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It’s impossible to predict for Series, Directing and Writing without knowing what the shows submitted. I am going to post who I am rooting for rather than who I am predicting:
Drama Series: General Hospital
Actress: Cynthia Watros, General Hospital
Actor: James Reynolds, Days Of Our Lives
Supporting Actress: Nancy Lee Grahn, General Hospital
Supporting Actor: James Patrick Stuart, General Hospital
Younger Performer: Sydney Mikayla, General Hospital
Directing: General Hospital
Writing: General HospitalSo I am hoping for a GH sweep. My gut feeling is that the awards will be split between GH and Y&R. I have a feeling that Days might go home empty-handed this year. Beyond Salem has a strong chance for Directing and I keep thinking John McCook will win for B&B. Daytime Emmys are the hardest of the awards to predict because the panelists are different each year and can have undetectable biases we can’t possibly know. My best year was 2018 (for 2017) when Days won the trifecta – I got 8 out of 10 that year. I have already gotten one wrong this year as I thought Ptosha Storey would win Guest Performer (I did have Ted King in second place in my predictions. I just thought the storyline arc was strong for Storey, but I think King was a much better choice than her. Predictions are different than who you root for).
The three GH actresses are the ones I am rooting for the most but Younger Performer has five super strong nominees and it could go to any of them (I am predicting Alyvia Alyn Lind to win it).
ReplyCopy URLThere is no way in hell there will ever be a GH sweep I think they gonna spread the love throughout all 5 nominated shows. GH is an ok show but they’re not that good to get a clean sweep.
You have very poor reading comprehension: I said that I think there will be a split in the awards between GH and Y&R – GH was SUPERB in 2021, by far the best and not just “o.k.”. It is Y&R that was only o.k., along with B&B and Days last year. But the panelists don’t actually watch the shows so they don’t know which shows truly deserve it or which performers do consistently great work. jmo of course. I don’t believe GH will have a clean sweep but I sure believe it would deserve it!
ReplyCopy URLI did last-minute predictions over the weekend and did correctly predict Ted King for Guest Performer, but that was relatively easy compared to the series categories where we don’t even know what was submitted or the very competitive Younger Performer category, where honestly it feels like all five of those very talented actors deserves to be awarded. Ultimately, I narrowed younger performer down to Nicholas Chavez and Lindsay Arnold, and ended up giving the edge to Arnold. I watched both shows all year, and when the material on her reel aired, I thought it could net her a win. (But also the voters love to give this award to people who have moved on from their shows, so maybe I should have picked Alyvia Alyn Lind or Sydney Mikayla.) In the end, a lot of my choices were wishful thinking or just what felt right. I picked James Patrick Stuart in supporting actor, as he feels most of me like he should get an Emmy. In supporting actress, I picked Kimberlin Brown because, again, ut just feels right that she should have an Emmy. Lead actor for me came down to Peter Bergman and Eric Martsolf, and I went with Martsolf just based on how I felt watching his scenes when they aired. In lead actress, Cynthia Watros does feel like the deserving choice, but that feels more cumulative than what you can get from watching a reel, so I went with Ari Zucker instead.
The other categories feel like a real crapshoot. I went with Beyond Salem in series and directing, mostly because of how much is going on in some of those episodes. In series, if the awards committee has continued to try to recruit judges from outside of daytime, as they have recently, I think the nature of Beyond Salem not being quite daytime standard could play to its advantage. I then picked DAYS for writing because they won the WGA award, even though the WGA winner almost never wins the Emmy. We just have nothing to go on.
ReplyCopy URLMy current predictions:
Drama Series: General Hospital
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Actress: Cynthia Watros, GH (because I always get this category right when it is who I am rooting for that wins and get it wrong the rest of the time!)
Actor: John McCook, B&B
Supporting Actress: Nancy Lee Grahn, GH
Supporting Actor: Jeff Kober, GH (if he submitted the scenes with Portia, Trina, and Laura during the standoff at Portia’s house)
Younger Performer: Alyvia Alyn Lind, Y&R
Directing: Days Of Our Lives: Beyond Salem
Writing: General HospitalMy predictions:
Drama: GH or Y&R. Y&R better had submitted the Neil Winters episode
Actor: John McCook (B&B) or James Reynolds (DAYS) or maybe Eric Martsolf (DAYS). I really don’t see DAYS winning anywhere else so Actor would probably be it’s only win. B&B won Guest Performer Saturday night for Ted King. I don’t see Bergman nor Thompson winning.
Actress: It will go to GH unless if we get a historic win for Mishael Morgan (Y&R)
Supporting Actor: AGAIN, GH……….I really don’t see anyone else winning. Bryton James did submit a scene from the Neil Winters episode so I can see a sympathy vote there.
Supporting Actress: GH…………..Melissa Ordway (Y&R) did submit very good scenes especially with Abby’s reaction towards Chance’s ‘death’
Younger Performance: Alyvia Alyn Lind (Y&R)
Writing: GH or Y&R
Directing: Beyond Salem
ReplyCopy URLI am going all in for Y&R as the show is represented in all remaining categories with a first choice and second choice of who I’d like to see win. My predictions don’t go well but I think I ended up using a random spinner on my iPad and got Clifton in 2017 because I couldn’t decide so that may have been my most successful prediction besides Eileen Davidson winning in 2018. So here we go…
Series:
1. Y&R
2. B&B
Lead Actor:
1. Bergman
2. McCook
Lead Actress:
1. Morgan
2. Wright
Supporting Actor:
1. Vilasuso
2. Spears
Supporting Actress:
1. Ordway
2. Grahn
Younger Actor:
1. Lind
2. Lipton
Writing:
1. Y&R
2. Days
Directing:
1. Y&R
2. DaysFriday seems so far and so close at the same time. Looking forward to seeing it for the first time in person for what feels like another era.
