The BEST episodes written by Tony Grisoni

Episode 8
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8.00
1057 votes

#1 - Episode 8

The Young Pope - Season 1 - Episode 8

Pius struggles with emotional fallout from Dussolier's death. Admist feminist protests, author Elmore Coen (Andre Gregory) visits Pius for a conversation about sex. Spencer offers Pius spiritual guidance for handling his increasing guilt. Hoping to find clarity in his Papacy, Pius follows Sophia's suggestion to visit an African mission where he discovers moral ambiguity. Meanwhile, Pius's relation with the public grows more contentious as reporters begin digging into his past.

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Sorrow's Child
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7.73
171 votes

#2 - Sorrow's Child

Southcliffe - Season 1 - Episode 3

As the onset of trauma ravages Southcliffe the families of the dead are each immersed in their own struggle to comprehend the fallout. Grief isolates them from themselves, their loved ones and the community. Each succumbs to their own private madness. For some of them, there will be no return. David's secret about his childhood friendship with Morton is beginning to take hold of him. His marriage is falling apart. His job is on the line as he becomes insistent on finding an answer to why this happened. The more he imposes his own explanation, the more the residents reject it. Conspiracy theories surrounding police cover-ups feed into David's personal paranoia.

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Episode 7
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7.54
1060 votes

#3 - Episode 7

The Young Pope - Season 1 - Episode 7

Pius's opposition consolidates against him as his plan for a conservative revolution in the church continues to alienate the public. Sister Mary commits herself to deception. In the wake of a tragedy, Dussollier blames himself and decides to return to his mission in Honduras.

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In the Year of Our Lord 1974
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7.38
233 votes

#4 - In the Year of Our Lord 1974

Red Riding - Season 1 - Episode 1

Eddie Dunford and Barry Gannon, crime reporters for the Yorkshire Post are sent to a press conference where they find a Mrs Kemplay pleading for someone to help find her missing daughter, Claire. Finding out that there have been two previous missing girls in the past few years, Eddie decides to help, unaware of the violence, corruption and blackmail that awaits him.

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Lights Falls
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7.35
229 votes

#5 - Lights Falls

Southcliffe - Season 1 - Episode 2

The deceits, the longings and desires of the people of Southcliffe are revealed in the days leading up to the shooting. Betrayal comes casually to Paul who barely hides his affair with a much younger woman despite having a newborn baby with his loyal wife. Caring comes naturally to Claire but her efforts at work are becoming exhausted by pressures at home. She and her husband, Andrew are worried about the void that will be left behind when their only child, Anna leaves home to go abroad. For all of these people life turns in a second. Each is forced through their loss to come to terms with how easily they took their loved ones for granted. But the reality of grief has not yet fully descended on them. Reporter David is haunted by childhood memories of his hometown and is reluctant to return to Southcliffe. His own experience growing up there gives him a version of events which is dangerously subjective.

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The Hollow Shore
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7.30
301 votes

#6 - The Hollow Shore

Southcliffe - Season 1 - Episode 1

As dawn breaks in the sleepy market town of Southcliffe, the unmistakable sound of gunshots ring out. The residents of this tight-knit community wake to discover an inconceivable horror has devastated the town, and the lives of those left behind are changed forever. Questions, guilt and ghosts from the past are unleashed as the residents of Southcliffe resilience is tested, both as individuals and as a community. Reporter David Whitehead, a journalist who grew up in Southcliffe, finds himself back there looking for answers from the shattered community while trying to reconcile dark events from his own past.

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Besźel
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7.10
152 votes

#7 - Besźel

The City & The City - Season 1 - Episode 1

When the body of a woman is found in Bulkya Docks, an area that sits on the border between Beszel and Ul Qoma, Inspector Tyador Borlú notices similarities with an old case that has always haunted him.

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In the Year of Our Lord 1983
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7.02
88 votes

#8 - In the Year of Our Lord 1983

Red Riding - Season 1 - Episode 3

The action moves to 1983 for the conclusion of the drama trilogy. A schoolgirl's disappearance bears striking similarities to the abduction and murder of Clare Kemplay in 1974, forcing Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson to realise he may have helped convict the wrong man. Meanwhile, solicitor John Piggott is persuaded by the imprisoned man's mother to fight this miscarriage of justice - and soon unearths a trail of cover-ups.

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Breach
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6.89
81 votes

#9 - Breach

The City & The City - Season 1 - Episode 4

Borlú opens his eyes. He breached, and now he’s under Breach control. If Mahalia and Katrynia discovered that there is a third city, that would leave the cities at war. Breach want to know about Orciny. They want Borlú to find the true link between Mahalia, Bowden and Borlú’s subversive wife.

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All Souls
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6.81
223 votes

#10 - All Souls

Southcliffe - Season 1 - Episode 4

One year on - an anonymous letter sent to David reawakens the threat that Morton is still alive and returning to Southcliffe. Now living alone in a bedsit, David takes the letter as a sign to revisit his hometown and confront his past. He finds a town that is just the same - the same shops, same pubs, same people strolling the streets. But in other ways things have changed. Claire is beginning to inhabit her memories, spiraling into despair, her husband Andrew must rescue her. Then when he discovers an intruder has broken into his hotel room, he senses the direction of a new threat. Has the darkness that compelled Morton come to possess Chris? David appeals to Chris's family for help, only to be met by their resentment and hostility. Now David realises only he can prevent tragedy revisiting Southcliffe.

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In the Year of Our Lord 1980
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6.68
94 votes

#11 - In the Year of Our Lord 1980

Red Riding - Season 1 - Episode 2

After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the Police when they discover they not only have The Ripper to catch, but a copycat killer is also at large. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation, with the help of John Nolan and Helen Marshall, both detectives from the Manchester Police, they decide to go back and look at the crime reports from the Rippers victims to see what they could have missed.

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Crazy Diamond
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6.33
1345 votes

#12 - Crazy Diamond

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Season 1 - Episode 4

Ed has his life turned upside down when he meets a femme fatale named Jill, a synthetic being who's as beautiful as she is deadly. Jill takes Ed into a world of heist and murder that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.

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