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MAD MEN, MODERN FAMILY And The Other Usual TV Suspects?? Jimmy Kimmel's EMMY AWARDS!!
I do not expect a lot of surprises. Lots of win for “Mad Men,” “Modern Famliy,” Melissa McCarthy, Jim Parsons, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
I suspect Claire Danes could beat Julianna Margulies as top drama actress this year.
I’d love to see Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig pick up statues for SNL.
There are a lot of “Downton Abbey” nominations this year. I’d love to see any of its cast pick up a trophy this year.
I do wish “Game of Thrones” got more recognition. Peter Dinklage does a splendid job, but there’s so much more to the series.
It pleases me greatly that superior comedies like “Community,” “Girls,” “Louie” and “Parks And Recreation” (twice nominated in writing this year!) have shoved “Big Bang Theory” and “Modern Family” out of the sitcom-writing category.
If “American Horror Story” wins over “Sherlock” in the miniseries category, I believe I will feel a tiny pang of despair.
The show starts 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Some of the major categories:
DRAMA SERIES
"Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)
"Breaking Bad" (AMC)
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
"Game of Thrones" (HBO)
"Homeland" (Showtime)
"Mad Men" (AMC)
WRITING, DRAMA SERIES
“Downton Abbey,” Episode 7, Julian Fellowes
“Homeland,” Pilot, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff
“Mad Men,” The Other Woman Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner
“Mad Men,” Commissions And Fees, Andre & Maria Jacquemetton
“Mad Men,” Far Away Places, Matthew Weiner & Semi Chellas
DRAMA ACTRESS
Glenn Close, "Damages"
Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Kathy Bates, "Harry's Law"
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"
DRAMA ACTOR
Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
Hugh Bonneville, "Downton Abbey"
Damian Lewis, "Homeland"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTRESS
Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad"
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"
Archie Panjabi, "The Good Wife"
Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife"
Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men"
SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTOR
Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"
Giancarlo Esposito, "Breaking Bad"
Brendan Coyle, "Downton Abbey"
Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"
Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"
Jared Harris, "Mad Men"
COMEDY SERIES
"The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO)
"Girls" (HBO)
"Modern Family" (ABC)
"30 Rock" (NBC)
"Veep" (HBO)
WRITING, COMEDY SERIES
“Community” Remedial Chaos Theory, Chris McKenna
“Girls” Pilot, Lena Dunham
“Louie” Pregnant, Louis C.K.
“Parks And Recreation” The Debate,Amy Poehler
“Parks And Recreation” Win, Lose, Or Draw, Michael Schur
COMEDY ACTRESS
Lena Dunham, "Girls"
Melissa McCarthy, "Mike & Molly"
Zooey Deschanel, "New Girl"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
COMEDY ACTOR
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
Larry David, "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Louis C.K., "Louie"
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men"
SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTRESS
Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory"
Kathryn Joosten, "Desperate Housewives"
Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"
Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
Merritt Wever, "Nurse Jackie"
Kristen Wiig, "Saturday Night Live"
SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR
Ed O'Neill, "Modern Family"
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family"
Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
Max Greenfield, "New Girl"
Bill Hader, "Saturday Night Live"
MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
"American Horror Story" (FX)
"Game Change" (HBO)
"Hatfields & McCoys" (History)
"Hemingway & Gellhorn" (HBO)
"Luther" (BBC America)
"Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia" (PBS)
VARIETY SERIES
"The Colbert Report" (Comedy Central)
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" (Comedy Central)
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC)
"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (NBC)
"Real Time With Bill Maher" (HBO)
"Saturday Night Live" (NBC)
WRITING, VARIETY SERIES
“The Colbert Report”
“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”
“Portlandia”
“Real Time With Bill Maher”
“Saturday Night Live”
REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
"The Amazing Race" (CBS)
"Dancing With the Stars" (ABC)
"Project Runway" (Lifetime)
"So You Think You Can Dance" (Fox)
"Top Chef" (Bravo)
"The Voice" (NBC)
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They will all bow down to Breaking Bad. Really, the fourth season is unforgettable. The Emmy voters tend to like repeat winners though, so we shall see.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 5:24 a.m. CST
If it's about quality - Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Downton and Sherlock for me!
by irishraidersfan
Would be very happy with that...
