I won’t waste much space writing about this morning’s Emmy nominations because, following the trend of the past 35 years, most of my favorite shows were ignored. Mad Men did very well, and I have Season One in my NetFlix queue, so maybe I’ll be happy about that retroactively.
The absurdity begins and ends with Connie Britton’s lack of a Best Actress nod for Friday Night Lights. Never mind that the show itself was all but shut out, and Kyle Chandler ignored as usual…. Britton is the best freakin’ thing on TV and she couldn’t crack a lineup of the same old actresses (most of them movie stars turned TV stars) who’ve populated it for years? Give me a break. And why no Mary McDonnell, who was superb this year on Battlestar Galactica even if the series itself had a weak season?
Happy to see Lost and The Office there, and I hope they both win. Lost had maybe its best season yet and is fully deserving. But no doubt the Academy will bestow its award on Boston Legal or some such nonsense.
Oh well, enough of my yakkin’. At least the Oscars got it right.
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We just rented Mad Men, so we’ll see if it deserves the nominations it got. I was glad to see Recount got so many. I was also happy for the Entourage boys; I’m pulling for Kevin Dillon this year. Otherwise I agree; it was a predictable and mediocre bunch.
I’m so glad Recount got some nominations too. We’re going to rent Mad Men as well, so we’ll all have something to share eventually. We watched much of the John Adams series on HBO, and aside from Laura Linney (who is one of my favorite actresses), we were disappointed in the production. I think it’s also nominated for several awards. We don’t watch much regular television, so I’m not too informed on the emmys other nominations.