The Emmys were last night, and I’m going to have several posts talking about various aspects of the show and which actresses had the best cleavage and whatnot. But first, let’s talk about who won (and didn’t win) the little wingèd statues.
I’ve got a full list of winners below (with my sparkling commentary, of course), but here’s the short version: “Modern Family” is the only sitcom Emmy voters watch; Margo Martindale and Peter Dinklage got awesome wins for “Justified” and “Game of Thrones”; “Mad Men’s” sole Emmy was its fourth straight win for Best Drama; and “Friday Night Lights” finally got some recognition with wins for writing and lead actor (Kyle Chandler).
Outstanding Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family (Winner)
The Office
Parks And Recreation
30 Rock
Make no mistake: “Modern Family” is an excellent show. It’s well-written and well-acted, and I understand that its appeal as a family comedy is broader than that of other series. But the only time “Modern Family” nominees lost last night were when they lost to other “Modern Family” nominees.
Outstanding Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Game Of Thrones
The Good Wife
Mad Men (Winner)
Works for me. “Mad Men” was probably most deserving, but it would’ve been nice to see “Friday Night Lights” get a nod.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory (Winner)
Johnny Galecki as Leonard Hofstadter, The Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Louis C.K. as Louie, Louie
Steve Carell as Michael Scott, The Office
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
Naturally, my choice would be Louis C.K., but it was a miracle he was even nominated. The real crime here, as noted by “Parks and Rec” showrunner (and former “Office” writer) Michael Schur:
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, Dexter
Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor, Friday Night Lights (Winner)
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House, House
Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens, Justified
Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Mad Men
A crowded field, even with the absence of three-time winner Bryan Cranston due to “Breaking Bad’s” prolonged absence. Olyphant was terrific in “Justified’s” stellar second season, and Hamm has never been better as Don Draper, but I can’t begrudge Coach Taylor finally getting some recognition. Clear hearts and all that.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison, The Big C
Melissa McCarthy as Molly Flynn, Mike & Molly (Winner)
Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, Parks And Recreation
Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance, Raising Hope
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, 30 Rock
The nominees assembling onstage like beauty pageant finalists was one of the highlights of the night (and Amy Poehler’s idea), but what bothers me is that there were only two comedy categories where “Modern Family” didn’t have a nominee, and the winners were Jim Parsons and Melissa McCarthy, who’s good but clearly got the award because Emmy voters liked Bridesmaids.
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Connie Britton as Tami Taylor, Friday Night Lights
Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, The Good Wife (Winner)
Kathy Bates as Harriet “Harry” Korn, Harry’s Law
Mireille Enos as Sarah Linden, The Killing
Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson, Mad Men
At least it wasn’t Kathy Bates?
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill as Jay Pritchett, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker, Modern Family
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Modern Family (Winner)
Jon Cryer as Alan Harper, Two and a Half Men
Yup, four of the best six male supporting actors in televised comedy are on “Modern Family.” Certainly not Nick Offerman or Danny Pudi.
F*ck you, TV Academy.
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones (Winner)
Josh Charles as Will Gardner, The Good Wife
Alan Cumming as Eli Gold, The Good Wife
Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder, Justified
John Slattery as Roger Sterling, Mad Men
Andre Braugher as Owen, Men of a Certain Age
I loved seeing Dinklage win, although I have to deduct a couple points for him calling Goggins “Walter” as he acknowledged the other nominees. C’mon, man! He was equally deserving of that Emmy, get his name right.
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester, Glee
Betty White as Elka Ostrosky, Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Modern Family (Winner)
Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig as Various characters, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, 30 Rock
At least it wasn’t Betty White?
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder, Boardwalk Empire
Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale as Mags Bennett, Justified (Winner)
Michelle Forbes as Mitch Larsen, The Killing
Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris, Mad Men
F YEAH MAGS BENNETT.
Next page: all the miniseries/movie awards, writing awards, reality stuff, et cetera.
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“Clear hearts and all that.”
No no no no, it’s “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!”
Yes, I watched FNL way too much, but am really happy Chandler got it. Biggest surprise to most people but long overdue.
“Modern Family” is so generic and safe that I am not surprised it won most categories. “Community” not getting a nomination still hurts.
No love for “Boardwalk Empire” which I think is right. It’s got some great stuff, but also seems so slow and self entitled at other times.
Jim Parsons wins again? Fuck you Emmys!
The Jimmy Fallon GIF is just glorious.
Big Bang Theory sucks. Jim Parsons may be good on it, but that’s like saying a piece of corn on a turd was tasty when it went down.
Modern Family may be generic and safe, but it makes me laugh, so I guess I’ve reached that point in my life, or at least on Wednesday nights. The cast is undeniably talented so it’s hard for me to get too upset about any of their nominations or wins. That said, Michael Scott for President!
Even though I love Modern Family, I can agree that the total Emmy domination is annoying. But it’s not like the voters would let Community and Parks & Rec win without it. They’d probably just fill all the categories with the goddamn Big Bang Theory.
Lesser evils, y’all.
I don’t think I’m being unreasonable when I say that I should be put in charge of every award show’s In Memoriam segment from now on.
I guess Fat Mac’s nod will be next year…Tommy Bahama shirts in lieu of tuxes.
You can’t simultaneously be happy that Kyle Chandler won an Emmy while continuously braying that you never seem to be able to watch an episode of Friday Night Lights. Well, you can, because you’re an internet tv blogger, but you know what I mean.
No Nick Offerman, no Community, and Raylan Givens didn’t win. Fuck these awards. Fuck them.
