The ads for this just make me really, really miss The Hour.

I think that just means she likes to binge-watch instead of waiting week to week.

If this show ends without ever casting John Hawkes, I will be so sad.

I'd really love a Tim spinoff, too. Jacob Pitts deserves his own show.

That news was the best Christmas present I got this year. I miss that show so much.

And Hugh Dancy wasn't even an option; I had to write his name in. For shame, AV Club.

Yeah, that's what I voted for, but the finale was pretty damn devastating too.

A.

1. Hannibal
2. Breaking Bad
3. The Returned (technically from 2012, but it aired in the US this year)
4. Rectify
5. Mad Men/Justified (that's cheating but I can't decide)

I listen to Sufjan's Christmas music all year round, actually. Maybe that makes me a freak of nature, but songs like "Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)" and "Sister Winter" are just so good that they call to me in every season.

Yup, I still listen to Age of Adz and All Delighted People most out of all of his albums. Even his Christmas stuff from last year was great. There's no reason to believe that he won't release more brilliant work in the future.

Hannibal: Season One. On blu-ray, the way it's meant to be seen. (And that actually is what I'm giving a few people this Christmas. That, and the gift of me not hassling them about watching Hannibal anymore.)

They didn't. Bryan Fuller had a pre-existing contract with NBC, and that's why they got it.

Agreed. The gore on Game of Thrones has bothered me much more than the gore on Hannibal. Hannibal is so stylized and art directed that it actually doesn't gross me out at all. The most disturbing thing about it is how lovely it looks. Like the sequence that shows how the human gut strings were made- I kept thinking…

I would watch the hell out of that.

I think "Song to Woody" at the end of 'Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency' might be my favorite. I'm also partial to "You Really Got Me" in 'The Other Woman' and "He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)" finishing off the disturbing fever dream that was 'Mystery Date.'

SPOILER
The body being missing didn't strike me as dodgy or make me question the mythology because the fact that the coffin was filled with water seemed to tie into the emptying reservoir, which is extra creepy and mysterious.

The tunnel scene might seem a little out of place at first, but the storyline it feeds into is great and necessary.

Only Hannibal was better than Rectify this year, imo. They're both gorgeous.

Hannibal pushed me beyond Breaking Bad levels of anxiety the further the season went on, and it was 100% because of the gaslighting. Incredibly upsetting and so, so well-done.