Which TV shows in 2011 were the best ones to glue yourself to in front of a glowing screen on a week-to-week basis?Less than a week from now, once the Christmas celebrations officially come to an end, I will be debuting the 2011 installment of "End of the Year," the blog's third annual look back at everything that I feel needs to be remembered or looked back upon from these past twelve months (last year's installment can be found here). It's arguably my favorite feature on this blog (and not just because it drives up the page count every year), and I hope to see you on this site all next week to read each of them. In the mean time, though, I've been spending these past few days slowly cleaning up shop in preparation for "End of the Year" and for the holiday break in general.
This past Saturday, I posted the final "End of the Week" for 2011, and today we've got this post, which is the final "Random Thoughts" column of the calendar year. And with such a special occasion, it requires a special segment to have this year of half-baked ramblings go out with a bang. Which is why I have decided (for the second year in a row) to make a list of my picks for the best television programs of the year (as if the 500 other "Best Of" lists floating around the Internet aren't enough already).
Many people have called this stretch in television history the "golden age," and reading the list of shows that aired just in this year alone, it's hard not to see why. Sure, there were the usual slate of crap that one would find on the "boob tube," whether it was from the list of mediocre comedies that included "Whitney" (burn in hell, you "Community" hiatus-ing troll!), "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," and the post Charlie Sheen "Two and a Half Men" (which managed to make an already bad sitcom even worse) to the many horrible reality programs like "H8R" or anything involving child pageants and the state of New Jersey. But for every embarrassing sitcom and reality show on the airwaves, television made up for it with its many quality programmings that aired this year to cancel those out, whether they were gut-busting comedies like "Community" and "Parks and Recreations," or compelling dramas like "Justified" and "Game of Thrones."
How good were these shows exactly? So good that I almost felt like expanding my list by at least 15, maybe even 20. In the end, I've decided to settle on 11 (in honor of the year's final two digits, in case you haven't gotten it). Without any further interruption, here are those eleven shows that I decided to choose along with an explanation for why I chose them. The shows aren't unranked, although it may seem that way based on the fact that I didn't write each of them in alphabetical order.
"Breaking Bad" (AMC)
With "Mad Men" sadly not airing in 2011 due to AMC's lengthy negotiation with creator Matthew Weiner that delayed the show's fifth season from its usual summer premiere to an unofficial date in this upcoming spring, there was no debate as to which show was the downright best drama of the year. That show, of course, was "Breaking Bad," Vince Gilligan's riveting, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller that aired another outstanding thirteen-episode season over the course of the summer (and early fall, is you want to be real technical about it). The main storyline of season 4 essentially picked up from where the back half of season 3 left off, with the show's main antihero Walter White (played as always by the incomparable Bryan Cranston) and his equally-fascinating sidekick Jesse Pinkman (the equally brilliant Aaron Paul) playing a cat and mouse game of life-or-death with their meth kingpin boss, the enigmatic and bad-ass Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), and ended with Walter being the self-proclaimed "one who knocks," coming out on top in one of the year's best and most memorable season finales.
What is there to say about "Breaking Bad" this season that hasn't been said by so many others? The cast (my pick for the best acting ensemble on TV) was superb once more (highlighted this year by the breakout Emmy-worthy performance of Esposito as Gus, the reliable duo of Cranston and Paul, and Jonathan Banks as Fring's loyal enforcer Mike, who was able to make a man who said so little as captivating as the rest of the major role players), Michael Slovis's cinematography was beautiful, and the writing was so good that you wouldn't have believed watching the show that the plot was essentially improvised. The show gave us another terrific set of episodes (to name a few: "Box Cutter," "Hermanos," "Bug," "Salud," "Crawl Space," "End Times," and "Face Off"), and the show's blend of patience, suspense, and "Holy shit!" moments has yet to be duplicated on television.
The fourth season finale ended with Walt completing his evolution from Mr. Chips to Scarface (one of Gilligan's main goal for the show since the beginning). I think I can speak for the millions of other "Breaking Bad" fans out there when I say that I can't wait to see how the show follows up to this development in it's upcoming sixteen episode final season.
