TV seasons that could (theoretically) fill a whole supporting lineup with strong candidates

[WaltEagle Joined: Aug 10th, 2012 Topics: 1 Posts: 862 View Predictions]

#351903

For consistency and simplicity, I’ll use the new supporting vs guest rules even for seasons from years ago, as well as lineups of six. I also don’t care who was really submitted. Decent tape examples help your case.

For Supporting Actor, there are several shows.

Mad Men: Season 2
Vincent Kartheiser (Meditations in an Emergency)
John Slattery (Six Month Leave)
Bryan Batt (The Gold Violin)
Mark Moses (Maidenform)
Robert Morse (The Mountain King)
Aaron Staton (The Gold Violin)

Mad Men: Season 5
Jared Harris (Commissions and Fees)
Vincent Kartheiser (Signal 30)
John Slattery (Far Away Places)
Ben Feldman (Far Away Places)
Rich Sommer (Christmas Waltz)
Aaron Staton (Signal 30)

Mad Men: Season 6 (the strongest crop of tapes for Mad Men)
Vincent Kartheiser (Favors)
Kevin Rahm (Man with a Plan)
John Slattery (A Tale of Two Cities)
James Wolk (Favors)
Jay R. Ferguson (The Crash)
Harry Hamlin (A Tale of Two Cities)

The Wire: Season 3
Idris Elba (Middle Ground)
Robert Wisdom (Reformation)
Aidan Gillen (Mission Accomplished)
Chad L. Coleman (Middle Ground)
Wood Harris (Moral Midgetry)
Wendell Pierce (Homecoming)

The Wire: Season 5
Andre Royo (Late Editions)
Tristan Wilds (Late Editions)
Jermaine Crawford (Late Editions)
Clark Johnson (Unconfirmed Reports)
Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Took)
Lance Reddick (-30-)

Deadwood: Season 1 (strongest lineup I can find for any show)
Brad Dourif (Sold Under Sin)
William Sanderson (The Trial of Jack McCall)
Powers Boothe (Suffer the Little Children)
Dayton Callie (No Other Sons or Daughters)
Ray McKinnon (Bullock Returns to the Camp)
John Hawkes (Deep Water)

Deadwood: Season 2
Powers Boothe (Something Very Expensive)
Dayton Callie (E.B. Was Left Out)
Jim Beaver (Amalgamation and Capital)
Garrett Dillahunt (New Money)
Brad Dourif (Requiem for a Gleet)
W. Earl Brown (Requiem for a Gleet)

Deadwood: Season 3
Gerald McRaney (True Colors)
Jim Beaver (True Colors)
Brian Cox (Leviathan Smiles)
W. Earl Brown (A Two-Headed Beast)
Powers Boothe (I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For)
Dayton Callie (Full Faith and Credit)

Boardwalk Empire: Season 2
Michael Pitt (Under God’s Power She Flourishes)
Michael Shannon (Peg of Old)
Michael K. Williams (What Does the Bee Do?)
Charlie Cox (Peg of Old)
Jack Huston (Gimcrack and Bunkum)
Shea Whigham (Gimcrack and Bunkum)

Boardwalk Empire: Season 3
Bobby Cannavale (Margate Sands)
Michael K. Williams (Two Imposters)
Anthony Laciura (Two Imposters)
Stephen Graham (Blue Bell Boy)
Jack Huston (Sunday Best)
Shea Whigham (Sunday Best)

Boardwalk Empire: Season 4
Michael K. Williams (The Old Ship of Zion)
Michael Shannon (Marriage and Hunting)
Stephen Graham (Erlkonig)
Shea Whigham (Farewell Daddy Blues)
Jeffrey Wright (Marriage and Hunting)
Michael Stuhlbarg (All In)

Lost: Season 2
Terry O’Quinn (Live Together, Die Alone)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (The 23rd Psalm)
Naveen Andrews (One of Them)
Dominic Monaghan (The 23rd Psalm)
Josh Holloway (The Long Con)
Harold Perrineau (Two for the Road)

Lost: Season 3
Terry O’Quinn (The Man from Tallahassee)
Josh Holloway (The Brig)
Michael Emerson (The Man Behind the Curtain)
Henry Ian Cusick (Flashes Before Your Eyes)
Dominic Monaghan (Greatest Hits)
Naveen Andrews (Enter 77)

