In case you are new to this, the idea is pretty straightforward. I go through the Emmy nomination ballot for a bunch of categories and put together the strongest group I can among what wasn't already nominated for the Emmy. I call this group my B-Team. I then compare the Nominees to my B-Team and choose a winner based on which is a stronger group of performers/shows/etc. The idea is to see how badly chosen the nominees actually are. This serves two purposed:
1) To see how bad the nominees really are. The first year I did this, my theory was that, as a very informed TV viewer, it would be easy for me to find 5-7 names that the Emmy voters missed. I'll go ahead and say now that the Emmy voters, especially outside the Comedy and Drama categories, tend to do a pretty good job picking most of the best options in a category.
2) To highlight some other great work from the last year. With the explosion of new content over the last few years, 5 or 6 nominees just isn't enough to cover all the great work being done, especially on lesser seen shows that have trouble putting together enough support to be nominated.
As far as who I pick for my B-Team, please disagree with me. I watch a lot of TV, but I miss much more than I see. My B-Team is exactly that: My B-Team. In other words, I'm stacking the deck in the B-Team's favor. If I'm picking the 5-6 shows that I like the best and the B-Team still loses, that means the Nominee list is pretty damn strong.
Finally, it's time for some competitive categories. Before today, it takes one or two massive snubs to give the B-Team an actual edge over the nominees. The Comedy Series categories and Drama tomorrow are so deep with available shows, that all it takes is one weak nominee to put the B-Team ahead. This wasn't the strongest year for comedies, now that everything from the NBC 2009 peak (Parks & Rec, The Office, Community, 30 Rock) are gone and many of the top comedies had some down seasons (Veep, Silicon Valley, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). There are still so many options to choose from, especially, as you'll see, in the supporting categories.
(Final Note: I'm sure that I'll mention this more than a few times, but all my picks are based on who is submitted and in which category. For example, I would've considered the Halt and Catch Fire episode "The Threshold" a lock for my writing and directing by B-team, but it wasn't submitted. Thus, I can't include it. Similarly, Ted Danson would be a great supporting actor in a comedy contender on The Good Place. However, he submitted himself as a lead, so that's all I can consider him for)
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* Indicates a show that I haven't watched this season.
# Indicates a show I've seen before, not this season.
Comedy
Series
Atlanta
black-ish
Master Of None
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt
Veep
B-Team
Dear White People
Speechless
Transparent
Girls
Brooklyn Nine Nine
Review
Catastrophe
Comedy has had
stronger years. Shows like One Mississippi, Fleabag, and Brockmire
surely deserve to be in the discussion, but I haven't seen them yet to verify. Shameless
and You're the Worst are two strong shows I've given up hoping that the
Television academy finally notices. Same with It's Always Sunny. The
Middle is an All-Timer for me, although this wasn't its strongest season. Better
Things showed a lot of promise. The Good Place was a magic trick of
a season. As for what did make my B-Team...
Catastrophe is a
little-seen Amazon series that puts together six episode seasons that are
packed with jokes and feature one of the more authentic-feeling marriages on TV.
Review only had three episodes to end the series with and they were
terrific. Do yourself a favor, if you can find it somewhere. Watch the whole
series. It takes an afternoon. Brooklyn Nine Nine has one of the two or
three strongest comedy ensembles around and churned out another great season. Girls
ended on a high note with yet another think-piece-friendly season. Transparent
continues to be the best half-hour drama around, and as long as episode length
dictates categorization, it deserves to be in the comedy series discussion. Speechless
just had the strongest debut season of a family comedy since Modern Family.
Dear White People managed to be both funny and fit in relevant
discussions of race without sacrificing quality. All-in-all, that's a strong
B-Team, although there's nothing that makes me shake my fist with rage that it
didn't get nominated.
The nominees aren't
as uniformly strong. That Modern Family nomination really drags it down.
It's not a bad show. It's barely one of the 20 best comedies on TV though. I
found myself tiring of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt this season. It's still
good, but definitely isn't at the top of my ballot. Silicon Valley is
consistently funny even if it's following some predictable patterns. black-ish
is everything the voters thought Modern Family was at its peak. It's
hilarious, thoughtful, and takes on risky topics. A weaker season of Veep
is still a terrific season of TV. An 'A' season feels like a let down after 2-3
'A+' seasons in a row. Master of None and Atlanta have taken the
small-scale, almost auteur-driven formula of Louie and arguably improved
upon it.