"Parks and Recreations" (NBC)
When "Parks and Recreations" returned midseason with their third season, it didn't take them a lot of time to prove to everyone just why it is the best comedy on TV. Sixteen episodes spanning between January and May, and there was not a single dud in the bunch, although admittedly some (like "Harvest Festival," "The Fight" and "Fancy Party," by far my favorite episode of the show to date) stood out more than others. The fourth season (which is still ongoing) was a slight drop of quality, but in the case of the show the drop was more like going from a no-hitter to a 1-run allowed complete game. In other words, it was still great, and as long as the show still has Michael Shur as its head writer leading the way, I trust that it will continue to be good for quite some time.
The cast of the show not only continued to be excellent, but somehow even managed to get better with the additions of Adam Scott and Rob Lowe. Amy Poehler was great as usual, and of course Nick Offerman was genius as TV's incomparable Ron Swanson. But perhaps the best star of the season was the city of Pawnee, Indiana of which it is set in, probably TV's closest thing to a live-action Springfield . Furthermore, in an era where there's plenty of cynicism around on the TV landscape, it was nice to see a show week after week that was so sweet and filled with as much heart as there was laughter.
So, was it the most original show on TV? No. Was it the most innovative? No. Was it the most realistic? No, but then again, who says that a comedy has to be all of this in order for it to be great? In my book, a great show is something that I take great pleasure in watching week after week, and in 2011, very few shows came close to the enjoyment that I had watching "Parks and Recreations." And for that, I am greatful to have had it on my TV screen.
"Community" (NBC)
Then again, while "Parks and Recreations" may have been my pick for the most consistently great comedy of the year, it wasn't the comedy that I was most excited to watch on a week to week basis, neither was it the one that I made the most effort to watch live, the one whose characters I felt more invested in, or even the one that I would have to adjust my mood every morning based one something as trivial as how well it did in the ratings.No, that title doesn't belong to "Parks and Recreations." That title, however, does belong to NBC's other terrific comedy this year, "Community," Dan Harmon's hilarious, ambitious, and by God genre-bending sitcom about TV's favorite group of Greendale Community College misfits.
Despite "Community" being beloved by critics and having one of the best cult fanbase on the planet (I mean, what other fanbase can create over 7300 comments and counting on an episode recap?), the past few months have been pretty rough for the show. NBC decided to bench the show during its midseason schedule until a TBD date this past November because of low ratings, and at this point the show is a toss-up when it comes to being renewed for another season. But no matter what fate does to it in the coming months, at least we can say that it was still one of the top notch comedies of the year, with episodes that once again proved the show's remarkable ability to constantly find different ways to tell their stories in a funny yet creative way, all while staying true to its characters, pushing the boundaries of what a sitcom can do and proving that this show is more than just "that silly show with the pop culture references and meta humor," as so many people write it off as.
Case in point: in this year alone, there featured two documentary episodes, an episode with the study group doing nothing but playing Dungeons and Dragons, a "My Dinner With Andre" parody, a clip show without any past clips, a two-part paintball episode featuring a spaghetti western homage, a "Treehouse of Horror" homage, and an episode showing seven different timelines. And you know what? Those were all fantastic, A-level quality episodes with many memorable moments, while also being episodes that either bolstered character development or move the plot forward. Not only that, but the main cast of the show continued to be excellent once again this year, from Joel McHale as main character Jeff Winger to Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir to even Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry. In addition, almost every character was well-crafted and enjoyable (which I suppose is another testament to the writers and how they know their characters better than most other writing staffs on TV) and the score by Ludwig Gorranson was outstanding, and its one of the few shows that get better and better upon every re-watching. The fact that it might not last past May while many lesser shows like "The Big Bang Theory" and "Glee" are widly popular is nothing short of unfair, and I hope that NBC doesn't make its worst decision since launching the "The Jay Leno Show."
"Louie" (FX)
This season, Louis C.K.'s low-budgeted show returned over the summer with a second season that darker, more dark, more ambitious, more heartbreaking, and more personal than the first...and I loved every single f*cking minute of it!
