Matt Fowlerįor more, check out IGN's Only Murders in the Building Season 1 review. And in the exemplary chapter “The Boy From 6B,” Mabel, Charles, and Oliver’s ongoing investigation turns sideways, opening up doors to the past and revealing answers no one ever expected to come to light. Years earlier, the residents of the Arconia experienced another tragic event when Mabel’s friend, Zoe, was thrown off the roof by her boyfriend Oscar. The mysterious death of a-hole outcast Tim Kono wasn’t the only running mystery on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. Only Murders in the Building - Season 1, Episode 7, "The Boy From 6B"
Ryan Duncanįor more, check out IGN's Mare of Easttown Series Finale review. "Illusions" further reinforced the shows overarching themes of loneliness and the brutal, often disappointing nature of truth, as Mare finds herself once again alone in her investigation, and the audience is left with as many new questions as the answers we just found. Nowhere was this more evident than in the series' fifth episode, "Illusions," which gave us closure on some of the season's biggest questions while also opening new wounds in a gripping game of cat and mouse in the episode's closing moments. It lead the audience through a web of twists and turns that felt well-grounded and earned, while still dripping with the melodrama we craved.
With Mare of Easttown, creator Brad Inglesby brought a fresh approach and new voice to the well-tread and oft-formulaic premium cable detective format. Mare of Easttown - Season 1, Episode 5, "Illusions" Matt Kimįor more, check out IGN's Squid Game Season 1 review.
There's no turning back after Episode 6 you're in it for the full ride. Relationships are altered forever, and characters are not who they once were. And while some who were watching may have come in because of the carnage, Episode 6 reaffirmed that ultimately it was the characters of Squid Game that we cared about. The content included in the Game of the Year edition was previously available as part of the Uncharted 3 Fortune Hunters' Club, which came to a close on April 17th.Earlier this month, Naughty Dog. This was the beginning of the end for a journey that took many viewers by surprise. In a show with creepy robots, a vertigo-inducing game of tug-of-war, and elaborate glass bridges, it was an episode about a game of marbles that proved to be Squid Game's most emotionally gut-wrenching. Squid Game - Season 1, Episode 6, "Gganbu"
Speaking of which, our winner for the Best TV Episode of 2021 is. Of course, no list in the world of television can be complete without a hat-tip to 2021's biggest surprise: Squid Game.
Major Marvel favorites are always a shoe-in around here, but players like Mare of Easttown and Only Murders in the Building surprised with some impeccable episodes this year. It makes sense, given the climate of 2021, but it also definitively kills the idea that media that heads to streamers is of a lesser quality. Streaming was king in 2021's best TV episode of the year race, with all but one of our nominees airing on a streaming service rather than traditional cable or broadcast television.