Winner: Nominees.
Maybe with a longer season of Review I could've pushed the B-Team ahead. Atlanta, Master of None, and Veep are in a tier by themselves. Perhaps Blackish is there too. Regardless, nothing in the B-Team quite matches those. That's enough to not be dragged down all the way by the weaker nominees.
Maybe with a longer season of Review I could've pushed the B-Team ahead. Atlanta, Master of None, and Veep are in a tier by themselves. Perhaps Blackish is there too. Regardless, nothing in the B-Team quite matches those. That's enough to not be dragged down all the way by the weaker nominees.
Lead
Actress - Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon (Better Things)
Tracee Ellis Ross (black-ish)
* Jane Fonda (Grace And Frankie)
* Lily Tomlin (Grace And Frankie)
* Allison Janney (Mom)
Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)
B-Team
Michaela Watkins (Casual)
Michaela Watkins (Casual)
Minnie
Driver (Speechless)
Kristen Bell (The Good Place)
# Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
Lena Dunham (Girls)
# Emmy
Rossum (Shameless)
Sharon
Horgan (Catastrophe)
Of the comedy
categories, this was the toughest B-Team to narrow down. I've heard great
things about Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the
Virgin), and Issa Rae (Insecure) although I haven't see their shows.
I'm way too behind on The Mindy Project and You're the Worst to
confirm my assumtion that Mindy Kaling and Aya Cash are still great. I've
always enjoyed Patricia Heaton in The Middle and been confused why a
former Emmy favorite hasn't been able to sniff a nomination all these years. Gillian
Jacobs (Love) and Britt Robertson (Girlboss) weren't the problems
on their uneven Netflix shows and often made them more watchable than they
should be. All indications are that Kathryn Hahn's (I Love Dick)
nomination snub was a big mistake. And, Constance Wu continues to be great on Fresh
Off the Boat as well.
I love this B-Team
though. Emmy Rossum's lack of an Emmy nomination at any point is one of the
bigger Emmy blunders of the last decade. Lena Duhnam carried numerous episodes
in the final season of Girls. I'm still most impressed by the scene in
the anti-penultimate episode in the diner with Adam. Great stuff. Sharon Horgan
is so comfortable on Catastrophe that she makes it look easy. Rachel
Bloom gets an extra bump for being a creative force in front of and behind the
camera on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Michaela Watkins shows a lot of range in Casual
that I previously didn't know she had. Kristen Bell didn't blow me away in The
Good Place, but she is a solid lead on a really good show, which counts for
something. Minnie Driver in Speechless is the snub that bothers me the
most though. She is just terrific as the fierce "mama bear" in Speechless.
The Oscar winner is essentially the mom in Malcolm in the Middle but
British. What's not to like about that?
The Nominees are
more of a mixed bag. I've never been able to get into Grace & Frankie.
What I have seen suggests that Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda are nominated because
they are Lily "fuckin" Timlin and Oscar Winner Jane Fonda, but it's
not like they are bad in the series. Allison Janney is pulling the same move
she did on The West Wing, moving up from Supporting Actress after
dominating for a while there. It's been a long time coming. I was pleased and
impressed to see Emmy voters be aware of Pamela Adlon's work on Better
Things. Tracee Ellis-Ross is great on black-ish even though I have a
hard time calling anyone other than Anthony Anderson a lead on that show. I've
cooled off on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt but not on Ellie Kemper's
performance. That's still a role that could only be played by one person. I'd
complain about Julia Louise-Dreyfus' repeated nominations and [probable] wins
except she really is doing some all-time great work on the show.
Winner: B-Team.
The gap is narrow. I'm sticking with the underdogs because as long as Emmy Rossum is without even a single nomination for years on Shameless, then something is very wrong.
The gap is narrow. I'm sticking with the underdogs because as long as Emmy Rossum is without even a single nomination for years on Shameless, then something is very wrong.
