Now, the short version of the list (but please read the full version for my explanations and praise):
1. Friday Night Lights, “Always”
2. The Office, “Goodbye, Michael”
3. Louie, “Duckling”
4. Breaking Bad, “Crawl Space”
5. Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory”
6. Parks and Recreation, “Fancy Party”
7. South Park, “You’re Getting Old”
8. Curb Your Enthusiasm, “Mister Softee”
9. Justified, “Bloody Harlan”
10. Game of Thrones, “Baelor”
And finally, a very incomplete–more or less off the top of my head–list of honorable mentions, in no particular order:
No Reservations, “Haiti”
Parks and Recreation, “Media Blitz,” “Harvest Festival,” “Li’l Sebastian”
Sons of Anarchy, “Hands”
Friday Night Lights, “Don’t Go,” “Texas Whatever”
Big Love, “Certain Poor Shepherds”
30 Rock, “TGS Hates Women”
No Reservations, “Haiti”
Bob’s Burgers, “Art Crawl”
Community, “Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking,” “Paradigms of Human Memory”
The Office, “Garage Sale”
Justified, “Reckoning,” “The Spoil”
Game of Thrones, “The Wolf and the Lion”
Louie, “Eddie,” “Country Drive,” “Subway/Pamela,” “Come On, God,” “Moving”–the bulk of the season, actually
Breaking Bad, “Box Cutter,” “Hermanos,” the entire last half of the season, pretty much
Modern Family, “See You Next Fall”
Fringe, “The Day We Died”
Jeopardy!’s Watson episodes
Homeland, “The Weekend”
Enlightened, “Consider Helen,” “Not Good Enough Mothers”
