Home-grown series Penny Dreadful was also included in IMDB’s top 10 TV episodes of the year.ĩ. The wedding was described as a “visually stunning event” by IMDB, featuring the “long-awaited comeuppance of one of the worst people in Westeros”. His character of evil King Joffrey Baratheon was killed off during the wedding episode, stunning fans of the medieval series which has become the most popular show in the history of HBO. Meanwhile, Irish actor Jack Gleeson also got the nod from IMDB for his acclaimed role in the ‘Lion and the Rose’ wedding episode of Game of Thrones, which was No 9 on the list of best TV episodes. “It was nice having that sort of body of work behind us where we felt we’d really developed the characters and the storylines to the point where you know it felt easy enough to do those aside from the awkwardness factor.”

“It’s very technical and you’re wearing your modesty pouches and you know it’s kind of a lot of illusion but at the same time because we shot pretty much all in sequence there was a lot of time for these characters to build that relationship.

“What makes this episode unique in a premium landscape filled with gratuitous female nudity and sex for the sake of titillation, is the palpable awkwardness these two share in the moments leading up to the love scene.”īalfe, 33, said the closed set helped her feel more comfortable filming the bedchamber scenes in her arranged marriage. The BEST Episodes of Outlander Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes 1 - Dragonfly in Amber 2 - Freedom & Whisky 3 - Man of Worth 4 - Of Lost. Here’s a look at the episodes I disliked to loved (I never say hated unless there is nothing good that I could pick out) in that order. Usually, it’s some of the episodes in the middle rather than the best or the worst. “This moment to which the entire first half of the season has been building was not only delivered as promised, but genuinely earned by the episode’s writer and director - both of whom, unsurprisingly, are women,” McFarland said. Sometimes, after a few rewatches my opinions change. Melanie McFarland, TV editor with IMDB, said the highly anticipated wedding night scenes did not disappoint the 25m fans of the eight-book Outlander series written by Diana Gabaldon.

The stunning scenes of Balfe, a former supermodel, in her 18th century wedding gown pulled in 8m viewers in the US.

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