5 Reasons You Should Watch Mythic Quest

To take a show in its infancy and totally shift every plot thread and continuing theme to one side for the sake of a bold risk that may or may not pay off is a huge move. In fact, to do a one-off episode halfway through the run that doesn't feature any of the main cast is just suicide in the eyes of most studios.

Not to Apple and not to Mythic Quest. They went all guns out in their approach to this series and boy did their biggest creative call come off.

'A Dark Quiet Death', the 5th episode in a 10 episode run, features Jake Johnson and Cristin Milioti as two gamers who meet in the early '90s and decide to make a game together. We see them come together and work on it for over 20 years as they slowly lose their initial vision to big corporate business.

It totally shifts the feel of the show for one brilliant episode that at the end is as emotional as seen in any sitcom. It serves as a warning to the show's own main cast and a foreshadowing of what may come for them in the long run too, should their petty arguments end up dividing them.

Milioti and Johnson are just fantastic in bringing the episode and its leading characters to life. Rob McElhenney's direction is superb too, as we witness the rise and fall of both a marriage and a once-great game, which alongside Katie McElhenney's bold & brilliant writing makes it by far the best episode in the run.