Game of Thrones: Season 4
Peter Dinklage (Mockingbird)
Charles Dance (The Laws of Gods and Men)
Pedro Pascal (Mockingbird)
Rory McCann (The Children)
John Bradley (The Watchers on The Wall)
Kit Harington (The Watchers on The Wall)

Carnivale: Season 1
Toby Huss (Hot and Bothered)
Clancy Brown (After the Ball is Over)
Tim DeKay (Lonnigan, Texas)
Michael J. Anderson (Pick a Number)
Patrick Bauchau (The Day That Was the Day)
Robert Knepper (Hot and Bothered)

Veep: Season 4
Timothy Simons (East Wing)
Tony Hale (East Wing)
Kevin Dunn (Tehran)
Matt Walsh (Tehran)
Hugh Laurie (B/ill)
Reid Scott (Data)

For Supporting Actress, I don’t know if any show has written enough great female roles besides Orange is the New Black, with:

Season 1
Kate Mulgrew (Tit Punch)
Natasha Lyonne (WAC Pack)
Uzo Aduba (Lesbian Request Denied)
Laverne Cox (Lesbian Request Denied)
Michelle Hurst (Imaginary Enemies)
Taryn Manning (Fool Me Once)

Season 2
Lorraine Toussaint (It Was the Change)
Yael Stone (A Whole Other Hole)
Samira Wiley (You Also Have a Pizza)
Danielle Brooks (Looks Blue, Tastes Red)
Uzo Aduba (Hugs Can Be Decieving)
Kate Mulgrew (40 Oz. of Furlough)

Season 3
Taryn Manning (A Tittin’ and a Hairin’)
Lea DeLaria (Finger in the Dyke)
Adrienne C. Moore (Trust No Bitch)
Uzo Aduba (Finger in the Dyke)
Danielle Brooks (Finger in the Dyke)
Samira Wiley (Fear, and Other Smells)

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[Andy Downie Joined: Apr 26th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 42 View Predictions]

#351905

Yeah I’ve thought about this quite a bit, it’s pretty cool IMO.
I’d add to the list
Supporting Actress in Drama
Game of Thrones Season 4
Lena Headey (The Lion and the Rose)
Maisie Williams (The Children)
Sophie Turner (The Mountain and the Viper)
Gwendoline Christie (The Children, from memory)
Natalie Dormer ( The Lion and the Rose)
Emilia Clarke (Breaker of Chains) 

I’m not sure if Justified Season 6 quite deserves it, but it’s close:
Walton Goggnins
Sam Elliot
Jere Burns
Nick Searcy 
Garrett Dillahunt
Jacob Pitts

I’m not sure about seasons and episodes, but West Wing almost actually filled out the whole category a few times:
John Spencer
Bradley Whitford
Rob Lowe
Richard Schiff
Dule Hill
Alan Alda
Jimmy Smits

Arrested Development, again not sure about the seasons
Will Arnett
Jeffrey Tambor
Tony Hale
David Cross
Michael Cera
Ron Howard

Veep season 3
Timothy Simons 
Tony Hale 
Kevin Dunn
Matt Walsh
Reid Scott 
Gary Cole

Parks and Rec season 4
Nick Offerman
Chris Pratt
Adam Scott
Rob Lowe
Aziz Ansari
Paul Rudd/ Jim O’Heir
 
Community- maybe not quite in one seasons, but over the spread definitely
Danny Pudi (seasons 1-3, 5)
Donald Glover (seasons 2-3)
Chevy Chase (Seasons 2-3)
Jim Rash (season 6)
Ken Jeong (season 1)
John Oliver (season 5, but he was terrific as recurring in earlier seasons as well)
Jonathan Banks ( season 5) 

 

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[Noe Joined: Feb 20th, 2014 Topics: 18 Posts: 2668 View Predictions]

#351906

Supporting Actress

Grey’s Anatomy | Season 2
Kate Burton
Katherine Heigl
Sandra Oh
Sara Ramírez
Kate Walsh
Chandra Wilson

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[Noe Joined: Feb 20th, 2014 Topics: 18 Posts: 2668 View Predictions]

