Emmys Nomination Recap

The Emmy nominations were announced a few days ago. There were snubs aplenty, but some good ones as well. Here's my thoughts about each one. Awesomes are described and so are snubs. Picks are in bold.

Best Comedy: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girls, 30 Rock, Veep, Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory

Uhm....what? Why is there no Community? I can understand The Office (all 22 of their episodes were nominated for the worst episode of the year in another TV award show). But Community? Come on. Emmys suck sometimes.


Best Lead Actress in a Comedy: Zooey Deschanel, Lena Dunham, Edie Falco, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Melissa McCarthy

Deschanel definitely deserves this one.


Best Lead Actor in a Comedy: Larry David, Jon Cryer, Louis C.K., Jim Parsons, Don Cheadle, Alec Baldwin

Sure I would have liked to see Joel McHale here, sure it's still a snub, but there are some good ones in there.


Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Mayim Bialik, Merrett Wever, Julie Bowen, Kristen Wiig, Sofia Vergara, Kathryn Joosten

Bialik will have her time, but Joosten carried Desperate Housewives and it's finale until she sadly passed away.


Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy: Ed O'Neill, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet, Bill Hader, Max Greenfield


Three thoughts. Number One: Where the hell is Danny Pudi? Number two: Think there's enough Modern Family? Number three: Schmidt.


Best Drama: Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Mad Men, Homeland, Game of Thrones

That was tough. I don't watch any of them. I'll go with the Men.


Best Lead Actress in a Drama: Julianna Marguiles, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth Moss, Kathy Bates, Claire Dannes, Glenn Close

Marguiles. The only name I recognized.


Best Lead Actor in a Drama: Steve Buscemi, Michael C. Hall, Bryan Cranston, Hugh Bonneville, Jon Hamm, Damian Lewis

Never cared for Hamm, but what can you do?


Best Supporting Actress in a Drama: Archie Panjabi, Anna Gunn, Maggie Smith, Joanne Froggatt, Christina Hendricks, Christine Baranski

My, but Smith has gotten old.


Best Supporting Actor in a Drama: Aaron Paul, Giancarlo Esposito, Brendan Coyle, Jim Carter, Jared Harris, Peter Dinklage

Only for his guest appearance on The Office does Pinkman get the nod.


Best Variety Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon


If you watched an episode of Jimmy Fallon, you'd fall in love. Amazing. Fallon is great.


Best Reality-Competition Program: So You Think You Can Dance, The Amazing Race, Dancing with the Stars, Top Chef, Project Runway, The Voice

The Amazing Race is a quality program and it saddens me that I've seen very little of it the past couple of years.


Best Host for a Reality-Competition Program: Cat Deeley, Phil Keoghan, Ryan Seacrest, Betty White, Tom Bergeron

It's hard to go against Bergeron and White for anything, but come on, he's Seacrest.


Best Animated Program: American Dad, The Penguins of Madagascar, Futurama, Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons

Hahahahahahhah, Bob's Burgers.


Best Writing for a Comedy: Louie-Pregnant, Girls-Pilot, Parks and Recreation-The Debate, Parks and Recreation-Win, Lose, or Draw, Community-Remedial Chaos Theory


I picked this one out specially because it's Community's only nomination. I know what you're thinking. Bull. They should have had 1000 nominations, but this episode was so very amazing and I'm glad it's recognized. With five nominees, they're creating five different timelines.


Best Guest Actor in a Drama: Mark Margolis, Jeremy Davies, Jason Ritter, Ben Feldman, Dylan Baker, Michael J. Fox

I singled this one out too because Jason Ritter.



There you have it. My thoughts and picks. I'm not too pleased about Kimmel hosting, but meh.