I've been thinking about this question ever since we decided to ask it (yes, I get a heads-up *g*), and I think I finally have an answer. But first, a long intro! :)
Over on Tumblr, one of that crew listed the top five episodes as follows:
01. "Martial Eagle" (2.09) 02. "A Little Night Music" (2.04) 03. "New Car" (2.08) 04. "The Deal" (2.05) 05. "Behind the Red Door" (2.06)
...and my response was that those were the best five as far as I was concerned, too, but I'd put them in a different order. So let me get that off my chest first. Here's what I think are the best five episodes of season two, in the following order:
01. "The Deal" (2.05) 02. "Behind the Red Door" (2.06) 03. "A Little Night Music" (2.04) 04. "Martial Eagle" (2.09) 05. "New Car" (2.08)
Of course, "best" isn't necessarily the same as "favourite." So my top-five list for "favourite" would be the same episodes in yet a different order:
01. "A Little Night Music" (2.04) 02. "Behind the Red Door" (2.06) 03. "The Deal" (2.05) 04. "Martial Eagle" (2.09) 05. "New Car" (2.08)
Which was a rather roundabout way of answering the question with "A Little Night Music." :) I loved "Behind the Red Door" almost as much, and I actually do think it was a better episode, but "A Little Night Music" took the show's ever-pervasive theme of blurring the lines between real lives and fake ones (to the point, in some cases, where the people living those lives can't tell the difference), and put it front and centre. And that more than anything is my own personal crack with this show, really.
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A Little Night Music
Date: 2014-06-17 06:16 am (UTC)Over on Tumblr, one of that crew listed the top five episodes as follows:
01. "Martial Eagle" (2.09)
02. "A Little Night Music" (2.04)
03. "New Car" (2.08)
04. "The Deal" (2.05)
05. "Behind the Red Door" (2.06)
...and my response was that those were the best five as far as I was concerned, too, but I'd put them in a different order. So let me get that off my chest first. Here's what I think are the best five episodes of season two, in the following order:
01. "The Deal" (2.05)
02. "Behind the Red Door" (2.06)
03. "A Little Night Music" (2.04)
04. "Martial Eagle" (2.09)
05. "New Car" (2.08)
Of course, "best" isn't necessarily the same as "favourite." So my top-five list for "favourite" would be the same episodes in yet a different order:
01. "A Little Night Music" (2.04)
02. "Behind the Red Door" (2.06)
03. "The Deal" (2.05)
04. "Martial Eagle" (2.09)
05. "New Car" (2.08)
Which was a rather roundabout way of answering the question with "A Little Night Music." :) I loved "Behind the Red Door" almost as much, and I actually do think it was a better episode, but "A Little Night Music" took the show's ever-pervasive theme of blurring the lines between real lives and fake ones (to the point, in some cases, where the people living those lives can't tell the difference), and put it front and centre. And that more than anything is my own personal crack with this show, really.
-J