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66th Primetime Emmy Nominations Announcement

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Maninthemirror said:
Actually it gets boring pretty fast
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I agree with this assessment. The second season suffers from the same fate as the first. In that halfway through both seasons you've already seen what it has to offer and it seems like it's just spinning its wheels after that. Fuck that Daya/Bennett storyline UGH
 
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Silicon Valley deserves that comedy award, fantastic series. And I echo the sentiments of "die, TBBT".
 
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Maninthemirror

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A lot of realities need to be adjusted . Breaking bad was entertaining and one of the best shows i ever saw... That is until true detective happened . Its rare when I consider one show the greatest and another show in the same year tops it. Td is a deeper and more meaningful show than breaking bad which was going for its finale which was suspenseful and fun but that is it. The level of td went further past it
 
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Hope True Detective wins everything it's up for.

Though I also hope Jon Hamm wins an Emmy before Mad Men is done. Could he get it next year for the second half of Mad Men S7? He's just too good as Don Draper to never win it.
 
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Booties

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streetsahead123 said:
I know it's an opinion, so it technically can't be wrong, but still…your opinion is wrong.
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I know the show caters to a more hardcore viewership as times goes on, but there is no arguing that the show and it's characters lost the cultural impact it once garnered from adoring fans and casual watchers alike. I like the show, but I feel like something's been missing for a while that I can't explain. I don't think I'm alone on this one.
 
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Fjordson said:
Hope True Detective wins everything it's up for.

Though I also hope Jon Hamm wins an Emmy before Mad Men is done. Could he get it next year for the second half of Mad Men S7? He's just too good as Don Draper to never win it.
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He will win it next year.
 
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Blader

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The older I get, the weirder I find the reactions to award snubs.

The Emmys should start putting together a category for anthology shows, though. The format is only going to become more and more popular, and it's going to end up cannibalizing the series and miniseries categories if producers are free to submit to either one. Plus, they're not directly comparable to the typical long-form show. FX's president said this a couple months ago, but anthologies and miniseries can easier attract higher talent because of much lighter time commitments, which can unfairly stack the deck in their favor for acting awards consideration.
 
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5 pages and no one mentioned that William H. Macy got nomination for Shameless. FUCK YES. Probably the most underrated TV show currently on the air. It's so fucking good.
 
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ZeroX03

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My wishlist. Comedy sections are disappointing, but I guess I prefer more off-kilter/animated stuff.

Outstanding Comedy Series
"The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
"Louie" (FX)
"Modern Family" (ABC)
"Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)
"Silicon Valley" (HBO)
"Veep" (HBO)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
Ricky Gervais, "Derek" (Netflix)
Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes" (Showtime)
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies" (Showtime)
Louis C.K., "Louie" (FX)
William H. Macy, "Shameless" (Showtime)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Lena Dunham, "Girls" (HBO)
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie" (Showtime)
Julia Louis Dreyfus, "Veep" (HBO)
Melissa McCarthy, "Mike & Molly" (CBS)
Amy Poehler, "Parks & Recreation" (NBC)
Taylor Schilling, "Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Breaugher, "Brookiyn Nine-Nine" (FOX)
Adam Driver, "Girls" (HBO)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family" (ABC)
Ty Burrell, "Modern Family" (ABC)
Fred Armisen, "Portlandia" (IFC)
Tony Hale, "Veep" (HBO)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
Julie Bowen, "Modern Family" (ABC)
Allison Janney, "Mom" (CBS)
Kate Mulgrew, "Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)
Kate McKinnon, "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)
Anna Chlumsky, "Veep" (HBO)

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Nathan Lane, "Modern Family" (ABC)
Steve Buscemi, "Portlandia" (IFC)
Jimmy Fallon, "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)
Louis C.K., "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)
Bob Newhart, "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
Gary Cole, "Veep" (HBO)

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Uzo Aduba, "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix)
Laverne Cox, "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix)
Natasha Lyonne, "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix)
Tina Fey, "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)
Melissa McCarthy, "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)
Joan Cusack, "Shameless" (Showtime)

Outstanding Drama Series
"Breaking Bad" (AMC)
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
"Game of Thrones" (HBO)
"House of Cards" (Netflix)
"Mad Men" (AMC)
"True Detective" (HBO)

Fun fact: the real winner here is The Good Wife. Nod to Hannibal as well. What is Downton doing on this list? Give Breaking Bad the final season Emmy, Mad Men next year, True Detective has as long as Nic Pizzolatto wants to keep it alive for.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
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"