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And supporting nod for Aaron Paul of course.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 5:42 a.m. CST
We've had talk like a pirate day, we should have "Talk like Pinkman day" yo.
by dalcross
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And you wonder just what the fuck Hugh "shag bandit" Bonneville is doing there. Honestly, it's like Rob Schneider wandering into the Oscars. Well, maybe not, but it's pretty fucking bad.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 5:55 a.m. CST
Remember the greatest series ever made? The Shield and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
by Xen11
got totally snubbed. Fuck The Emmys and then yo mom's after dinna Courtesy of Yours Truly Fuck You
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- Drama Series Who should win - Breaking Bad Who will win - Mad Men Either way an amazing list of nominees, Game of Thrones would be my favourite. Boardwalk Empire is the one series I am still struggling to love - Drama Actress Who should win - Claire Danes Who will win - Claire Danes Kathy Bates lucky to be nominated in my opinion. Katey Sagal or Anna Torv should have been nominated - Drama Actor Who should win - Bryan Cranston Who will win - Jon Hamm Hamm has been very very good, but Cranston is on another level. - Supporting Drama Actress Who should win - Christina Hendricks Who will win - Christina Hendricks Where are the Game of Thrones girls, Lena Headey should be there - Supporting Drama Actor Who should win - Giancarlo Esposito Who will win - Peter Dinklage John Noble robbed again of a nomination, but as brilliant as he was, Esposito was incredible - Comedy Series Who should win - Louie... yes I know not even nominated Who will win - Modern Family Louie clearly should be nominated - Comedy Actress Who should win - Amy Poehler Who will win - Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Comedy Actor Who should win - Louis C.K. Who will win - Alec Baldwin -Supporting Comedy Actress Who should win - Julie Bowen Who will win - Sofia Vergara Pretty poor field, chose Julie Bowen over Sofia's breasts, how about some of the girls from Community or Parks - Supporting Comedy Actor Who should win - Eric Stonestreet Who will win - Eric Stonestreet Again where are the people from Parks and Community
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Hands down, the best thing on TV this year. Sherlock was amazing, but Scandal took it to new heights. Spectacular tv!
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Does anyone here know if it's streamed live somewhere?
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So funny, so awesome. I hope the Modern Family babes lock each other out and Zoey sneaks through.
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"I'm not racist, yo! I voted for the half black guy!"
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How can he not win!?!?!
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Sept. 23, 2012, 8:47 a.m. CST
No nomination for Vince Gilligan? What did he do in a past life, kill a puppy?
by foles
C;mon, whats with the Emmy awards and their inability to acknowledge one of the best scripted, acted and produced tv shows ever? So Bryan and Aaron manage to deservedly win some acclaim but that ideally is a direct result from being able to mine such rich and brilliantly scripted source material no? Anyway Emmy awards or not we ALL know Breaking Bad is the most superior tv series to grace our screens in sometime....FACT!
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Sept. 23, 2012, 9:33 a.m. CST
Love Aaron Paul & Dinklage, but Giancarlo Esposito owns that Emmy
by Joey Stars
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Sept. 23, 2012, 10:29 a.m. CST
It's Incredibly Awesome That The Emmys Couldn't Deny The Sheer Brilliance of Remedial Chaos Theory
by Crow3711
Holy fuck is that a great 30 minutes of sitcom. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons is my personal favorite episode of community, but if any episode of the show was ever going to be recognized for its excellence, its the writing of remedial chaos theory. a powerhouse of sitcom brilliance packed into an intricately plotted thirty-minute "what if". So glad it was recognized.
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Vince was nominated for Best Directing for a Drama Series (for the season 4 finale) and the show itself got a Best Drama Series nod, which he gets a nom for.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 10:35 a.m. CST
Aaron Paul is amazing as Jesse, but I hope Giancarlo gets it.
by bender
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Sept. 23, 2012, 11:01 a.m. CST
so I guess with the odd timing of how the nominations go...
by TheSeeker7
The Newsroom's entire 2nd season will have presumably aired by the time anything from the 1st season will have been able to qualify for nominations, right... ?
