"Of all of our Best of the Year lists, "best episodes" is getting to be one of the hardest to pull together. Between binge models of release, strange multiple-episode drops on a weekly schedule, and old-school network TV seasons strewn across two calendar years, it's hard to keep up with which episode aired when and included what, and even more difficult to remember specific episodes in a sea of Peak TV content in general.
Thankfully, our brilliant writers have put their heads together to make a point to seek these episodes out and uplift them, nominating and voting with the editors on the year's best, along with notes to remind all of us what happened.
To be eligible, episodes had to air between January 1st and November 30th of 2022."
-Allison Keene and Anna Govert