“American Vandal” – The Top 25 Programs of 2017, No. 9

If it weren’t for Mindhunter (spoiler alert: that one is in my top five), I would refer to this satirical take on such true-crime docuseries as Netflix’s own Making a Murderer as the streaming giant’s biggest and best surprise of the year.  And if you told me a few months ago that I would be praising a mockumentary about a young geek’s efforts to prove that a nasty jock with a habit of drawing penises as his own personal graffiti art did not paint dicks on 27 cars in their high school parking lot -- the key clue being that the dicks on the cars did not have hairs on their testicles, which is a signature element of the jock’s dick drawings -- I would have said you were nuts (no pun intended).