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Dexter: Hungry Man (2009)
jesus f-cking christ
After the underrated season 3, i honestly thought the show had lost the air tight gripping tension that season 1 brought to the table...i could not have been more wrong.
i actually watched dis episode, and overall, finished dexter a few months back. i thought season one was amazing. season two being alright and season three being criminally underrated. however, never would i have imagined that the show would ever reach this level of quality. trinity is easily the best quality villain of the show. john lithgow's portrayal of arthur mitchell/trinity is absolutely phenomenal. aside from pointless subplots that add nothing to the overall story, season 4 was f-cking fire. but when i arrived to this episode, i was jus not prepared. the thanksgiving scene that takes place in this episode quickly devolves into a psychological battle when its revealed trinity uses his wife and two kids as, essentially, human shields to mask who and what he really is. his wife is a broken wreck trying to keep her husband happy at all times. his daughter is regularly locked up in her room which looks like belongs to an eight year old. and its revealed he abuses his own son jonah. however, in this episode, he's had enough. and when all this is revealed to dexter during thanksgiving at the mitchells, he quickly becomes extremely disturbed. and what follows becomes imo one of the most intense scenes i have ever f-cking scene of anything.
10/10 without a doubt.
Arby 'n' the Chief (2008)
GOAT tier webseries
Watching the serialized seasons (seasons 5-8) rly showed jon's talent when it came to quality storytelling. i mean even tho seasons 1-4 were mostly tongue and cheek, the main characters (arbiter and chief) eventually evolved to sympathetic and relatable characters. aribter's character has a tragedy to him in the sense that since he thinks a lot alike a normal human being, due to the special circumstances he's in, he quickly devolves into a nihilistic, depressed alcoholic and u rly feel for the guy. i mean being confined into one room and always being rejected as a romantic partner after meeting dis one girl online? ion blame him. and chief? for the most part, seasons 1-6 had chief behave in the same manner. unpredictable, offensive, erratic, jus overall very "out there". but in season 7, chief does something so dark, so disgusting, that it actually changes him in the sense that he questions his own morality. up until dis point, chief never gave an ounce of thought into rly anything aside from halo. but following some events that happened in season 7, chief essentially grows the same edge that arbiter has developed over the series. by the end, these two characters have basically been thru hell and back.
overall, i think dis show is f-cking torch. so far i fw season 8. really looking forward to how jon wraps things up.
9/10
Breaking Bad: Ozymandias (2013)
there is absolutely no question about it...
I remember watching this episode back in 2016 for the first time (3 years after breaking bad's time in the air) and jus havin my heart sank into the pits of my stomach. i mean, is there rly any question abt it? can i even say anything that hasn't already been said? this is the single most devastating piece of work i have ever f-cking seen. vince gilligan built up to this one episode the moment he even wrote the first rough draft of the pilot. its kinda funny considering how when game of thrones was still in the air, fanboys were in denial about the sheer brilliance of this episode. they even downvoted the episode's original 10/10, downgrading it to a "9.9". but now after the disaster that was season 8 of game of thrones, and this episode regaining its original rating, it's undisputed now. if "face off" was the episode that solidified breaking bad as "one of the greatest shows of all time", it was "ozymandias" that immortalized this show and thus making breaking bad the undisputed greatest show of all time.
"my name is ozymandias
-king of kings!-
look at my works,
ye might and despair!"
10/10
without f-cking question.