You're right, ofc popularity does not equal quality. And hey, I'd read anything as long as it promised some ABQ meth-cook - intel. But the set-up of this list is: "got us talking the most." Ok, fine, these aren't divinely inspired rules or anything, who's counting articles really, in the end, who really cares about…

"the shows that got us talking the most over the past 12 months"