It's been a long time since I got anything up on here review wise, but the Emmy Awards were last night which gives me a great chance to get something up and start regular reviews again. So here are my reactions from what I consider the most important categories.
Best Drama Series, Winner: Breaking Bad
Anyone who knows me will know that I have absolutely ZERO problems with this win. I believe Breaking Bad to be the second best show ever created very closely behind The Wire. (As a side note, if they have an amazing ending next week, it could jump The Wire for best of all time.) While the other nominees are great shows, and I recommend all of them, Breaking Bad is leaps and bounds ahead of the others, at least this past year.
Best Actor, Drama Series, Winner: Jeff Daniels from The Newsroom
WHAT?!? That was my reaction immediately upon hearing that win. I would have sworn Bryan Cranston was in line for his fourth Emmy for his performance as the greatest character ever put on television in Walter White from Breaking Bad. Though after I thought about it, Jeff Daniels, who is great as a news anchor in HBO's The Newsroom, richly deserved this award. My hat's off to you sir.
Best Actress, Drama Series, Winner: Claire Danes from Homeland
Awards shows continue to give Homeland more credit than it probably deserves. While the show is great, and Claire Danes intricate performance as a slightly deranged CIA agent is incredible, Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men was better this year. She was incredible and I believe should have won this award. I think Vera Farmiga from Bates Motel and Robin Wright from House of Cards were both more deserving as well.
Best Supporting Actor, Drama Series, Winner: Bobby Cannavale from Boardwalk Empire
This was another surprise win, and another bad choice in my opinion. If you aren't giving this award to Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad for a third time, then it needed to go to Mandy Patinkin who is the greatest actor working in television today. His performance from Homeland is intricate, and is acted to perfection by the man who gave us my favorite line in the history of film (Hello. My name is Inigo Montaya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.).
Best Supporting Actress, Drama Series, Winner: Anna Gunn from Breaking Bad
While I am very pleased to have a win for Breaking Bad and Anna Gunn is great, I do not believe she was the best in the category. Her performance in the season this award covers was amazing, but I would have loved to see a win for Christina Hendricks from Mad Men. She was just breathtaking and not just by being absolutely beautiful in a Marilyn Monroe type style. Her performance was just incredible this season and has gotten better each and every year Mad Men has been airing.
Best Comedy Series, Winner: Modern Family
I have no problem with this at all, except for one thing: Big Bang Theory was also nominated. That is the single funniest show on television today and should have won this. Though because it didn't, Modern Family is the obvious choice in a day and age when the good sitcoms are few and far between.
Best Actor, Comedy Series, Winner: Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory
This is positively the perfect choice. Jim Parsons is a genius of a comedic actor, and Sheldon Cooper is positively the funniest character on television all because of this tremendously talented actor.
Best Actress, Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus from VEEP
In my nomination reactions post, I mentioned that I think they butchered this category. They missed the two best comedic actresses on television today in Zooey Deschanel and Mindy Kaling, both of whom should have been nominated. Instead we nominated leads from three shows (VEEP, Enlightened, and Nurse Jackie) that aren't even funny which leaves us with a horrible category. If you were going to pick one of the people here, at least pick the funniest woman alive in Tina Fey.
Best Supporting Actor, Comedy Series, Winner: Tony Hale from VEEP
If you are going to say that Modern Family is the best comedy show on TV, then this award needs to go to one of the three men nominated in this category. All three richly deserve the award though my vote would go to Ty Burrell, who's character Phil Dunphy is the second best character on comedic television (next to Sheldon Cooper).
Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series, Winner: Merritt Weaver from Nurse Jackie
Edie Falco, who is a genius actress in her own right, plays the title character in Nurse Jackie and has admitted that this show is not a comedy, so it begs the question, why is someone not in a comedy winning this award? Mayim Bialik has one of the funniest characters on television today in Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory and she absolutely should have won this award. If you aren't going to give it to the obvious best choice, then Julie Bowen from Modern Family would have been a great choice as well.
A couple other notes. I am happy that Bob Newhard, a living legend, won an Emmy for his great performance on just one episode of The Big Bang Theory this past season. I was also happy to see the wins for The Colbert Report as well, which is one of my favorite shows on TV. Let me know what you guys think, and if you have any old movies, or movies you know are coming out soon, you would like to see me review, let me know.
