2011's Best Episodes: Modern Family's Sexy Time, Good Wife's Heartbreaking Split

Archie Panjabi From Oprah's remarkably low-key farewell for the year's most soul-crushing break-around the Great Wife (Kalicia, no!), the season was filled with fantastic several hours of television - virtually which we seen. There has been teary goodbyes (Friday Evening Lights' Texas forever! Smallville's tights and travel arrangements!), tense face-offs (why can't all CIA interrogations occur round the front porch from the cabin, like on Homeland?) as well as we made room for just about any little Glee (because certain underdogs deserved it). Which made this list. Stay updated all week for that top 25. Here's the second batch inside our extended countdown of 2011's best episodes (Get swept up first with Episodes 25-21): 20. "Caught along the way,Inch Modern FamilyStraight in the Three Company's guide, the Emmy-winning episode built around the misunderstanding that is not exactly novel: Gloria accidentally e-mailed naked pictures of herself, intended for Jay, to Claire and Phil, who've also just broken their unique kids when you're caught along the way. ("Whatever it absolutely was, it made an appearance as though father was winning," Luke states of his parents' love-making.) 19. "Being, Act 1," Sons of AnarchySeason 4's penultimate episode can be a fascinating fight of wills involving the show's female energy players. Gemma (Katey Sagal) makes her large move, showing Jax the easiest method to his chair since the mind in the SAMCRO motorcycle club, while Jax's girlfriend Tara (Maggie Siff) out-Gemmas Gemma by considering planning for she and Jax to go away Charming - and Gemma - forever. "What is happening?In . a stunned Gemma asks. "Whatever you trained me," Tara replies. SAMCRO may well be a boys' club, but it's the old women that keep surprising us. 18. "Permit the Sun Shine In," Males from the Certain AgeThree 50-something males get colonoscopies, play golf and gripe about existence - a perfect recipe with an hour of compelling TV, no? Well, no, however, if Joe, Terry and Owen possess a journey to Palm Springs to obtain their colons checked, the discomfort of enlightenment isn't just, you understand, physical. It'll be a really very long time before we, ahem, satisfy the growing demand playing this touching series, nevertheless it was episodes similar to this which will make us realize we're just grateful this awesome little show ever handled to obtain round the air. 17. "Leaving,Inch The Truly Amazing WifeThis might be the episode where Kalinda cries, a meeting that alone qualifies as earth-breaking within the presence of the stoic character. The tears come after Alicia (Julianna Margulies) notifies Kalinda they sees that she rested along with her husband. The facial skin-off between Emmy individuals who win Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi is chilling, particularly since it may be their last scene together for just about any extended while. Bonus: Sarah Silverman, in the rare dramatic turn, guest-stars as who is the owner of a domain that facilitates adulterous matters. 16. "The Spoil," JustifiedIt's difficult to highlight only one episode of Margo Martindale's Emmy-winning season as Magazines Bennett, but her rousing speech in "The Spoil." Martindale's easy, smooth-as-Mags' homemade moonshine delivery reminds us how smart a villain she's, and the way a battle she's prepared to setup to guard her people "approach to livin' and dyin.'" Despite the fact that Mags' icy mean streak didn't fully emerge prior to the following episode, her actions in this particular hour put us on serious red-colored-colored alert.