Flawless Television Episodes

[wolfali Joined: Apr 8th, 2023 Topics: 251 Posts: 39249 View Predictions]

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Inspired by @methaddiction ‘s thread on flawless acted scenes on television, I was interested in what people would classify as “flawless episodes of television”.

You can classify them however you want whether through their writing, their acting, direction or their use of their genre! Personally I’m incorporating all of those in my own and crediting four because I’m a weakling.

Mad Men (“The Suitcase”)

The Leftovers (“The Book of Nora”)

I May Destroy You (“Ego Death”)

The People vs OJ Simpson (“Marcia Marcia Marcia”)

Solidarity with the striking writers. Pay them the wages they are owed for bringing us the content we are all on here because of!

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[Stranger Among Us Joined: Feb 17th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 593 View Predictions]

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The Americans, START

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[braydenfitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 98 Posts: 8928 View Predictions]

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (“Hush”)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (“It May Look Like a Walnut”)

Doctor Who (“Blink”)

The Good Place (“Michael’s Gambit”)

Futurama (“Jurassic Bark”)

Glee (“The Quarterback”)

Keeping Up with the Kardashians (“Kardashian Therapy: Part 1”)

Love Island (“5×26”)

Pose (“Never Knew Love Like This Before”)

RuPaul’s Drag Race (“Frenemies”)

The Walking Dead (“Pretty Much Dead Already”

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[Labyrinth Joined: Feb 21st, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 522 View Predictions]

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407 proxy authentication required-Mr Robot
The view from halfway down-Bojack Horseman

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[William Gillquist Joined: Jan 1st, 2020 Topics: 14 Posts: 856 View Predictions]

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“Pilot” (Arrested Development)
“Ronny/Lily” (Barry)
“The View From Halfway Down” (Bojack Horseman)
“Ozymandias” (Breaking Bad)
“Remedial Chaos Theory” (Community)
“Charlie Work” (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia)
“Stress Relief” (The Office)
“Pine Barrens” (The Sopranos)
“Good Times with Weapons” (South Park)
“Band Geeks” (Spongebob Squarepants)

FYC Oscars: Licorice Pizza (Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay), The Mitchells vs The Machines (Best Picture, Animated Feature, Original Screenplay), Wes Anderson (Best Director), Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of MacBeth), Andrew Garfield and Robin de Jesus (Tick, Tick...BOOM!), Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans), Stephen Karam (Adapted Screenplay), Attica and Summer of Soul (Best Documentary)

FYC Razzies: Dear Evan Hansen (in all eligible categories)

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[forwardswill Joined: Apr 9th, 2013 Topics: 26 Posts: 3895 View Predictions]

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[Luca Giliberti Joined: Jun 23rd, 2017 Topics: 8 Posts: 7717 View Predictions]

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So many, but very few, for me, come close to “You Get What You Need” from Big Little Lies. Those final 10 minutes are just that good.

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[Thiago Joined: May 6th, 2012 Topics: 0 Posts: 220 View Predictions]

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Mizumono – Hannibal
This Is Not for Tears – Succession
Hitting the Fan – The Good Wife
Loplop – Fargo
START – The Americans
Decoy – Justified
Ronny/Lily – Barry

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[orangestraw Joined: Mar 27th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 458 View Predictions]

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The Good Wife, Hitting The Fan, is god-tier.

So many Pose ones too, but personally I’m in love with Life’s A Beach

FYC: "What We Do in the Shadows", "Industry" and "The Last of Us" in everything, Maya Rudolph for "Loot", Ego Nwodim for "Saturday Night Live", Simona Tabasco for "The White Lotus"

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[JV Joined: Dec 31st, 2019 Topics: 9 Posts: 5419 View Predictions]

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I love The Suitcase, but my favorite Mad Men episode is Far Away Places:

 

No matter how crap Lost became, but this one will always be in my heart.

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[Carlo Joined: Oct 6th, 2011 Topics: 4 Posts: 466 View Predictions]

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In Drama Six Feet Under “All Alone” is a masterpiece to me, even more than the series finale

In Comedy I’ll go with some Friends classics like “The One With The Embryos” or “The One Where Everybody Finds Out”.

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[gabspss Joined: Sep 10th, 2018 Topics: 148 Posts: 2490 View Predictions]

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My favorite of all time is The Good Wife’s Hitting the Fan.

It's about the chaotic editing in Moulin Rouge!

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[methaddiction Joined: Aug 1st, 2017 Topics: 3 Posts: 5418 View Predictions]

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This was really hard but I would say these are my favorite.

1. Ozymandias

2. The Winds of Winter

3. Long Term Parking

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[vinny Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 27 Posts: 23133 View Predictions]

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William Gillquist wrote:

“Band Geeks” (Spongebob Squarepants)

Beat me to that one lol.

Will also add:
“Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
“The Gang Finds a Dead Guy”
“The Nightman Cometh”
“Paddy’s Has a Jumper”

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[wolfali Joined: Apr 8th, 2023 Topics: 251 Posts: 39249 View Predictions]

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JV wrote:

I love The Suitcase, but my favorite Mad Men episode is Far Away Places:

Great choice!

I don’t know whether I’d include “Far Away Places” on a list of flawless Mad Men episodes personally but that’s rather because there are so many of them lol. I personally also found “Lost Horizons”, “Person to Person”, “A Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency” (should have won Lesli Linka Glatter her directing Emmy) and “The Other Woman” to be quite flawless too.

Solidarity with the striking writers. Pay them the wages they are owed for bringing us the content we are all on here because of!

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