Looking at the submissions for Supporting Actor, if I pretend it’s 2010 and tapes matter the most, damned if I wouldn’t declare Braugher the winner.

Chef’s kiss to the submissions for The Crown.

Gilpin’s options this year aren’t as good as they were last year, but that’s a fine choice. She got to interact with several different characters and had range. Plus her character was the driver in several storylines.

Top-drawer submission from HBC! An exceptional performance; if only tapes mattered, she would win in a landslide.

I don’t understand Hinkle’s submission at all. “It’s the 60s, Man!” was basically built around her character, and “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” had her single best scene with the street freak-out.

Sort of a random selection from Cardellini. Not bad, just random. I guess it has the advantage of not giving Applegate any particular showcase.

Applegate’s submission is actually the best for both ladies, so voters who actually watch reels will see that anyway.

Oh, Olivia. Tsk tsk.

I think HBC would be insane to submit anything other than “Cri de Coeur”. “Margaretology” is great, but it doesn’t have anything to compete with Margaret’s freak-out when she dismisses her husband in “Cri”. And that’s just the biggest of many excellent scenes.

It’s as obvious a choice for her as “Aberfan” is for Colman.

So upsetting about Brent Carver. I saw his marvelous performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman the day the Tony nominations came out. He was just magical and his final tango with Chita Rivera is one of the most memorable moments of my theater-going life.

^^Oh boy! I’m going to knock off work early that day. 🙂

Shalhoub’s is good, not great. I thought his best work of the season was in “Kind of Bleu” with Jason Alexander.

Yeah, the season was very balanced between Jen and Judy. Whatever they submit, each lady will get a two-fer in front of the voters who actually watch tapes.

Applegate’s submission rocks. That scene in front of the traffic commission was epic, and just one of many terrific moments. The only problem with it as a submission is that it also contains fantastic work from Cardellini. Wonder if whatever Cardellini submits will also feature strong material for Applegate?

I would agree that overall her best produced work was at GL, but she was blessed with one of the all-time great writing teams top to bottom during most of her years there. Wonder how much of the success was due to Phelps and how much to the scripts of Curlee, Demorest, Broderick, Mulcahey, et al.

I think voters may feel that it’s “O’Hara’s year”, but Brosnahan will go down swinging if she doesn’t win. That’s by far her best choice and a really strong performance with range for days.

Great submission from Borstein. I was afraid she might submit “It’s Comedy or Cabbage” because of the swimming lesson scene, but “Marvelous Radio” is a tour de force. Time for the three-peat.

Who would really have thought back in March that the answer would be the same in late July? Working from home and grateful that I am able to continue functioning remotely. We first thought we might go back in early May, then early June, then early August but even that looks unlikely now. I’ve given up guessing.

SQ

Seven episodes in and despite some wobbly tonal issues early and general self-indulgence, this is compulsively watchable. I fully support a nomination for Fanning. And I have to imagine this has the Emmy for Period Costumes all — ahem — sewn up.

Numbers don’t sing. Pass.

The segment that streamed yesterday with Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman reminds us that today (July 23) is the 30th anniversary of Reva’s “death” in the Florida Keys.

The most memorable moment of the whole story of Reva’s departure was the scene in which Josh told little Marah her mother had died. It was done in a long shot down a pier with no…[Read more]