#351907

Supporting Actor

Lost | Season 1
Naveen Andrews
Daniel Dae Kim
Jorge García 
Dominic Monaghan
Terry O’Quinn 
Harold Perrineau

 

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#351908

Guest Actor

Hannibal | Season 2
Jeremy Davies
Chris Diamantopoulos
Raúl Esparza
Eddie Izzard
Michael Pitt 
Jonathan Tucker 

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[Guest2014 Joined: Nov 15th, 2011 Topics: 148 Posts: 2504 View Predictions]

#351909

Continuum season 2 (Roger
Cross, Erik
Knudsen, Stephen
Lobo, Omari Newton)
Continuum season 3 (Cross, Brian Markinson, Richard Harmon, Lobo)

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[BenitoDelicias Joined: Nov 3rd, 2010 Topics: 8 Posts: 5128 View Predictions]

#351910

I think Arrested Development could’ve done this

Will Arnett
Tony Hale
David Cross
Michael Cera
Jeffrey Tambor
even Henry Winkler, who at one point had enough episodes to compete here.  

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[Tom_Scavo Joined: Jun 3rd, 2011 Topics: 26 Posts: 855 View Predictions]

#351911

The Good Wife, Season 5:

Josh Charles
Alan Cumming
Matt Czuchry
Matthew Goode
Zach Grenier
Chris Noth

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[Awardsfunyay Joined: Jun 14th, 2013 Topics: 1 Posts: 293 View Predictions]

#351912

Parenthood (Any Season but maybe Season 4 strongest)

Bonnie Bedelia
Erika Christensen
Lauren Graham
Monica Potter
Mae Whitman
Joy Bryant / Sarah Ramos *depending on season

Nashville Season 3

Clare Bowen
Hayden Panettierre
Lennon Stella
Laura Benanti
Judith hoag
Aubrey Peeples 

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[adamunc Joined: Jul 5th, 2011 Topics: 67 Posts: 3723 View Predictions]

#351913

In 1982, Hill St. Blues actually did fill out the whole category for Supporting Actor. Of course, that was when there were five nominees.

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[eric123 Joined: Jul 27th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 67 View Predictions]

#351914

Saturday Night Live

Season 31 maybe
Tina Fey
Amy Poehler
Rachel Dratch
Maya Rudolph
Kristen Wiig 

The Office Season 3

Rainn Wilson
John Krasinski
B.J. Novak
Leslie David Baker
Brian Baumgartner
Ed Helms

Jenna Fischer
Phyllis Smith
Angela Kinsey
Mindy Kaling
Melora Hardin
Kate Flannery

Parks and Recreation Season 3

Aziz Ansari
Rob Lowe
Jim O’Heir
Nick Offerman
Chris Pratt
Adam Scott

Grey’s Anatomy Season 6

Sandra Oh
Chandra Wilson
Sara Ramirez
Chyler Leigh
Kim Raver
Jessica Capshaw

Grey’s Anatomy Season 3

Justin Chambers
T.R. Knight
James Pickens Jr.
Eric Dane
Isaiah Washington
Patrick Dempsey 

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[mikeboy898 Joined: Feb 3rd, 2012 Topics: 31 Posts: 2841 View Predictions]

#351915

Parenthood Season 4 for sure

Happy Endings, Seasons 2 and 3

Parks and Recreation Seasons 3, 4 and 7

Mad Men Season 2, 5 and 6

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#351916

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#351917

Northern Exposure Seasons 2 & 3

Barry Corbin
John Cullum
Darren E. Burrows
John Corbett
Adam Arkin 

Six Feet Under Season 3

Lauren Ambrose
Rachel Griffiths
Justina Machado
Lili Taylor
Kathy Bates 
Joanna Cassidy (not in the third season, but in the second and fifth)

Six Feet Under  Season 1

Richard Jenkins  
Michael C. Hall
Jeremy Sisto
Freddy Rodriguez
 

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[WaltEagle Joined: Aug 10th, 2012 Topics: 1 Posts: 862 View Predictions]

#351918

Happy Endings, Seasons 2 and 3

Parks and Recreation Seasons 3, 4 and 7

I’m pretty sure Parks only had 5 men eligilble this year, and Happy Endings never had more than 3 for a category. 

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