Lead
Actor - Comedy Series
Donald Glover (Atlanta)
* Zach Galifianakis (Baskets)
Anthony Anderson (black-ish)
Aziz Ansari (Master Of None)
William H. Macy (Shameless)
Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)
B-Team
Andy Daly (Review)
Ted Danson (The Good Place)
Rob Delaney (Catastrophe)
Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley)
Will Forte (The Last Man on
Earth)
* Hank Azaria (Brockmire)
Among those not in
the B-Team, former Emmy juggernaut Jim Parsons could easily be here for The
Big Bang Theory. It's a shame that they've never paid attention to Andy
Samberg's work on Brooklyn Nine Nine. Neil Flynn (The Middle) and
Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) are more supporting or ensemble
players on their shows but deserve a shout out nonetheless.
I'm very pleased
with this B-Team though. I'll admit that I haven't seen Brockmire, but
it sounds like the perfect vehicle for Hank Azaria. I don't think anyone
commits to an unlikable characters like Will Forte does on The Last Man on
Earth. Thomas Middleditch is back on the outside looking in at the
nomination field. Rob Delaney and Andy Daly do so much on their respective
shows that the small number of episodes shouldn't count against them. Ted
Danson is more of a supporting role that didn't even reveal itself until the
end of the season. He was very good on The Good Place though.
Meanwhile, the
Nomnees are filled with heavy hitters and a repeat nominee that I've given up
on. William H. Macy isn't really a lead on Shameless and he's never been
that great on it. At least, he's not been more worthy than Emmy Rossum, so,
giver that absence, his nomination continues to bother me. I'm not a fan of
Zach Galifianakis in general, but Baskets does seem to be ideal for him.
Anthony Anderson is the most traditional comedy lead of the nominees. If you
want this to go to someone from a true comedy, he's your guy. Jeffrey Tambor is
a legend and I won't complain if he keeps getting nominated and winning [ok,
maybe I will with the wins]. Aziz Ansari and Donald Glover are both
triple/quadruple/quintuple threats on their shows and are excellent in them.
Winner: Nominees.
Macy isn't enough to cancel out all of the other great performances in that group and this is another B-Team that only has one or two names that I'd replace one of the nominees with.
Macy isn't enough to cancel out all of the other great performances in that group and this is another B-Team that only has one or two names that I'd replace one of the nominees with.
Supporting Actress - Comedy Series
Vanessa Bayer (Saturday Night Live)
Leslie Jones (Saturday Night Live)
Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live)
Kathryn Hahn (Transparent)
Judith Light (Transparent)
Anna Chlumsky (Veep)
B-Team
Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live)
Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live)
Claudia
O'Doherty (Love)
Allison Williams (Girls)
Zazie Beetz (Atlanta)
* Rita Moreno (One Day at a Time)
There's a lot of
women it would've been nice to see get nominated. Eden Sher (The Middle),
a B-Team favorite, didn't even submit her name this year. D'Arcy Carden was
always good for a laugh on The Good Place. January Jones went method on The
Last Man on Earth which was both quite funny and a little disturbing at
times. Anyone from Brooklyn Nine Nine would deserve the attention. It's
probably fair to say that Alessandra Mastronardi's character on Master of
None was a little underwritten, but she has fantastic chemistry with Aziz
Ansari. Sarah Sutherland (Veep) is one of TV's great punching bags and
she's earned her increased screen time over the years. Even Tara Lynne Barr is
doing some interesting stuff on Casual.
I think I put
together the B-Team with the greatest chance of taking down the Nominees
though. SNL pulled a whopping three nominations in the category. Were
they the right nominations? Not entirely. McKinnon is the top of the class.
Bayer, Bryant, and Strong are a level below. As much as I like Jones overall,
she can barely gets through a scene without at least one flub. Breaking might
be funny in the moment, but when it's that often, I can't commend it*. In a
head to head of the legends, it's a toss-up between Judith Light and Rita
Moreno. Kathryn Hahn really should've been nominated for I Love Dick,
but it's not like she isn't great in Transparent too. Zazie Beetz was
wonderful whenever she showed up in Atlanta, especially in her spotlight
episode. If I'm picking between HBO stars, I'm going with Anna Chlumsky for
being consistently great on Veep, although Allison Williams really won
me over with those last couple episodes of Girls: her opening scene in
the finale by itself, in fact. And, Claudia O'Doherty is just delightful on Love.
