Veep is not winning. It missed directing and it has a total of 9 (NINE!) nods.

Maisel missed writing BUT it has 20 nominations.

These nominations are AWFUL.
GAME OF THRONES got everything for a horrific season.

-5 Glenn Close
-5 Bette Midler
+5 Christine Ebersole – Grey Gardens
+5 Chita (have not seen this; way before my time but I love Chita)

Lea Salonga, Miss Saigon (80)

Glenn Close, Sunset Boulevard (76)

Bette Midler, Hello, Dolly! (55)

Cynthia Erivo, The Color Purple (51)

Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago (37)

Chita Rivera, Kiss of the Spider Woman…[Read more]

+4 Meryl Streep
-4 Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (769)

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice (158)

Olivia Colman, The Favourite (27)

Eliminated:
50. Helen Hunt, As Good as It Gets
49. Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love
48. Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
47. Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy
46. Meryl Streep, The Iron L…[Read more]

This is a rather dumb question but do you think I’d be able to understand what’s going on if I haven’t finished season 2? For some weird reason, I never made it past episode 2 of season 2. But I really wanna see season 3.

THT Season 2 was a mess and didn’t win any awards other than the Emmys. Maisel’s second season is even more beloved than the first one (and I can think of its three SAG wins and one of the rare acting repeats at the Globes). So this is a completely different situation. I can see Maisel sweep.

I’m making some crazy predictions but I prefer going out on a limb than going with all the safe choices.

Best Musical — Hadestown
Best Play — The Ferryman
Best Musical Revival — Oklahoma!
Best Revival of a Play — The Boys in the Band
Best Actress in a Musical — Beth Leavel in The Prom (yeah, I know…)
Best Actor in a Musical — Santino…[Read more]

+4 Meryl Streep
-4 Olivia Colman

Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada (338)

Olivia Colman, The Favourite (236)

Helen Mirren, The Queen (136)

Eliminated:
38. Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
37. Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
36. Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
35. Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
34. Renee Zellweger, Nurse Betty
33. Meryl Streep, The Iron…[Read more]

And now Deadwood has rave reviews, so I can see it winning TV Movie for sure. Isn’t it really weird that in most years, we have a really weak limited series/tv movie nominees and some great drama series nominees. This time around, limited series and TV movie are stacked with great potential nominees and the drama series category is in the worst…[Read more]

That trial was a joke. The man goes on trial for his “crimes”. He starts talking, they tell him to be quiet as he’s a traitor. He then starts talking again, proposed general changes to how the seven kingdoms are ruled. Major changes. And what happens? He even gets to choose the next king. (I won’t even focus on the fact that he already has…[Read more]

I don’t think this Emmy is a sure thing.

Remember last year when The Handmaid’s Tale had a rather dull season (it was nothing compared to the GoT trainwreck though)? We all thought there was no way voters would pass on giving it a second Emmy. It lost.

Yes, GoT is a phenomenon but it had not just a dull season, it had an awful, amateurish…[Read more]

Based on the guild reception, I’d say it’s in. You have to go back to Rome to find a TV drama that won the DGA and then didn’t register with Emmy voters in any major category.

Let’s not forget that Succession also got two WGA nods, the AFI citation and the cast is starry. But above all, this year the Emmys will nominate everything, as they don’t…[Read more]

Only a month has passed but right now I’m thinking GoT ain’t winning writing, even if it submits a single episode.
1) All the GoT controversy/negativity will have an effect on its Emmy performance. Yes, we’re saying it’s probably winning drama series by default (but that’s what we all thought about The Handmaid’s Tale last year and they had a…[Read more]

And yes, they were building up Jon’s narrative for seasons, at the beginning of the episode the Imp was convincing him he was the right one to be king, then five minutes later the Imp decided it was a random character who was right for the throne. And why were these elders asking the Imp who was a prisoner and considered a traitor in the first…[Read more]

This finale was mediocre. Once again, no character motivations, nothing. Things just happened, because the writers wanted them to happen. The character arcs were zilch and dramatically, it was a boring mess. And why have a 80-minute finale when you have a story that can be told in 25 minutes?

GoT winning after such a mediocre season would be a joke. But at least I have this feeling writers will snub it and not even nominate a single episode.

That’s an opinion. And trying to eradicate somebody’s opinion by stating that having this opinion could only be the result of not having watched the show is kinda laughable.

Not everybody finds the performances that great. In my opinion, Cersei’s character development, especially in episode 5, made little to no sense and Headey had no arc, no…[Read more]

This is not real life, this is DRAMA and drama has its rules. Psychological dramatic justification in this episode was zilch, the character development varied between non-existent and ridiculous… and the whole thing was a entertaining mess.

And the Motion Picture Academy never gave her that Honorary Oscar.

I was saying this the entire season (but for some reason, in the end even I believed Close would win): Close simply rubs people in the industry the wrong way. And even when everything was in line for her, she lost. Sunset Blvd. will face many challenges, even if it gets made. Close won the Tony, but that’s a different story. In Hollywood, she will…[Read more]