If Braun gave the same performance on Better Call Saul, he would not be the worst nominee in the category from his show.

Might have already seen the winning tape for drama supporting actress in my personal awards. (Still need to post my 2020 awards.)

I think that Black Mirror would have put up more of fight since it is more clear that it actually is the brand to which it is attached (Black Mirror) as opposed to an offshoot (A Breaking Bad Movie), but El Camino‘s haul of three nominations gave it enough grounds to beat Bad Education if it really had it in it. The shortest answer though is that…[Read more]

I think so now.

HBO finally won movie again after losing the last four years. Before this stretch, they had never lost consecutive awards since they first won the category in 1993.

Was just on The Crown‘s Emmy page and I see that it only won costumes and production design? I had not processed how little it won, so I am even more confused now what the argument for it is.

Comedy is tricky. I do kind of question if The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is capable of winning series anymore or if there will just always be something, like…[Read more]

When you win the Emmy for your first season and get cancelled two days later.  What is the matter with Netflix?

I would definitely feel worse about my predictions score if not for my monetary winnings.  Sagand, I always check your predictions, including this year and I cannot believe how much I discounted them.

This year was a bad one for cinematography and sound mixing, as Succession and Schitt’s Creek missed both, yet won series and directing. Succession even won editing! They did not have the excuse of late premieres; they were just snubbed and it did not matter.

Ah, so you are just saying things that you think that you heard.Barry won lead actor, plus DGA directly over The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Atlanta did not win in a major category at the Emmys or guilds for its season. The Crown won lead actress and directing; The Handmaid’s Tale did not win in a major category at the Emmys or guilds for its…[Read more]

I do not see how it qualifies as a statistic if it seemingly has more exceptions than rules.

I want to say that the production design “statistic” is now among the worst that I have seen.Are you talking about the the canned applause that they recycled from previous years or the applause of the eight people who were on the Zoom call at the time? There was no audience!

Here is my statistics article, mostly about program achievements: https://www.goldderby.com/article/2020/emmy-records-watchmen-schitts-creek/

Have not finished Euphoria. Ranking more as if they were all in a combined category as opposed to how deserving the wins were. The last four are interchangeable; started with an almost opposite order. None of these are bad performances or anything like that.
1. Regina King (beat a better nominee though)
2. Jeremy Strong (only personal acting…[Read more]

Uh, audience?

Limited was Unorthodox.  Directing was the simulation that we needed.  Uzo Aduba beating Jean Smart is as irrelevant as Mark Ruffalo beating Jeremy Irons.  She had co-stars and he was the lone nomination for his show, both mountains to climb.  Drama was Ozark because it tied in nominations and was represented in all key fields.

Ranking shifts:

I moved “Happy Ending” up in directing as I considered a Schitt’s Creek sweep, but I ended up not boarding that train and that coincided with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel unexpectedly variably beating The Crown, Stranger Things, Watchmen and Westworld, so I now have Amy Sherman-Palladino in second, ahead of it.

Moved Fiona Shaw up…[Read more]

Changes in the last week:
Alik Sakharov → Mark Mylod
Steve Carell → Jeremy Strong
Tony Shalhoub → Daniel Levy
Feel great about Strong and Levy, but I felt better about Sakharov when I had him than I do about Mylod now if that makes sense.

My predictions were strong on the middle nights of the Creative Arts and weak on the bookends. I do not know what to do with that. Do I know what I am talking about this year or not?It was an easy prediction for me actually. Not that I felt that he was locked, but I did not really buy any of the alternatives, unlike in comedy guest actress for…[Read more]