The year's best episodes include Civil War battles, a small business owner's existential crisis, and a jaw-dropping journey through the sky — and those are just the comedies!
"The Best TV Episodes of the Year offer more than a funny moment here or a clever twist there. Sure, they may provide the payoff you've been waiting all season to see or make you laugh so hard your partner worries you've snapped, but what the best episodes do is even simpler than that: They stand out. They distinguish themselves from what came before while propelling us toward whatever's next. They utilize the emotional attachments built over the hours, days, months, and years preceding this very special episode, or they expertly forge those connections in ways that immediately resonate.
Episodes aren't just meant to take up time. They're meant to wield it — to recognize the half-hour or hour available and fill it with ideas and imagery that will live on, long after the credits roll."
- BEN TRAVERS
