I have been rewatching Star Trek TNG and in the third season back to back to back we got “Yesterday’s Enterprise” “The Offspring” and “Sins of the Father”. All three of those are among the strongest episodes the series ever made and all three are in nearly every fan’s top ten list of greatest episodes of all time if not top five. One of those three is often someone’s favorite episode ever.
Has any series had a stronger run of three episodes in a row?
Doctor Who (2007), Season 3:
“Human Nature”
“The Family of Blood”
“Blink”
The Office, Season 4:
The Deposition
Dinner Party
Chair Model
The Deposition is a surprisingly serious episode that builds to the climax of Dinner Party, which is easily one of the best episodes of the show. And then you have the fairly silly Chair Model as an epilogue and palate cleanser.
Breaking Bad; Season 5b:
Ozymandias
Granite State
Felina
The first three episodes of the Battlestar Galactica reboot (after the initial miniseries): “33,” “Water,” and “Bastille Day.”
Do three-part episodes count? If so, I’d like to nominate the Imaginationland episode of South Park.
Beat me to it.
‘The Walking Dead’ has got to be in there somewhere. IMO.
The Sopranos, season 5:
“The Test Dream”
“Long Term Parking”
“All Due Respect”
IIRC Granite State isn’t that interesting, but you could sandwich anything in between Ozymandias and Felina and have the average be utterly fantastic.
Quantum Leap, season 5, the “Trilogy” … er, trilogy.
The Big Bang Theory’s last two episodes of season 10 (“The Gyroscopic Collapse” and “The Long Distance Dissonance” and first episode of season 11 “The Proposal Prososal.” The middle episode had the best jaw dropping cliff hanger in TV history.
I agree with this.
Really? You’d have a hard time finding a streak of 3 episodes in that show that were good, let alone in contention for the best ever. What three episodes would you suggest are Walking Dead as its best?
I wonder if for breaking bad Rabid Dog/To’jajilee/Ozymandias would fit better, since that more accurately follows the climax of the series with the other two episodes being a sort of epilogue, but… probably not. In raw quality the last three are probably it.
It’s actually kind of amazing how well Breaking Bad stuck the landing. There was a while where Game of Thrones could’ve claimed it was as good as Breaking Bad (never quite as good) but they’ve really just fallen apart at the ending. Breaking Bad just kept, incredibly, getting better and better right through the end. I’m not sure we’ll ever see that again.
If we were to include GoT, we’d probably look at 4.08 (The Mountain and the Viper), 4.09 (The Watchers on the Wall), 4.10 (The Children) as the best three episode run. But it’s debatable.
Firefly:
**Our Mrs. Reynolds
Jaynestown
Out Of Gas**
Are we counting the run up to a big finale? There are a lot of shows who pulled out all the stops in their last few episodes.
Quantum Leap:
M.I.A.
The Leap Home, Part I
The Leap Home, Part III (note, this isn’t a two-part episode; it’s connected to Part I, but Part I resolves, and Part II has a great triple twist ending.
Upon further review, and with allowances made for what I suspect is an erroneous Roman numeral, I withdraw my earlier submission.
Babylon 5:
Messages From Earth
Point of No Return
Severed Dreams