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Yeah, Emerson rocks on LOST, but the fact that LOST got snubbed in every other category just proves that this is a popularity contest. LOST was amazing this season.

This is why I don't watch award shows anymore.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter, since "The Sopranos" is surely a slam-dunk to win, but how much better would it have been to see a list like this: "The Wire," "Deadwood," "Friday Night Lights," "Battlestar Galactica" and "The Sopranos."

I fully see The Sopranos sweeping 90% of all of it's categories. I rewatched the finale last night and damn the ending still irritates me. My husband never really watched The Sopranos and after last night's finale, all he could say was "I'm glad I never really got into this show, because otherwise I would be pissed".

What is the deal with 2.5 Men? Anyone?? Also, the Academy needs to realize that "Boston Legal" = comedy.

Melody - I'm not sure Boston Legal counts as a comedy. More dramedy, IMO. OK, Shatner (yes, his schtick IS old). But they often try cases which have some depth to them. And I'm not ashamed to admit the show has occasionally wrung a tear from me!

As for the nominations... *sigh* well but what did we expect? Emmys=safe crap, every time. Of course no proper notice of Wire, Dexter, Deadwood, VM etc. is taken by the committee. I just keep telling myself that we have actual TASTE, and the committee clearly don't....

Top Chef just keeps getting worse with every season. That Padma, spokes...ah thing, drags the whole thing down with her slurring anorexic pablum. The rest of the judges are just doing cameos and Colicchio acts like a grade A "I'm not your fucking mentor" douchebag. I don't even know why they brought in that Queer Eye dude, he's being wasted. I also find the South Florida setting extremely annoying and vulgar.

I'm not saying Tina Fey deserved her nomination -- I don't think she was really kidding that much when she called it "outrageous" -- but who would you have liked to see in her place?



Also, fuck everyone on Scrubs...Jack McBrayer was robbed.

'The Wire"? Well maybe if those people stopped selling drugs and talking in their ebonics and got nice white respectable jobs, oh, and fucked each other and bitched about it, you know "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", they'd get a little credit.

I'm a new convert to the Deadwood love, having just rented all 3 seasons-the fact that Ian McShane, Jim Beaver (!! brilliant), Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown (perfection), Tim Olyphant, Brad Dourif, and Paula Malcomson could all be ignored makes my hair fall out.

And nothing for James Callis, Mary McDonnell, Donald Faison, Kyle Chandler, Lauren Graham, and Kristen Bell? Do the voters watch t.v.?

No emmy nods for the wire? Grey's Anatomy for best dramatic series? What the hell is this world coming to?

Once again, Battlestar Galactica gets the shaft. But I'm not surprised. I suspect that once next season airs and the show closes down, the cast may actually get the love they deserve, ala Jackson's Lord of The Rings. Well, I hope anyway. Ron Moore has to keep the scripts fresh and focused, and keep them from wandering like bits of Seasons 2 and a large chunk of 3.

Maybe I'm just hoping for too much. As I get older, it seems to be that culture seems incapable of recognizing and rewarding quality in it's moment, but only seeing the quality after the moment has passed. Some time LONG past.

The only shows I watch are House, Psych, and Lost, so that's all I can really comment one. I'm thrilled with the noms for House, and while I'm sure Sopranos will take them, I'll keep hoping House does. Lost, I'm happy was shut out of the Drama Series picture, because it was far from outstanding this season. I do have to disagree with your comment on Terry O'Quinn's nom; his screentime was more limited this season, but he was amazing as ever in what he did have. Psych > Monk, so some recognition for them would've been nice, but what can you do?

"Inexplicable six nominees"? Try reading the Emmy rules booklet from the Emmy sites and it won't be so inexplicable. =) Every year there are categories with 6 nominees, this year just happened to be more, and an important one, at that.

"Jack McBrayer was robbed."-- Truer words were never spoken, Alex.

I also have no problems with the Tina Fey nomination, but it's because I have seen her grow SO much during the season. Her character isn't flashy, so the performance isn't flashy- just a mix of grounded and very nearly spinning off her axis. And I guess I take into account that she wrote the character, and based it on herself, which seems to be an additional hurdle to overcome when trying to portray that onscreen.

