In 2014, Vulture had revisited the 1994–95 TV season for one week. Joe Adalian made the case that it was "one of network TV's last truly great seasons", which meant there are a lot of good shows to choose from — but rather than rank the shows, they went one step beyond to round up the 100 best episodes of the year.
For these purposes, the "season" roughly falls between August 25, 1994 (when My So-Called Life debuted) and June 1995, but there are a few outliers on either side of that boundary. This list primarily focuses on network shows, as network TV was generally where it was at, but a few cable entries made the cut, too.
It could have been entirely filled with episodes of The Simpsons, Homicide: Life on the Street, ER, NYPD Blue, Seinfeld, Friends, and My So-Called Life, but that's boring. Instead, after spending about 200 hours rewatching shows on DVD, streaming video, and dodgy YouTube rips, I factored in notability and variety in addition to just straight-up quality.
