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Wait, There's a Show About "Matt LeBlanc"?
The Emmy noms came out and there are literally nominations for shows I've never heard of. Lisa Kudrow must be so pissed about "Episodes," which is about Brits exporting their TV show to America and being forced to cast Matt LeBlanc, who plays himself. Couldn't we just solve TV by bringing back "The Comeback"?
Anyway, just like every year, there's a Supporting Actress (Drama) crisis on hand. Michelle Forbes v. Christina Hendricks v. Kelly Macdonald??? And, in lead actress: PEGGY OLSON v. TAMI TAYLOR??? How is that a choice that can be made? Similarly, for the men: Coach Taylor v. Don Draper? Also, as usual, it's The Emmys, and it's hard to get excited.
"Similarly, for the men: Coach Taylor v. Don Draper?"
I don't know what this means. The answer is so clearly Coach Taylor that I actually can't believe I've been compelled to think about it for more than a second.
@boyofdestiny: GO LIONS!
@boyofdestiny SO AGREE. I don't even know what his first name is. I think it is actually Coach. Coach and Tami, heaven's perfect couple.
@hockeymom The character's first name is Er'c, which is Texan for Mensch.
@boyofdestiny Every morning I look in the mirror and say, "try and be more like Coach Taylor." And by that I mean, marry someone like Tami Taylor.
I feel like they have pretty vanilla sex, but that it is the MOST AMAZING VANILLA SEX IN THE WORLD. Like, exponentially better than our best super-filthy sex.
@Graydon Gordian This is all you need.
I remember when James Spader was nominated for an Emmy and he won the Emmy and I was so happy for James Spader because he finally won the Emmy, and then the announcer said, "This is James Spader's FOURTH Emmy Award for Boston Legal, The Practice, and/or James Cronenberg's Crash".
Why does every single person on Modern Family get nominated for that awful, awful show?
(And yes, I don't care that this is an unpopular opinion. That show is fucking terrible.)
@DorothyMantooth What's it like to live without joy?
@boyofdestiny It's funny! There's so much laughter here.
@DorothyMantooth: You're still wrong, dear!
@DorothyMantooth Watching Modern Family has always felt to me like one episode of a good comedy, whisked together with lukewarm skim milk and ladled out into three or four episodes.
@deepomega On the recommendation of my dear-and-trusted-in-every-aspect-but-this-one friend Moff, I have watched 4 (FOUR!!) episodes of this fucking terrible show. And I may have giggled once. ONCE! I'm pretty sure I was drunk & thinking about something else, though, so.
@DorothyMantooth Maybe there is some kind of show labelling issue we're experiencing because that show is FUCKING TERRIBLE and no one will ever shut the fuck up about how funny it is. We can't all be talking about the same show right?
@winchesterwolcott God bless you, winchester. You're obviously a person of taste and refinement.
Episodes! Unwatchable, but it stars Fran.
In point of fact, I actually loved Episodes. It teeters right on the edge of a "real show" and a "reality TV show" and forces the viewer to confront the mystery – is Matt LeBlanc acting or not acting? And then on the show, when his "character" deceives others by acting, is that the real or "real" Matt LeBlanc?
Coach & Tami win. All awards. Done.
@Emily Morris I want to marry both of them. Or have them adopt me. (except then I would kill that whiny ass Julie and that might wreck the show.)
Plus – "Louie" on FX is the best comedy on TV right now, although it could also be argued that Louie C.K. is not "acting" on that show and so nominating him for Best Leading Actor is some sort of prank.
Peter Dinklage, though!
@pallas I loved him in "Willow".
If Larroquette doesn't win Best Supporting Actor In A Sitcom again, I'm going to be upset.
Oh, I don't watch TV, sorry.
As long as we're sharing unpopular opinions: This last season of Mad Men was fucking terrible. Who knew that breaking up Don and Betty would be the equivalent of Cybil and Bruce Willis getting together on Moonlighting. Big fail, Weiner.
Pleased for Olyphant; Justified hit its stride in the second season.
Boo to no recognition for Sons of Anarchy, but my fandom of Homicide: Life on the Street taught me never to expect anything from Emmy nominations.
@IBentMyWookie Justified has been one of my favorites for awhile, Olyphant is excellent.
@Tyrantanic Olyphant is fucking hot.
Oh man, Michelle Forbes! Remember when she had a sexy, angry alien recurring character on Star Trek: TNG? So angrily sexy? Uh, yeah, I don't remember that either.
Also, when did Friday Night Lights stop being a show that happened on NBC or whatever and start being on a sattelite dish provider?
@jfruh That you can ask that about FNL goes some way toward explaining how it happened.
@jfruh Now I can ignore Friday Night Lights on ESPN Classic.
@keisertroll You'll come around eventually. By which I mean you will both sob and high-five someone with EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
@dntsqzthchrmn: Oh my God, seriously. Every time Mrs. Moff puts it on Hulu, she asks if I want to watch it with her. And I'm like, "Nah, I'm OK."
Cut to four minutes later, my book or laptop is closed, and I am like, "JULIE TAYLOR HOW COULD YOU DOOOOOOO THAT???"
Margo Martindale was nominated for Supporting Drama Actress and will probably lose but man she was wonderful as Mags Bennett in Justified. The showdown in the Church with the coal company was just amazing.
Does… does anyone want to talk about the nominees for outstanding main titles?
@deepomega I'm just gonna scream "Game of Thrones, motherfucker!" over and over again, like I do.
@deepomega Read this as "titties" and assumed without blinking that it was a Hendricks reference.
@MythReindeer As one does.
@IBentMyWookie Too bad they're fake.
"I'LL TAKE 'FAMOUS TITTIES' FOR 600!"
@IBentMyWookie And when you said Hendricks, I thought gin.
@PDrizzle See, I don't think they are! They don't have the stiffness that one sees in the fake ones. And the fact that she was flat-chested in her thinner days reinforces my stance, rather than refutes it.
@PDrizzle I don't think they're fake, either. And I'm a boobxpert.
@IBentMyWookie Even if they're partially fake she still contributed at least 75% of her own stuffing. Plus, she's obviously not meant to be a skinny girl. Sometimes you can lose proportionately more weight in one area when you dip below a certain number.
It's almost like these nominations are popularity contests/pr stunts disguised as a recognition of excellence to boost the Nielsen ratings of an increasingly obsolete award show designed to enance the egos of tv executives! Also, Katey Sagal. Seriously. GIVE HER AN EMMY ALREADY.
Kudrow was robbed.
Community. Community Community Community why do they hate you? (I was pleased to see Splitsider give it some love.) Oh well. If it gets too popular, they might have to stop making awesomely weird episodes.