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Favorite Show: A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with someoneone who asked something along the lines of "is there really a show where you love EVERY EPISODE?" - posed, quite reasonably, as a rhetorical question. Except I was like ACTUALLY THERE IS!! So my show of the year is, without contest, The Originals.
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I do want to appreciate some of my favorite episodes/scenes/moments of 2014 television. These are spoiler-cut by show, for those who aren't caught up on/don't care about everything I watch.
[**Agents of SHIELD**]Agents of SHIELD: As I mentioned in my post on S1, I was totally spoiled for the two big twists of AoS (and, alas, for the two big twists of CA:TWS, which I still have not seen) and I was still transfixed by the episode of and immediately after the Hydra and Grant reveals.
I got around to most of the AHS excellence in my last post about the show.
[**Game of Thrones**]Game of Thrones: I was ambivalent about some parts of the S4 finale, but
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Abstractly, I oppose blood vengeance. An eye for an eye puts innocent optometrists out of business and all. That said, JUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!
(2)
BITCH BIT HIS EAR OFF
Non-finale honorable mention: Really 100% of Olenna moments were among my favorite entertainment of the season, but the best one has to be this:
GRANDMA TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING, DEAR
[**HTGAWM**]
How to Get Away With Murder:
[**The Originals**]The Originals
LBH, the greatest moment of the The Originals so far - and probably on The CW ever - was in the mid-season finale when Elijah said he felt patronized and the baby said "WAH." I thought this was too good to be true so I watched it a half a dozen times to make sure, and then I watched it another three times because it was beautiful. But here is a small selection of the runners-up:
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[**Orphan Black**]Orphan Black:
[**Scandal**]Scandal:
(1) Liv pulling the trigger on Rowan. GIRL YES.
(2) Because Liv is protected by protagonist privilege, James dying was the most heartbreaking thing that Scandal could have done for me, but ugh, it was such an excellent narrative choice, and painfully well-executed.
(3) NEVER FORGET:
[**Supernatural**]Supernatural:
(1) I'm not even going to try to pick a demon!Dean moment. It was all perfect.
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(3) LOVE AND HEARTBREAK AND LOOOOOOOOOOVEEEE
[**even if you don't care about Supernatural you want to see this one**](4)
[**True Blood**]True Blood: I am so glad I caught up with the show in time to savor the last season. Sookie's "part of my truth" speech to Bill was a great final word on the show - that whoever Sookie is, whatever the world punishes her for, there is nothing wrong with her, and she knows it. The Hep-V storyline is one that, I think, could not have been what it was 20 years ago or 20 years from now. 2014 was the year of Truvada and The Normal Heart and just, a moment in time where those who survived a plague became more able to tell the rest of us what that meant for them. I love that the show told us a part of this story; that it was a show which could tell this story.
[**TVD**]TVD: