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The Bear: Forks (2023)
Mid-Life Redemption
An all-around novel way of taking a manchild character like Richie and having him learn skills practical for adults.
Richie is sent by Carmen to a three star restaurant during The Bear's rebuilding. Richie immediately assumes this is because he's not yet an asset to their restaurant, but that theory is purely his insecurities about his self-worth.
Following an episode where forks played a major part in a traumatic event, Richie's ironically put in charge of cleaning forks. He thinks that dishwashing is so beneath him, reinforcing the idea that Carm barely thinks he can even wash the dishes. As it turns out, the guy chewing him out for minor details about the forks is himself not a chef, and also gets chewed out for minor details.
Despite his contempt for this minor role, Richie keeps waking up early to do his job. Even when his ex tells him that she's engaged, he keeps living. He starts seeing the value in managerial duties and hospitality and small victories, and by the end of the episode he's a changed man who's stopped his self-loathing.
Twin Peaks: Northwest Passage (1989)
A Beautiful Mystery
At its core, Twin Peaks is an enticing idea in a unique setting. Devoted to showing what the effects of a death of a lovable girl in a small town are, in all their devastating glory. Not only does this episode set up a setting, characters, tone, and story, but it regards the cycle of mourning with as much heart as could be mustered. The show gives a damn about music, sound, writing, costumes, and plenty of cinematography alternating being either avant-garde or beautifully traditional.
Scream (1996)
Among the greatest horrors
One of the best staple horrors. The opening scene is one of the greatest in film, rife with references and trope subversion, all built up into making this horror have the intelligence of the most vindictive thrillers. This pattern generally continues for the rest of the movie.
The Conjuring (2013)
Best in the series
A movie laced with some fantastic scenes and striking, if not a little corny, visuals.
Shameless: Simple Pleasures (2014)
What Makes This Show Great
You learn every character's motivations, mindset, and relatability in each scene, either directly or through the use of music and cinematography, with many especially creative, purposeful scenes to emphasize all the character building. Each character starts being built upon a very deliberate character arc, with very deliberate character flaws, which leads to them being well-developed characters. Everyone becomes distinctly deplorable AND innocent, and it's that dichotomy that makes this show so damn great.
Shameless: Survival of the Fittest (2013)
Deserves a medal
The episode where everything good happens for most of the characters for once, but is dangerously good. Definitely should've been awarded for striking cinematography and music choice.