I love Mad Men, but last season was hardly its best.
The Emmys. At least we’re not the Golden Globes.
Mad Men is awesome if you like to laugh once a week over racism, sexism and cigarettes. Personally it bores me to death.
Glee didn’t win anything so basically that’s a complete victory overall.
It was a good night for Modern Family. I hate to draw attention from Chris Hansen, but am I the only one that noticed a certain cast member apparently went through puberty? Yowza.
Community actually won as many awards as Mad Men, even if it was just some bullshit, non-televised animation trophy. Still, that’s one more than Archer or Parks and Rec or The Office or Louie.
I’m not sure if I’m happy or sad about that? I’ll just go with the default emotion: pissed.
“Emmy voters vote Democrat” fucking great no wonder this whole show was a steaming pile of dogshit.
@Steve Holt! This article is for you: [www.usmagazine.com]
Every time I turned on the Emmys last night someone with a British accent was accepting an award.
The Imp aka Tyrion is a role of a lifetime for a dwarf. Dinklage can win this award as long as GoT is being made.
Also, that’s a pretty piss poor nominee list for Best Actor in a Comedy. Johnny Galecki?? MATT LEBLANC??!?? You have to be kidding me. I don’t watch Big Bang, but how can it have two leads anyway? And Charlie Day needs a nom somewhere, Jesus.
It would have been great if Michael Schur dropped a “FUCK THE HECK” in that tweet.
/miss you FJM
Best non-scripted event of the night:
Gwyneth Paltrow: “The tele-prompters down, so I’m just gonna wing it. The nominees for outstanding comedy are”
Yeah, very creative. Cunt.
You can’t simultaneously be happy that Kyle Chandler won an Emmy while continuously braying that you never seem to be able to watch an episode of Friday Night Lights.
Or maybe I’ve been watching FNL on Netflix for the last month, you fucking twat.
@UU If the show follows the book in regards to amount of pages/screen time, Dinklage should be Lead Actor for the next season, Tyrion has even more chapters in the 2nd book than Ned had in the 1st.
And he should have many scenes to shine and try to wrestle the award off Hamm/Cranston.
@Jean, true.
@Jean
He also has a decent number of chapters in book 3.
inb4 James Spader wins the next 3 Emmys for The Office
And am I the only one that didn’t care for Owen Wilson as host? He wasn’t really that funny.
During the Emmy’s I thought damn, there is some fucking AWESOME TV out there to watch. These award categories were stacked for the most part…Then comes the reality/variety category. First, they should break this up into more categories. Second, this totally brought back the “reality” that there is a ton of SHIT on TV. Third, Top Chef should win reality competition all the time. Fourth, how could Bourdain get only ONE nom and his show get NONE?
I’d be so mad if I cared
Mad Men is the most boring piece of shit show on earth WE GET IT, ITS THE 60′s WHITE MEN WHERE ASSHOLES TO WOMEN AND BROWN PEOPLE, fuck this show
I realize that she makes your panties wet but… Mags Bennett? Emmy? That horrible accent? Remember when she -gulp- sang? Some thought that was metal- I lol’d & changed the channel for a minute.
So the emmys are: an award show for acting performances. As in “you are very good at making me believe you are someone else”. Was Mags that good?
ps keep up the great attitude!
NIP
So happy Kyle Chandler won!! Of course it gets some recognition now…after the show has ended. And Barry Pepper is awesome so I’m glad he won, though it sucks he wasn’t there to accept the award.
Also, Julie Bowen scares me.
@blah nip – Margo Martindale was fantastic, just amazing in “Justified”. She scared the crap out of me, she was so good.
Funny how so many people here hate “Mad Men”.
People here that hate “Mad Men” are the people that came to this blog to to defend their love of “Entourage”
@Smegga I’m in Tennessee(surprise!) near Kentucky (where Justified takes place COUGHcalifornia). Nic Cage did the terrible southern accent better in Con Air
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Props to Mad Men, but is Peggy Olson the female lead actress? Why am I so critical of actresses today?
A few things:
– Kyle Chandler can die happy and that makes me happy
– Modern Family is apparently good? I guess I can check it out. (as long as there aren’t any gays in there.)
– The Big Bang Theory isnt bad for a one-note sitcom with one-note actors and actresses, the biggest draw of which isn’t even that hot anymore.
– Jim Parsons is a gay guy playing a staight guy. Therefore he won because he’s obviously the greatest comedic actor of our times.
– How did Kurt Hummell from Glee not win? He’s a gay playing a gay. That’s so fuckin meta!
– Note to Dan Harmon: make Ahbed gay this. Emmy voters wouldn’t be able to resist a nerdy gay Muslim. Then again, their heads might explode at the thought.
– Wait, are you sure the coach Taylor character wasn’t secretly gay?
– No award or nomination for Nick Offerman? Fuck off. At least that’s a well-written and well-acted one-note character.
– And finally, Chloe Moretz … Hmmm , ok gotta go!
“Modern Family is apparently good? I guess I can check it out. (as long as there aren’t any gays in there.)”
Yeah, this might not be the show for you.
Damn.
But what about the little fat Mexican boy? He can’t surely be a little fat gay Mexican boy, can he?
The two gay guys are the funniest part of Modern Family. The scene where Cameron introduces Lily (the adopted Vietnamese daughter) is VERY funny.
BBT lost something when they started introducing new characters left and right. The whole Penny (Katy Cuoco) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) thing was becoming a touch of Ross and Rachel.