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#ActualWorst, Round Two: Hannah Horvath vs. Hannibal Lecter

<span>A bracket to find the most terrible person on television</span>
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a across four different categories, who’ll go head to head over the next four weeks until one of them is crowned as the most despicable, unlikeable, flat-out awful (fictional) person on the small

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