The Emmy nominations were announced earlier today, and we can assure you that some(one) or thing that really deserves to be on this list was snubbed (ORPHAN BLACK). This year it was the veritable YEAR OF THE EMMY SNUBS! (ORPHAN BLACK)
No, seriously, who is still watching Modern Family? You’d think a new show hasn’t aired in the last ten years what with people from Modern Family just standing around waiting to collect awards while screaming the mirthless screams of the anointed insane, but rewarded in knee-jerk fashion anyway. And Claire Danes, she of the Crumple Face Crying Factory and Haunted Doll Emporium, will attempt to wave hello at Robin Wright, who will flip a supremely cut wedge of blonde perfection out of her eye as she pins her with a withering gaze, while Lizzy Caplan looks around nervously, and Kerry Washington sashays away pointedly and smiling knowingly at Julianna Margulies who wonders why Michelle Dockery keeps coming to these things when even Maggie Smith never shows up. ALL OF THIS WILL HAPPEN AT THE EMMY NOMINATIONS LUNCHEON of which Tatiana Maslany of Orphan Black will not be attending. From what we’re reading, Maslany and Orphan Black have been shut out because the show deals with unwieldy and possibly politically controversial topics such as cloning and, we dunno, badass women who can divide themselves into several different roles and be fantastic at all of them? Is the GOP itself part of the Emmy voting block? And lest we forget, shows about zombies and Dothraki maidens walking around with dragons have made their way to the Emmy list recently so, uh, do us a favor and “get out of here” with that “fantasy doesn’t play well to television viewership” garbage.
Let’s also talk about Matt LeBlanc for a second. Have we missed something? When did he become an Emmy nomination staple? We’ve seen this little show, Episodes, and while marginally entertaining, we’re not really understanding the omnipresent LeBlanc representation at the Emmy show and international cook off. We get it. He was sorely underrated on Friends. Now that we’ve established that can we move on? The same with Ricky Gervais who just reviles us unendingly and whenever we watch him we keep wondering when Louis C.K. or somebody, anybody funnier and less loathsome will show up. Andy Samberg, for one, you were snubbed here by these two Emmy seat fillers.
Anyway, there will be a lot of talk about the rise of a few of the new shows and other interesting television ideas of late and how they’re finally making some headway into the awards categories; including American Horror Story: Coven, Fargo, Orange is the New Black, Shameless, Sherlock, and True Detective. Critics will also weigh in on Netflix and its ability to create the kind of programming that most of us really want to see and the fact NBC is still mostly a network that records people sleeping and puts them on air for mass viewing. We’re wondering if NBC passed on The Leftovers? We mean, if we’re talking about NyQuil filmed as a television program…
Here are all your noms:
Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Louie
Modern Family
Orange Is the New Black
Silicon Valley
?Veep
Drama Series
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Mad Men
True Detective
Lead Actress, Comedy
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black
Lead Actor, Comedy
Louis C.K., Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Ricky Gervais, Derek
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Lead Actress, Drama
Lizzy Caplan, Masters of Sex
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Lead Actor, Drama
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
Miniseries or Movie
American Horror Story: Coven
Bonnie and Clyde
Fargo
Luther
Treme
The White Queen
Television Movie
Killing Kennedy
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
The Normal Heart
Sherlock
The Trip to Bountiful
Lead Actress, Miniseries or Movie
Helena Bonham Carter, Burton and Taylor
Minnie Driver, Return to Zero
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Coven
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Coven
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Kristen Wiig, The Spoils of Babylon
Lead Actor, Miniseries or Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dancing on the Edge
Idris Elba, Luther
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo
Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
SNL
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Reality – Competition Program
The Amazing Race
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice
Supporting Actor, Drama
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Jim Carter, Downton Abbey
Supporting Actress, Drama
Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Supporting Actor, Comedy
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Adam Driver, Girls
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Fred Armisen, Portlandia
Tony Hale, Veep
Supporting Actress, Comedy
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Allison Janney, Mom
Kate Mulgrew, Orange Is the New Black
Kate McKinnon, SNL
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Guest Actor, Drama
Paul Giamatti, Downton Abbey
Reg E. Cathey, House of Cards
Robert Morse, Mad Men
Beau Bridges, Masters of Sex
Joe Morton, Scandal
Dylan Baker, The Good Wife
Guest Actress, Drama
Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones
Kate Mara, House of Cards
Allison Janney, Masters of Sex
Kate Burton, Scandal
Margo Martindale, The Americans
Jane Fonda, The Americans
Guest Actor, Comedy
Nathan Lane, Modern Family
Steve Buscemi, Portlandia
Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live
Louis C.K., Saturday Night Live
Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory
Gary Cole, Veep
Guest Actress, Comedy
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black
Natasha Lyonne, Orange Is the New Black
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live
Joan Cusack, Shameless
