"This is part two of my yearly list of the year's best episodes. Part one, the dramas list, along with a bit of ruminating on terminology and format: sitcom versus drama, half-hour versus hour, and where the distinctions start to blur.
As I did last year, I've mixed in live-action half-hour and hour scripted shows with cartoons. I know some readers don't think that's fair, because animation gives storytellers a level of visual freedom that you can't get with actors and sets (not on a TV sitcom budget, anyway). But as far as I'm concerned, a story is a story is a story, and once you've committed it to paper, the rest is structure, style, and performance."
-Matt Zoller Seitz
