The worst episodes of the best series

There is an old saying: “even the most delicious stew can be ruined with a teaspoon of shit”. Of course, we don’t believe that a multi-season, great series is ruined by a single lousy episode, but there is no doubt that the less successful ones stand out better than the perfect episodes. Eight series episodes followed, which failed to maintain the standard of the series.

Season 4 / Episode 18

I know it’s not fair to start with an anthology series right away, but that’s what the chronological order brought. The Twilight Zone now it’s a concept the original series was shown on TV in the sixties, and since then it has been revived several times. From everyday horror to mystical horror lots of twisted stories singing episodes balanced on the border between science fiction and horror. We also made a compilation of the best episodes, but there is one part that did surprisingly poorly.

The episode “The Bard” can be seen in season 4 – this season and the following fifth are already considered the worst of the series.

One of the reasons for this is that starting from season 4, the episodes are one hour instead of half an hour, which results in more idle time. The story of episode 18 doesn’t sound good either: a writer, Julius Moomer, summons the ghost of William Shakespeare to capture him to write a screenplay. However, Shakespeare becomes increasingly angry as the studio management requests more and more changes to the script. In this case, such a crappy episode is also strange because it is through an anthology series could easily have been left out but maybe it was necessary because of the quota.

Twin Peaks (1990-1991; 2017)

Season 2 / Episode 15

The cult series of David Lynch and Mark Frost is good throughout, but not great all the time and there is no doubt that once we have the answer to the central question of who killed Laura Palmer,

it was difficult for the series to find itself again, and the viewers also found it difficult to return to it.

Despite this, the end of the second season was particularly strong, but there is one part, right in the second season, that does not reach the level of Twin Peaks. The episode “Servants and Their Masters” takes place shortly after the big reveal, and it is perhaps the most noticeable that the series has no idea where it is going. James Hurley (James Marshall) is being hunted by the police because he committed a murder, and Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer) goes completely crazy and imagines himself to be General Robert E. Lee, which the others assist in bringing him back to reality.

The X-Files (1993-2018)

Season 3 / Episode 18

The secret cases of the FBI are not always as exciting as we think. Of course, there’s the rubber man, the human intestinal worm hiding in the sewer, the green bugs, and of course the gray men – we’ve collected them in one article, but agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) didn’t always succeed after a really good scare to feed In the episode The Curse a vengeful jaguar demon is the current Monster of the Week. The entity infests cats – a whole horde of cats that attack humans. It’s all like Hitchcock’s The Birds, only with cats, and even worse tricks. The episode the actors and the crew also have scabies, the director, Kim Manners, also made a t-shirt for everyone, as it says:

“Survivor of the Curse”.

Friends (1994-2004)

Season 4 / Episode 21

Despite being one of the most popular series of all time, it is difficult to maintain the level for ten seasons. During the seasons, there were clip-like episodes that recalled the memorable moments of a connected part, and although this format worked in most cases, since we could see the arc of the characters in a zanzanized way, in the case of the episode The Invitation the concept fails. The episode’s central conflict is Ross (David Schwimmer) agonizing over whether to invite Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) to his wedding — he does. The girl laments whether he should go away – he won’t. All this is interrupted by flashbacks reviving their relationship. Such a concept is enjoyable if you focus on the funny moments,

in this episode, however, we mainly only see the quarrels of the two characters.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Season 4 / Episode 5

The mystical objects of the series, which features vampires and other natural creatures, are sometimes quite strange. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Bad Beer in his grief of love he reaches for alcohol. But they serve him a beer that makes him he begins to act like an ancient man, who drinks it – his friends must figure out how to jolt him back into his old ways. Of course it’s obvious

the whole episode is anti-alcoholism propaganda, but also the most clumsy and stereotypical of it:

Buffy spends most of her playtime painting walls and whacking people with sticks.

Mobsters (1999-2007)

Season 1 / Episode 10

The show that changed television – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Anyway, it’s funny that the only crappy episode of Mobsters is about that

the protagonists do not commit crimes, but engage in various legal activities.

Tony (James Gandolfini) is quizzed by his neighbor about his occupation while playing golf, Chris and his girlfriend Adriana try their hand at music – which is quite strange for a crime drama that, as it turns out, it does not look good if it differs from the usual recipe.

Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Season 8 / Episode 6

Yes, we could put the whole eighth season here, but it’s really tough that even in one of the most embarrassing season finales of all time there is somewhere to fall. The eighth season was characterized by a rough disorganization anyway, which is primarily due to the fact that ran out of literary material, and the screenwriters themselves had to flesh out the storylines originally set in motion by George RR Martin. The unfounded tyranny of Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and the crowning of Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) as king are all events in which

they subordinated the story management to the twists and turns.

Succession (2018-2023)

Season 1 / Episode 3

One of HBO’s surprise series has added another family to the series about Galad families. At the beginning of the series, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is one makes an unexpected announcement in relation to his promised future, with which he ensures the competition between his children. Except

after that, the action slows down a bit, and it takes time for Succession to find its rhythm.

The two boys, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin), spend their first days running the company and try to fix the terrible financial conditions. But since we don’t know them enough yet, it’s not very interesting what they do and why. However, later, when we know more about them, all their actions become much more interesting.

(vis ScreenRant, Independent)