So they cancelled Hannibal. A year ago, I called that show one of my halfway heroes, when its second season completely blew me away. Now it’s third could very well be its last – never say never in a world with Hulu and Netflix – and like its titular villain, I’ll have to savor every bite of it. The only question is why didn’t anyone else watch this show? Hard to say, but it’s not like we didn’t see this coming. The end is inevitable for everything, including 2015. But we’re only about halfway there, so buck up! Here’s us talking about some of the stuff that kicked ass this year!

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In the beginning there were three meals a day. That wasn’t enough. Top Ten Thursdays said, “let there be snacks!” And there were snacks. And they were good. But which were the best? This was a topic worthy of considerable debate, for what truly is a snack if not any food eaten ‘tween meals? Could it be cookies? Could it be cake? Could it be hastily microwaved miscellany? Lo and behold, this podcast hath risen! Top 10 Snacks is its name and subject. Praise be to it!

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This is a weird one. I mean, the thing about doing a top 10 list podcast is that it’s hard to break the formula of top 10 albums of a year, movies about a subject, video games on a console, that sort of thing. There are plenty of people out there doing lists like that. But not everybody is doing what we do, and that means sometimes we end up breaking the mold. Was it a good idea to do a list of sitcom characters, ranked not for how great they are but for how hang out-able they are? Maybe. Did it turn out well? I’ll let you decide.

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For the last time, Mad Men is back and to everyone’s surprise, the Sixties are over. And if we all thought that decade was weird, just wait until you find out what the Seventies have in store for us! Yes, the decade that gave us Star Wars and jokes about Star Wars on That ’70s Show was an interesting one with its fair share of great music. Don’t believe me? Just listen to this week’s Top Ten Thursdays, in which we try to talk about our favorite album from just one year – 1970 – and it takes us almost two full hours. Tubular!

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The story of the video game Rock Band, as well as its sequels, is the story of how the world’s greatest cover band eventually becomes the most popular group of all time. Here at Mildly Pleased, we’d like to believe that could happen someday. I mean, is that really such a far cry from what things are already like today? Don’t all the most popular artists play music that sounds exactly the same? What if it was literally the same? These are the musing of an old, bitter man. I am not that man. I found his notes and thought them worth printing here. You could say I “covered” them. Heh.

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