Emmy nominations: The good, the bad and the ugly (Part 2)
First, our Emmy amigo Robert "Rob L" Licuria gave his rundown on Emmy nominations in the format of the good, the bad and the ugly. Now here's Chris "Boomer" Beachum piping in. Here is a list of nominees.
THE GOOD
Probably the best overall set of nominations from the Emmys this decade (lots of deserving first-timers, snubs when appropriate for the most part, returning favorites when deserved).
Jim Parsons, Jemaine Clement, Simon Baker, Sarah Silverman, Elisabeth Moss as welcome additions in the lead categories!
Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, Aaron Paul, Kristen Wiig, Jane Krakowski, Rose Byrne, Cherry Jones all as first-time nominees in supporting!
Harry Shearer finally having a real shot at winning his first Emmy for "The Simpsons."
"Saturday Night Live" back in the running with a standout season.
All the love for "Grey Gardens" on HBO.
"Yeah!" for finally moving away from James Spader, America Ferrera, Rachel Griffiths & Kathryn Joosten.
"Yeah!" for getting rid of "Boston Legal" for drama series.
Me for my surprisingly correct predictions of "Flight of the Conchords," "How I Met Your Mother" and "Breaking Bad" in the series races.
THE BADNo January Jones (how could you, Emmy voters?)! Elisabeth Moss deserved her nomination, but Jones had the best work of the year.
No major nominations for "Pushing Daisies" (except Kristin Chenoweth).
No John Mahoney, Walt Goggins, John Noble or Josh Holloway for drama supporting actor.
No Amy Poehler for "Parks & Recreation."
No Jenna Fischer or John Krasinski yet again for "The Office."
No Patrick Fischler, Melinda McGraw or Robert Morse for guest acting in "Mad Men."
No Albert Brooks, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Amy Ryan, Susan Sarandon, Sigourney Weaver or Sharon Gless in guest acting, either.
Double snubs for Anna Paquin for drama actress and movie actress (that old Oscar win not automatically working any more).
Multiple snubs for Emmy favorite Tracey Ullman (not bad in general, but bad for her and Showtime).
Continued support from lazy voters (William Shatner, Tony Shalhoub, Mariska Hargitay).
THE UGLYWOW! No Jeremy Piven after winning three in a row (not disagreeing — just really surprised they also hated what he did on Broadway).
The overwhelming number of directing and writing nominations make it way too easy for "30 Rock" and "Mad Men" to win again (they probably deserve those back-to-back series wins, but that takes all the fun out of predicting).
There is no more ugly. This is a really great set of nominations this year!!
Photo: Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory." Credit: CBS
RELATED LINKS
Emmy nominations: The good, the bad and the ugly (Boomer's view)
Comedy series lead acting races: By the numbers
First-time Emmy nominees include Oscar, Grammy and Tony champs
Emmy nominations: The good, the bad and the ugly (Rob L's view)
Emmy lead actor in a drama series: By the numbers
Emmy lead actress in a drama series: By the numbers
Another Emmy jaw-dropper! Where's Jeremy Piven?
Emmy nominations: Who got skunked!
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Um, where the HELL are the noms for Elizabeth Mitchell from "Lost" and Mary McDonnell from "Battlestar Gallactica". Those are the two worst snubs of the year!
Posted by: jason | July 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Hey, mister ALL CAPS whining about 30 Rock. It's a funny show, and more than deserving of the accolades it is receiving.
But, of course, it commits the cardinal sin of bashing conservatives. Man alive, but you retard fascist thugs really are the thinnest skinned people alive.
But hey, why are you on this blog whining when you should have been volunteering to look for the nonexistent WMD's in Iraq.
Can you spell PHONY WAR?
Posted by: Pete | July 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM
AMAZING!! 30 ROCK DOESNT EVEN SHOW UP IN THE NIELSEN TV RATINGS TOP 20 FOR THE SEASON OR FOR THE WEEK AND IT GETS 22 NOMINATIONS?
