Best The Glory Episodes, Ranked
All 16 episodes of The Glory scored and sorted — from the 9.3/10 high of S1E13 to the 8.6/10 of S1E2.
Our rating: 8.94/10 average across 16 episode reviews (best 9.3, lowest 8.6).
The Glory runs hot and stays hot. Across all sixteen episodes the score never dips below 8.6 and tops out at 9.3 — a spread of just 0.7, which is the mark of a show that knew exactly what it was doing from the first frame.
The peak is S1E13, “Dong-eun Sets Every Fire at Once,” where every thread Dong-eun has spent years stringing finally goes taut at the same moment. Right behind it sit three episodes tied at 9.2: S1E8, “Dong-eun Lets Part One Bleed,” the brutal pause that closes the first half; S1E11, “Hope Arrives With Red Lipstick,” and S1E12, “The Body in the Freezer Answers Back.” That cluster is the show at full throttle — the revenge machinery clicking, Yeon-jin’s circle starting to crack from the inside.
The dips are early and shallow. The low point is S1E2, “Dong-eun Learns the Rules of Ruin” (8.6), with S1E3, “Dong-eun Walks Into Yeon-jin’s Gym” (8.7) just above it — both setup-heavy chapters laying track before the trap springs. Even the openers and the finale, S1E16, “Dong-eun Finally Leaves the Gym,” settle around 8.8, which says less about weakness than about how high the floor is.
There’s only one season, so no comparison to make — just a clean upward climb from groundwork to inferno.
| Rank | Ep | Episode | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S1E13 | Dong-eun Sets Every Fire at Once | 9.3 |
| T-2 | S1E8 | Dong-eun Lets Part One Bleed | 9.2 |
| T-2 | S1E11 | Hope Arrives With Red Lipstick | 9.2 |
| T-2 | S1E12 | The Body in the Freezer Answers Back | 9.2 |
| T-5 | S1E6 | The Executioner Finally Enters Dong-eun's Hunt | 9.1 |
| T-5 | S1E15 | Yeon-jin Loses Her Last Safe Place | 9.1 |
| 7 | S1E14 | The Dead Start Speaking | 9.0 |
| 8 | S1E7 | Dong-eun Loses the Confession She Needed | 8.9 |
| T-9 | S1E1 | Dong-eun Names Her Dream | 8.8 |
| T-9 | S1E4 | Dong-eun Enters Ye-sol's Classroom | 8.8 |
| T-9 | S1E5 | Dong-eun Makes Yeon-jin Look at Ye-sol | 8.8 |
| T-9 | S1E10 | Yeon-jin Finds Dong-eun's Mother | 8.8 |
| T-9 | S1E16 | Dong-eun Finally Leaves the Gym | 8.8 |
| T-14 | S1E3 | Dong-eun Walks Into Yeon-jin's Gym | 8.7 |
| T-14 | S1E9 | Yeon-jin Throws Away Her Last Chance | 8.7 |
| 16 | S1E2 | Dong-eun Learns the Rules of Ruin | 8.6 |
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