Incredible finales, thrilling one-offs, and much more
"In a year with just so much TV, it's impossible for it to all be good. We're generally of the minds that there's more good TV than bad, but this is still a numbers issue — after all, as an episodic medium, a television show often isn't even consistently good within itself. But that's the beauty of it: You can find something to write home about even in the worst of shows, and something truly transcendent in the best of them.
This list is filled with incredible episodes of a lot of the great shows that came to define our year in TV. Some of them were the final acts to cap off a strong season; others are middle chapters that capture the heights of the show.
But still, there's something distinctive about an episode that just really kills it in every way it can. That's good entertainment — that's TV, baby."
