It's aliens and Hatake is their agent on Earth. Right? We're all thinking that?

TVD was funny?

and means that Sophie getting potentially possessed by Esther is on the table.

Bex got him through the chest, not the heart.

Skiiiiiip. Skiiiiiiiiiiiiippppppp!

weird, I thought you only liked Babylon 5

there's an award for popular shows already

He wrote a book for it! He'd better!

Breaking Bad is actually on our Top 5 list. It's #2. Which means we thought it was really fucking good. Just so you know.

The thing with Enlightened is that it straddled different genres well outside the antihero thing. It's a…what, half-hour cringe drama? It's also critical that it has a female protagonist, when so much of the supposed Golden Age of TV is built on male anti-heroes. So I'm not sure what from the 2000s straddled genre and…

Amazon Prime, I think.

Actually, as Todd said, Enlightened had the most public support in two different voting rounds: both when compared to every other show in the top 15 and when compared directly to Breaking Bad by the people who'd seen both.That's a pretty clear-cut victory in both quality and quantity.

That's….a good question. Maybe it was just a list of shows we cover that snuck in?

I basically had a four-way tie with Bob's, Justified, GOT, and OITNB.

Like, what do you think the pragmatic mechanism by which the AV Club chooses things according to criteria other than what we like is? Do the editors have meetings where they change all our votes? Do they not hire people unless they know those people would vote for a show to annoy you, Alien Jesus, as opposed to a show…

Again, ascribing motivation without knowledge or evidence is a dick thing to do.

yeah, I'm barely above the poverty line. Great time for writing, socially, ghastly, pragmatically.

I was in Chicago (and had a half-time but decently paying job).

2010. But I'd interned in 2007.

Now THAT'S a legit contrarian pick. Which he can do easily as a single person, and still believe it honestly.