I'm really not sure how I forgot to mention that.

Her not being a journalist merely adds an additional layer of negligence, I suppose.

Thanks. I was aware Johnston was the one the received them, which was I why wondered if he shopped them around other place first. There is also the factor that Maddow pays cash for these kind of things, which might have motivated him.

I was under the impression he didn't actually have the rights to Silence of the Lambs, which is why they did the plotline with subtle echoes of it in the first season.

I get that, and it's a classy move. No snark intended.

I'd say it is negligent journalism because the tax return was a private document. If there had been a smoking gun in the tax return, a journalist could be argued that she was violating citizen's privacy in the public interest. It's the standard journalists have to consider when publishing leaked material.

It makes me wonder if those returns were shopped around to other new sources that wanted nothing to do with them before they went to Maddow.

There really is no worse basis for poking fun at something than "We have no idea what this thing is!" It results in comedy completely lacking in the kind of specificity good comedy relies on.

Their skill at using boy bands as a recruiting tool keeps the numbers up.

My parents both enjoy NCIS. They also watch a wide variety "prestige" dramas both on cable and PBS. People are complicated.

I generally like John Teti in videos here, but he generally isn't putting out the level of contemptuous snark. He's playing against his strengths in that segment.

I did not in anyway mean to impugn your excellent Google skills. Please accept my apology.

You expect me to believe Barsanti didn't run a quick Google search before writing this?

Pretty easy when you can spend most of them in your office surrounded by sycophantic employees.

To join you at the table of unpopular opinions, I didn't get around to watching Hannibal until it was over, after hearing all the disappointment here at it being cancelled. I was bracing myself for that disappointment when I got to the end of season three, but it didn't happen.

I enjoyed Hannibal a lot more when I just decided to stop thinking of it existing in the real world, and accepted that it ran on nightmarish dream logic. It's like how when you watch Twin Peaks, you just have to accept that almost nothing Cooper does makes any real world sense for an FBI Agent working a case.

I agree, but I will also allow for the fact that Hannibal was a tough project to sustain. You could only have Hannibal and Will solving crimes together for so long before it stretched credibility, and once you got past that point, it got tougher and tougher to hold it together as a coherent show.

I thought about including examples, but got lazy, and yeah, that would have been the first one.

That is my plan.

And unlike almost everything on this list, it is actually a subversion. It's a fun list. It just needs a better headline to go with it.