I would be outraged about Veronica Mars, but I can think of more episodes that pained me in season 3 than episodes that pleased me. But, as always, they should have been forking over awards to Kristen Bell ages ago...

FYI: It's spelled "Sarah Chalke" not "Chalk"

And dear Lord, if Michael Emerson doesn't win I will throw something at the television.

After seeing a few episodes of this season, I sat down and watched the first season of The Wire, and feel that my life has been a sham for the last few years. It's hands down the best drama since the first seasons of the Sopranos. But like you said, its as if it doesn't even exist. I'm completely hooked.

AH! And LOST! Season three post episode 6 was incredible, due in large part to Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, who is to Lost what Snape is to Harry Potter.

I'm going to freely admit that I have never seen the majority of these shows, not because I'm some elitist slag, but because I don't live in the States, and don't get very many channels. From what I've read, Senor Whore's opinions are pretty much in line with mine, but still:

1) Can they just name David Chase 'Emperor of Television' or something, and be done with it?

2) If you can't remember Heigl's performance, that's a good thing. Obviously these G.A. nominations are a pat on the head for the three-ring circus that has been the media surrounding this show. Because anybody with a higher brain function than a coked-up hamster knows that rock bottom is about four flights up for this show. I used to watch this show sporadically because nothing else was on, and it was something to have in the background while doing homework. But it's intolerable now, and I gave up halfway in this season. As much as I hate, loathe and detest what Isaiah Washington did/said, I don't see the point in pity-nominating Heigl and Knight--they just weren't that good, yeah they had nothing to work with, but was anybody floored by the pouting they did in the first two seasons? Thought not. I've been called every dirty name in the book, where's MY Pulitzer, where's MY Bentley? *Sigh* A lot of whiny histrionics and vision-busting sport-fucking from the both of them. Pouting does not a good performance make. Now that Washington is off of the show, Sandra Oh will have something new to do. Of the acting nominees on this show, I'd say the most deserving would be Chandra Wilson, if for no other reason, then it's because she seems to be the only one on this show who can do something other than stare wistfully at someone she used to fuck whist Snow Patrol plays in the background.

4) Okay, I LOVE The Office, I really do, and maybe this has more to do with the writing than anything, but is anyone else completely tired of Pam's mopey indecisive crap? Two years ago I would've been all over the Jim/Pam relationship, but honestly, I can't sympathise with the character anymore. She's become so grating over this last season that she may be my least favourite character now (HOLD YOUR FIRE!), and I kind of want her to get out of the way so that the big people can have a conversation. I really enjoy Rainn Wilson's performance, but I hope that the powers that be don't decide to make this show the All Dwight, All Day show. I don't want him to have to suffer some kind of Steve Urkel career purgatory because of it.

3) Forgive me kids for the whole spelling crap. I think Second Becky's last name is Chalke. I've seen enough of Scrubs to know that as far as characters on this show go, I'm SO DONE with Braff and Chalke. Those two characters are in circle-jerk territory and they're bugging the sweet living hell out of me. At this point, if I do watch, it's only because of Turk, Cox and Kelso.

4) And I have no beef with you on this, because I've never met a person who spells it correctly, but I assume the nominee's last name is 'Malcolmson'. My last name is Malcolm, and the second 'l' is always left out, so it's not a big deal. But, um...I guess I just thought I'd say something.

5) Hugh Laurie can do no wrong to me, so there. Heck, they could give his stubble an award and I'd cheer. I'm sure the same is true of Ricky Gervais, but I've never seen Extras because of the whole 'no money' thing. I will one day, because I'm sure it's great just like everything else he does (I enjoy him).

6) I'm surprised about Lauren Graham too. That show got pretty g**damned shitty in the last few years, and it could be pretty annoyingly cutesy in the first place. But from what I saw, she was the only thing that kept it halfway decent.

7) Hmmm, I can see why Charlie Sheen gets all of those acting nominations. It must be a HUGE stretch to play an aging, smarmy, pathetic teenager poonhound. Give this man an Emmy! Ugh, can't he play 'Hide the Purple Parsnip' somewhere other than on television?

