From Game of Thrones to Atlanta, Black Mirror to Beyoncé, this year had some great TV.
One of the best reasons to love television is that its bounty comes in quantities both large and small.
Great television can take the form of a series hundreds of hours long or a single episode of just 22 minutes (or even less). Vox has already covered the best TV shows of 2016, and now it's time to turn our gaze toward the year's best episodes.
They took us under the sea, into the heart of the country's most pressing political debates, and through some of the biggest plot twists of the year.
They featured explosions, murders, jokes, were-monsters, and two different stories about women stuck in computer simulations trying desperately to find their lover. And also Beyoncé, because damned if Vox was going to leave Lemonade out of the fun.
All told, dozens of notable TV episodes aired in 2016 — but here is Vox's ranking of the 33 Best TV Episodes of 2016.
