Sexiest TV Scenes Of 2016

After traveling between the past and the future, Cole and Cassie finally landed at the right time — to give in to their feelings for each other. The passion on display between the lovers was more than enough to fill the threadbare house that would soon become their home. (Besides, who was even looking at the empty walls during the steamy scene?)

With the FBI's noose tightening around the necks of married Russian spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (and David Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure" pulsing in the background), Elizabeth decided to clear her head by hiking up her skirt and straddling Philip on their marital bed. That led to some athletic, cathartic lovemaking that made the Cold War look pretty hot, actually.

We can't remember a hotter kiss — between two people who weren't technically kissing — than the one shared between Jake and Katie on The CW's short-lived virus drama Containment. Forbidden to make physical contact, the two were forced to give into their passion Pushing Daisies-style, with but a thin plastic shower curtain between them.

"Can anyone ever get a rise out of you?" Meredith asked Nathan seconds before proving that, in fact, she could by crossing the thin line between lust and hate in Grey Sloan's parking lot. A season later, neither the docs nor we have been able to forget their angry-hot hookup — and, as he would be quick to point out, we only saw the beginning of one of the four times they went at it that night!

Issa knew that she was being "shady as f–k," cheating on boyfriend Lawrence with her old flame, Daniel. But the chemistry between the onetime friends-with-bennies was still so combustible — and her "Achilles d–k" still so fine — that their recording-studio tryst was as inevitable as it was hot. Oh, and also wrong. It was so hot that, like Issa, we forgot that part for a second. 

"You wanna grab a coffee?"

"I don't like coffee."

"Neither do I."

Luckily, Luke and his new friend Misty Knight found something they did like, making for one super-steamy night.

We hate to see Jamie and Claire fight, but we love to see them make up, especially when it happens in an oddly blue-hued room and involves him paying very close attention to her... needs. Yeah. We'll go with needs. The Starz series spent much of its French episodes cavorting around a brothel, but no visual was hotter than when Monsieur and Madame Fraser got le groove back.

The real-life Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden still won't admit to showing each other their legal briefs. But the two O.J. prosecutors had undeniable chemistry in FX's miniseries, especially when they shook off a bad day in court by sharing a bottle of tequila... and a seductive slow dance to the Isley Brothers' "That Lady." Our verdict: sexy as hell.

You're going to remind us that it all took place in Shaw's mind, to which we respond: Don't. Care. Shaw herself pulled the trigger on this awaited liaison because, among other reasons, she feared they wouldn't both survive the final fight with Samaritan. And since Root didn't, this torrid encounter will plenty suffice.

If the Fox baseball drama isn't renewed for a second season, the closest we'll get to sweet Ginny-Mike lovin' is this near-miss kiss, a fleeting moment in which nothing — and everything — happens. Mike, did ya have to answer that phone?!

We're used to watching Ghost and Angela get it on wherever the spirit moves them: his desk at the club, her dining room table — you get the idea. But one of the hottest hookups of the Starz drama's third season happened when Ghost and his estranged wife, Tasha, reconnected in the most naked of ways (and after a successful Career Day presentation at their kids' school, which has to be a first in terms of aphrodisiac).

In a moment that felt at once out-of-the-blue and totally genuine, longtime friends Rick and Michonne went from asking each other about their day to making each other's night. One second, they were surprising each other — and us — by holding hands; the next, they were necking on the couch like a couple of excited teenagers eager to get it on before Mom and Dad got home. Kinda gave a whole new meaning to the term "comrades in arms," didn't they?

Gretchen and Jimmy kicked off the season premiere in very naked, very typical fashion, engaging in a mid-coital argument about which of the pair was going to finish first. (For the record: Both parties broke the tape at the same time.) Never again will we be able to hear that so-and-so "has the floor!" without blushing madly.