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Lizzy Caplan, "Masters of Sex"
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"
Julianne Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Kerry Washington, "Scandal"
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"
Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"
Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"
Josh Charles, "The Good Wife"
Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland"
Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan"

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad" (AMC)
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey" (PBS)
Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey" (PBS)
Lena Headey, "Game Of Thrones" (HBO
Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men" (AMC)
Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife" (NBC)

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Dylan Baker, "The Good Wife"
Reg E. Cathey, "House of Cards"
Paul Giamatti, "Downton Abbey"
Robert Morse, "Mad Men"
Beau Bridges, "Masters of Sex"
Joe Morton, "Scandal"

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Kate Burton, "Scandal"
Jane Fonda, "The Newsroom"
Allison Janney, "Masters of Sex"
Kate Mara, "House of Cards"
Margo Martindale, "The Americans"
Diane Rigg, "Game of Thrones"

Outstanding Miniseries
“American Horror Story: Coven”
“Fargo”
“The White Queen”
“Bonnie and Clyde”
“Treme”

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Dancing on the Edge" (Starz)
Martin Freeman, "Fargo" (FX)
Billy Bob Thornton, "Fargo" (FX)
Idris Elba, "Luther" (BBC America)
Mark Ruffalo, "The Normal Heart" (HBO)
Benedict Cumberbatch, "Sherlock: His Last Vow" (PBS)

Can't decide, make it a tie.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Colin Hanks, "Fargo"
Jim Parsons, "The Normal Heart"
Joe Mantello, "The Normal Heart"
Alfred Molina, "The Normal Heart"
Matt Bomer, "The Normal Heart"
Martin Freeman, "Sherlock: His Last Vow"

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Frances Conroy, "American Horror Story: Coven"
Kathy Bates, "American Horror Story: Coven"
Angela Bassett, "American Horror Story: Coven"
Allison Tolman, "Fargo"
Ellen Burstyn, "Flowers In the Attic"
Julia Roberts, "The Normal Heart"
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Tucah

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Downton robbed The Good Wife of a series nom, what a shame. Overall though, not a very surprising list of nominations - Silicon Valley is a pleasant surprise and Tatiana Maslany and Hannibal clearly deserve some sort of recognition but when have the Emmys ever got it exactly right?
 
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Tucah said:
Downton robbed The Good Wife of a series nom, what a shame. Overall though, not a very surprising list of nominations - Silicon Valley is a pleasant surprise and Tatiana Maslany and Hannibal clearly deserve some sort of recognition but when have the Emmys ever got it exactly right?
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Never exactly right, but TGW missing is a colossal fuckup. No writing noms either, even though I could pull out almost any individual episode from season 5 and easily make a case for it.
 
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Matt_C

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After five solid seasons of award worthy content (Season 1 would of won, in 1994) but RuPaul's Drag Race still did not get nominared for best reality series and RuPaul got snubbed from Best Host.

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Anywho

Shame, outside of the Netflix origionals, I would have to wait for a year before most of the nominated shows go on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
 
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dead souls

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Well, I expected the no Hannibal nominations, but even by Emmy standards the drama nominations are fucking terrible. It's a rare year when I feel that only one of the drama series out of the six nominated deserves to be there (Breaking Bad), with the rest either way past their prime (Mad Men), or outright terrible (the other four shows).

No Matthew Rhys or Michael Sheen nominations? Give me a fucking break.

The mediocre House of Cards and True Detective cleaning up just shows that Emmy is still susceptible to that movie star hype.

The one bright spot is that OITNB did pretty well.
 
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Zero315

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So Hannibal, Orphan Black and Shameless got robbed again this year? Figures. William H. Macy being nominated and not Emmy Rossum is a fucking travesty considering he barely did anything this season.

I feel sorry for anyone pulling for Sherlock or Luther. The Normal Heart has those categories tied up, that movie was pure awards bait. Not to say that it isn't good, it is very good, lots of very strong performances.
 
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dead souls

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Zero315 said:
So Hannibal, Orphan Black and Shameless got robbed again this year? Figures. William H. Macy being nominated and not Emmy Rossum is a fucking travesty considering he barely did anything this season.
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Yeah, no Emmy nomination for Emmy is just another way these awards clearly have no clue as to who is actually doing good work on television.
 
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dead souls said:
Well, I expected the no Hannibal nominations, but even by Emmy standards the drama nominations are fucking terrible. It's a rare year when I feel that only one of the drama series out of the six nominated deserves to be there (Breaking Bad), with the rest either way past their prime (Mad Men), or outright terrible (the other four shows).

