Best episodes lists often tend to be dominated, these days, by the flashy, format-breaking standalone installments that most great prestige programs seem to unveil once or twice per season.
THR's list does, indeed, include a couple of those. They've got flashbacks, tonal detours and feature-length episodes that reframe everything they thought they understood about the season or the shows themselves. But they also have some a couple of premieres, a finale or two and just some darned good regular episodes representing the best that the shows have to offer, rather than trying out something new or different. We've got animation, documentary and foreign television, plus some comedies, some dramas and whatever The Bear is.
These are, then, SOME of THR's FAVORITE television episodes of 2024.
