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episode number
	season number
		1	2	3	4	5
	1	8.7	8.3	8.2	8.9	8.4
	2	8.0	8.2	7.8	7.8	8.0
	3	8.4	8.2	7.8	8.0	8.3
	4	8.3	8.4	8.6	7.8	8.7
	5	8.3	8.4	7.9	8.8	8.2
	6	8.6	8.2	7.9	8.3	8.5
	7	8.0	8.1	8.0	7.9	8.0
	8	8.1	9.0	7.9	8.0	8.7
	9	8.6	7.9	8.0	7.7	9.5
	10	8.4	8.1	8.4	7.7	9.6
	11	8.4	8.3	8.8	8.1	9.1
	12	8.8	8.9	8.4	9.1	9.9
	13	8.7	9.2	9.1
		season average
		8.4	8.4	8.2	8.1	8.7

Best episode [9.9] S 5 E 12: Everyone's Waiting

Nate and Brenda's daughter Willa is born, but 2 months early and at only 2 lb. 4 oz., requiring a prolonged hospital stay. Nate is convinced she won't make it and insists that he can't accept it if she does and is "damaged", shaking Brenda's own confidence. Rico encourages David to sell the funeral home but instead he and Keith buy out Rico's 25% so he can start his own. David agrees to temporarily leave home, and goes to the funeral home. There he's confronted by Nathaniel about considering leaving the business and for his gayness, and is forced to fight his mysterious attacker back, then finally sees his face. Maya is returned to Brenda and Ruth has to face her own problems, until Maggie reveals Nate did see her, happily, as Brenda insisted. Claire takes up photography (of Ted) again and gets a job offer at a New York photo production company, but offers to be there for Ruth until she insists she go and unfreezes her account. Brenda gets a surprise visit from Nate, who finally shows love for his daughter, and someone else. Claire learns the company who gave the job offer has just failed, but Nate encourages her to go onto New York anyway.

Worst episode [7.7] S 4 E 9: Grinding the Corn

Having agreed over the phone not to have sex with others, Keith on his return tells David of having slept with Celeste. Still stressed from his attack, David now worries that Keith will develop an interest in women. Claire is still having trouble coming to grips with her own sexuality. Her friend Edie no longer wants to speak to her but Jimmie suggests they sleep together. Claire is also surprised at school when she learns that Billy Chenowith will be their substitute teacher for the rest of the term. In the year he's been away he seems to have gotten his act together but does admit he's not seen his sister Brenda in that time. Brenda and Nate are sleeping together regularly but her admission that she loves him elicits a strange and unexpected response. Ruth has no interest in returning home and she and Bettina set off for a holiday in Mexico that has its own surprises for them. At the funeral home, Nate and Rico's latest client is Lawrence Tuttle, a comic book collector. Rico is still living at the funeral home and pining for Vanessa and the kids; George suggests it's time to move on and find a new woman.