beats the crap out of Norton Antivirus.
Frontline (PBS, 10 p.m.): Hard news never takes a break—well, except for those times Frontline is on break, we guess—and news doesn’t get much harder than a Frontline report on the history of ISIS, going right back to its genesis and looking at the specific radicals who became its leaders.
Finales
Fresh Off The Boat (ABC, 8 p.m.): First up, one of the few shows ABC didn’t kill in the Red Wedding of cancellations finishes its second season with Eddie’s girlfriend trying to impress Jessica, which… no, we can’t imagine that’s going to happen. Dan Caffrey’s not liking those odds!
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC, 9 p.m.): The season ends with Hive putting his plan into action. Wait a second, this show has a bad guy named Hive and an evil organization named HYDRA? Since Arrow already has an evil organization named H.I.V.E., we officially move for Neal McDonough to rename himself Hydra, just to make this all completely confusing. Alex McCown seconds.
NCIS (CBS, 8 p.m.): The 13th season wraps up with NCIS for some reason admitting that maybe a bunch of naval investigators can’t solve every problem in the world—madness, we say!—by letting the FBI and MI6 help them bring an escaped British spy to justice. Those doofus clown organizations are only going to hold you back, brave no-nonsense mavericks of NCIS!
NCIS: New Orleans (CBS, 9 p.m.): Meanwhile, NCIS: By The Bayou makes up for not being invited to the big manhunt by finding a spy of its own and teaming up with Homeland Security. Damn it, NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans! Why do you waste time pretending there are any organizations other than each other that you should spend the rest of your lives with? Don’t deny true love!
Chicago Med (NBC, 9 p.m.): Dick Wolf’s Chicago-verse is now fully actualized, as the second—and goodness, by no means the last—spin-off of Chicago Fire wraps up its first season. And, long story short, everyone is dealing with mentors and personal issues and being conflicted about the future, as one does in the season finales of Dick Wolf shows.