I realize that it is ineligible for awards, and struggle mightily to come to terms with that, but can we please throw some praise at The Shield?

I'm with you, Seth. Michael Hogan needs himself some Emmy love. That man is a fraking genius of an actor (and I second that James Callis AND Mary McDonnel deserve nods too).

I'm not sure I agree with your assesment that every episode of Rome's second season was brilliantly written. Mind you, I LOOOOOOVE that show, but the fact that the writers wasted a sizeable chunk of four or five early episodes on a story about Timon and his brother which went ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE makes them go down just a peg. Okay, maybe half a peg.

And "Boston Legal," while a guilty pleasure of mine, is not really award-worthy, IMO. It seems to me like the acting on it is pretty much rote, middle of the road stuff. Sure, Shatner is all right (I don't think his schtick has gotten TOO old...yet), and sure, it's sort of a dramedy (although, frankly, it's a show that's at its best when it's aiming for laughs rather than making a point, but that's just me). I would have much rather seen "BSG" on the drama category. That show really deserves it.

As does "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." But on the comedy category. Of course.

Now, do you really hate "Two and a Half Men" more than any other show on the air? More than "According to Jim?" (I've never watched either of these shows, so I can't speak for their quality. They do, however, seem very pedestrian and "been there, done that" in style and content, based on the advertising for them, which is why I haven't watched them.)

All right, enough ranting from me.

I'm SO glad to finally see you giving a little love to How I Met Your Mother, and I'm very happy to see Neil Patrick Harris get a nod. He is fantabulous on that show.

Where is that dramedy catagory in the Emmy's? It applies to so many shows that are on now. Maybe the problem is finding a good name for it. Dramedy doesn't sound very good.

I think both of the Lost nominations are well deserved, but I'm a little biased. However, with that bias I'll just say that, objectively, Lost is one of the best shows ever made. How's that for you? I also find my judgement clouded with Entourage because of how much I love that show. Maybe it's not one of the best comedies on the air, but I honestly wouldn't know because of my feelings for it. I'm pretty happy about the comedy series nominations, but Ugly Betty needs to be somewhere else, as mentioned above.

Armando - 2.5 Men is THAT bad, because it pretends to be so great when it's not. It's like the douchebag of TV shows. There's no pretense with According To Jim. No award nominations, no one of influence discussing its merits, nothing. But with 2.5 Men, there's all this polish on the outside to make it seem great, but it's also kind of a jerk. It would pick a fight and then be the first one to run like a coward. I think According To Jim would be dumb enough to stay in the fight until it was good and bloody, at least for the honor. Isn't that essentially what happened in its renewal process?

I am annoyed that How I Met Your Mother didn't get any writing noms that I'm aware of. Also, there's actually a "best original song" catagory, and "Let's Go to the Mall" wasn't nominated?

Lame.

This is why I stopped paying attention to the Academy Awards about five years ago -- while most of the material selected clears the bar of being at least good, the nominations routinely leave out the best selections. Awards shows are just about meaningless for recognizing the best of anything.

Case in point: The Wire is easily, hands-down, no-contest, the best show on television and has been since the day it debuted. It is probably one of the five-best TV shows ever. It should be working on a consecutive-years string of Best Drama wins. That it isn't proves the Emmys aren't doing what they claim to intend; that The Wire isn't nominated for anything at all proves the Emmys aren't just playing it safe, they're completely unrepresentative of quality programming.

Solution: Stop watching. When the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys become irrelevant, something else will take their place, and it might be better; it might not be, but a chance of improvement is better than nothing.

Question: Did someone say The Shield isn't eligible for an Emmy? Why not?

Yeah for the Rome love! The writers had to condense the hell out of Season 2, but it still proved to be one long highlight reel for James Purefoy. He and Polly Walker were definitely robbed of any award-show glory. Same for anyone on BSG. Tigh gets his eye gouged out in detention, has to kill his wife for betraying the resistance and ends of being a Cylon - that's not emmy material?

