Loved the inclusion of Emmy snubbed Daisy Edgar Jones, Hong Chau and Josh O’Connor. So many others that weren’t that close to being nominated as well.

A little disappointed with the snubs of Zoe Kazan and Lenny Abrahamson, considering their shows did extremely well with noms and both were the best things about them.

Agreed. Outside of O’Hara and Murphy, there’s really nothing that separates Schitt’s Creek from every other run-of-the-mill network comedy for me. Fun but largely unimaginative in both conception and execution.

People come for Eugene but I feel Dan’s shortcomings as an actor are more than often masked because people find his character more fun.…[Read more]

Recently watched it and I hope they at least do away with the unnecessary padding this time around.

But Unorthodox also largely focuses on Esty and Yanky only. I don’t think a couple of scenes with Moishe and Leah make it any more of an ‘ensemble’ show and thus, a more prominent casting pick than something like Normal People tbh.

They are not though. Connell and Marianne’s relationship with their friends and family is an important part of their characters, and indirectly or sometimes directly influences their relationship with each other. In some cases, they are even responsible for driving the story forward, like with Connell’s depression.

Normal People does focus…[Read more]

International Cinephile Society.

I guess it might not exactly be what you were referring to since its members include film academics and journalists as well, and not just critics, but ICS always has more exciting and varied picks (especially in nominations) than any of these critics groups. It certainly breaks the monotony of seeing the same…[Read more]

DRAMA:
Series: Succession
Actor: Brian Cox (Succession)
Actress: Laura Linney (Ozark)
Supp. Actress: Sarah Snook (Succession)
Supp. Actor: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession)
Directing: Prisoners of War (Homeland)
Writing: This Is Not For Tears (Succession)
Guest Actress: Alexis Beldel (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Guest Actor: Giancarlo Esposito (The…[Read more]

I only see a path for Snook to get that deserved win at the moment. Most shows that exploded in acting nominations (GoT S8, WTSU, THT S2) couldn’t manage multiple wins so this would be in line with that. I do hope at least Cox manages to win as well though.

There are many but the ones that hurt the most are Normal People in Series and Daisy Edgar-Jones as I feel they were fairly close to getting those noms.

The more time I spend looking at these nominations the more frustrated I am with how bad and seemingly random they are in general. Even for shows I’m rooting for. Like I love Succession but that Braun nomination was beyond unnecessary and undeserving. Watchmen gets five acting nominations but Chau and Nelson aren’t a part of them?

Critics were really passionate about Unorthodox. The fact that something like LFE, which had a much softer reception got in over it is obviously not good for it. I don’t think there’s any way you can ignore that. Not to mention someone like Ruffalo in a show with middling reviews got nominated over Haas, whom all the critics who had watched the…[Read more]

***SPOILERS***

TMS was a complete mess. This show literally had Hannah as a background character with almost zero focus or character development for the first seven episodes until she needed to be the victim. And when that purpose was served, they unceremoniously killed her and just used her death as a device to further Alex’s character and…[Read more]

Damn. Succession just won the Writing BAFTA, stopping Chernobyl’s near sweep. So well deserved.

Well, this might be the stupidest thing I’ve read here and that includes some guy claiming that we like ‘gay films’ mainly because they have ‘gay’ people in them smh.

1. Snook
2. McTeer
3. Streep
4. Bonham Carter
5. Newton
6. Garner
7. Dern
8. Dowd

(Haven’t seen Seehorn yet)

If you want to talk about going out of the box then that would be nominees like Zoe Kazan, Sex Education, My Brilliant Friend, Elisabeth Olsen, one of the Normal People leads, Maggie Gyllenhaal or The Deuce in general or any show/performer that isn’t in the conversation but deserves to be.

Nominating a performer from a show that has multiple…[Read more]

Kinda predictable and somewhat boring outside of a couple of people. Would have loved some inspired nominations rather than going with the usual suspects.

Why did I think this thread was about the drama series contenders?💀

Agreed but they do need to look into writing better stories for their handful of PoC cast members and not treat them as an afterthought. Creating a more diverse writers room should be the first step as mentioned.