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I don't HATE it, but by the gods it doesn't deserve the accolades it gets.
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He elevates everything he does. If he hadn't gotten stuck playing Al Bundy all those years he'd probably be better regarded. But even his Bundy was better than the series deserved
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Sept. 23, 2012, 11:28 a.m. CST
Raising Hope a better comedy then Modern Family.
by HollywoodHellraiser
I wish Community get more noms for Annie breast alone but alas no. Louie also deserves some nom. Far as I hope who wins, anything Mad Men, GOT, Sherlock, Abbey, and Breaking Bad. Sure they may cancel or win over one another but they are some good tv.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 11:38 a.m. CST
BTW, the two dogs humping outside Peggy's window...
by HollywoodHellraiser
deserves Best FuckUp Moment On TV!!! Elizabeth Moss reaction was comedy gold! LOL
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Not that it was bad, but Downton and Breaking Bad where just that much better last year.
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Comedy Series; Modern Family Drama Series: Downton Abby Actor/actress/support actress Drama: Downton Abby Support Actor: Giancarlo E TV movie-mini: Game Change TV Movie actress: Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin TV Movie Actor: Benedict C. as Sherlock
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breaking bad, bryan cranston, giancarlo esposito, claire danes, christina hendricks (but really she's tied with maggie smith), modern family, jim parsons, ty burrell, zooey deschanel (predicting a big upset with that one), sofia vergara. if downton actually wins best drama im gonna pissed. i love downton but its probably the worst show nominated. and boss should really have gotten a nom instead of downton. also if breaking bad and cranston don't win im also gonna be pissed, even if i know breaking bad doesn't have the greatest chance of winning.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 1:07 p.m. CST
if Mad Men wins again for best Drama I am boycotting TV forever!
by Titus05
Breaking Bad deserves the prize for best Drama...Game of Thrones second season wasn't as great as the first season so I don't see it winning
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Sept. 23, 2012, 2:06 p.m. CST
I like how ABC is broadcasting this and they have almost nothing nominated.
by Silv
But I'm sure the other networks appreciate the free promos.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 3:12 p.m. CST
It seems for the major categories... that ratings matter more than quality.
by DougMcKenzie
Aside for the conceits, for BB and Bryan Cranston, ratings seem to be what are rewarded here. Just so many better comedies than MF and TBBT out there.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 4:11 p.m. CST
If Breaking Bad takes Best Drama I'm doing the same thing when Return of the King won Best Picture
by zillabeast
Which would be, raise my eyebrows and giggle like a little girl for a solid 8 seconds before returning to my stoic, normal self.
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Anyone know if i can watch online somewhere?
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As long as Boardwalk doesn't win drama I'm cool with that category. And as long as Buscemi doesn't win I'm cool with that one. Most of the others seem like pretty good nominations. I'd love to seem Homeland pick up the win, but I think it was really close between that, Breaking Bad, and Mad Men last season. With Thrones right behind. Gotta say I'm interested to see if Aaron Paul - who would be a shoe in any other year - can beat out Giancarlo Esposito. Esposito stole the season. I'm just wondering if they'll cancel out each other's votes and give it to the only very slightly less deserving Dinklage. Should actually be an interesting Emmys just because there are a lot of things that were actually Emmy worthy last year instead of just safe network crap.
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I don't no how reliable that is, and if it can be seen outside the USA
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He should have been nominated with his awesome performances the last 4 seasons of Fringe. Its to bad that the Emmy voters have their heads up their butts when it comes to Sci-Fi.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 6:28 p.m. CST
paburrows_rises - I second that emotion about John Noble- when Fringe ends- he would make the perfect Doctor Who!!!!!!!!!! perhaps the best if given the chance
by Michael Lunney
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Sept. 23, 2012, 6:36 p.m. CST
I would also love to see COMMUNITY *Remedial Chaos Theory*, by Chris McKenna win for BEST WRITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
by Michael Lunney
I should be able to zip through the 3 hours of the Emmys in about 1/2 hour after recording it. Also cool that there are new episodes of Black Dynamite and Robot Chicken, and a rerun of an old episode of Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, Dialogues with Death
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Yeah with all of the different versions of Walter that he's done he should have definatly have gotten one at least, Walter, Walternate, Walter without Peter, cold and calculating Walter in the Future, etc. Anna Torv and Jasika Nicole should also get Emmys for the different versions.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 6:52 p.m. CST
Really Herc, you catagorize Modern Family with Big Bang Theory!?
by john
BBT is bottom-barrel gutter trash. MF is actually a smart, witty show.
