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It’s Official: Ramsay Bolton Is the Actual Worst Character on Television

After a month of voting, the tyrant from <em>Game of Thrones</em> is officially the most terrible person on the small screen.
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Earlier this year, when we started pondering the question of who in contemporary television is more dastardly, more unlikable, and more flat-out terrible than anyone else, we had a handful of contenders in mind. Matt Thompson was convinced it was Scandal’s Fitz, whom he memorably described as “

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