*Yes, you can point
to Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz back in the day breaking all the time, but no
one was nominating them for anything.
Winner: B-Team.
McKinnon is the only person I'd lock into the nominee list. Otherwise, I have too many arguments for B-Teamers, and the Leslie Jones nomination is enough to negate McKinnon.
McKinnon is the only person I'd lock into the nominee list. Otherwise, I have too many arguments for B-Teamers, and the Leslie Jones nomination is enough to negate McKinnon.
Supporting Actor - Comedy Series
* Louie Anderson (Baskets)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
Alec Baldwin (Saturday Night Live)
Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt)
Tony Hale (Veep)
Matt Walsh (Veep)
B-Team
Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine Nine)
Zach Woods (Silicon Valley)
Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live)
Andrew Rannells (Girls)
Sam
Richardson (Veep)
Timothy
Simons (Veep)
I like the nominee
list. There's a lot of good people nominated. Almost every year, this is the
deepest of all the categories because, while opportunities for female leads are
comparatively abundant, the supporting ranks in comedies are packed with men.
I'll let someone else with more free time investigate the reasons for that.
Instead, I'd like to point out some people who I couldn't even find room on the
B-Team for. Veep has such a deep roster that its third string pair of
supporting males, Gary Cole and Kevin Dunn, are among the funniest people on
TV. Silicon Valley has Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, and TJ Miller, who
are hilarious every week. Lakeith Stanfield had a terrific laugh-to-screen time
efficiency in Atlanta. Jay Duplass might actually be the better actor of
the two Duplass brothers after seeing what he's done on Transparent.
And that's who I couldn't
fit in.
Let's do some
head-to-heads with the nominees and B-Team. I hear nothing but great things
about Louie Anderson in Baskets. Still, you'll have a hard time
convincing me that he outpaces what Andre Braugher is doing consistently on Brooklyn
Nine Nine. You want oddballs? You can have Ty Burrell. I'd much rather go
with Silicon Valley MVP Zach Woods, who has made an art out of making
any line you give him funny. Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump certainly spiked SNL's
resurgent popularity. Kennan Thompson is the ultimate team player though. He
does absolutely anything the writers need for a sketch and will rightfully end
his run on the show as one of All-Time great cast members. Tituss Burgess has
always annoyed me on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. If you really want to
nominate a gay character, Andrew Rannells on Girls is the much better
choice. He was the best part of a great final season. Finally, the Veep
face off. I'm glad to see Matt Walsh being recognized for being such a delightful
sad-sack and Tony Hale gets to be the Scottie Pippen to Julia Louise-Dreyfus'
Michael Jordan. That said, I have to go with Sam Richardson and Timothy Simons.
For a number of seasons, they were the best comedy duo around. Separate, they
are just as great. Simons is hilariously vile, which life as a congressman
amplified. Richardson is like Zach Woods in that any line he says he can make
laugh out loud funny.
Winner: B-Team.
The most dominant win of the day.
The most dominant win of the day.
Guest
Actress - Comedy Series
Wanda Sykes (black-ish - "Lemons")
Carrie Fisher (Catastrophe - "Episode 6")
Becky Ann Baker (Girls - "Gummies")
Angela Bassett (Master Of None - "Thanksgiving")
Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live - "Host : Kristen Wiig")
Melissa McCarthy (Saturday Night Live - "Host : Melissa McCarthy")
B-Team
Melanie Lynskey (Girlboss
"Long-Ass Pants")
Kristen Wiig (The Last Man on Earth - "Got Milk?")
Laura Dern (Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt - "Kimmy Can't Help You!")
Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt - "Kimmy Goes to College")
Sally Phillips (Veep
- "Georgia")
Trace Lysette (Transparent
- "The Open Road")
If the Emmy voters
finally broke themselves of the charms of Christine Baranski and Laurie
Metcalfe on The Big Bang Theory, then so will I. No B-Team for them.
That does make it a little harder to fill the B-Team though.
Wanda Sykes has
never fit very well into Dre's work scenes on Blackish. That's about the
only weak pick on the Nominees. Becky Ann Baker always shines in Girls.
