I'd assume they tried and completely lost him.

It is! But it was also recently added to gog.com's digital line-up (gog being a great go-to website for old PC games made useable on modern computers.) Gog is currently doing a winter sale so I got it for very little.

Wonderful!

Eh I'm good with that. This site has always been more pro-network comedy than some other sites, and B99 has been having a fantastic first season.

Returned did not even appear. I mean really. Come on.

Well they weren't, but this is the AV Club, @avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus, I think we can assume those were the top picks (I went for the Red Wedding.)

I imagine Enlightened's low profile doesn't help it. I vaguely remember it being briefly promoted by Sky Atlantic, but it didn't exactly take off the way Girls did (and they neither repeat it nor is it available as a downloadable 'box set' as many other HBO shows - from the Sopranos to Boardwalk Empire - are.) It…

Bingo. Likewise shows like the Returned, which basically nobody watched.

Returned didn't even crack into the first season category though, let alone best of. I guess that confirms about five people actually watched it here.

Dexter deserved that top spot. Dexter versus Dads is like the mirror image of Breaking Bad versus Enlightened, come to think of it.

None of Returned's actors were even available to vote for, which is just what.

I still went for Tom Vaughn-Lawlor tbh. There's just a surprising amount of depth to his Nidge, the guy has some sincere human feelings that exist simultaneously, even contradictorily, with his ruthless gangster impulses, and Vaughn-Lawlor did another great job this year walking that line.

It's been a great decade so far but I'm not quite ready to crown it over the decade of the Wire, the Sopranos and Futurama. But in a few years, who knows?

It'll also be interesting to see which shows that made the 15 articles this year will still be here next year, and if perhaps some other 2013 shows will muscle into greater prominence - looking at you, Masters of Sex.

There's always next year. And I feel pairing it with the Returned and Top of the Lake was one of the more interesting ways to talk about Rectify (though I would have also been good with the Returned in the top three.)

"Say I love you Tina, I'm not a toilet, I'm a boy."
"No."

The episode where Ichabod Crane testily corrects someone about Paul Revere - and is in turn schooled by Mills and Irving about how they can prove Jefferson slept with his slaves - is the single best use the show's made of its history and one of the funniest and most self-aware comments it's made on the mythologizing…

It is very similar to the comic. I'd go so far as it call it a shorter version of the comic - it misses some of the comic's strengths but it is overall fantastic. It's also very well animated though so if your only problem was limited expression, then maybe worth it.

You wouldn't be alone on the Returned, though you might be harassed by obnoxious Breaking Bad fans.

You know listening to the full version of Mushishi's title song, the lyrics get darker than one would think.