Emmys Open Thread: Let's Pretend We Care
You know, it occurs to me that they're going to be handing out Emmys Sunday night, and I haven't done any walk-up posts. Bad TV blogger! I could blame magazine deadlines or fall-TV-screener overload (The War is 15 freaking hours! Ken Burns is trying to kill me!), but who would I be kidding? The truth is, I don't give a crap about the Emmys.
I don't care about awards in general, period, but since we've already established that most of this year's deserving shows, especially dramas, will be shut out or all-but--Friday Night Lights, The Wire, Deadwood, Lost--my level of not-caring about these Emmys is greater than usual. I'll watch and blog it, I'm sure, because that's what you do, but the magic is gone, people. Mainly I want to see whether, if The Sopranos wins, they cut to a black screen in the middle of David Chase's acceptance speech.
Still, I throw this thread open to any pre-Emmy discussion. Here's a starter topic. Boston Legal: Best drama of the year? Or best pop-culture work of all time?
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BL: best show ever (in recent memory, that is)
cheers, John
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The only reason BOSTON LEGAL gets nominated every year is because every episode contains someone ranting and raving against Bush/Republicans/conservatives. Hollywood eats that up!
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I'll DVR it to fast-forward to the comedy awards... and past Seacrest.
If 30 Rock can take home a few statuettes, that will be at least something. I'm one of the apparent few who see Ugly Betty as a 2nd-tier show (kinda congruent, dramatically speaking, to Boston Legal).
Wins by The Sopranos are pretty much a foregone conclusion. Taken as an award for the whole series, and not just the last season, I'm cool with that.
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The last season of The Sopranos was still better than anything else nominated, better than anything on television except The Wire. (This was my favorite Wire season, and my favorite Sopranos season since the first.) I'd like to see 30 Rock win best comedy just for the exposure, but those are the only two awards I care about. I'll be flipping between football and baseball Sunday night, so I'll have to wait to find out what America's lowest common denominator (you know, the midwest) decided was the best television of the year.
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Boston Legal should win because Angel of Death is a masterpiece of television. Three seasons on the air and it finally finally got nominated for Best Drama, not just Spader or Shatner or Bergen but the show itself which means directing, writing, producing, other cast members. They all had a part not just Spader. Spader is great but really how would Spader be without the writing of Kelley? Angel of Death, Son of The Defender, Lincoln and On The Ledge, and Trial of the Century and The Good Lawyer all would make Boston Legal a worthy Best Drama winner and I hope it can pull off an upset over The Sopranos the same way the Practice did. Fingers are crossed for a Boston Legal victory.
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I am having a fantasy right now where Vic Mackey gets Denny Crane and James Spader (whatever his character's name is) alone in a room and makes them pee in their pants, purely from the humiliation of his superior acting.
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