No Matthew Rhys or Michael Sheen nominations? Give me a fucking break.

The mediocre House of Cards and True Detective cleaning up just shows that Emmy is still susceptible to that movie star hype.

The one bright spot is that OITNB did pretty well.
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You're always so funny.
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What does Emmy Rossum have to do to get a nomination?
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I actually don't think she's special. She's good. Like everyone else on Shameless.
 
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Tucah said:
Downton robbed The Good Wife of a series nom, what a shame. Overall though, not a very surprising list of nominations - Silicon Valley is a pleasant surprise and Tatiana Maslany and Hannibal clearly deserve some sort of recognition but when have the Emmys ever got it exactly right?
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This is beyond "exactly right."

You would have had to have never seen this season of Hannibal at all to somehow ignore it for every award you could nominate it for.
 
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Haribi

Why isn't there a Star Wars RPG? And wouldn't James Bond make for a pretty good FPS?
No Pedro Pascal Nomination as Guest Actor? Cmon


Also why are Fargo and American Horror Story nominated in the Miniseries Category but True Detective isn't?
 
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dead souls said:
Well, I expected the no Hannibal nominations, but even by Emmy standards the drama nominations are fucking terrible. It's a rare year when I feel that only one of the drama series out of the six nominated deserves to be there (Breaking Bad), with the rest either way past their prime (Mad Men), or outright terrible (the other four shows).

No Matthew Rhys or Michael Sheen nominations? Give me a fucking break.

The mediocre House of Cards and True Detective cleaning up just shows that Emmy is still susceptible to that movie star hype.

The one bright spot is that OITNB did pretty well.
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I mostly agree with this honestly, with the exception that I don't think Mad Men is past its prime and "outright terrible" wouldn't be my first choice of words.

Matthew Rhys and Michael Sheen are two more glaring omissions.

HoC really is mediocre. TD was great but not amazing.

OITNB's first season was fantastic, second season not so much. Glad this is judging the former.
 
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Jarrod38

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Even though it's not the greatest show out there but Revenge star Henry Czerny should have gotten a nod for his work as Conrad Grayson. The guy was straight up pure evil this season.
 
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A Serious Man

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How the fuck did Hannibal not even get a nomination in the technical categories? No sound mixing or editing nom? Are you shitting me? That's outrageous.
 
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Revolver

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WarrenMax007 said:
I actually don't think she's special. She's good. Like everyone else on Shameless.
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I can't...I would argue she's the heart and soul of that show. Macy is good and I'm glad to see the show get some recognition. But she's on another level to me. I would rate her alongside Tatiana Maslany and Eva Green as the best working right now. They could have at least dropped Melissa McCarthy from that fluff with a laugh track show and made room for her in the comedy category.
 
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Cranston, Wright, Dinklage, Gunn and Breaking Bad will all win in Drama. But I could see McConaughey, Danes, Paul, Baranski and Trues Detective as Dark Horses.
Can't spaek for Comedy or MiniMovies since I haven't seen any of the nominations.
 
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House of Cards - 13 nominations
Downtown Abbey - 12 nominations
Sherlock (lol) 12 nominations

Mad Men - 4 noms
The Americans - 1 nom
Hannibal - 0 noms

That's all you need to know about the Emmy's.
 
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brickarts295 said:
Cranston, Wright, Dinklage, Gunn and Breaking Bad will all win in Drama. But I could see McConaughey, Danes, Paul, Baranski and Trues Detective as Dark Horses.
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I think Margulies has Best Actress pretty much locked. Most people seem to agree with that at least. And I believe Baranski has more of a shot than Gunn; Gunn barely had a presence in the last few episodes.
 
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Pryce said:
House of Cards - 13 nominations
Downtown Abbey - 12 nominations

Mad Men - 4 noms
The Americans - 1 nom
Hannibal - 0 noms

That's all you need to know about the Emmy's.
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I'm more shocked that American Horror Story: Coven earned 17 nominations for it's worst season. At least GoT, Fargo and Breaking Bad got a bunch.
 
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hydruxo

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Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle better win Best Actor. One of the best character portrayals I've seen on television in years. Also really glad Woody got nominated as well, I wasn't expecting that. As much as I love Bryan Cranston, I think either Woody or Matthew will grab this one from him.

Also, Fargo is going to completely sweep the miniseries categories.
 
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