{"id":643,"date":"2012-07-19T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2012-07-19T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:04:13","slug":"my-fairly-snap-reactions-to-the-2012-emmy-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/2012\/07\/19\/my-fairly-snap-reactions-to-the-2012-emmy-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"my fairly snap reactions to the 2012 Emmy nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure you know if you&#8217;re one of the handful of people reading this, I watch\u00a0<em>a lot<\/em> of TV. \u00a0So of course even though I think award shows are often bunk and don&#8217;t actually reflect the true accomplishments of people and shows in the TV industry, it is interesting to take a look at what gets included&#8230; and usually more interestingly, what gets excluded.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s some thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forget the fact that there&#8217;s no network drama in the running for Best Drama&#8211;the real story is how insane it is that \u00a0<em>The Good Wife<\/em> wasn&#8217;t nominated in this category. It is easily as good as any of the other nominees and, although I don&#8217;t watch all of them, I suspect better in a lot of cases.<\/li>\n<li>No Best Comedy nom for Glee. In fact I believe the only nomination for Gleel this year was a Best Guest Actress in a Comedy nod for Dot-Marie Jones. I think if I was going to effectively shut out Glee from the nominations, I would have done it over the season before last, their 2nd, and not their 3rd, which for all its flaws seemed a lot more consistent than the first two did.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m happy for Dot-Marie Jones, though&#8230; the work she did in the last few eps of the season was great.<\/li>\n<li>Glad Michael C. Hall got another nomination for Lead Actor in a Drama for\u00a0<em>Dexter<\/em>. However much you may like or dislike any particular season of the show<em><\/em>, Hall is always compelling and crazily believable as the serial killer with a heart of gold.<\/li>\n<li>Why do reality tv series even EXIST, let alone get to compete for awards?!<\/li>\n<li>Given it&#8217;s the only sitcom I follow (well, other than MTV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Awkward.<\/em>, which I think transcends the notion of sitcom), it&#8217;s a bit disappointing Courtney Cox didn&#8217;t get a nom for <em>Cougar Town<\/em>. She is definitely the wacky glue that keeps that show together.<\/li>\n<li>The Best Supporting Actor, Comedy category is a bit over-cluttered with <em>Modern Family<\/em> people, who make up 4 of the 6 slots. There should probably be a rule against that, like max. two nominations per show per category, or at the very least no more than half the nomination slots.<\/li>\n<li>SO very happy for Anna Gunn&#8217;s nomation as Best Supporting Actress, Drama for\u00a0<em>Breaking Bad<\/em> as she is terminally underrated and overlooked on that show (granted, it&#8217;s not like her other castmates fade into the background). However, very sad that she&#8217;s up against two stellar\u00a0<em>The Good Wife<\/em> cast members, namely the always fantastic Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski. If any of those 3 win, I&#8217;ll be happy.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0It&#8217;s great the Academy of Television Arts &amp; Sciences is honouring Giancarlo Esposito for his turn as Gus Fring on\u00a0<em>Breaking Bad<\/em>. As annoying as I found this past season&#8217;s &#8220;Gus is always two steps ahead of Walt&#8230; until he isn&#8217;t&#8221; interminable drag-on, Esposito was amazing to watch as one of the best villains of the last 20 or 30 years. \u00a0Stiff competition for Aaron Paul, who also snagged a nom as\u00a0<em>Bad<\/em>&#8216;s constantly bewildered Jesse.<\/li>\n<li>Best miniseries or movie. I love how the BBC&#8217;s <em>Sherlock<\/em> is somehow in this category when it&#8217;s obviously a series. But if you were going to nominate one of the &#8220;movies&#8221; from its 2nd &#8220;series&#8221; (aka season), why on Earth would you pick the uneven and overly Moriarty-focused <em>A Scandal in Belgravia<\/em> and not the sublime&#8230; wait a sec, got my episodes mixed up! They did indeed nominate the best one of the second 3. \u00a0The whole Irene Adler-Sherlock Holmes interplay in\u00a0<em>Scandal<\/em> was magic.<\/li>\n<li>I quite liked <em>American Horror Story<\/em> but, as with <em>Sherlock<\/em>, sorry&#8211;it&#8217;s not a miniseries or movie. \u00a0With <em>Sherlock<\/em>, I feel like it&#8217;s more of a grey area; with <em>AHS<\/em>, it&#8217;s obviously a ploy to face easier competition.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently Michael J. Fox is your go-to guy for Guest Actor, seeing as he was nominated not only as Best Guest Actor, Comedy for\u00a0<em>Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> but also as Best Guest Actor, Drama for\u00a0<em>The Good Wife<\/em>. Obviously his performance in\u00a0<em>Good Wife<\/em> is better than anything he could have done in a comedy. It&#8217;s too bad for Dylan Baker, also nominated for his guest role in\u00a0The Good Wife&#8211;he&#8217;s pretty great, but MJF is better.<\/li>\n<li>Seriously?! \u00a0Uma Thurman for <em>Smash<\/em>?! Uh NO.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s pretty weird that there&#8217;s anyone but <em>The Good Wife<\/em> nominees for the Best Guest Actor\/ress races, actually, since all their guest stars are phenomenal and apparently it&#8217;s <em>the<\/em> show everyone wants to appear on.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, granted I didn&#8217;t really get into <em>Missing<\/em> and while I do really like its lead actress, really?! Ashley Judd for Best Lead Actress, Miniseries or Movie?! She was good but not what I would call Emmy-worthy. \u00a0Probably better than Uma Thurman, however.<\/li>\n<li>Also, how you can nominate <em>Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia<\/em> but NOT nominate the woman who played Irene Adler is beyond me. \u00a0Related: yay Benedict Cumberbatch&#8217;s nom for Lead Actor. Boo Martin Freeman&#8217;s nom for Support Actor. \u00a0BC is amazing. MF&#8211;not so much. I don&#8217;t have high hopes for <em>The Hobbit<\/em> movies if they rely on his performance.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, and then finally we have the fact that <em>The Good Wife<\/em> didn&#8217;t get one nomination for writing, while <em>Mad Men<\/em> got three. \u00a0Uh yeah, again&#8230; no.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, there should definitely be a Best Drama Willing to Winkingly Play Up Its Homoerotic Subtexts award and there should be two nominees:\u00a0<em>Supernatural<\/em> and\u00a0MTV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Teen Wolf<\/em>. And <em>Teen Wolf<\/em> should win, hands down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure you know if you&#8217;re one of the handful of people reading this, I watch\u00a0a lot of TV. \u00a0So of course even though I think award shows are often bunk and don&#8217;t actually reflect the true accomplishments of people and shows in the TV industry, it is interesting to take a look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kalev.org\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}