Ohh, sigh. Awards shows, why so suck?

I'm with you on the frustration regarding How I Met Your Mother -- it's a hell of a lot funnier than Two and a Half Men, it has much better characters that are far less one-sided, the actors give better performances, and, best of all in my geeky little brain, the producers seem bent on including as many Joss Whedon alums as they possibly can as one-shot supporting characters.

The cocksuckers just keep rubbing salt in my Deadwood wounds. They may as well just feed me to Wu's pigs and get it over with. Can you just imagine the wool in those brains as they weighed the choice of Ian McShane versus Kiefer Sutherland and decided to go with Kiefer? Obviously, the Emmy nominees are picked by the same people who vote in the red states. It's the only explanation I can come up with.

I have but one suggestion:

The cast of Deadwood should go to the Emmys- in character.

Calamity Jane is hands-down one of the best, most original female characters of all time. Robin Weigert is astonishing- god dammit!

Nobody commands attention like Al Swearingen. He makes Tony Soprano look like a goodamn hooplehead whining about his mother. The man oozes charisma...

Oh, my God. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was so BORING. It was like this really depressing slice of life in Native American history. Not at all compelling. It deserves a nom for costuming sure, but not performance. Adam Beach was totally phoning it in, Anna Paquin and August S. were wasted...ugh. I agree, Seth. What a huge disappointment.

Yes, The Wire (brilliant, edgy, and smart) has been robbed time and time again, yet garbage like Grey's keeps getting accolades. Why? Haven't they all slept with each other by now?

Extras definitely deserves a nod, but I don't think it's hyped enough, which is a good and bad thing. It's good because HBO doesn't shove it down our throats like the Sopranos, but not enough hype can lead to it being ignored. That's my take on it, anyway. Although Extras did get nominated for Best Directing in a series, I think.

There should definitely be a dramady category. Although I don't care for Ugly Betty, (too cutesy and campy for it's own good) it's earned it's place, but not as a simple comedy.

Dude, Marianne...I haven't seen the third season of BSG yet! Dammit, I went this long with no spoilers.

I'm so with you on the lack of love for VM. Such a shame, too. And I know you're not a fan of House, so I'll let your lack of enthusiasm pass, especially since you have no problem with Hugh. I think it's a dream come true. I'm especially disappointed that they didn't nominate John Kraskinski. I think his performance, while not as "comedic", is certainly more subtle.

To M: before I get out my rifle, I suggest you watch "Beach Games" (That's episode 22) before making such statements about Pam. I think she's turning over a new leaf.

Lost was freaking robbed. I'm incredibly biased, but it was robbed. But the producers should have sent Greatest Hits instead of Through the Looking Glass; GH is excellent as well and more stand-alone.
On the good side, I'm glad that Rome got some nominations. I haven't seen the second season yet but if its anywhere as good as the first, It deserves them completely.

Thank you, THANK YOU for mentioning James Purefoy's snub. If there was one actor who I really felt earned an award this year, it was him and I was furious to see him off the list. I thought it was a crime, especially after hearing that the tape submitted for him was his brilliant performance in the season finale.

I am continually frustrated that the Emmy's keep nominating garbage like Two and a Half Men, because it just encourages producers to keep making more garbage.

Patricia Arquette whines through every line of dialogue on Medium. I was flipping channels once and stopped to watch the horror of her making her fugly children breakfast while trying to help the one cope with seeing visions or death or her own face in the mirror. I didn't know and didn't care. What startles me was the high pitched voices and the hideous hideous dialogue. There are good child actors out there and cute kids who can't really act but don't wreck every scene that they are in, but the kids on that show... wow. I To be fair to the fans of that show I haven't watched an actual episode, but I have suffered through the occasional commercial for it and seen several minutes from different episodes and I can safely say that the fact that that show is even on the air is a travesty much less deserving of emmy recognition. Fuck you establishment.

Lost deserves every snub it gets.

The nominations for 24 are the most inexplicable to me. I stopped watching, but wasn't this season really, really, poor?

