Some TV episode titles have a beauty and charm of their own.
Michael celebrates an overlooked art…
This article contains spoilers forBreaking BadandGame Of Thrones.
Theres a lot of it about these days.
The use of external references acts as an Easter egg for interested viewers.
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Such depth is relatively new.
Some of them, includingThis Side Of Paradise,Who Mourns For Adonais?
andFor The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Skyspeak for themselves.
What was the opener of the second series ofLine Of Dutycalled?
The same as the first series: Episode 1.
In some respects, this pedestrian titling model reflects the nature of the programmes concerned.
Superlative psychological whydunnitCrackerenjoyed the best of both worlds.
In some respects, it makes sense to leave cleverer titles to the fortune of discovery.
Take the sixth episode of the first season ofGame Of Thrones.
He even tells him, in Dothraki, that hes giving him a crown.
Season 2, which examined the docks, had titles likePort In A StormandUndertow.
Orphan Blackblends the cryptic with the thematic.
Which is not to say that titles necessarily work in isolation.
The best title in the world is only ever as good as the episode it names.
