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shipperxSo the Emmy nominations are out. Reactions:
DRAMA
Lost
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Mad Men
True Blood
The Good Wife
Reaction: True Blood? Seriously? Look, I enjoy True Blood but it is, at best, a guilty pleasure! It does not belong on this list. (Plus, it gets a nom but Buffy never did... even when BtVS was good. It's the HBO thing, isn't it?) Like that Lost got a nostalgia nod though. No way in hell will it win, but it was one of the better network shows.
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
January Jones (Mad Men)
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)
Reaction: Connie Britton got a nod! Finally! Yay! It's long over due. She won't win, but I'm damn happy she got a nod. Also, as much as I like Mariska Hargitay, I think her ongoing nomination is a sign as to how thin this category is. She's a fine actress and all, but SVU isn't really a great character showcase, and has anything really happened to her character in years?
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
Micheal C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)
Reaction: Kyle Chandler! Yay! And Hugh Laurie kind of goes into the Mariska Hargitay category. He's a good actor. Does a great job. But, frankly, his unending nomination for the same role has gotten a bit stale...as has the his show.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
John Slattery (Mad Men)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Martin Short (Damages)
Terry O’ Quinn (Lost)
Michael Emerson (Lost)
Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
Rose Byrne (Damages)
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Beau Bridges (The Closer)
Ted Danson (Damages)
John Lithgow (Dexter)
Alan Cumming ( The Good Wife)
Dylan Baker (The Good Wife
Robert Morse (Mad Men)
Gregory Itzin (24)
Reaction: Why are Emmy's do darn slow? Itzin was awesome during the last truly awesome season of 24... which was not this final season. Or anything near this final season. That show ran itself into the ground ages ago.
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Mary Kay Place (Big Love)
Sissy Spacek (Big Love)
Shirley Jones (The Cleaner)
Lily Tomlin (Damages)
Ann-Margret (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost)
Reaction: Love Elizabeth Mitchell and Juliet. Love, love, love her. But she had, what? Ten minutes of airtime the entire season? Still, Suliet hug? That was awesome. (icon!)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY
Glee
Modern Family
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nurse Jackie
30 Rock
The Office
Reaction: So "Glee" wasn't in "Musical" category because... why? And I have to say that I'm for a Dramedy category for things like Nurse Jackie (which is quite honestly far more drama than comedy) because it's an entirely different beast than the other shows listed. And then we've got the fact that The Office and 30 Rock were not in their best seasons. I'm cheering Modern Family on, and wish some of these nominees had been displaced for funnier shows such as Community, Cougar Town, and The Big Bang Theory.
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Lea Michele (Glee)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Matthew Morrison (Glee)
Steve Carell (The Office)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)
Reaction: Parsons! Yay! Won't beat Baldwin, but still, yay.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Chris Colfer (Glee)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)
Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)
Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
Reaction: Love NPH. He's awesome, but this season of HIMYM sucked and his character was one doing a LOT of the sucking!! Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrel love, though! My heart goes to Cam though, so I'm rooting for him.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jane Lynch (Glee)
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)
Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)
Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men)
Reaction: If Jane Lynch doesn't walk away with this, these awards are bogus.
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mike O’Malley (Glee) (mini-reaction: This is the problem with dramedy! He totally deserves to be recognized... for the drama! His character isn't even there for the funny. It's there in an entirely different capacity)
Neil Patrick Harris (Glee)
Fred Willard (Modern Family)
Eli Wallach (Nurse Jackie)
Jon Hamm (30 Rock)
Will Arnett (30 Rock)
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Christine Baranski (The Big Bang Theory)
Kathryn Joosten (Desperate Housewives)
Kristin Chenoweth (Glee)
Tina Fey (Saturday Night Live)
Betty White (Saturday Night Live)
Elaine Stritch (30 Rock)
Jane Lynch (Two and a Half Men)
Reaction: Jane Lynch was on Two and a Half Men? Is there a reason that show is still on... or still being nominated?
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
Antiques Roadshow
Dirty Jobs
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List
Mythbusters
Undercover Boss
Reaction: Honestly, shouldn't Deadliest Catch be on there? Scripted dramas don't have as much drama as that show. How many reality shows make you cry... a lot? Rescues at sea. The deckhand with the missing father? The captain discovering his son/deckhand is a drug addict... followed by the Captain having a stroke... followed by his older son (not the drug addict) agonizing over whether to go with his father to the hospital or stay with the boat because it was all falling on his shoulders and he didn't want to fail his dad, the heartwrenching speech from another deckhand about how his own father had died last year while he was at sea and that if the son didn't go with his father that he'd regret it the rest of his life. The two sons at their father's side and the visiting captain promising the dying man that he'd look out for his sons? The younger son lapsing back into drug addiction. The older son confronting him, accusing him of letting his father down while the younger son can't understand why the older son ever considered staying with the ship. And watching it all with the audience knowing that the father is going do die because he did so, months before any of this aired. Guh! That show is serious drama.
VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien
Reaction: So, again, Glee wasn't in this category... why?
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE
Endgame (PBS)
Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
Moonshot (History)
The Special Relationship (HBO)
Temple Grandin (HBO)
You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)
Reaction: Wasn't Moonshot the movie that JM was in?
