This is an interesting year, because as I mentioned in my comedy predictions television has just gotten so good that it’s impossible to recognize everything with 6 nominees in each category. There is so much good TV that even if most of these nominees were deserving, many were still left out. Yes, Downton Abbey got a boatload of nominations, but it won’t win anything and Homeland’s significant decline in quality for the 3rd season was actually noticed by voters, as it didn’t get in to several categories based on name alone. If The Good Wife were nominated in series, I would probably be predicting a few wins for it, but I don’t think it can do much without that support. Game of Thrones remains proof that they like fantasy if it’s actually good, but the competition is too great for any big wins. Some of the big omissions are the continued depletion of Mad Men nominations (how do you not nominate John Slattery for this season?) and voters’ habits to just reward the same shows in each category instead of spreading the love a little bit. No major nomination for Boardwalk Empire or The Americans is ridiculous. The one nomination for Masters of Sex is great and I love Lizzy Caplan, but it should have been included across the board. Tatiana Maslany is the biggest acting snub of the year once again. Oh and Hannibal has a grand total of zero nominations - not even cinematography! – the biggest travesty of this years nominations. That said, here are my final predictions for the big drama categories – enjoy!
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As mentioned in my pre-nomination Emmy write-up, it’s been a pretty amazing year for television. In fact, I think there’s little chance we will ever have a bad year again given the amount of freedom afforded to many creators and the number of outlets available. There are still the usual nominations that seem to come out of a certain complacency by voters, but even with the omissions that will seemingly never be corrected (Nick Offerman, Parks & Rec), the newcomers who will keep hoping (TJ Miller, Silicon Valley) or the actors overshadowed by more famous co-stars (Timothy C. Simons, Veep; Jo Lo Truglio, Brooklyn 99; Terry Crews, Brooklyn 99) there are quality nominees – yes, even if all those examples came from a single category. At least a surprising show led by a diverse cast of women such as Orange Is The New Black can get a shocking amount of nominations for its first season, powerhouse Modern Family is truly beginning to lose some momentum and there were a few very deserving surprises – Silicon Valley in series and Fred Armisen for Portlandia. The biggest surprise though, is that I actually think every deserving winner of each category may be the frontrunner! As always with awards shows, this comes with the caveat that creative awards and competitions in general are essentially meaningless but are still a fun way to recognize some stand-outs from the increasingly large pool of quality programs on TV and the internet. With that said I’ll move on to my predictions for the major comedy categories – what could, should & will win. Drama predictions will come sometime before the awards tonight. Yes, Monday night. |
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