And so it was that Community became the Buffy The Vampire Slayer of it's generation. A show too daring and unique for the awards bodies of the time, yet sure to be treasured long after everyone who thinks Modern Family is the best show on TV has died, although to be fair that's probably only about 10 years. The total blanking of Community for the second year in a row is an abomination, whether you think its the best show or not its certainly in the top six, but that apart this was actually a set of nominations that I liked more than disliked. Parks and Recreation's series nomination, Louie C.K's acting nomination and the embrace of Justified were all good things, and on average I'm more happy than sad. Let's do this.
BEST DRAMA:
Mad Men
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
The Good Wife
Boardwalk Empire
Game Of Thrones
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 6/6 - I'm awesome
5 out of 6 of these shows are deserving, so you have to be happy about that. I'm not quite sure what Dexter has to do not to get nominated here, considering just how limp this past season was, but with Emmy finally acknowledging Friday Night Lights and the deserving presence of Game Of Thrones here, you can only bitch so much. Mad Men is still a lock to win this though I would have thought.
Snubs:
Justified - Because come on. The second best dramatic show on television last year isn't nominated , despite the embrace of its actors, which makes the lazy, ill-informed Dexter nomination extra irritating.
Terriers, Rubicon - Not here because they got cancelled, but both would have been worthy nominees
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA:
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 5/6 - I'm very Good
OLYPHANT. Fuck yeah. Many people didn't think would happen including me, but its nice for an awards body to pleasantly surprise you every once in a while isn't it? Incidentally, with the absence of three time winner Bryan Cranston, one would think it's finally going to be Jon Hamm's year, especially when he's got The Suitcase and all. It has to be right? Otherwise nominations are sort of as you were, and while Buscemi is a first timer, this is not in the least surprising.
Snubs:
Sean Bean, Game Of Thrones - It wasn't my favorite performance on the show, but towards the end there Bean pulled out some very impressive stuff. You could make the argument.
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA:
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kathy Bates, Harry's Law
Mariska Hargitay, SVU
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Mireille Enos, The Killing
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 4/6 - I'm pretty good
I'd like to think this would be Moss' year what with The Suitcase and all, but through and through this is going to be Margulies. Women in drama tend to dominate procedurals as opposed to the serialized cable dramas, which exclusively focus on Men. Hence Hargitay and Bates and even Margulies. But considering how weak this category has been in the past, at least there's good performances here.
Snubs:
Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy - A weaker year for Sons, but that doesn't diminish Sagal's performance which is still better than at least three of the nominated actresses as far as I'm concerned. But it looks like its never to be.
January Jones, Mad Men - Personally I think this is a good thing, because in no way was Jones a lead performance and quite frankly the character was a bit of a mess this year, so. Well done Emmy for lazily nominating her anyway
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA:
John Slattery, Mad Men
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Andre Braugher, Men Of A Certain age
Walton Goggins, Justified
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Peter Dinklage, Game Of Thrones
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 3/6 - I'm OK I guess.
Despite Dinklage and the series nomination, I would imagine there's quite a few who are annoyed at Dinklage being the only actor nomination. But while I liked other actors on the show, I think Dinklage is really the only one who deserves to be here. He may even win the thing, which would be awesome. Personally I'm delighted about Goggins being here, as I thought he was going to be the great Justified performance that got ignored. But he was fucking awesome this year, and he's my choice for the winner. The love for The Good Wife should get Mad Men fans a bit worried, because the only reason Charles is here is because they really like that show.
Snubs:
Aiden Gillen/Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game Of Thrones - Littlefinger and Jaime Lannister respectively, again both these performances are stronger than Charles' but, I think the show's turn may come in a couple of years.
Michael Pitt/Michael Shannon, Boardwalk Empire - But frankly, this is a much greater slice of bullshit because both Pitt and Shannon were exceptional on a show the awards body clearly liked and frankly I'd nominate these guys before I nominated the show itself. Kind of a major snub.
Arliss Howard, Rubicon - This was never happening, but he's so unbelievably awesome on this show that I'd be amiss not to mention it.
Chris Noth, The Good Wife - Pretty much everyone on this show got nominated except this guy. Probably still taking some Sex And The City 2 backlash.
Denis O' Hare, True Blood - terrible show, but this was an awesome performance.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS DRAMA:
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Christina Baranski, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified
Kelly MacDonald, Boardwalk Empire
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 5/6 - I'm very good.