Angela Bassett was one of the parts of "Thanksgiving" that made it
among the best episodes of TV this year. Carrie Fisher is a treat on Catastrophe
and this, I believe, was the last thing she worked on before she died. Kristen
Wiig is a reliable host on SNL. Melissa McCarthy has Sean Spicer. I'd've
actually submitted her for that first appearance as Spicer, but a hosting gig
makes sense too.
As for the B-Team,
I've got Kristen Wiig in a standalone episode that she was the star of, much
like Will Forte was in the series pilot. I've always been partial to Dylan
Gelula's millennial caricature in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and the
college setting gave a few new shades to that performance. Laura Dern fit right
into the UKS universe in her episode. Trace Lysette had a great showcase
episode in this season of Transparent. Sally Phillips gets way more out
of a one-joke character than she should be able to on Veep. I know Girlboss
wasn't very good. Melanie Lynskey was a highlight of that series though.
Winner: Nominees.
I just can't pick against Carrie Fisher, Angela Bassett, andSean Spicer
Melissa McCarthy.
I just can't pick against Carrie Fisher, Angela Bassett, and
Guest
Actor - Comedy Series
Riz Ahmed (Girls - "All I Ever
Wanted")
Matthew Rhys (Girls - "American
Bitch")
Dave Chappelle (Saturday Night Live - "Host : Dave Chappelle")
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Saturday Night Live - "Host : Lin-Manuel Miranda")
Tom Hanks (Saturday Night Live
- "Host : Tom Hanks")
Hugh Laurie (Veep - "Blurb")
B-Team
Lenny Kravitz (Better Things
- "Brown")
Peter MacNicol (Veep - "A Woman
First")
Peter Scolari (Girls - "Full
Disclosure")
Dwayne Johnson (Saturday Night Live
- "Host Dwayne Johnson")
Nicolo Ambrosio (Master of None
- "The Thief")
Aziz Ansari (Saturday Night Live
- "Host: Aziz Ansari")
I would like to
start by complaining that Jon Hamm should've submitted for his part in the
premiere of The Last Man on Earth. Since that didn't happen, I'll go
with the actors who were available. Emmy voters got the best three SNL
hosts. Aziz Ansari and Dwayne Johnson weren't bad though. I'd also agree with
Riz Ahmed and Matthew Rhys on Girls over Peter Scolari. I adore Hugh
Laurie, but Peter MacNicol should've been picked from Veep. Lenny
Kravitz was surprisingly great when he appeared on Better Things and
Nicolo Ambrosio was very endearing on Master of None.
Winner: Nominees.
I'm not about to pick against David Pumpkins.
I'm not about to pick against David Pumpkins.
Writing - Comedy Series
Atlanta ("B.A.N.")
Atlanta ("Streets
On Lock")
Master Of None ("Thanksgiving")
Silicon Valley ("Success Failure")
Veep ("Georgia")
Veep ("Groundbreaking")
B-Team
BoJack Horseman
("That's Too Much, Man!")
black-ish
("Lemons")
Master of None
("New York, I Love You")
Review
("Locorito; Pet Euthanasia; Dream")
Speechless
("H-E-R-HERO")
Better Things
("Woman Is The Something of The Something")
Atlanta, Master
of None, Silicon Valley, and Veep are probably the top four
comedies on TV and driven by their great writing, so It's hard to argue with
those nominees. And, keep in mind, not every episode in a season is submitted,
so even though I'd've picked different episodes of Atlanta, those were the ones
Donald Glover and company chose to submit.
For the B-Team, I
decided to go with a bit more variety. While "New York, I Love You"
is more of a directorial achievement, the writing deserves some credit too for
efficiently creating characters I'd like to see more of. "Lemons" was
a good attempt by black-ish to discuss the 2016 election in an amusing
way that was about more than "Trump is bad". BoJack Horseman
deserves some love. "That's Too Much, Man!" was a gut punch of an
episode. "Woman Is the Something of the Something" is an episode I
still think about now. It somehow has a tragic and happy ending at the same
time. I can't speak highly enough about it. "Loccorito; Pet Euthanasia;
Dream" has everything I love about Review in it.
"H-E-R-HERO" is a great example of what Speechless does that
makes it so special.
Winner: B-Team.
I like both groups a lot. If you asked me to name the best written comedy episodes of the year, I'd think of more from the B-Team than the Nominees list.