There were just so many ways this year that TV's purest shows ("pure" in the sense that it's starred, directed, written and edited by one man without any interference by the network) pushed my buttons this year. It wasn't the funniest sitcom (in fact, one could argue that this season was much more drama than comedy), but it had the remarkable ability of being very moving, whether it was in the beautiful episode when Louie spent an entire episode visiting Afghanistan or the heartbreaking moment when he confesses his poetic love to a woman who doesn't love her back in the episode "Subway/Pamela." From an artistic standpoint, few shows were just as visually striking and as attention-to-detail to its cinematography. Finally, I just love the unpredictability of it all. "Louie" is a show with absolutely no continuity outside of the fact that the show stars Louis C.K.'s character, his two daughters, and Pamela Adlon, and watching it every week was more like watching a series of short film than a piece of episodic television. This meant that the show was able to take us on several different experiences over the course of thirty minutes, whether it was taking us through a fart joke with a ridiculously dark set-up, or the story of a man visiting with his old comedy buddy just before his friend was about to go kill himself.
"Homeland" (Showtime)
For months, I thought that I was going to end the year writing about how "Game of Thrones" was the best new show of the year. But then "Homeland" (which just wrapped up its first season this past Sunday) premiered, with one consistently great episode after another, and I ended up changing my mind. See, "Homeland" this season was just the perfect case of a political thriller done right (and as those you who read my many praises of "Rubicon" in 2010 know, I really do like good political thrillers). It was tense, it made you guess only to make you have the writers one-up you in a way that wasn't insulting and out-of-nowhere, and for most of the episode it did so with patience and with little violence needed. Not only that, it was also both a great character study and a great topical take of the decade-long War on Terror, featuring two cases of a man and a woman (one an Iraq-war veteran and the other a CIA operations officer) and the toll that helping to protect their country had on both of them. Claire Danes (who played Carrie Mathison) and Damien Lewis (who played Sgt. Nicolas Brody) also shined in their respective roles as the show's two main character, so much so that it would not shock me at all to see at least one (if not both of them) pick up some Emmy gold this upcoming September.
Showtime has long been known as the network that lets their shows go on way past the most when their intriguing premise would run out of gas (*cough*"Dexter"*cough*), usually by bringing everything back to the status quo, and there's a very good chance that "Homeland" could in the future join this uinfortunate lists of shows (and thanks to Sunday's season finale, I think we might have gotten a taste as to how that could happen). But that's for later to worry about. In the meantime, the show has only given us one season, and a helluva season it was.
"Game of Thrones" (HBO)
I will admit that it took me a while (five weeks to be exact) to fully embrace "Game of Thrones" when I first watched it. While I felt showrunners David Beinoff and D.B. Weiss did a respectable job of crafting George R.R. Martin's world of Westeros and the major players in the constant fight for the crown into reality, the early episode felt a bit weighed down because of all the constant exposition. Luckily, the show kicked into high gear around episode six (and then got especially insane by the wonderful penultimate episode "Baelor") and, as a result, turned into one of the year's must-see dramas, fantasy or otherwise. The cast this season (led by Sean Bean and featuring the breakout performances of Emilia Clarke and now Emmy-winner Peter Dinklage) were fantastic, while the plot felt like it moved organically despite its rather small ten episode structure. Finally, even though the plot of the series is based on books that have been on the shelves for years, I just love the fact that it has constantly high stakes, and how you're never supposed to get too invested in the characters because there's a good chance that they could suffer the same fate that one of the main characters had this season, to the surprise of newcomers.
There's more that I could say about the show, but I think that I've said enough. Besides, Winter is Coming in a matter of minutes, and I want to be able to wrap this post up before that happens.
"Justified" (FX)
This is a show that I'm really glad to have caught up on over the summer after a few friends strongly suggested that I check it out. While I really enjoyed the first season of Graham Yost's adaptation on a series of Elmore Leonard books, it wasn't until watching the second season that the show officially climbed on top of my list of favorite TV dramas. The show clearly realized the strengths of becoming a more serialized show, and went with it while also creating stand alone episodes that were a lot better at integrating the season's main plot, which saw U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens (played by Timothy Olyphant) in a conflict with Harlan County crime boss Mags Bennett and the rest of the Bennett clan. Margo Martindale was marvelous as Mags this season, absolutely deserving the Emmy that she ended up winning for her performance, while Walton Goggins managed to be even better as the cunning manipulator Boyd Crowder and Olyphant continue to make the case as being the early 21st century version of Clint Eastwood. When this show returns January 17th, there's no question that I'm not going to miss it this time around.
"Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)
After a first season that met some pretty mixed reviews among critics and viewers alike (I put them in my top ten list last year, but that decision didn't come without some serious inner-debate), "Boardwalk Empire" returned this past September with a few changes that ultimately worked for the better. For starters, creator Terrence Winter and the writing staff began to focus the show more on its list of intriguing supporting characters, including Chalky "I Ain't Building No Bookcase" White (played by Michael K.Williams) and the captivating Richard Harrow (Jack Huston). Second, they put the show's main character, Atlantic City treasurer Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) in many unfavorable (yet more entertaining for the viewer) positions, whether it's battling a conspiracy of once trusted allies (including his brother and a man he once treated as his adopted son) trying to take him down in the bootlegging business to fighting a federal court case of election fraud and interstate prostitution. Third, it focused more on the tragic life of Jimmy Darmody (played beautifully by Michael Pitt), a hotheaded young man with a very troubling past and a life constantly in turmoil. Add these all up, along with the show's usual list of stellar performances, and terrific episodes like "Under God's Power, She Flourishes," and you have yourself a second season of the show that was a major improvement from the first and one that arguably placed the show among the list of first-tier dramas. The question of how long the show stays there will be answered by how the creative team decides to handle the show following the major plot developments of the season finale.
"Archer" (FX)
As you can see, there's a pretty noticeable and reoccurring pattern in my top eleven list this year of shows that premiered strong in 2010 yet managed to top it with better quality second seasons in 2011. "Archer," the hilarious and twisted workplace comedy about employees of the fictional spy agency ISIS created (and entirely written) by Adam Reed, is no exception. It's a show that continues to find new ways to make the tired spy parody fresh week after week, thanks to the help of a bunch of characters that are each enjoyable in their own deranged way,. Not only does it boast what is arguably the best voice cast working today (featuring H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Judy Greer, and Jessica Walter, to name a few) , but the writing is one of the wittiest and most intelligent to be found on the small screen. I mean, what other shows can you think of that makes references to William S. Burrough's accidental homicide, "Magnum P.I.," or even Herman Melville's short story "Bartelby the Scrinever"? Better yet, what other show can you think whose funniest episode written featured the main character simultaneously going through chemotherapy? I certainly can't, and that's just one of the many reasons as to why there are few shows that match up to their greatness.
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"/"The Colbert Report" (Comedy Central)
In a year that has already seen me induct both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert into the blog's Hall of Fame, it should come as no surprise that would I end this list by wonderful they each were this year and how, even though each person has one host better than the other (this year, I preferred watching Colbert more, although Stewart was consistent once again in pointing out all the bullcrap both in politics and in the news media), together they were able to create the funniest and most consistently enjoyable hour of late night.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (FX)
It's amazing that despite being on the year for seven seasons, the folks behind "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" still manages to make an enjoyable show year after year. In fact, the seventh season was so good (one of their best seasons ever, in my opinion) that it came this close to beating out "Archer" in the top ten. Let's hope that Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito continue to be excellent for as long as FX decides to keep renewing it.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO)
Another show that despite being on the air for quite a while (the season that aired this past summer was the show's eighth) manged to somehow be its best in years. However, despite the fact that it started out strong (featuring the instant classic that was "Palestinian Chicken"), the hot and cold back half kept me from putting it in the top 11.
"Happy Endings" (ABC)
Just a really enjoyable hangout comedy, with a great cast and hilarious episodes the likes of "Spooky Endings." Hope to see it getting better over time.
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
I already gave my full review on this in part 2 of this year's Emmys prediction column. Long story short: I found it enjoyable, and deserving of the awards it was nominated for, but there many little glaring flaws that bugged me enough to fully jump on the bandwagon. Maybe when season 2 premieres here in the States, it will change my mind.
"Treme" (HBO)
The second season of David Simon's look into post-Katrina New Orleans was better than the first in many ways, mostly because of how more fun it was and the many positive development of its characters. And yet, just like last year, I have it just outside of the top 10/11 looking in. Maybe next year...
