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What Is TV's Most Perfect Episode? George R.R. Martin Reveals His Choice
What Is TV's Most Perfect Episode? George R.R. Martin Reveals His Choice,The Game of Thrones author has weighed in.

What Is TV's Most Perfect Episode? George R.R. Martin Reveals His Choice

Author and screenwriter George R.R. Martin has weighed in to share what he believes to be the most perfect episode of TV of all time. Responding to Vanity Fair’s recent piece that listed off what the site believed were 25 “perfect” episodes of TV, Martin said he was flattered that one of the Game of Thrones episodes he wrote–“Blackwater”–made the cut, but he has a different choice.

“It would have to be the final episode of Six Feet Under,” Martin wrote on his blog. “I liked that series well enough, though I cannot say I loved it as much as I loved Rome or Deadwood or Fargo or a few other shows missing from the list, but that last episode was far and away the best finale in the entire history of television, and I cannot imagine how anyone could possibly do better.”

Six Feet Under is an HBO drama that ran from 2001-2005. It starred Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, and Lauren Ambrose.

Vanity Fair’s list of “perfect” TV episodes also included Breaking Bad’s “Ozymandias” and “The Suitcase” from Mad Men, and Martin said he agreed that these are extraordinarily good episodes of television.

“Anyway… I feel very pleased and flattered to be in such great company. No work of art is ever truly perfect, of course… but it is very gratifying to hear that maybe you achieved it, or at least came close… for some of your readers (or viewers)… once in a very great while,” Martin said. “There is always a next time, though… and regardless of how well (or poorly) one of my tales is received, I always want to do better the next time I sit down in front of the computer.”

In addition to “Blackwater,” Martin wrote the Game of Thrones episodes “The Pointy End,” “The Bear and the Maiden Fair,” and “The Lion and the Rose.”

Martin also wrote for the 1986 version of the Twilight Zone TV series, as well as the Beauty and the Beast series from the late ’80s. He contributed to the lore of the video game Elden Ring, and is now writing the book The Winds of Winter and consulting on HBO’s House of the Dragon and other Game of Thrones spin-offs.

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