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hope they fix it soon
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Thant place has never had a good sound system
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And the first 3 networks wonder why they lose the 18-54 demos.
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modern family is one of the funniest shows on tv and bbt is shit
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he's talking way to slow
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Baldwin and Parsons looked pissed
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Sept. 23, 2012, 7:41 p.m. CST
I was hoping Kat Dennings would pop out of that dress.
by FluffyUnbound
Since that didn't happen, I will now be disappointed with the rest of this broadcast.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 7:43 p.m. CST
Louis looks like he's upset with himself just ofr being there
by Cartagia
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They permeate the voters for the emmys
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No, she actually is. Look it up. Her family has multiple billions. So if you had hit that back in the day and then put a ring on it, you would have a wife that still looks that hot 20 years later, AND a billion dollars.
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or Jessica Rabbit?
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Sept. 23, 2012, 8:06 p.m. CST
I LOVE Downton Abbey but if anyone was robbed it was Esposito
by Cartagia
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Aaron Paul won by default.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 8:08 p.m. CST
I assumed Downton and Breaking Bad would cancel each other out
by Cartagia
Giving Dinklage #2, despite not being *quite* as good this season
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Homeland wins writing
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That is one
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way to go, Dowager!
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right before coming on stage?
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He is a guest who is almost a supporting.
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Not winning, but knocking off the favorites Nice for D. Lewis
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fuck everything
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And this would have been one for each season of BB for Cranston, they wanted to break the pattern. Despite the fact that the last 5 minutes of Crawl Space is the best work he's done on the show.
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the one year recently BB wasn't eligible, Mad Men skipped that year too. But then Dick Winters won anyway.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 8:42 p.m. CST
So the Carl Reiner wing is voting for Downton, Alan Alda wing for Mad Men?
by MGTHEDJ
And that means Homeland is winning everything.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 8:44 p.m. CST
Awww Christ. Aaron Paul wins, but Bryan Cranston doesn't? They BOTH deserved a win. Can't have one without the other. Blah, fuck it. Congrats to Louie though.
by A. Garcia
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Or just a show that got cancelled in its first season?
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It was a regular series that was cancelled.
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looks like they new Game Change and Costner's western would win
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i knew Moffett was not going to win be because of Game Change
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Danny Strong! Lot of love for "Game Change"!
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Benedict may still win because of the Hatfield split, though.
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and she deserved it
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even if I did prefer "Hemingway & Gellhorn"
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learn something new every day
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did I miss anything?
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cheap way to try and avoid competition in the Drama category
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Downton was indeed a spoiler!
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Sept. 23, 2012, 9:51 p.m. CST
Agree about American Horror Story in the mini-series category.
by HollywoodHellraiser
WTF!? How is that even allowed? Oh well.
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but there is no conceivable justification for Mad Men, in their best season, loosing the nod.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 9:52 p.m. CST
boo, game change winning! hatfields and mccoys should have won #emmys
by Orionsangels
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it was so successful FX bankrolled a second season, but it will only be loosely connected to the first season
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but someone in the Emmy nominations TB said that the first season is a complete story, and that the second season will be a new story with new characters. Maybe a bit of a stretch, but nowhere near as blatant a cheat as having "Missing" in that category.
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Ed and Sophia= I Love Lucy and Brady Bunch Julie Bowen and her husband and kids= Dick Van Dyke Show 2 Gay Guys= The Odd Couple This gets the Carl Reiner and Alan Alda vote. Showing Rob and Laura having sex, the gay couple being the most normal, and having an episode where a child says" fuck" and the censors only bleep it out gets the hip and edgy vote from the Cheers to Seinfeld NBC sitcom era voters, in addition to the 1988-2012 FOX network voters.
