re: The Ringer's 100 best episodes of the century

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I do like the one episode per show rule for maximum inclusiveness

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Then it's not a list of the 100 best episodes of the century.

The Ringer is an absolute joke of a website 95% of the time

Ozymandias at 10?

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THE WEST WING S2 E22
“TWO CATHEDRALS”

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Should have been in the top 5.

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My 16yr old emo self loved the first 2 seasons of The OC.

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The first two seasons of The OC hold up pretty well. I am not afraid to admit I rewatched them with my wife a few years ago

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The OC

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I disagree with the GOT episode chosen for one reason. Book readers knew it was coming.

I liked the Winds of Winter episode the most as it was a complete surprise, and it was a amazing television/music for the first 15 minutes.

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Wrong BSG episode.

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Definitely. Not too many BSG fans put the finale at the top. I'd vote for 33, but Exodus of course has a great case.

I think the absence of That's My Dog from Six Feet Under, perhaps the most polarizing episode of TV, speaks volumes about the list makers, who have a tendency to shy away from even the mildest of controversies. But that was a brutal episode of TV.

The biggest oversight is clearly the finale of The Shield, which is widely praised as the greatest finale ever made. I'd also say the absence of Halt and Catch Fire, the best show of the past five years even if no one watched it, is made worse by the presence of shite like Jersey Shore and Real housewives. Who Needs a Guy?, one of the near final episodes, is a tour de force and one of the most emotionally effecting episodes of TV I've ever seen.

They lost me at 100. That episode of TWD should be way, way higher.

List is more good than bad. As with anything arguments can be made about the rankings and order of certain episodes.

Lost
Mad Men
FNL
West Wing
The Wire
Leftovers
Arrested Development

Were all good episode choices. I think maybe One Tree Hill's school shooting episode should have made the list.

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Definitely. Not too many BSG fans put the finale at the top. I'd vote for 33, but Exodus of course has a great case.

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33 was always my favorite but on rewatch Exodus is a phenomenal season finale.

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I think the absence of That's My Dog from Six Feet Under, perhaps the most polarizing episode of TV, speaks volumes about the list makers, who have a tendency to shy away from even the mildest of controversies. But that was a brutal episode of TV.

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Agree on this, it's in my Top 10 easily. Most uncomfortable hour of tv ever.

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The biggest oversight is clearly the finale of The Shield, which is widely praised as the greatest finale ever made..

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I guess I should watch Halt, but yes on The Shield as well.



I know I'm in the minority but if I'm putting sci-fi at the top of my list, as good as The Constant is, it's almost too dependent on the myth of the show for me to be "so great." When it comes to the best, I think of something that can almost stand on its own. With that said, I'd offer up Fringe's "White Tulip" as the best sci-fi episode not named 33, since Clyde Bruckman. It has an older star, just like it, hits on so many themes, comes back around to the universality love, and does it all in a tense mindscrew of time travel in 44 tight minutes.