And when that happens, we should celebrate it.
Below, EW shares our 30 best episodes of the year listed alphabetically by show.
Surrounded by death and blood, he declares, “I am going to live.”
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Clearly theChadteam took Uncle Hamid’s advice.
It was pure nostalgic-yet-fresh magic onscreen.
And most shockingly, it was downrighthilarious.
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But the episode was also critical to setting upCobra Kai’s future.
“Feel the Night” was nostalgia done right.
This episode may not be easy to watch, but it’s even harder to forget.
Nasim Pedrad and Thomas Barbusca in ‘Chad’.Scott Patrick Green/TBS
Dave Burd, is just one big dick joke.
Borrowing from their crowd-pleasing collaboration, I say to “Dave”, “You good, bro.”
Of course, the aforementioned box eventually opens and what emerges was both surprising and frightening.
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But that was the job writer Sarah Burgess set out to perform with this hour of television.
So, they decide to play a Mafia-meets-Clue-like game to pass the time.
To make things more fun, Constantine transports them into the world of the game.
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It was also about grief and what it can do to a person.
What had killed all those cats?
And who exactly was Father Paul (Hamish Linklater)?
Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Offerman, and Jaden Michael in ‘Colin in Black & White’.Netflix
With Riley (Zach Gilford) having learned the truth about Father Paul’s A.K.A.
Father Pruitt’s plan, he begins his own, um, transformation.
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“Backstory!”
Dave Burd in the ‘Dave’ season 2 finale.Byron Cohen/FX
Longbottom (now just Carl) is a junior copy editor at the esteemed fantasy magazineAmazing Tales.
Sourly dismissing the critiques of his colleague friends, fellow would-be scribes Peter (Michael Cassidy) and A.E.
(played in the modern day by the delightfulF.
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Two bare toes up.
Top it all off with some vaguely damning anecdotes at dinner and you’ve got aHousewiveshour for the ages.
So why “California Dreamin'”?
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Yes, Ansel (Matty Cardarople), we are crying!
From Oscar-worthy line readings (guest judge Loni Love’s response to Utica’s jab about her comedy career?
In the words of Kandy Muse: Bitch, [we] died.
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And specifically, one scene stood out among the rest.
But that proved to be just the pre-game to the main event: Kendall Roy’s 40th birthday party.
“Ted Lasso,you had us at “coach,” too.
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder on ‘Hacks.'.Anne Marie Fox/HBO Max
Iconic is the only word for it.
But Mark’s father “hid the monkey” from him and that screwed Mark up.
Tanya’s all screwed up, too.
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The monkey is officially out of the bag.
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Evan Peters on ‘Mare of Easttown’.Michele K. Short/HBO
Zach Gilford as Riley Flynn in ‘Midnight Mass’.EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX
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Steve Martin and Amy Ryan in ‘Only Murders in the Building.'.Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu
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RuPaul gives Utica the middle finger on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ season 13.VH1
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