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2011's best TV episodes

It's easy to rank the year's best shows. But what were the individual episodes you need to see?

By Matt Zoller Seitz
10. "Baelor"

10. “Baelor”

"Game of Thrones" (HBO)
Written by David Benioff. Directed by D.B. Weiss

Every scene, every line, every shot seemed to have been carved from marble. And that ending was a knockout.

10. "Baelor" 9. "Subway/Pamela" 8. "Consider Helen" 7. "End Times" 6. "Duckling" 5. "Graduation Day" 4. "Crawl Space" 3. "Hermanos" 2. "The Weekend" 1. "Critical Film Studies"