The Emmys Are Still Addicted to Irrelevancy
The Primetime Emmy noms were announced today. Kudos for recognizing 30 Rock, Extras, and Brothers & Sisters.
Huge mistakes: The Starter Wife, Boston Legal, etc.
More audacious, though, was failing to (again) genuinely recognize some of the best shows on television: The Wire, Gilmore Girls (THROW IT A BONE!), Battlestar Galactica, and Friday Night Lights.
Las Latinas love us some La Betty, but when TV miraculously manages to achieve so much, you cannot nominate Kiefer Sutherland in place of any of the young actors on the finest season of Baltimore's (and America's) mirror.
With that, the three-hour Emmy Awards ceremony will be broadcast Sept. 16 by Fox from the Shrine Auditorium, and we'll be playing new drinking games.
2 comments:
Fabulous. Love every bit, every post. Keep it up, and I'll stay tuned in.
You know I'm feeling this post. The Wire gets no love cuz David Simon has no love for Hollywood or its pretensions, as evidenced by the fact that he dares to shoot on location in Baltimore. Most shows on TV aim to square themselves with the conventions of TV; The Wire is a grand epic that so happens to have used TV as its choice of format. It is, in its own strange way, indifferent to the medium. As such, being validated by the Emmys could only besmirch it.
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