LAST YEAR "30 ROCK" RANKED 119th ON NIELSEN FOR THE YEAR AND TIED WITH AMERICA'S MOST WANTED IN RATINGS.
IS ANYONE EVEN WATCHING IT?
I GUESS IT PAYS TO BASH REPUBLICANS.
CAN YOU SPELL CRONYISM?
C R O N Y I S M CRONYISM
YOU SCRATCH MY BACK AND I WILL SCRATCH YOURS.
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16 WIPEOUT ABC Wed 8:00 PM
17 COLD CASE CBS Sun 8:59 PM
18 WITHOUT A TRACE SUNDAY SP(S) CBS Sun 10:00 PM
19 BIG BANG THEORY, THE:SP(S) CBS Mon 8:00 PM
Posted by: xinunus | July 17, 2009 at 09:26 AM
Still reeling with exactly how a show like "Big Love" (I'm a HUGE fan of it... btw) can breakthrough in the series category with no acting/writing/directing nods. In the 3rd season nonetheless. I just don't understand.
I'm not so mad about the "True Blood" snubs. I love the show, but it's an acquired taste (no pun). Say what you want fanboys, Paquin is the weak link of that cast.
My third complaint is Sally Field. Anyone who watches "Brothers and Sisters" (there are like 10 of us left) knows that Calista Flockhart is the true (and deserving) lead actress of that show now.
Posted by: Slam | July 17, 2009 at 06:27 AM
lMariska Hargitay SHOULD BE nominated and win for that matter. When do we not vote for consistantly good work? Do we stop voting for Merly Streep since she has been nominated so many times and make room for someone else to have a shot? Get real, good work deserves recognition. I don't hear that Sally Field should be left out since she won twice. For that matter Chris Meloni deserves a nod for his good work. Give them their due and stop critizing good stuff.
Posted by: DEELO | July 17, 2009 at 05:40 AM
Hey, Boston Legal should've received more nominations! Bill and Christian deserve it, I hope one of them wins!
Posted by: Necros | July 17, 2009 at 01:57 AM
THE GOOD:
"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" nominated in Special Class!!! The best thing I saw all year! Yes yes yes!!!
No James Spader
THE BAD:
No Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride (anything for EB&D, really)
2 nominations too many in Supp Actor Drama for Boston Legal (Thank God it's over)
THE UGLY:
Ditto Jeremy Piven's snub. I'm fine with it, but yes, ugly indeed. His diss of the reality hosts last year during his acceptance speech probably didn't help either.
Posted by: Danmal | July 16, 2009 at 05:15 PM
Ahem. Any year that throws virtually all the series writing nominations to TWO shows ("Mad Men," "30 Rock"), is in no way a great Emmy nomination year. It's not as if the twists and turns of "Weeds" or "The Office," or "Big Love," or "Dexter" penned themselves. And that's just four snubbed worthies that had outstandingly scribed episodes last year.
Posted by: dorothy | July 16, 2009 at 04:58 PM
Mariska is a great actress, and her work is consistently wonderful deserves a nomination constant vote who are not obliged to do it and yet have this because it is always great. No one has bothered because ...
Excuse my English
Posted by: eRiKa | July 16, 2009 at 04:06 PM
'Family Guy' getting a comedy nom should be in The Ugly. The show is awful. I guess it just shows the state of comedy on TV these days.
Posted by: tim | July 16, 2009 at 01:56 PM
Robert Sean Leonard was robbed!
Posted by: Kate | July 16, 2009 at 01:44 PM
Mariska Hargitay is a great actress. Whether it was indicated 2,3,4, 5 times. Does not select 6 actresses in drama and not put Mariska. She is an exceptional actress and deserves to indicate yes. It may not win but at least with its beauty will adorn the red carpet.
Posted by: Antonio | July 16, 2009 at 01:23 PM
Lay of Mariska Hargitay Tom. She is amazing.
Posted by: Cameron | July 16, 2009 at 01:08 PM