DRAMA
Lost
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Mad Men
True Blood
The Good Wife
Reaction: True Blood? Seriously? Look, I enjoy True Blood but it is, at best, a guilty pleasure! It does not belong on this list. (Plus, it gets a nom but Buffy never did... even when BtVS was good. It's the HBO thing, isn't it?) Like that Lost got a nostalgia nod though. No way in hell will it win, but it was one of the better network shows.
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
January Jones (Mad Men)
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)
Reaction: Connie Britton got a nod! Finally! Yay! It's long over due. She won't win, but I'm damn happy she got a nod. Also, as much as I like Mariska Hargitay, I think her ongoing nomination is a sign as to how thin this category is. She's a fine actress and all, but SVU isn't really a great character showcase, and has anything really happened to her character in years?
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
Micheal C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)
Reaction: Kyle Chandler! Yay! And Hugh Laurie kind of goes into the Mariska Hargitay category. He's a good actor. Does a great job. But, frankly, his unending nomination for the same role has gotten a bit stale...as has the his show.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
John Slattery (Mad Men)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Martin Short (Damages)
Terry O’ Quinn (Lost)
Michael Emerson (Lost)
Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
Rose Byrne (Damages)
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Beau Bridges (The Closer)
Ted Danson (Damages)
John Lithgow (Dexter)
Alan Cumming ( The Good Wife)
Dylan Baker (The Good Wife
Robert Morse (Mad Men)
Gregory Itzin (24)
Reaction: Why are Emmy's do darn slow? Itzin was awesome during the last truly awesome season of 24... which was not this final season. Or anything near this final season. That show ran itself into the ground ages ago.
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Mary Kay Place (Big Love)
Sissy Spacek (Big Love)
Shirley Jones (The Cleaner)
Lily Tomlin (Damages)
Ann-Margret (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost)
Reaction: Love Elizabeth Mitchell and Juliet. Love, love, love her. But she had, what? Ten minutes of airtime the entire season? Still, Suliet hug? That was awesome. (icon!)
OUTSTANDING COMEDY
Glee
Modern Family
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Nurse Jackie
30 Rock
The Office
Reaction: So "Glee" wasn't in "Musical" category because... why? And I have to say that I'm for a Dramedy category for things like Nurse Jackie (which is quite honestly far more drama than comedy) because it's an entirely different beast than the other shows listed. And then we've got the fact that The Office and 30 Rock were not in their best seasons. I'm cheering Modern Family on, and wish some of these nominees had been displaced for funnier shows such as Community, Cougar Town, and The Big Bang Theory.
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Lea Michele (Glee)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Matthew Morrison (Glee)
Steve Carell (The Office)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)
Reaction: Parsons! Yay! Won't beat Baldwin, but still, yay.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Chris Colfer (Glee)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)
Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)
Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
Reaction: Love NPH. He's awesome, but this season of HIMYM sucked and his character was one doing a LOT of the sucking!! Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrel love, though! My heart goes to Cam though, so I'm rooting for him.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jane Lynch (Glee)
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)
Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)
Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men)
Reaction: If Jane Lynch doesn't walk away with this, these awards are bogus.
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mike O’Malley (Glee) (mini-reaction: This is the problem with dramedy! He totally deserves to be recognized... for the drama! His character isn't even there for the funny. It's there in an entirely different capacity)
Neil Patrick Harris (Glee)
Fred Willard (Modern Family)
Eli Wallach (Nurse Jackie)
Jon Hamm (30 Rock)
Will Arnett (30 Rock)
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Christine Baranski (The Big Bang Theory)
Kathryn Joosten (Desperate Housewives)
Kristin Chenoweth (Glee)
Tina Fey (Saturday Night Live)
Betty White (Saturday Night Live)
Elaine Stritch (30 Rock)
Jane Lynch (Two and a Half Men)
Reaction: Jane Lynch was on Two and a Half Men? Is there a reason that show is still on... or still being nominated?
OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
Antiques Roadshow
Dirty Jobs
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List
Mythbusters
Undercover Boss
Reaction: Honestly, shouldn't Deadliest Catch be on there? Scripted dramas don't have as much drama as that show. How many reality shows make you cry... a lot? Rescues at sea. The deckhand with the missing father? The captain discovering his son/deckhand is a drug addict... followed by the Captain having a stroke... followed by his older son (not the drug addict) agonizing over whether to go with his father to the hospital or stay with the boat because it was all falling on his shoulders and he didn't want to fail his dad, the heartwrenching speech from another deckhand about how his own father had died last year while he was at sea and that if the son didn't go with his father that he'd regret it the rest of his life. The two sons at their father's side and the visiting captain promising the dying man that he'd look out for his sons? The younger son lapsing back into drug addiction. The older son confronting him, accusing him of letting his father down while the younger son can't understand why the older son ever considered staying with the ship. And watching it all with the audience knowing that the father is going do die because he did so, months before any of this aired. Guh! That show is serious drama.
VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY
OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien
Reaction: So, again, Glee wasn't in this category... why?
OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE
Endgame (PBS)
Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
Moonshot (History)
The Special Relationship (HBO)
Temple Grandin (HBO)
You Don’t Know Jack (HBO)
Reaction: Wasn't Moonshot the movie that JM was in?
