davidh777

I'd like to say that it doesn't matter and it's just the Emmys, but I know this kind of thing can help or hurt a show's chances for survival.

Goat3001

Why hasn't there ever been any love for It's Always Sunny?

The most recent season was comedy genius.

Decker

There's also legacy and for the great shows, that's important. If John Hamm never wins as Don Draper, that's going to be the first thing everyone mentions about the show in the future. Whether Cranston wins 3 or 4 doesn't really mean too much -- frankly I can't even remember how many times Gandolfini won (but it wasn't enough). But if you never win for an iconic role, that's something that will be remembered and noted.
That's why I'm glad Breaking Bad finally won Best Drama last year and why I'm rooting hard for Game of Thrones this year.

Traxan

NOTHING for Bates Motel or Longmire?

Bullshit.

Goat3001

The Wire begs to differ.

superdeluxe

I get everyone have their favorites, but if you want to include Bates Motel or Longmire to XX category, who do you remove?

The categories, especially anything with Drama, has a ton of competition

Decker

I don't know if it's Vera Farmiga, Tatiana Maslany, Keri Russell, Elizabeth Moss or someone else, but somebody deserved that spot that was taken by Claire Danes. How many times are you going to honor her for the same batshit crazy overacting performance?

My Other Self

Yeah, I don't know how she got another nod.

The problem now is that there is too much perceived snubbing due to the competition of quality programs. Unless they give the award to two people or split the categories even more there's no way to make everyone happy.

AaronHernandez

Outside of Louie, FX show's in general tend to do unfairly awful with Emmy.

PhantomStranger

It's a great list if you only watch HBO and BBC America.

mwbmis

Fargo cleaned up with the noms this year. As it should have.

American Horror Story also did well. Eh...this last season was pretty aimless.

bluetoast

Maybe we should just bring back the CableACE Awards.

davidh777

I bet legacy also plays a factor in greenlighting future projects by those showrunners.

AaronHernandez

Yeah in Miniseries they seem to clean up although AHS probably wouldn't if it didn't play category fraud. Drama and Comedy though Sunny,Justified,The Americans,The Bridge,Terriers,The League not so much

AaronHernandez

As great as it is I imagine it would get no love like Orphan Black currently and Angel and Buffy in the past. They clearly have a genre bias and GOT only seems to avoid because it's a huge hit and HBO is a juggernaut.

Shannon Nutt

Which shows you the industry has no idea what talent really is...the Emmys are nothing but pats on the back and "you vote for my show/actor, I'll vote for yours" exchanges. So they could care less about a show on BBC America that gets half a million viewers a week and is filmed in Toronto.

Say what you want about the Golden Globes, but at least they seem to be more on the 'pulse' of what most viewers enjoy.

DOWNTON ABBEY getting ANY nominations is a joke...that show has gone off the rails and is FAR from quality TV anymore.

With that in mind, I'm pulling for Matthew McConaughey and Billy Bob Thornton - two of the best performances on TV in two of the most original shows we've seen in a long, long time. So they'll both probably lose, right?

dom56

or The Walking Dead.

DaveyJoe

or Ow! My Balls!

wirefan

How was Sons of Anarchy not nominated? Probably could have qualified as for drama, comedy or even a musical series with all the damn montages.

"Jesus Christ!" (cut to slow mo walk away from this thread)

My Other Self

I'm actually surprised Justified didn't get any nods, but this last season was far and away the worst of the series and was a chore to get through. Has Jere Burns or Walton Goggins ever been nominated?

mwbmis

Justified didn't deserve any nominations this year. Well, maybe worst southern accent by a guest actor.

Margo Martindale won for Mags in season 2. Goggins was nominated a few years ago.

Dr. DVD

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but I think it's B.S. that Dean Norris didn't get a nod for Breaking Bad's final season.

Traxan

Vera, definitely, and Freddy Highmore, especially after that final episode.

As for Longmire, my timing was off. Lou Diamond Phillips is doing awesome work this season, which would put him in contention for next year. I would root for him over Bailey Chase for supporting actor even though both are playing characters who are slowly going crazy. And the writing on Longmire is just fantastic. They've got about 5 concurrent plot lines and they are sewing them together masterfully.

My Other Self

His performance in the final season was his best in the duration of the series, so it's disappointing.

Goat3001

I guess you can even go back to The Shield with that.

I really don't get it. I enjoy Big Bang Theory and Modern Family as much as the next guy but MF was pretty bad this year and BBT is cliche sitcom fare. It's Always Sunny was leaps and bounds better than those shows this season.