2011's Best Episodes: Wager on Thrones' Shocking Beheading, Walking Dead's Discovery

Madison Lintz and Andrew Lincoln subsequently subsequently From Oprah's remarkably low-key farewell for the year's most soul-crushing break-around the Great Wife (Kalicia, no!), the season was filled with fantastic several hours of television - virtually which we seen. There has been teary goodbyes (Friday Evening Lights' Texas forever! Smallville's tights and travel arrangements!), tense face-offs (why can't all CIA interrogations occur round the front porch from the cabin, like on Homeland?) as well as we made room for just about any little Glee (because certain underdogs deserved it). Which made this list. Stay updated all week for that top 25. Here's the second batch inside our extended countdown of 2011's best episodes (Get swept up first with Episodes 25-21, Episodes 20-16 and Episodes 15-11): 10. "Filled with Jordan," 30 RockHow can you satisfy the growing demand left by bigger-than-existence personality Tracy Jordan? With wine-throwing, weave-yanking together with a pointless party. Basically, it's a work for Real Regular folks! Or otherwise an authentic Regular folks spoof! Scene-stealer Sherri Shepherd rose for the occasion as Tracy's wife Angie, who is simply as off-the-wall and from touch with reality as her crazy husband. Although shot in position-normally women style, the episode still featured 30 Rock's classic absurdist comedy (the gay hairstylist thinks Jack is gay because he states he carried out for round the national football league and nfl and college football team, Jenna forces her intervention to acquire attention which is shipped on Minnesota), but added something. We'd call that certain in the comedy's best episodes, but legal mentioned we're not able to use "best." 9. "Virtually Dead Already," The Walking DeadIn the midseason finale of the sophomore season, this show in some manner handled to create back -- or reanimate, as it were -- the humanity that's essentially of compelling zombie dramas. Inside the episode's final minutes, Player Herschel is devastated to witness his hoarded horde of zombies (he alone sights as "sick" humans) get filled with bullets before his eyes. The tragic capper, however, comes about when a zombiefied Sophia, the missing youthful girl they've all been searching for, stumbles out, plus it falls on Ron to tug the trigger along with her mother sobbing nearby. 8. "The Sun's Sun rays Also Increases," The Vampire DiariesThe second season's penultimate episode was filled with tears, concluding in Klaus turning Aunt Jenna in to a vampire before ultimately killing her. Worse, watching Elena lose her only semblance from the parent and knowing she was responsible for the dying was wrenching. We now have felt terror, hysteria, and jeered very hard as you are watching this show it had been the first time we sobbed. 7. "The Weekend," HomelandWhat begins just like a weekend getaway between new fanatics finishes while using fiery confrontation that has been brewing since the pilot. Although Barbara fully gives straight into her lust for Brody, the Marine sniper she suspects is plotting a terrorist attack, she can't shake her nagging accusations. When she accidentally provides particulars that suggest she's looked at Brody via surveillance, Barbara spills her entire theory. Signal most likely probably the most excellent interrogation scene ever staged inside a cabin inside the forest. Brody well solutions an sufficient quantity of Carrie's queries to sway her, however, if she begs his forgiveness due to not getting belief in him, his unflinching "F--- you, Barbara," sets her in the tailspin the culminates inside the show's also excellent season finale. (Oh, which he was lounging.) 6. "Baelor," Wager on ThronesA pivotal event in this particular episode is actually shockingly audacious that to this day you want to problem a spoiler alert lest site visitors miss out on one of television's finest surprises. HBO's epic fantasy series may have been difficult to grasp at first -- a massive cast, foreign-sounding names, a feudal-type setting and baffling political intrigues -- but eventually we have reached comprehend the central figures, especially hero, patriarch and many types of-around upstanding fellow Ned Stark, carried out through the almighty in the Rings' Sean Bean. We rooted for your morally high-minded right-hands guy in the king, and therefore audiences could only watch (and rewind their DVRs) in disbelief as Ned was summarily beheaded inside an act of disloyality -- along with his two youthful kids watching -- in the public square. What? Killing off somebody who was allegedly the protagonist and emotional center in the show did not compute -- and drove home the fact nobody, not necessarily the passive audiences, are untouched with the fantastical cruelty around the globe produced by author George R.R. Martin.