64th Emmy Awards thread!

[Mr Cat Dog]

Yayayayayayay the Emmy nominations were announced today. It may not be as exciting as Oscar nominations day, but still yayayayayayay!

You can have a look at the big ones here or, if you're an awards-nut like me, you can have a look at all of the nominations here.

Anything take you by surprise? Any big snubs? Did your favourite person get nominated for that thing they do on that show they're on? Whine, complain and - maybe, just maybe! - celebrate it in this thread. K? Good.

 

[Shining Raichu]

I'm a little disappointed Desperate Housewives didn't get more nominations since it was its final season and I think it was a really strong season, particularly in the acting department, but I wasn't expecting it actually would so it's not like it was a great shock. I am incredibly pleased the late Kathryn Joosten got a nomination (and in an upgraded category from her usual Guest nomination!) so I guess there's that.

I have tons more thoughts (yay Archie Panjabi and Christine Baranski!) but I'm on my way out of the house so I'll have to share them later haha.

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

No other awards junkies out there? Booooooo. In any event, here's what I'm happy about, what I'm mad about - but expected anyway, and what I'm mad about that should have happened.

Happy happy joy joy

• My absolute favourite nomination was actually a kind of obscure one: Dan Povenmire's nomination for Outstanding Voiceover Performance for playing Doctor Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb. He's the best part of a really terrific show, and while someone from The Simpsons will probably win again, reading this one from the nominations list brought lots of joy to me.
• The Writing in a Comedy category: A Community nomination! Two Parks and Rec nominations! A Louie nomination! A Girls nomination! And yet only one of those shows got nominated in Outstanding Comedy Series.
• Bob's Burgers: Emmy nominee! And for 'BurgerBoss', its best episode.
• Giancarlo Esposito and Anna Gun finally get their deserved Emmy nominations for Breaking Bad.
• Merrit Wever! Best part of Nurse Jackie by a country mile. Now an Emmy nominee.

The bad, but expected

• The continued love for Jon Cryer in Two and a Half Men.
• Modern Family having way too many nominations.
• The continued steam train that is Downton Abbey sweeping the board, knocking The Good Wife from its Outstanding Drama Series stronghold.
• No love for Archer, even in Animated Series.

The bad, but maddening

• Louis CK gets 7 personal nominations and yet Louie is denied an Outstanding Comedy Series nom? What gives!?
• Lena Dunham and Girls get nominated up the wazoo, but Adam Driver was the best part of that show BUT OBVIOUSLY NOT AS GOOD AS THE MODERN FAMILY GENTLEMEN! Noooooooo. 'Cause heaven forbid one of them could be considered anything but brilliant.
• Tim Olyphant gets knocked out of Drama Lead Actor but friggin' Michael C. Hall stays? Say whaaaaaa?

There are probably more, but that's all I can come up with for the time being. Yay me!

 

[Her]

I like Mad Men, but 17 nominations? Come on. It's a good show, but shows like Girls, for example, are far more deserving of such an extreme number of nominations. Mad Men is a show that is expected to get shitloads of nominations and that annoys me so much. I'd be even more annoyed about Jon Cryer being nominated for another Emmy, but I have solace in the fact that I know he won't win. It'd be a tragedy if he does. Lets see, what else is there. Oh! I'm happy that Parks and Rec got some nominations, that show should just win everything ever tbh. I can't really think of what else to say right now, hopefully someone will come in with the opinion that Jon Cryer should win an Emmy and I can laugh at them for an entire post.

 

[Rest]

I can't list the pros and cons of this list because then I'd look like I've copied you, Cat. Community being largely ignored is just wrong but expected, but the writing for the Alternate Timelines episode is nominated, so that's awesomely cool.

My thoughts:-

• I was hoping for Danny Pudi to eke out a nomination in Supporting (and seriously, every Modern Family's adult cast gets nominated? Ty Burrell should be the only one in there), but alas. It would've been great to see Mister Swanson in there as well as Veep's Timothy Simons and Tony Hale (spreading his Buster Bluth feels once more in Veep) AND Community's Donald Glover, though Max Greenfield being nominated is a real nice surprise.
  
  
• Speaking of Max Greenfield, Zooey Deschanel is also nominated in Lead, which I think brings a much needed freshness to the otherwise repetitive category, alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus (she's fantastic in Veep by the way). I'll be rooting for Dreyfus here.
  
  
• Jim Parsons won twice consecutively, beating Steve Carell in 2010 and 2011 as well as Louis C.K. in 2011, so I think you'll have a good idea on how much I hate him. For this time round, Louis C.K. is the Lead that I'll easily be rooting for.
  
  
• I'm super-happy for Anna Gunn getting a nomination after deserving it for quite some time, but I don't what her chances will be like when she's against Maggie Smith. If anything though, Hendricks could finally bring Mad Men their first acting win (I think Claire Danes will likely beat out Elisabeth Moss, though she's a great actress as well). However, I'd also be happy for a second win by Archie Panjabi.
  
  
• Bryan Cranston shall get his fourth win, and Esposito, his first!
  
  
• I've stopped watching Glee ever since "Furt" I think, in Season 2, but I've had seen enough of Dot Jones to know she's the best thing in Glee, bringing a whole lot of heart to the otherwise messy show. I'll be there to clap for her when she gets that much-deserved Emmy.
  
  
• You put Girls on Outstanding Comedy Series but you knock off Parks and Rec. The Emmys are dumb. UTTERLY DUMB.