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as good as homeland was, mad men was better
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Sept. 23, 2012, 11 p.m. CST
Homeland is great, but no. Just no. Mad Men and Breaking Bad are on a different level
by Tim
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Sept. 23, 2012, 11:02 p.m. CST
what are either of those shows doing in the miniseries category is my question...
by Daniel
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This.
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Sept. 23, 2012, 11:28 p.m. CST
Cheers for that Bender95 :) good to know V.G.'s brilliance has at least been acknowledged.
by foles
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Mad Men is a great show, one for the ages, but face it folks, it bores the fuck out of more people than it doesn't, and Downton Abbey same deal. Homeland was a great show and it also had a great deal of visceral suspense and excitement to it. I'm not surprised by its win at all. Breaking Bad is too good to even be mentioned on these shows. It's not a show, it's a work of art. Mad props to Aaron Paul for his well-deserved win, but since Aaron Paul already appears to have the world's hottest girlfriend, I wish Giancarlo Esposito had been given the nod. Because Gus Fring was utterly legendary.
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Sherlock and Luther are NOt mini-series! They are both ongoing dramas, albeit with very few episodes per season.
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This prestige of the Emmy's are dead and buried with this travesty.
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Big story is Mad Men losing, second biggest story is Breaking Bad losing. But, even though I'm only into disc 2 of the Homeland bluray, I gotta think they do deserve it. Good for them, and the acting wins shows the best in show wasn't b/c of split votes or anything. Strong win. Mad Men winning for a 5th straight year would have been unprecedented from past winners I found, so maybe it was a tough task anyway? I'm not a hater, just couldn't get into it many years ago. But I'm sure it has to be solid...just not my thing. (Never watched West Wing either.) Can't stop watching Homeland each episode! Really great at causing groans when the credits roll because I want it to keep going.
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Sept. 24, 2012, 12:11 a.m. CST
Cranston losing is like that time Malone got NBA MVP over Jordan
by zillabeast
They were like, "meh, you've had enough. Lets share with this clearly inferior but still deserving contender."
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Sept. 24, 2012, 12:17 a.m. CST
maybe the emmys need to go the oscar route and include more shows in each category
by walt
and because so much quality tv is being produced across the ocean and being shown on american tv, thanks to cable, might be a good idea to add categories in both comedy and drama for foreign shows ya, most nominees would be brit, but thats ok btw, did the producers of homeland thank the original ISRAELI creators
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Are the shows that won worth watching?
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They made a point of it.
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If that was true Aaron Paul wouldn't have won. Paul was just that good. An Homeland was just that great. Seems like their aren't a lot of Showtime subscribers in the comments. No way anyone could watch that show and not see that it was completely deserving of a win.
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It's a'so very good. But also so different from Homeland. Very much an inspired by rather than a copy of a la The Killing.
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i don't know how anyone could watch breaking bad and not think that the latest season was better than homeland, or that cranston was better than lewis. in a different year maybe they should have won those categories but danes was the only one who deserved the emmy tonight.
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But if it was my choice, it would have been Esposito and BB rather than Paul and Homeland, as much as I like both winners. Modern Family isn't a bad show, but it's a good example of the academy being lazy. I would have taken Greenfield in that category. The biggest upset was probably Homeland taking the writing category, which Mad Men always has locked up for itself. Shenanigans in the miniseries category entries. AHS and Missing?
