The 15 Best TV Episodes Of 2014

It's become muddier thanks to the advent of prestige cable drama and VOD, but in general, the TV season begins after each September's Emmys, and as such, we pick out our best shows of the 'year' in the summer —you can find our last list, which was topped by "True Detective," right here.

But with the lines between the big and small screens becoming ever more blurry, we didn't want to completely exclude television from our year-end extravaganza (catch up on everything here), and we've included shout-outs throughout our Best of 2014 coverage. But we also wanted to do something more TV-centric.

So, as we did last year, we've picked out the finest individual TV episodes of 2014. Some are from shows that made our Best Shows list, others are from ones that didn't or that have debuted since —otherwise, the only firm rule is that we'd go with one episode per show. So with no further ado, to take you into the Christmas break, here are the Playlist's pick of the best TV episodes of...