I will now wrap things
up with Outstanding Limited Series/TV Movie nominations as well as some other
awards. Note: because of scarcity issues, the HCA had fewer nominees in the Broadcast
Cable category than they did streaming. Still that does not mean they didn’t do
a good job.
OUTSTANDING LIMITED
SERIES BROADCAST OR CABLE
First of all, major
points for the HCA for acknowledging Accused with five nominations. In
all candor, I was surprised in that man. Minus points for nominating Flowers
in the Attic over White House Plumbers which otherwise dominated. Well
done for acknowledging both A Small Light and George and Tammy, though
I might have thought they could find room for A Spy Among Friends.
OUTSTANDING LIMITED
SERIES, STREAMING
Ten is a little
extreme, but. Overjoyed to see Beef and Black Bird here. (One up on the
Emmys.) Not particularly happy, but unsurprised to see Fleishman is in
Trouble and Dahmer here. Will
be glad to start watching Daisy Jones and the Six. Thrilled to see Mrs. Davis, willing
to grant latitude for Tiny Beautiful Things and Welcome to
Chippendales. But how the hell to Cabinet of Curiosities and Ms.
Marvel ranked above The Patient and Love & Death? I grant you that at least they gave some
acknowledge to the former below, but I’m kind of appalled that Love and
Death was completely shut out. That’s the HCA’s biggest flaw here. Credit,
though, for not nominating Obi-Wan Kenobi.
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A BROADCAST OR CABLE SERIES
I obviously have no
issues with Michael Shannon or Woody Harrelson: Shannon was nominated by the Emmys
and Harrelson should have been. (White House Plumbers was completely
shut out by the Emmys, their biggest flaw in this particular category.) I won’t
exactly argue Alexander Skarsgard for Documentary Now! Or Josh Groban
for Beauty and The Beast, but they really should have nominated Damian
Lewis for A Spy Among Friends.
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
IN A STREAMING LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE
Steven Yeun, Taron
Egerton, Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Peters have all been nominated for Emmys and
all no doubt deserve to be. They were right to acknowledge Kumail Nanjiani (who
the Emmys did) and righter to acknowledge Steve Carell (who the Emmys didn’t).
Sam Claflin deserved his recognition; I would have preferred to see Bryan
Cranston over Ewan McGregor.
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN
A BROADCAST NETWORK OR CABLE LIMITED SERIES
Few would dispute
Jessica Chastain, the current front-runner for the Emmy and I can see the
reasoning for Bel Powley but where is Sydney Sweeney for Reality or indeed
in the TV movie category at all? Why was it nominated under Max when it aired
on HBO? It makes little sense. I’ll let Cate Blanchett and H.E.R stand.
OUTSTANDING LEAD
ACTRES IN A LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE
What they got right.
Ali Wong, Riley Keough and Kathryn Hahn. Dominque Fishback should have been
nominated for an Emmy. What they also
got right: not nominating Libby Caplan for Fleishman is in Trouble. After
that it gets questionable.
While I’m willing to
allow latitude for Vera Farmiga and Rachel Weisz, the decision to include Iman
Vellani and Amber Midthunder over Sydney Sweeney for Reality, Betty Gilpin
for Mrs. Davis and most egregious, Elisabeth Olsen for Love & Death is
truly appalling. You had room for eight nominees and you couldn’t find room for
even one of them? Shocking.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING
ACTOR IN A BROADCAST NETWORK OR CABLE LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE
No problem with any of
the four nominees. Guy Pearce was superb in A Spy Among Friends, I
advocated heavily for Justin Theroux, Live Schreiber was an early frontrunner for
his work in A Small Light and I can not fault the HCA for recognizing
Wendell Pierce for his role on Accused. (I’d have preferred to see either
Michael Chiklis or Jason Ritter nominated, but what can you do?)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING
ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR STREAMING MOVIE
Ten nominees. What they
got right: Paul Walter Hauser and Ray Liotta for Black Bird, Domhnall
Gleeson for The Patient, Young Mazino for Beef and Murray Bartlett
for Welcome to Chippendales. Richard
Jenkins’ nomination for Dahmer was expected; Timothy Olyphant’s for Daisy
Jones is a delight. I’ll even give latitude for Rainn Wilson
Nikolaj COster-Waldau,
Kieran Tamondong, however – no. This is an occasion where the Emmys out did
you. How could you possibly ignore Jesse Plemons for Love & Death? Greg
Kinnear would have been acceptable; anyone else from Beef, fine. But somehow
you gave an extra nod to Dahmer. This is unworthy of you.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING
ACTRESS IN A BROADCAST OR CABLE LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE
Again no complaints.
Lena Headey and Judy Greer more than earned their nominations (I advocated for
them profusely for Emmys) and Kathleen Turner’s stint as Dita Beard in White
House Plumbers was hysterical. I’ll let Hannah Waddingham have this one,
though I would have preferred Abigail Breslin for Accused.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING
ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE
Claire Danes and Niecy
Nash-Betts were inevitable. I’m thrilled to see Maria Bello and Ashley Park
here for Beef. Many of the other nominees are among my favorite
performers so I have little problem with Annaleigh Ashford and Evan Rachel Wood
being nominated, series unseen. I can understand the logic of Camila Morrone
for Daisy Jones and the Six . I’m surprised to see Sarah Pidgeon
nominated for Tiny Beautiful Things rather than Merritt Weyer, who the
Emmys recognized. I’m disappointed not to see Lily Rabe here rather than those chosen
for Five Days at Memorial and Ms. Marvel.
Best Writing AND Directing
No complaints for the directing
nods for White House Plumbers and the writing and directing nods for A
Spy Among Friends Documentary
Now! (though considering how well they did, one really questions why Flowers
in the Attic: The Origin was nominated for Best Limited series and neither
of them were. Fine with A Small Light for direction, glad to see Accused
nominated for writing.
I am glad to see Black
Bird and Beef receiving
nominations for writing and directing and am fine with Weird: The Al Yankovic
story doing the same. I am thrilled to see Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg
acknowledged for their superb scripts for The Patient and I have little
problem with Tiny Beautiful Things writing and directing nods. I
understand the desire to have Fleishman nominated for writing and Dahmer
for directing
CREATIVE ARTS
No complaints
about any of the animated series or all
of the talk series, though I am irked that Bill Maher was nominated instead of
Seth Meyers. Glad to see Ziwe and
The Black Lady Sketch Show go out of with a nomination even if they are up
against John Oliver and Saturday Night Live. And as a Jeopardy lover, I am
happy to see both Celebrity Jeopardy and Jeopardy Masters competing and the
Jeopardy adjacent The Chase earning nominations for Best Game Show. (Something else for Ken Jennings and James
Holzhauer to compete against each other.)
I hope that the strike
is resolved so I can see who wins the awards next month. Tomorrow I start in
with my reaction to the Emmy nominations. Spoiler alert: I’m not nearly as
happy with them.
SUPPORT THE WGA AND
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD!
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