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Nobody will come out and say this because the Emmys are a big, glamorous PR event designed to get viewers to watch more TV, but the reality is that who wins and who loses bears almost no relation to a) the shows watched and admired by the 15,000 members of the Academy and b) the shows that might arguably deserve it based on the combination of technical prowess, original storytelling and compelling acting. The "Best Comedy/Best Drama" awards are chosen by, at best 10% of the membership, based on two (TWO!) submitted episodes from each nominated series. Think about that. Think about how Homeland had a dead stretch of about three episodes. Now think about last year's season of Breaking Bad, which was consistently building the story to a climax. Or the way Bryan Cranston's character evolved from episode to episode, gradually becoming both more evil and more pathetic. If you could judge a series on the entire season, that would be one thing, but that's not how it works. And if you're Breaking Bad, how do you submit just two episodes that showcases everything you've tried to do in 12 hours? It's a miracle BB ever wins anything. It's also true that Academy voters sometimes don't pay attention to the screeners, but just vote their conscience, based on their own biases. (Certain actors with lengthy careers can sometimes be a mortal lock for awards because they have so many former colleagues among the voters that it doesn't even matter if the submitted reel was just a bootleg of Miami College Girls Go Wild.) The Academy also likes to feel like their admiration is returned -- David Simon has said so many times over the years that he's a "journalist," not a "tv writer," because tv is a lie and cheap entertainment, that it's no mystery why The Wire was completely shut out. And by the way, the Emmys rotate from network to network each year, so it's not like ABC begged, borrowed and stole to get the Emmys, only to find themselves embarrassed by a lack of nominees -- it's just a coincidence. (Unlike the Oscars, which ABC specifically bought the broadcast rights to.) Looking back, you can usually figure out which network broadcast which year, just based on who hosted (Jimmy Fallon = NBC, Jane Lynch = Fox, etc.)
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Everytime I have watched the Emmy awards it just make me hate everyone involved.
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Sept. 24, 2012, 9:05 a.m. CST
Homeland...to me always seemed a bit off, never could get into...I don't think it compares to Mad Men, Breaking Bad or GoTs.
by Drew
And how did Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) or Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) not even get a nomination for some of the best work I've seen in a television series this year???
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They really should subtitle the first season, excuse me... mini series... "Murder House" or something for consistency.
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the bomb malfunctioning in the final episode was absolutely terrible writing...along the lines of Bobby Ewing coming out of the shower...it's like Homeland never was planned to go beyond 1 season
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Granted, no one knows what I'm talking about.
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Ever since Band of Brothers this guy has been great!
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Sept. 24, 2012, 11:22 a.m. CST
Wilfred shouldve been nominated. Glad to see louis ck, American horror story, and game of thrones nominated at least
by SirGaryColeman
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They are all so predictable. The Emmys will award the same shows and people for as long as their shows air with barely a hiccup. The Oscars as just a marketing tool designed only to promote movies no one outside of a film school would choose to go see on their own. Not sure why anyone would actually watch these shows anymore but more power to you if you enjoy them.
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Sept. 24, 2012, 11:52 a.m. CST
Jon Hamm can't get a break for drama or comedy. And as fond as I've become of Jimmy Fallon (the last great Emmy host, God, did Kimmel stink), Hamm's one line in the live 30 Rock, "banjo", was funnier
by openthepodbaydoorshal
than anything Fallon did on SNL.
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You are right about Sherlock, it's not a mini-series It's a movie Each episode is a 90 minute, self-contained story. The series can be seen as a collection of TV movies. Also, you may have noticed, the series wasn't nominated, just one episode was.
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how he ever grabbed hold of the network tit is a mystery....
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Homeland is awesome. Someone finally took Mad Men down. Cranston is amazing but Damian Lewis is too. Happy to see him win. It was pretty obvious Claire Danes would win, and it was a well deserved win.
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Did you finish the finale? The bomb malfunctioning wasn't what made Brody decide not to blow himself up. He fixed the bomb. It was his daughters call that made him not do it. This whole argument makes no sense to me. The only plausible way Brody could have blown himself up was if Homeland were a miniseries. Not a (hopefully) long-running series. No Brody = no show.
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the bomb malfunctioning was the initial reason he didn't blow up the room...whatever happened afterwards was just another silly contrived plot device...how can we know take anything the show does moving forward seriously?...if we know he couldn't do it the first time how on earth is the show going to make audiences believe that he will do it if given another opportunity? Damian Lewis was great in Band of Brothers but he is not on that same level in Homeland...he's a little stiff here in my opinion...Claire Danes is amazing and deserves her Emmy and Mandy Patankin is also very good...Lewis is the weak link and only got the Emmy because: other votes cancelled themselves out, people wanting to see someone else win besides Cranston or Homeland was riding a tidal wave of undeserved support
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No Brody = no show. This show is about him and Carrie. He can't die in the first season. This is one of the most ridiculous arguments I've ever heard. How would the show go on without him? And why does he have to blow himself up at some point? That doesn't have to happen.