ReplyCopy URLI will be so glad when Friday arrives and we will finally know what the panelists have decided. Will they be great choices, terrible ones, or most likely a mix of both?
My problems with Mishael Morgan isn’t that she isn’t a fine solid actress – my issue is that she really does not belong in the lead category, she isn’t even the best actress on Y&R that was available to be nominated, her storyline was incredibly boring, and I doubt there are more than a handful of people who watch Y&R waiting with baited breath to see Amanda’s storylines – she was great as Hillary but Amanda is a total bore. She could win, her reel might very well play better as a reel than it did during the actual storyline last year, but it would really be one of the worst wins ever. I hope Akh Cat is wrong about this, I take solace that he was wrong about Katherine Kelly Lang winning a few years ago. I am hoping the panelists have the good sense to agree with every single poll I have seen online which has shown overwhelming support for Cynthia Watros winning the Emmy. btw, I am aware that some of you disagree and think Ms. Morgan should win the Emmy, this is just my time to vent about it.
I continue to think that Jeff Kober is going to win Supporting Actor and I can’t shake it! I just wish I knew if he really submitted what I think he has submitted.
Every time I see the scenes that each of the Younger Performer nominees submitted I think they will certainly win – that is a category that deserves to be a five way tie!!!!
ReplyCopy URLI will be so glad when Friday arrives and we will finally know what the panelists have decided. Will they be great choices, terrible ones, or most likely a mix of both? My problems with Mishael Morgan isn’t that she isn’t a fine solid actress – my issue is that she really does not belong in the lead category, she isn’t even the best actress on Y&R that was available to be nominated, her storyline was incredibly boring, and I doubt there are more than a handful of people who watch Y&R waiting with baited breath to see Amanda’s storylines – she was great as Hillary but Amanda is a total bore. She could win, her reel might very well play better as a reel than it did during the actual storyline last year, but it would really be one of the worst wins ever. I hope Akh Cat is wrong about this, I take solace that he was wrong about Katherine Kelly Lang winning a few years ago. I am hoping the panelists have the good sense to agree with every single poll I have seen online which has shown overwhelming support for Cynthia Watros winning the Emmy. btw, I am aware that some of you disagree and think Ms. Morgan should win the Emmy, this is just my time to vent about it. I continue to think that Jeff Kober is going to win Supporting Actor and I can’t shake it! I just wish I knew if he really submitted what I think he has submitted. Every time I see the scenes that each of the Younger Performer nominees submitted I think they will certainly win – that is a category that deserves to be a five way tie!!!!
A few years ago I changed my vote from Lang to Tom after I saw the scenes with grilling Flo for her part in the baby switch and Katie saying goodbye to Will, Brooke, and Will. Those scenes spoke volumes to me and I end up being right. Seeing the reel helps. If I’m right about Morgan winning then I won’t gloat that much. If Watros, Wright, Miller, or Zucker win I’ll still be happy. I just went with the person the voters may lean towards because Morgan was good in her scenes. To be honest she was Lead in that particular storyline because it was her storyline about finding her birth mother and finding out what happened to her birth father. I got Zucker in 2nd Watros in 3rd Miller in 4th and Wright in 5th and that’s in order of how good I thought each reel was and not my personal opinion on a actor or which show they’re on.
ReplyCopy URLI can’t believe Goldderby had Ted King in fourth place. That’s crazy!
If SOD continues apace with their nominee interviews, we should get supporting actor interviews later today, and hopefully they will all talk more extensively about their submissions.
I’d really like to see Mishael Morgan’s reel. It’s the one I’m most curious about. The general consensus seemed to be that Y&R as a whole was incredibly dull last year, but it didn’t stop the show from getting a bunch of nominations.
ReplyCopy URLI am just hoping for good results on Friday and rooting hard for GH to do well, especially Cynthia Watros, with Ari Zucker another really good choice. But we will have to wait and see what the panelists have decided. I am confused as to how the new voting with one round and no ordinals is actually done – the “scoring” system seems to me like a way for ties to be more likely??? There is probably some place that explains the new scoring system better out there.
ReplyCopy URLRon Carlivati mentioned that at least for the writing submission Days submitted two episodes from late in the year with the devil possession storyline (I thought he was saying the Doug/Marlena scene in one of the two episodes?). I am not certain if that was just for writing or also for series or directing? But it was definitely for their writing submission. Surprisingly he didn’t say about Beyond Salem other than he got to choose 2 of the 5 episodes but didn’t say which two were submitted….
ReplyCopy URLThanks for that info, Freeman! It makes sense that DAYS would submit two of the three possession episodes that won them the WGA award, so I’m not surprised.
According to the rulebook for this year, numerical ties in average score are broken by considering the number of 7 and 6 scores cast for each entrant. The more high scores you have, the better, though it’s unclear to me if they would compare 7 scores and then the 6 scores or compare them together. If the tie cannot be broken using this method, there may be multiple winners. So when it comes to a tie, a person is probably better off with a slightly more polarizing reel than one that is universally liked but not anyone’s favorite.
Jordi Vilasuso mentioned in this SOD interview that he was surprised Melissa Claire Egan didn’t get a nomination, because her reel was very strong and he scored it very highly. This could be a case of a bit of rose-colored glasses for someone with whom you worked closely, but it could also mean that the lead actress scores were very high and the competition was extremely stiff.
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