Array Methods - .filter exercise

Hope everyone is doing well!

I was able to complete all three parts of this exercise. I was just wondering if anyone could help explain something.

I had to use new Date for filtering the array of episodes shot after 2013. Originally, I did

episode => episode.air_date > "December 31, 2013"

but some dates that were supposed to be true ended up being false and not being console-logged. After googling to find answers, I found that it worked if I placed the target date as

new Date("December 31, 2013") and the episode.air_date as new Date(episode.air_date) and then used the comparison operator to filter the correct episodes out. Like I said, it worked in the end but I couldn't wrap my head around why the first way I set it up didn't work. If someone could elaborate, I would appreciate it 👍

https://codepen.io/val-gee/pen/mdNoGmE

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