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if we know he couldn't do it the first time how on earth is the show going to make audiences believe that he will do it if given another opportunity?...isn't the entire premise of the show built upon this notion that he might actually kill the Vice President or commit some other act of terrorism?...not to mention that there is no way any terrorist organization would trust him again if he couldn't do it the first time (for whataver reason) the show was built on Brody and whether he was or wasn't turned in captivity...so they built a permanently flawed program if they cannot either have him killed or captured...so are we to believe that every season they will build to another terrorist act and have him chicken out every time?...you have to kill him now or have him turn into a double-double agent (which would be an even worse scenario)...kill Brody like they killed Ned Stark in GoT...you can kill off your lead character on cable and in this case would be the only logical solution
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That doesn't have to happen. And GoT is a completely different scenario. I take it you haven't read the books GoT is based on? Besides, how the hell would the show work without him? What would season 2 be about? Carrie investigating him AFTER his death? Or would this turn into Dexter and have her investigate someone new every season? Dexter was great for five seasons (the sixth, not so much, but season 7 looks awesome) but the guest-star every season thing got old. OR it would just turn into 24. We don't want that happening.
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Sept. 24, 2012, 4:25 p.m. CST
The Emmys is the biggest farce since the Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
by fingerlickingood
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...I thought Danes was terrific in Homeland. If she'd taken home an Emmy I would have applauded. I think Lewis was very good, too. But I don't think he was as good as either Hamm or Cranston. And hey, I'd put Homeland in the top ten dramas on television right now. I watch it. I like it. But I'd put Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Sons of Anarchy and Justified ahead of it. I love the central relationship. I love the way Lewis and Danes have to weave through both internal and external minefields to try to simply survive, much less pursue their very different goals. And I think Danes performance in the first season was the equal of Cranston's on Breaking Bad, pretty much a dead heat for the best of the year. But the things I love about the show don't exist in a vacuum, and the plot through which these two wonderful characters move is consistently contrived and sometimes borderline silly. Anyone here ever gone through a background check, heck, even one from DIS? And any one of a half dozen things Danes did (and for that matter, that Lewis did) during season one would have triggered fresh investigations of a far more aggressive sort than a simple security clearance. The plot wasn't all that different from 24. And I'm not knocking 24, because for quite a few years that show was my favorite bag of tv popcorn, but that's a world Jack Bauer walks, and these two very strong, very real characters seem to have entered it from a very different place. The whole of Homeland is less than the sum of its parts. That doesn't make it bad. Like I said, I enjoy it. But it isn't quite in the elite of what's on television right now, and last night it certainly beat some better shows.
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Sept. 24, 2012, 7:34 p.m. CST
On the other hand, the first season of The Sorpanos...
by Red Ned Lynch
...lost the Emmy for best drama to The Practice. So, sweets for the sweet.
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I'm just happy that Louis C.K. won an Emmy for writing. Brilliant.
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Sept. 24, 2012, 9:36 p.m. CST
the romance between Brody and Carrie was another thing that felt so forced, contrived and cheesy
by Titus05
I agree with red ned lynch...the show is not among the elite (Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones) but is better then most shows on the air...that being said it reminds me of early Boardwalk Empire...never reached its potential until possibly Season 3...maybe Homeland needs some time to figure out what kind of show it wants to be and how best to utilize the premise
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Sept. 25, 2012, 10:14 a.m. CST
Lena Dunham was robbed! Modern Family?!!! Really?!!!
by SergeantStedenko
P.S. Lena looked gorgeous in Prada and she no Devil, girlfriend. P.P.S. On second thought, true she ain't the Devil, but there's a good argument to be made that she sold her soul for her career.
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who has the time?
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It's clouded his judgment. Watching all those multiple screens playing multiple programs at the same time. I guess that's the only way to watch Reality tv and actually enjoy it.
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Sept. 27, 2012, 9:57 a.m. CST
Harry, fix the Top 10 Talkback feature! Why is this still the No. 1 Talkback?
by SergeantStedenko
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