I have finally managed to make it through this past month alive. I just want to give my best to Justin and his future endeavors. From the podcast to the blog, it was all his brainchild. I basically came up with the name and shoehorned my way into the whole thing. Hopefully, the blog will maintain some regularity in content...which it never has. To all our contributors, FEEL FREE TO POST WHEN YOU WANT. To all our readers, continue to leave comments. Not only does it prove that people are reading, but it lets us know what you think. Anyway, onto the emmy's.
Every year it seems like the Emmy nominations take a step forward and then two steps back. I still applaud them for giving Michael Chiklis the best actor award for The Shield season 1. For whatever reason, whether its marketing, lack of "awards press" from FX, etc. The Emmy's pretty much TOTALLY overlooked the past season of The Shield, which just happened to be some of the best television ever filmed. No nod to Forest Whitaker, not even CCH Pounder got the obligatory "strong black character" nomination.
The head scratching continues with the seemingly random, yet very deserving nomination of Dennis Leary as best lead actor in a drama for Rescue Me. That whole cast deserves an award but not necessarily just Leary. But I guess its nice to see Leary getting some credit for doing something original instead of being accused of stealing Bill Hicks' routines.
Going down the list, there are some welcome surprises with Steve Carrell getting a nom for The Office. And for whatever reason, Lost is not a candidate for Best Drama. The emmy's continue to give far too much credit to 24. This last season was easily the worst one yet, but it continues to get nominated. Its like high class schlock. Entertaining at times, but everybody knows it isn't really good tv.
Finally, I saved the best for last. The Emmy's may be pulling an Andre Braugher on Arrested Development. With no hope of the show being revived, the academy NOW sees it fit to nominate the show for best comedy (which it should win by a mile) AND have FINALLY nominated Will Arnett for best supporting actor. Now, Arnett will be going up against Jeremy Piven and his role in Entourage so looks like fan support will be split. But honestly Entourage will go on for some time and AD is clearly done. If I don't see Will Arnett get up to give an acceptance speech the Emmy's are dead to me.
Any other notable absences or perplexing nominations? Let us know.
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3 comments:
yah, where the hell is rapaport?!
Very True. Rapaport gets gipped EVERY year, whether its by the oscars or the emmy's.
What is this? Lost didn't get nominated, especially since I thought the 2nd season was better than the first.
DH didn't get nominated either, which wasn't surprising at all because this past season was pretty painful. And Grey's had like 50 nominations (hyperbole) but it got nominated more than it deserved.
BTW...Arrested Development Season 3 comes out (tentatively) August 29th. So buy it.
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