The Best Episodes Written By Sam Shaw

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.3/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Perestroika

   S1:E1310/19/2014

   Frank is offered a life-changing opportunity. At the same time, the U.S. Army put Charlie on the hot seat.

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   9.2/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Jupiter

   S2:E1012/15/2015

   A new era is ushered in with the first test of an atomic weapon.

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   8.5/10(6 votes)

   #3 - The Second Coming

   S1:E89/14/2014

   Both Charlie and Frank face serious questions as to the future of their projects.

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   8.4/10(30 votes)

   #4 - The Queen

   S1:E78/22/2018

   Ruth explains her jumbled memories and time-skipping to her grandson Wendell, but the Kid's presence and her disorientation have tragic consequences.

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   7.8/10(34 votes)

   #5 - Habeas Corpus

   S1:E27/25/2018

   Henry Deaver returns to Castle Rock and takes on the Kid as a client. A letter left behind by Warden Lacy sheds some light on the Kid's origins.

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   7.8/10(6 votes)

   #6 - Damnatio Memoriae

   S2:E110/13/2015

   Charlie is forced into a new leadership role in the race to build the world’s first atomic bomb.

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   7.8/10(10 votes)

   #7 - The Prisoner's Dilemma

   S1:E28/3/2014

   Frank attempts to save his team, and pays the price; at the same time, the wives get creative trying to make life on the Hill more interesting.

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   7.7/10(14 votes)

   #8 - You Always Hurt the Ones You Love

   S1:E17/27/2014

   A drama about the clandestine race to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, N.M., centers on a self-destructive professor who is commissioned to help lead the Manhattan Project in the series opener.

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9. 

   7.4/10(41 votes)

   #9 - Severance

   S1:E17/25/2018

   The warden of Shawshank Prison commits suicide, leaving behind an unsettling mystery that seems to be connected to a case from 27 years earlier.

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10. 

    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #10 - Fallout

    S1:E1012/1/2013

    The hospital takes part in a nationwide civil defense drill, and the heightened atmosphere escalates conflicts among the staff. A former study participant reveals she’s pregnant and wants to know the identity of the father. Masters and Johnson, their relationship strained after ending their study participation, butt heads on whether to maintain study confidentiality or take responsibility. Haas learns he’s been denied a future job at the hospital but wrongly assumes his breakup with Vivian is to blame. Margaret Scully seeks answers about her husband’s sexuality from an unlikely source.

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    7.3/10(17 votes)

    #11 - Catherine

    S1:E510/27/2013

    When Masters and Johnson expand the study to include couples, they discover that the science of sex is easily complicated by the mystery of attraction. Johnson tries to connect with her son who prefers his dad. In anticipation of his baby’s impending arrival, Masters experiences anxiety about becoming a father. And Dr. Ethan Haas learns that dating the provost’s daughter could impact his medical career.

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    6.9/10(19 votes)

    #12 - Standard Deviation

    S1:E310/13/2013

    Masters and Johnson continue their research in the brothel but skewed data confirms that Masters must get the study back into the hospital. At the hospital, Johnson is surprised to learn that a distinguished new doctor on the OB/GYN floor is a woman who has no interest in female solidarity. Meanwhile, Libby struggles to conceive and Dr. Ethan Haas gets the case of a lifetime – a woman pregnant with quadruplets.

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