Thank you for your love on Scrubs and Dexter!!! I fell head over heels for Michael C. Hall on Six Feet Under, and was absolutely enthralled with his portrayal of Dexter.

As for Scrubs, that show has kept me sane this summer. I hadn't watched it until this summer, when I found myself without a job, thousands of miles away from friends and four months away from next semester. However, the frequent reruns help lift my spirits. Sure, JD and Eliot can be annoying, but it's worth it for Dr. Cox. Remember how I said I love Michael C. Hall? I super-de-duper love John C. McGinley. Must be the C's.

Fair enough bonnie, I didn't get to see the last two episodes, and they only ever seem to show the George Foreman Grill episode in re-runs. I tried to hit up my sister for details on what happened, but GOOD GAWD she just confuses me.

Slightly OT: can someone please tell me what the appeal is with "How I Met Your Mother"? I've tried, really I have, but I cannot see what's so great about that show (besides Jason Segel, but that's only because I've got the hots for him). I've never laughed once, and have even found myself rolling my eyes before changing the channel (after blowing a kiss to sweet Jason, of course).

Seriously, can someone help me out here?

What?! No nomination for Rock of Love? Absolute travesty. Seriously, I think these nominations are made before the season even begins ... by caged monkeys hopped up on Red Bull and speedballs while forced to watch a continual loop of Two and 8/9ths Men with electrodes attached to their privates.

I get why FNL got so few award nominations, and why Kyle Chandler was snubbed: he plays a man, who is both tough and good, and is miles away from the condescending elitism that characterizes Hollywood.

So too the total neglect of Dennis Haysbert in the Unit. His acting along with Chandler stands out as some of the best performances. Both playing mature men who know who and what they are, in beautifully written roles.

Neither character or show is "trendy, edgy, or hip." Merely tough and intelligent and straightforward (the Unit has many episodes written by David Mamet, if you are a fan of his work it's well worth your while). But what do you expect of Gary Cooper types in the age of Lindsay Lohan?

I suspect politics plays a part too: you can't have a broadly sympathetic view of the military or football and their role in society and do well in Hollywood's McCarthy-esque hothouse society. There is an informal blacklist against Conservatives and conservative themed projects in Hollywood.

Not only is "Everything Comes Down to Poo" a music/lyrics nominee, so is "Dick In a Box." That's the Emmys in a nutshell, yes? A bunch of dicks in the idoit box making sure everything comes down to shit?

Unbelievable that Gilmore Girls is now off the air, with Lauren Graham never getting a nod.

I would talk about starting the revolution if "30 Rock" and "The Office" hadn't been nominated, but WHERE THE HELL IS "EXTRAS"? And why the hell wasn't Stephen Merchant nominated in the supporting actor category? Are you effing kidding me? Who the shit watches "Two and a Half Men"? WHO, DAMMIT? OWN UP.

God, awards shows are total crap.

Why haven't I heard anyone mention "Big Love"? I've recently started watching, and it's one of the most beautifully acted and well-written shows I've ever seen.

I've never going to watch the emmy's again just for the fact that they completely ignored this season of The Wire. Not even a nomination in a shit category, just nothing. I guess it is too much to invest time into a show that captures the reality of life in urban America. I guess people really do have a hard time watching something that actually has a message and a stance on the state of the world that we live in.

Kristy - agree 100 % with respect to "Big Love." It'd best get its props next year.

I've come to a conclusion about "The Wire": It keeps getting snubbed because it's, essentially, about black people. This is the only reason I can think of why this heartbreaking, brilliant, fucking amazing show keeps getting overlooked. I welcome alternative theories.

Grey's Anatomy. I, admittedly, have seen it but a few times. It fucking blows. What does this show offer that ER didn't? Seriously? It is overwrought and the story lines couldn't be more pat and ridiculous. Ditto for the acting.

The Emmy's never end their complete failures in nominations. The fact that a 'Lauren Graham' rule stands (in folklore, but still) is horrifying. Great performances that are seen by anyone at all. Achieving mediocrity in front of a large audience does not a good show make.

And where the fuck is the love, any love, for 'Big Love'? I love it!