Then there was a particularly splendid episode of The Outer Limits set in England, where thick, dirty-faced northern miner David McCallum is "evolved" into a higher being by a mad scientist.
James Poniewozik of Time magazine called it a "splendid" episode that "combined slapstick, authentic stakes and a holistic picture of the oddball history and commonalities that bond the folks we've come to know in Pawnee".
It's never overly complicated, though, and its casual difficulty makes it more of a splendid 15-hour episode of South Park than a game to really test one's mettle.
A similar statement was made by Euan Ferguson of The Observer, who also wrote that the episode was "splendid" with good villains, though he felt that the plot was "insanely complicated" and hard to understand.
Kirkman felt that Stargate Studios, which was chosen by producers to edit the pilot episode, did a splendid job.
"The Splendid Source" is the 19th episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy.
But there are some especially splendid things in Tuesday's episode, beginning with the casting of Alia Shawkat as Alexander Hamilton and Aubrey Plaza as Aaron Burr (who comes off the more sympathetic character here); actors clearly have a good time on this show, but this pair romps through it.
The List's Brian Donaldson was also positive about the episode, calling it "surprisingly splendid festive fare", in which "The twists and resolutions were, to this watcher at least, as well hidden as Davies' ears underneath that shaggy bonce".
"The Splendid Source", along with the eleven other episodes from Family Guys eighth season, was released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on December 13 , 2011
There was Until Dawn, too, and a whole bunch of smaller titles like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, the splendid Transformers: Devastation of the other week, and every episode of Life Is Strange.
Cast splendid, direction deft," was The Times's preview of the first episode.
