Yes, we’ve covered the Best TV of 2022, and we’ve covered the Most Anticipated TV of 2023 (and there may or may not be Best Performances, we’re running out of gas), but with such an amazing year of television— given the streaming age of #TooMuchContent has given us a massive overflow of TV— we couldn’t help, but try and highlight more deserving work with the Best Episodes of TV too. 

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This list may be seen as highly subjective, and that’s ok, aren’t they all?

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Nathan Fielder’s new HBO series “The Rehearsal” is brilliant, of course. It’s too meticulous with its details and design to be anything less. Apartments and fast food restaurants are meticulously recreated (with extras) to become live sets, conversations are planned for every possible outcome, all for the purpose of helping someone prepare for a moment they have only been imagining from a safe distance. “The Rehearsal” is about everyone involved getting lost in Fielder’s production of pure imagination—the subject, the viewer, and Fielder—a world that tries to beat reality with fascinating dedication and laugh-out-loud emotional revelations.

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From his hilarious and beautifully absurd show “Nathan for You” to his work as executive producer on the informative, intimate, and inimitable “How to With John Wilson,” Nathan Fielder’s imprint on comedy in the last several years is indisputable. And this imprint is set to expand with “The Rehearsal,” a new limited series debuting on HBO in July.

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Just about anyone who’s ever taken an acting class should feel a wave of queasy familiarity watching “The Rehearsal,” a keenly observed coming-of-age drama, about the ways some teachers push budding young thespians to “be honest” to the point of complete, embarrassing exposure. Based on an Eleanor Catton novel — adapted to the screen by writer-director Alison Maclean and her co-writer Emily Perkins — the film follows a class of first-year college students in thrall to a tough-but-inspiring instructor, whom they try to please by taking dangerous risks with their end-of-term production.

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So far, 2016 has been one of most disappointing years for movies we can remember, and the fall film-festival season couldn’t come fast enough. And already, Venice opener “La La Land,” has made the cinematic landscape seem much rosier (read Jess’s rave review here if you haven’t already). The premieres will come thick and fast over the next few days, with Telluride getting in the mix on Friday, but we’re still a week away from one of the biggest events of them all, the Toronto International Film Festival.

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This year, the fall festival season will see two filmmakers who have long been away from the feature filmmaking game, return in a big way. Barry Jenkins will hit pretty much every stop in the next six to eight weeks with “Moonlight,” while “Jesus’ Son” director Alison Maclean will land at TIFF and NYFF with her latest, “The Rehearsal.”

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Having premiered already at the New Zealand International Film Festival this summer, the Maclean’s latest is based on the novel by Eleanor Cratton, and stars Kerry Fox, James Rolleston, Alice Englert, Ella Edward, Kieran Charnock, Michelle Ny, Scotty Cotter, and Marlon Williams in the story that’s set against the backdrop of a drama school, where romance, art, and scandal collide.

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With the Toronto International Film Festival and Venice Film Festival getting their respective lineups solidified, now it’s time for the New York Film Festival to unveil what will be coming to the Big Apple this fall. The fest has already teased a trio of great pictures, with Ava DuVernay‘s documentary “The 13th” to open proceedings, Mike Mills‘ “20th Century Women” screening as the Centerpiece selection, while James Gray‘s “The Lost City Of Z” will close it out.

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