"30 Rock" (NBC)
The latter half of the show's fifth season was not as great as its first half, when the show was in its best form since season two. That said, with episodes like "TGS Hates Women," "Double Edged Sword," and "Plan B," the veteran comedy was still prone to showing many flashes of brilliance.
"Fringe" (FOX)
While the fourth (and most likely last) season has been off to a pretty unimpressive start (at least for me), the way season three ended was magnificent, and another reason why this is the best damn sci-fi show in all of television.
Supposedly Good Shows That I Didn't Watch Yet Probably Should Have:
"Children's Hospital" (Adult Swim)
"Enlightened" (HBO)
"Friday Night Lights" (NBC/Direct TV)
"The Good Wife" (CBS)
"How I Met Your Mother" (CBS)
"Men of a Certain Age" (TNT)
"Misfits" (Hulu)
"Raising Hope" (FOX)
"Sons of Anarchy" (FX)
"The United States of Tara" (Showtime)
"The Vampire Diaries" (The CW)
So, there's my list in a nut shell. Feel free to post in the comments section all your agreements and disagreements. In the meantime, let's move on to "Random Thoughts," shall we? The following were on my mind between Thursday, December 15th and Wednesday, December 21st:
- Surprise! For yet another year in the row, the Golden Globes TV nominations sucked ass. You know, I don't know why I come into every December hoping that the mysterious Hollywood Foreign Press Association would suddenly come into their senses and nominate the people and shows most deserving of a nomination instead of what they usually do, which is nominating things that usually either fresh meat or the shows with the most mainstream buzz. And yet, I still do anyways, and every year I continue to get disappointed, all while realizing even more just how worthless this awards show is in determining quality in the television category.
I will make a list of everything that's wrong with this past Thursday's 2012 nominations in the TV category (I say TV and not "TV and movies" altogether simply because I have watched very little new movies this year and therefore have no real qualifications in voicing my opinion on the matter) in a moment. But first, here are the nominations that I actually did mind:
The Three "Homeland" Nominations: Well, I just named the show as my favorite rookie show of the year, so of course I was pleased when I found that it had nominations in three of the major drama awards (Best Drama, Best Actor for Damien Lewis, Best Actress for Claire Danes).
"Game of Thrones" and "Boardwalk Empire" Also Joining the Best Drama Category: The former had a fantastic rookie season, and the latter (who won the Best Drama category last season) had the complete opposite of a sophmore slump season. These two (and "Homeland") are by far and away the only shows I absolutely do not mind getting recognized for their excellence.
Bryan Cranston for Best Actor in a Comedy: While the show in which he starred in this year was snubbed of a nomination (more on that in a bit), it was at least nice to know that the HFPA at least ackonowledged Cranston's weekly brilliance as Walter White, although I can't help but feel that this nomination would not have been possible had Cranston not won three Emmys in a row from 2008 to 2010.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for Best Actress in a Comedy: Again, love these two comedies (one more than the other), and the ladies were terrific as "30 Rock's" Liz Lemon and "Parks and Recreation's" Leslie Knope, respectively.
The Entire "Best Miniseries or TV Film" Category: There were neither a major snub nor a single horrendous nominatee the likes of what the Emmys committee did nominating "The Kennedy's" over the summer in this category. "Downton Abbey," "Cinema Varite," "The Hour" and "Too Big to Fail" ranged from being good to great, while "Mildred Pierce" has received a wide array of critical acclaim (even though I tended to disagree).
Idris Elba and Dominic West for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film: Because it's at least good to know that the HFPA's complete lack of appreciation for any single David Simon show did not extend to his show's actors.
Peter Dinklage for Best Supporting Actor: I picked him as my "Should Win" pick for the Emmys this past summer, so of course I don't mind him being acknowledged.
And now here's where the criticism begins:
"American Horror Story" and "Boss" over "Breaking Bad" for Best Drama: So you're telling me that the best show on television was no match against this batshit insane Ryan Murphy drama and the wannabe political thriller version of "Network"? Yeah, I'm not buying it (statement can also apply to "Justified.")
The HFPA Shutting Out "Louie" and "Community": To quote the great Pierce Hawthorne, these guys are definitely "streets behind."