I like both groups a lot. If you asked me to name the best written comedy episodes of the year, I'd think of more from the B-Team than the Nominees list.
Directing - Comedy Series
Atlanta ("B.A.N.")
Silicon Valley ("Intellectual Property")
Silicon Valley ("Server Error")
Veep ("Blurb")
Veep ("Groundbreaking")
Veep ("Justice")
B-Team
Master of None
("New York, I Love You")
Master of None
("Thanksgiving")
Speechless
("P-I-PILOT" )
Transparent ("Exciting and New")
Dear White People
("Chapter V")
The Last Man on
Earth ("Got Milk?")
I have a harder
time singling out good directing than writing. I'll admit that now. I could've
gone with episodes of Better Things, black-ish, Brooklyn Nine
Nine, Girls, or The Good Place for the B-Team, but remember,
I'm making a B-Team to win, not just to remind people what else was on this
year.
The Nominees are
pretty underwhelming. Yes, Veep is one of the best blocked comedies on
TV for how it handles so many characters in a scene, often in tight spaces,
without compromising the lightning pace of the dialogue. However, no show needs
more than two nominations, and even two should be rare. As much as I like Silicon
Valley, I never found myself thinking, "Well, that was good
direction". "B.A.N." absolutely deserves to be nominated for
how much it broke from the show's usual form and perfectly recreated a local
new discussion show.
In the B-Team, I
couldn't choose between two episodes of Master of None. "New York,
I Love You" was a complete break from what the show normally does and
comfortably moved between unrelated stories. "Thanksgiving" used the
same space to tell a story over 2 decades without it feeling confined. The Speechless
pilot does a terrific job establishing that world and helped it to hit the
ground running the way that Modern Family did in 2009. Transparent
is starting to wear on me, but the direction continues to be among its
strongest elements. Dear White People was a very good television
adaptation that was occasionally a little too proud of itself for how smart it
was*, but Moonlight's Barry Jenkins directed the hell out of his
episode. "Got Milk?" recalled the excellent pilot of The Last Man
on Earth with a Kristen Wiig standalone episode.
*Says the lifelong fan of Frasier.
Winner: B-Team.
Variety really helps.
Variety really helps.
Casting - Comedy Series
Atlanta
Master Of None
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep
B-Team
BoJack Horseman
Girls
The Good Place
Casual
Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt
My best
understanding of casting is that it's essentially for the non-regulars. It's a
matter of how well the world is filled with extras who fit in a location or
single episode characters. In practice, people just vote for the cast they like
the best, which is why the Emmy so often goes to the cast with the most
familiar names or something new. In other words, I'm going to use very fuzzy
math right now.
Veep and Silicon
Valley have great established casts with a deep pool of recurring
characters to bring in when the time is right. Transparent has a very
specific world and knows exactly how to fill it. Atlanta did a great job
of casting exactly who you'd expect and sometimes, the last person you'd expect
(remember when Juistin Bieber was black?). Master of None arguably
deserves to win simply for casting three shows' worth of people I'd like to
keep following in "New York, I Love You". Almost every episode is
something new.
That's an imposing
group of Nominees. The only chance the B-Team has is if I get a little weird. Unbreakable
Kimmy Schmidt manages to get big names to show up without ever getting
star-struck by them. I was initially concerned by the lack of recognizable
faces in The Good Place cast, but I should never question a Michael
Schur show. By the end, I couldn't imagine anyone else to share that afterlife
with. Girls is another show that knows exactly what people fit in its
world. Most people ignore BoJack Horseman since it's animated. That's a
mistake. This is a series who gets Margo Matindale to play the officially named
"Character Actress Margo Martindale". How can you not love that? I'm
throwing Casual in because every episode brings in at least one person
who I'm like "Yeah. He/she makes sense".
Winner: Nominees.
That's a really hard quintet to disagree with.
That's a really hard quintet to disagree with.
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Today ends with a 5-5 split between the Nominees and B-Teams. That's due to some lazy voting for Writing and Directing and some really inexcusable snubs in the performance categories. It's hard to be too angry with the Nominees though when the likes of Veep, Atlanta, and Master of None got so much love. These picks don't reflect a great diversity of viewing habits though. It would be nice to see a few more shows with only one or two nominations.
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