Well the Forbes nomination annoys me, because that was such a one note character, Panjabi and Baranski are both awesome, MacDonald does good work and Hendricks is always a deceptively subtle presence. But come on, how can this go to anyone but Martindale. She was a force of nature on Justified this year and this simply has to happen. Has to.
Snubs:
Emilia Clarke, Game Of Thrones - I'm less enamored with this performance than the rest of the internet but I think it certainly deserved a nomination.
Kiernan Shipka - Mad Men - Don Draper's daughter gave one of the best performances on the show last year, adults be damned and this simply would have been awesome.
BEST COMEDY SERIES:
The Big Bang Theory
The Office
Parks And Recreation
Modern Family
Glee
30 Rock
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 5/6 - I'm very good.
First of all the Parks and Recreation nomination is not only unexpected, but one of the best things Emmy has ever done, and could potentially save this show. But elsewhere? Meh is probably the best way to put it. I would nominate Modern Family, but Glee's presence here is embarrassing considering the critical backlash against it this year, The Office and 30 Rock are both once great shows here just because they're established. And then there's The Big Bang Theory. So that happened.
Snubs:
Community - Obviously
Louie - But I guess you can't be too down about this because at least Louie C.K got a nomination himself, and this was inconceivable.
Cougar Town - But this is because no-one can stomach filling in awards ballot with the name Cougar Town right? I mean people are gonna see that shit. Tis a shame.
United States Of Tara- I guess you could say this was too dramatic to belong here, but that's never stopped them before and this was awesome.
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Johnny Galecki, The Bang Theory (WTF)
Louis C.K, Louie
Matt Le Blanc, Episodes
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 4/6 - I'm pretty good
First things first. Double nomination for The Big Bang Theory, and while I'd defend Parsons here in that he does give a legitimately great performance in the face of bad material, but Galecki plays the most inconsistent and badly written character on the show. They never have any idea what to do with him, and this is comfortably the dumbest nomination of the year. Elsewhere Louis C.K= best thing ever and I'm actually OK with LeBlanc even if I didn't like his show all that much. He was great on it. But what with it being Carell's last year on The Office and all, his win is a lock.
Snubs: Joel McHale, Community - Obviously.
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY:
Melissa McCarthy, Mike And Molly
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Laura Linney, The Big C
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 5/6 - I'm very good.
This is the category where Emmy usually succumbs to star-fucking, often giving nominations to the most famous instead of the best. But you know, there's literally like 20 eligible candidates here and you do the best with what you've got. Linney probably will win, I hope anyone but Linney or Falco wins. The Plimpton nomination is great.
Snubs:
Toni Collette, The United States Of Tara - This can only be because her show got cancelled, given that she has both won and been nominated consecutively. But this is the best performance by a shot, maybe accepting Poehler, so its utterly ridiculous she isn't nominated. Just ridiculous.
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY:
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Ed O' Neill, Modern Family
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 4/6 - I'm pretty good
Lamest category ever, bar none. In their rush to nominate every cast member off of modern Family they've not only ignored all the great performances from Community, Parks and Rec and a thousand other shows, they've even thrown mainstay nominee Neil Patrick Harris to the wolves. So incredibly lazy, boring and childish and Emmy is going to make people turn on Modern Family. They still found room for Jon Cryer though. That Charlie Sheen pity will go a long way.
Snubs:
Entire cast of community - Obviously
Nick Offerman - Parks And Recreation - This is atrocious. What is surely the funniest performance on TV has yet to be nominated. Just utterly ridiculous. There are no words.
Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel - How I Met Your Mother - You can make your case for both, but the Harris non-nomination is pretty shocking.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY:
Jane Lynch, Glee
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Betty White, Hot In Cleveland
PREDICTION CONVERSION RATE: 5/6 - I'm very good
OK, Wiig is here because of Bridesmaids, White is here because Old people are ridiculous and sometimes that's funny Krakowski is here because voters are lazy, Julie Bowen, who gives a bad, grating performance on Modern Family as far as I'm concerned just happens to be on a show they've gone nuts for.and arguably Jane Lynch, who's character was an inconsistent wreck on Glee this year. So I guess I'm behind Vergara then. Who I both want and think will win.
Snubs:
Alison Brie, Community - Obviously
Aubrey Plaza - Parks and Rec, but if Nick Offerman can't then she can't.
Busy Phillipps - Cougar Town - Curse of the name strikes again.
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