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The Best Episodes of Critical Role

Every episode of Critical Role ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Critical Role!

Critical Role is a weekly livestreamed show that uses roleplaying game mechanics as a means to explore and develop stories from the vast fantasy world...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Blood and Dust" is the best rated episode of "Critical Role". It scored 9.5/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/8/2022. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "What Dreams May Come".

  • Blood and Dust
    9.5/10100 votes
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    #1 - Blood and Dust

    Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 9/8/2022

    Surrounded by chaos, Bells Hells act quickly to secure their quarry, but their attempted escape leads to an unexpected confrontation with a deadly foe...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • What Dreams May Come
    9.1/1056 votes
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    #2 - What Dreams May Come

    Season 3 Episode 34 - Aired 9/15/2022

    Bells Hells grapple with a devastating loss, refusing to accept fate's machinations as they attempt to stay a step ahead of Paragon's Call...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Draw of Destiny
    8.8/1060 votes
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    #3 - The Draw of Destiny

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/21/2021

    Disparate souls collide in the mountain spires of Jrusar when three different groups of adventurers meet during a battle against an unusual array of enemies...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • From the Boughs
    8.7/1027 votes
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    #4 - From the Boughs

    Season 3 Episode 37 - Aired 10/13/2022

    Bells Hells traverse a dark and corrupted Whitestone and face twisted traumatic shadows of the past in their effort to save Laudna's soul...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deathwish Run
    8.6/1033 votes
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    #5 - The Deathwish Run

    Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 7/21/2022

    Bells Hells enter the deadly crawler race known as Deathwish, where survival is the only rule and winning is the only option...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stowaway
    8.5/1063 votes
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    #6 - The Stowaway

    Season 2 Episode 45 - Aired 12/13/2018

    The Mighty Nein find a stowaway on the Squalleater, who carries a mysterious item that holds dangerous consequences for the curious...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trail and the Toll
    8.5/1048 votes
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    #7 - The Trail and the Toll

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/2021

    While investigating a series of thefts at the behest of their potential patron, the group stumbles onto something much more dangerous than they anticipated, with lasting consequences...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • In Too Deep
    8.5/1027 votes
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    #8 - In Too Deep

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2022

    The ball takes several unexpected twists and turns when dancing shifts to fighting and fighting shifts to fleeing...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Arrival at Kraghammer
    8.4/10128 votes
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    #9 - Arrival at Kraghammer

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/12/2015

    Vox Machina arrives at the cavernous underground city of Kraghammer intent on rescuing a missing halfling paladin. They sample the culture of the city and find themselves coming face-to-face with the horrors coming from beneath the city...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Race to the Ziggurat
    8.4/1065 votes
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    #10 - Race to the Ziggurat

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 12/3/2015

    Descending deeper beneath the city of Whitestone, the weary members of Vox Machina are on a collision course with the Briarwoods and their insidious plot. What secrets lie far below and what dangers still await our heroes?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Denouement
    8.4/1064 votes
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    #11 - Denouement

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 12/10/2015

    In the wake of the fateful battle in the Ziggurat, Vox Machina comes face-to-face with the inner demons within Percy both literal and personal. As the Whitestone Rebellion comes to a head, can the party save Percy from the darkness within him? Or is he beyond saving?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Winter's Crest in Whitestone
    8.4/1061 votes
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    #12 - Winter's Crest in Whitestone

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 12/17/2015

    The Winter's Crest Festival comes to Whitestone for the first time in five years! Seeing this as a chance to relax after the revolution, Vox Machina partakes in the festivities and exchanges gifts with each other as they enjoy a well-deserved moment of peace.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Name is Earned
    8.4/1059 votes
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    #13 - A Name is Earned

    Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 4/14/2016

    Vox Machina ventures deep beneath the Stormcrest Mountains to confront the mysterious androsphinx mate of Osysa — and hopefully learn more about the Vestiges of Divergence.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curious Beginnings
    8.4/1096 votes
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    #14 - Curious Beginnings

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2018

    In Wildemount, seven adventurers coalesce in a tavern before finding themselves drawn to a mysterious circus.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Midnight Espionage
    8.4/1062 votes
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    #15 - Midnight Espionage

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/29/2018

    Hijinks ensue as the Mighty Nein attempt subterfuge in order to carry out the mission of the Knights of Requital...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harvest Close
    8.4/1054 votes
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    #16 - Harvest Close

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/2018

    The Mighty Nein attend the Harvest Close Festival, taking part in sweets and games of skill, and entering the challenging Victory Pit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Behind the Curtain
    8.4/1036 votes
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    #17 - Behind the Curtain

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/2021

    After a performance goes slightly awry, the group begins investigating the strange disappearances that have all taken place in and around the Dreamscape Theater...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Woodworker's Quandary
    8.4/1039 votes
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    #18 - A Woodworker's Quandary

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2021

    The group gets to know a very unusual new friend who requests their help in a missing person's case while Dorian receives some unwelcome tidings from a beloved family member...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Thicker Grows the Meal and Plot
    8.4/1037 votes
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    #19 - Thicker Grows the Meal and Plot

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/2022

    The group continues their search for Chetney's missing friend, even as their discoveries yield stranger and stranger reports about the man they're looking for...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Chasing Nightmares
    8.4/1027 votes
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    #20 - Chasing Nightmares

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/2022

    The group comes face to face with the terrifying entity known as the Nightmare King but the interaction leaves only questions to an increasingly perplexing puzzle...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Dance of Deception
    8.4/1027 votes
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    #21 - A Dance of Deception

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2022

    With a heist somewhat planned, the group attends the masquerade ball but have trouble keeping a low profile as various complications arise...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breaking and Entering...
    8.4/1026 votes
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    #22 - Breaking and Entering...

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2022

    With the heist underway, Bells Hells explore the traps and trinkets of the Twilight Mirror Museum, finding unexpected dangers as they venture deeper into the vault...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breaking Point
    8.4/1028 votes
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    #23 - Breaking Point

    Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 8/18/2022

    Bells Hells process their feelings as they work through moon mysteries, family conflict, and a shocking revelation about one of their own...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sunken Tomb
    8.3/1067 votes
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    #24 - The Sunken Tomb

    Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 3/10/2016

    In hopes of defeating the Chroma Conclave, Vox Machina sets out to recover the Vestiges of the Divergence—ancient armor, weapons, and other items of immense power. They learn the location of one Vestige, the Deathwalker's Ward, interred with an ancient Champion of the Raven Queen... at the bottom of a lake.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cindergrove Revisited
    8.3/1055 votes
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    #25 - Cindergrove Revisited

    Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 3/24/2016

    Special guest star Chris Hardwick plays Gern Blanston, a blue dragonborn wizard. With fire elementals emerging from the Elemental Plane of Fire, Vox Machina joins forces with the druids of Pyrah and Zephrah — and a strange scavenger — to seal the rift between planes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A