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For me it's:

1 > 2 > 3b > 4a > 3a > 5b > 5a

I'm one of those fans who thinks the original story of OUAT was the most compelling, the one about Snow and Charming and their adventures in the Enchanted Forest. Season 1 was obviously the best because it introduced the amazing premise and central story of the show. Season 2 elaborated on that backstory, with the story behind Cora and Eva. After about the first 3 seasons, the show sorta started to run out of ideas and that's where you see the cash grabs that were the Frozen arc (which I actually enjoyed) and 4b, which was just terrible. It introduced way to many villains and consequently didn't have time to fully explore any of them *coughCruella&Ursulacough*. I'd say if you were disappointed by Seasons 4-5 so far then 5b won't change your mind. It still suffers from the same problems of character development getting thrown aside for pure shock value, like making Hook a Dark One despite the fact that he noticed none of the symptoms until then.