ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 4th October 2002
EPISODE NUMBER: Season 1, Episode 6
WRITTEN BY: Joss Whedon
I'm not going to make many promises on this list, but here's one I do feel confident of: Firefly will have the highest ratio of episodes featured. Joss Whedon's unfairly-cancelled space western only aired 14 episodes, but they were all pretty good, and you can expect quite a few of them to show up here.
Our Mrs Reynolds was the start of an excellent run. It combines action with humour really well, has some great one-liners, and an excellent guest star. Christina Hendricks really steals the show as the seductive femme fatale Saffron, whom Mal accidentally marries. A simple story about the awkwardness of Mal having a fish-out-of-water new bride would have sufficed, but the episode is elevated to the next level when Saffron's true nature as a con artist is revealed. Hendricks is completely convincing as good girl and bad girl.
But the whole crew are actually on top form, as they react to the bizarre predicament Mal finds himself in. Wash cracks jokes about it, Book offers a stern lecture and Jayne even tries to compete for her affections. Inara's face-off is the most interesting, as even she almost falls for her charms.
It's a shame that such a wonderful character was only in 2 episodes, but that's the problem with Firefly as a whole: there just isn't enough of it.
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