Best TV moments of 2012 | Mary McNamara

How can we ever get mad at a bad call again when we have now seen the ghastly alternative?   (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

Absurdly paced, self-consciously symbolic and fatal to our animal friends, yes, but it was worth it all to watch Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Farina, left, give new dimension and heart to a couple of gangster cons. Now if they could just learn to do it without the horses.  (Gusmano Cesaretti / AP / HBO)

Best bit of political satire of the year, possibly ever. Forget comedians; every political journalist in the country should be pea-green with envy.  (Drew Angerer / AFP / Getty Images)

After Rove’s absurd suggestion that the election had been called too early, anchor Megyn Kelly gamely made her way through the bowels of the studio to consult the numbers crunchers on “the Decision Desk,” who, blinking at the sudden radiance of Kelly and the cameras, assured her that Obama had won. Best anchor of the night.   (David Zalubowski / AP)