🔗 Share this article ‘I absolutely had to rest after that!’ Your most gripping television episodes you’ve seen The 2003 Spooks episode I Spy Apocalypse The episode begins with the MI5 agents confined while undergoing a drill concerning a fictional terrorist event, monitored by two government representatives. As events unfold, it appears that there really has been an attack and a chemical agent deployed. The suspense builds as incoming communications show a catastrophe taking place outside, and intensifies when the leader seems contaminated, and the government agents endeavor to depart, pushing the protagonist portrayed by Matthew Macfadyen to opt for either shooting them or letting them go and risking contaminating the sealed MI5 offices. This being Spooks, the outcome is expected. Threads (1984) Threads had minimal funding but one of the most frightening programmes I have ever watched because of the stark reality and bleak government data. Watched it about a month ago following the initial broadcast; I frequently went to the Sheffield pub featured in the show which underscored the actuality and the glib matter-of-fact official information that aired. Still absolutely terrifying 35 years later. The 2022 Severance episode The We We Are The season one finale of Severance has to be right up there as a tense chapter. I remained for the whole show literally perched nervously, exerting with Dylan to keep his hands on the levers that allowed the Innies to remain active, while yelling at the Innies to disclose their facts. The concluding高潮 – “she’s alive!” – was like an eruption. Industry – White Mischief from 2024 The fifth episode of Industry’s third season caused my heart to pound. I was compelled to halt and rise and exit the space repeatedly due to the immense extent of the deliberate ruin I observed. Rishi Ramdani is in deep shit professionally and personally – up to his eyeballs in debt to loan sharks owing to his uncontrollable gaming, engaging in dangerous ventures on a wager involving sterling which could lose his company millions. Inevitably, he starts a gaming binge, consumes excessive substances and alcohol and wins, loses, wins, is severely assaulted. Every time you think things cannot decline more, it worsens. There is a chance for salvation by the episode’s conclusion but he squanders the opportunity, leading to terrible outcomes during the season’s final episode. Definitely needed a lie-down after that! Peep Show – Holiday from 2007 Peep Show is not inherently a tense series. However, the Holiday episode features such degrees of awkwardness that it will make you rise for the full show, riddled with anxiety. It all ramps up as Jeremy and Mark discover being compelled to falsify about the canine they unintentionally hit and following tries to eliminate it. You then spend the rest of the episode doubting if it can actually be more terrible than burning, and it turns out to be! The West Wing – The Two Cathedrals from 2001 Nothing I’ve watched has been more intense compared to my initial viewing the season two finale to The West Wing. The episode starts with the aftermath of the demise (in a car crash) of the president’s personal secretary and builds to a peak involving a Haitian emergency, and the fallout from the non-disclosure about the president’s MS condition, coupled with verification of his aim to seek re-election. Excellent TV. Unequaled. The 2018 Bodyguard premiere episode The start of the British program Bodyguard, with the hero aboard a train accompanied by his small son, ranks among the most gripping episodes I’ve seen. He observes a woman in Islamic attire going into the loo and realizes something is amiss. The bomb squad is alerted, get on the train, and attempt to convince the woman to take off her suicide vest. Suspense rises to a practically unendurable point, until, finally, the vest is neutralized. Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Body from 2001 Buffy comes into her home to discover her mother has died from natural reasons, which is the most unusual type of death in this paranormal series. The show features no musical score, a sullen tone, and we view the installment through the lens of Buffy’s dismay upon uncovering her mother. The 2007 The Sopranos finale Made in America The ultimate sequence of the series finale of the show was pants-wettingly tense. And for those who saw it during its initial broadcast, you – initially – were uncertain of the reason. Tony’s enemies, real and imagined, were all overcome. This seems similar to the first season’s finale, right? “Remember the little things.” Yet the atmosphere is strangely foreboding. Approaching Twin Peaks-esque horror. The family sit in a restaurant. Meadow finds a parking spot. Tony sadly tells Carmela there’s trouble afoot with another member of his team working with the government. Meadow secures a parking space. Odd persons arrive at the eatery. Stare at Tony(?) Meadow continues to park. Tony plays a track on the music machine. Meadow parks her car. The bell rings, someone enters the restaurant. Can’t be Meadow, she’s still parking. Tony looks up. Keep going. It stops. My heart dropped from my mouth around 20 minutes subsequently. The 2016 The Walking Dead episode The Last Day on Earth I remained awake to view this installment at 2am. It was so intense after the establishment of antagonist Negan locating the survivors, mercilessly mocking his targets and then keeping the death a mystery (finished with an unresolved situation). The victim’s POV shot and the subdued noises – oh no! {We then had to wait for season seven|We then needed to await season