Very OT - Primetime Emmy Nominations
Best Drama:
Better Call Saul - The Crown - The Handmaid's Tale - House of Cards - Stranger Things - This is Us - Westworld
Best Comedy:
Atlanta - Blackish - Master of None - Modern Family - Silicon Valley - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Veep
Notes - Game of Thrones not eligible due to late start.
Thoughts - The Emmys are loving themselves some Netflix. Stranger Things got 18 nominations! I thought Westworld had a great premise and outstanding premiere but faded fast. Of the shows nominated, I think it is Better Call Saul by a wide margin in Drama. I haven't seen a number of the comedies but Atlanta was brilliant.
Snubs - The Leftovers was better than any show nominated, IMO, and I am truly puzzled how neither it, nor any of its cast, got a nomination. People are still pissed about the end of Lost, I guess. The Americans dropped from contention after making the cut last year. Michael McKean gets no love for Better Call Saul, that is nuts.
Mmmmmm, Emmy Rossum... As for the Emmy awards show, I cannot thing of anything I find less interesting. A four-day insurance seminar in Topeka, Kansas might be less interesting? But it's close...
She does go au natural on Shameless a bit.
Love Shameless, but feel like Her character just spins in circles. I guess that is kind of her dynamic, but she has become the character whose story I care the least about
Her and Debbie both. I get that it's supposed to show the results of a dysfunctional upbringing, but they both just irk me at this point.
telecast itself is awful, I am interested in what shows are being recognized though.
And Emmy Rossum is impressive.
I think in general "awards shows" are really, really bizarre. I mean, lots of people must watch them, because they seem to have more and more of them each year. But, like, why do people watch them? Just to see celebrities in fancy clothes, or what? I really don't know...
I would guess most watch to validate the shows they watch as being the best.
Handmaids tale suckssssssssssssss
I disagree wholeheartedly about Westworld fading. I thought the show got better with each episode. Me and my wife rewatched each episode after each of the first 5 or 6, with character motivations and interpretations of events constantly changing. I thought it was the strongest new show I've seen since GoT. Very excited that it's getting recognition.
Also, I really wish football were back.
I need to watch it again. Toward the end I could not understand any of it. I kind of thought the premise collapsed on itself. Maybe I was not watching closely enough.
Of the nominated listed above I've never seen:
The Crown, The Handmaid's Tale, This is Us, Blackish, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Need to finish Atlanta and Stranger Things.
I used to watch Modern Family, but haven't seen the past 2-3 seasons.
Are any of the ones I've never seen worth spending time on?
but there are others that I would recommend. The aforementioned The Leftovers, and the criminally underrated Rectify are two that come to mind.
I've seen both of those. Just need to finish Leftovers. I have ADD when it comes to TV shows not named Game of Thrones so I will start watching and move on to a new show for a bit and eventually come back to it.
Rectify is one of the best shows on TV and it doesn't get the acclaim it deserves. Sundance also has another great show in Top of the Lake which is returning for its second season in September.
heard about Top of the Lake, and I am running low on shows, I will give that a try. I also have read very good reviews for Season 2 of The Missing so I might try that.
I looooooooooovvvvvvved Rectify. What a gem that was and amazing character development
I'll have to check out Top of the Lake. Even if it's half as good as Rectify then I'll enjoy it.
LOVE Better Call Saul. Surprised that McKean is not getting some love for that show, as just seeing Chuck fall apart this season was great acting. Don't remember too many specifics about Stranger Things since we watched it a while ago, but remember liking it a lot. Winona Ryder plays a great "town crazy." We'll be watching season 2 when it comes back.
Honestly didn't care for WestWorld. Took me 7-8 episodes to figure out just what the hell was going on. You can definitely tell it's Michael Crichton's work, as its more or less Jurassic Park with robots. But beyond that, I felt like I could never understand what was going on aside from just waiting for James Marsen's character to get killed again.
Just my opinion, but WestWorld was too smart for its own good.
Westworld was a great premise, but was another show where often then did so little moving of the story in the 1 hour of the show. I often struggled to stay awake for the show. I still have half of the season to go because I feel like I have to force myself to watch it.
That's exactly how I felt. I was waiting for some huge light to come on or just something to click, but I just had to force myself to keep watching. Eventually I just got bored with it.
I never watch these shows, but will say this - even though GoT is ineligible, it's still the best show on TV right now.
that is accurate. I think it slipped badly enough in Season 5 that it may have fell off that perch momentarily but last season was a spectacular recovery. 3 more days.
Super excited for GOT to start.....Also saw a preview of The Deuce and that show looks like it could be amazing.
Weird!!!!
I think Leftovers out thought itself. I loved the show, but often felt they were trying to hard on many of the episodes. The last season just was ehh. Was super excited for the first few seasons and then the rest were just an attempt to be the coolest kid in the room.
exception of the final season(s) of Breaking Bad, I don't know if I have ever seen a show as critically acclaimed as the final season of the Leftovers, which is why I am very surprised it was not nominated.
I guess I kind of thought the opposite about it. I liked that it didn't "think about itself" very much at all and kind of left the thinking to the audience.
(The sex-boat-whatever that was episode this season was an example of trying to one up itself, I will give you that. That was the shows only true mis-step to me).
I still enjoyed it...I just kind of wanted to see it play out and I guess due to the series ending felt they just kind of wrapped it all up in the most odd way. Leftovers has some of my favorite characters.
see what you are saying, I guess I thought that it had played itself out. There was no actual way to answer or "solve" the central premise of the show, it was a character driven show, the plot was simply a canvas.
I think Leftovers out thought itself. I loved the show, but often felt they were trying to hard on many of the episodes. The last season just was ehh. Was super excited for the first few seasons and then the rest were just an attempt to be the coolest kid in the room.
The Leftovers not getting an Emmy nod is ridiculous. So, too is Carrie Coon getting nominated for Fargo and not The Leftovers.
is completely baffling. She was unbelievable on The Leftovers. Not merely good, almost transcendent. I simply don't understand it.
Atlanta should probably win Best Comedy. The episode where Paper Boy is on the tv show is funniest episode of a tv comedy I have seen in years.
Link for All the Emmy Nominations
Better Call Saul is great, perfect mix of drama and comedy, and it's a shame McKean wasn't nominated, as he was phenomenal. But, I think This Is Us could beat out BCS, as it was critically acclaimed and very popular (especially with the ladies, my girlfriend LOVED it). Honestly, it is a well made, good show, just not completely my style, made me a little dusty from time to time.
I was pretty disappointed with Fargo, until the last three or so episodes, when it really picked up.
Anybody watch GLOW on Netflix yet? I've only watched the first episode which was damn good, AND our beloved Allison Brie shows her boobies a bunch! Recommended.
Emmys is probably the most respectable out of all the awards show. There's usually some snubs (The Wire?) and they do lean too much towards giving awards to actors or shows for their cumilitate work. instead of that season... see Jon Hamm whose best acting was season 4 but didn't get until his last season.
I watch a lot of dramas , and Bob Odenkirk or Matthew Rhys should win best actor. Rami Malek is great , but I thought one of those two last year deserved it over him.
House of Cards being nominated for best drama series is laughable, and this is coming from someone who still watches it and enjoys. It had a solid season 4 but this past season was pretty bad. The Americans or Orange is the New Black should be in there.
Michael McKean not ominated? That'd be a complete sham.
is GoT really not nominated for best Drama? They won it the last 2 years, including the year they fucked over Mad Men's last season.
On a side note , does anyone else here watch AMCs Halt and Catch Fire ? Deserves Emmy nominations
Always Sunny snubbed again. Such a fantastic show that deserves more credit.