The Puzzling Love for "New Girl": I've watched every episode of "New Girl" up until this point, and while I don't hate it, it's still a very hit-or-miss sitcom, with more misses as of late than hits. To call it one of the year's five best comedies and/or musicals of the year over "Community," "Louie," "Parks and Recreations," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "Happy Endings," "Archer," "30 Rock," or even "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is absurd.
David Duchovny for Best Actor in a Comedy: What the HFPA sees in Duchovny I will never know.
Johnny Galecki for Best Actor in a Comedy: I'm guessing this was just the HFPA trying to be all cool by playing contrarion and saying that this "The Big Bang Theory" co-star was better than the more widely-favored Jim Parsons, even thought Parsons won himself two Emmys in the past two years (one of which he didn't steal it from someone else).
No Nick Offerman for Best Supporting Actor: What is it about Nick Offerman's terrific performance as Ron Swanson that makes the Golden Globe fail to appreciate? Are they just simply intimidated by him? Oh wait, I forgot, this is the Golden Globes. They probably never watched a single episode of "Parks and Recreations" a day in their life.
The rest of my complaints are pretty much part of the same theme, so I'm going to name them:
Madeleine Stowe, Mireille Enos and Callie Thorne for Best Actress in a Drama
Patrick J. Adams for Best Actor in a Drama
No Aaron Paul, Walton Goggins and Giancarlo Esposito for Best Supporting Actor
The HFPA's Unfathomable Love for Ryan Murphy Shows
"Episodes" for Best Comedy
Criticize the Emmy awards all you want (and you wouldn't be in the wrong for doing so). But at least they have better tastes and don't treat the TV awards as second class like the Golden Globes do.
- First they lost Jay Cutler. Then they lost Matt Forte. Then they had the Sam Hurd situation. And now they've just lost four in a row, going from being in a comfortable position to make the playoffs to being a loss away from being eliminated in the playoff race altogether, all while getting Johnny Knox injured as well. Could things possibly get worse for the Chicago Bears this season?
- I hate to say this, but thanks to Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots for defeating the Denver Broncos by three touchdowns on Sunday, thereby putting the out-of-control Tebowmania on hold (at least for one week). I'm not that big of a hater of Tim Tebow, but man, the hype surrounding this guy over the past few weeks has actually made me miss the old days when the sports media was giving the same kind of attention to Brett Favre, this video that ESPN did the night before the game. Good God, was that infuriating!
- A woman named "Whoopi" allegedly farts on live TV. This joke writes for itself, like someone with the last name of "Cummings" becoming a pornstar. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/16/whoopi-goldberg-farts-on-the-view_n_1153828.html)
- To put it in the simplest terms, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" was nothing short of fantastic. Although, what does bother me is the scene where Hines Ward running away from the falling down football field was a boatload of sillliness. Let's hope that the final cut of the CGI and editing is much more impressive. Otherwise, really looking forward to seeing the film.
- Because I'm having such a busy week that has already made me delay Saturday's "End of the Week" into Sunday and this post from a Monday to a Wednesday, I am also announcing that this week's NFL predictions column will be running a bit late, meaning that it most likely be posted sometime on Friday instead of tomorrow. So, with that in mind, I'm just going to take this time to do what I did in week 13 and give you the predictions of mj50 and myself for the game that would have already been played by the time I finished the post post, which would be tomorrow's AFC South showdown between the Texans and the Colts. This one should be short and sweet:
Houston Texans (-6) vs, Indianapolis Colts: Sunday- 12:00 p.m.
mj15's pick: Houston
This one's pretty obvious. Indianapolis may have finally won its first game of the year last week for the Titans (and good for them), but we must remember that the Texans are a significantly better team than the Titans. They have the better defense, they have the better running game, and possibly even the better quarterback (since T.J. Yates only lost once as a starter this season). Besides, it's not like the Texans are one of those teams that are suddenly going to start sitting players out in preparation for the playoffs. After all, they're still fighting for the AFC's #2, and I doubt that Gary Kubiak and the roster will be satisfied just to have that division title. Texans FTW
mj50's pick: Indianapolis
Thanks for taking the time to read this post. "Random Thoughts" should make its triumphant debut sometime in early January. Also, remember to stop by later in the week for the rest of my week 16 NFL picks and for the beginning of "End of Year: 2011" the day after Christmas. Until then, enjoy the rest of your week!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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