In the morning...
I've just checked the list of winners for the Emmy awards.
Aside the obvious -- that is that they snubbed RECTIFY and its fantastic cast, The Americans and the astonishing Matthew Rhys, or Tatiana Maslany, when they released the nominations -- I think that the Emmys mostly went to those who deserved them.
I'm glad for the coronation of Breaking Bad because it might be the best tv series of all time (tomorrow I'll say it's Deadwood, but today...), and for Cranston and Paul, it was probably the roles of a life time. Walter White is a character that defies any tv formula; he is not a hero, but not really a anti-hero, and not quite a villain either. Bryan Cranston fleshed him out in a way that is unbelievable, so as terrific as was McConaughey's performance in True Detective, Cranston deserved that last award indeed. The journey was amazing and Cranston was at the top of his game in the last episodes. Walter's phone call to Skylar in "Ozymandias" is nothing but an acting master class.
My only big disappointement is for Allison Tolman, who gave the female performance of the year in a mini-serie(and frankly in television), but didn't win for FARGO. I admittedly haven't seen the other miniseries from her category so I can't tell about Kathy Bates' performance but still.
Julianna Margulies (lead for TGW), Allison Janney (guest for MoS) and Anna Gunn (supporting actress for BrBa), were all great and deserved their award, in their category -- btw I can't believe that Kerry Wahsington was nominated too, her acting in Scandal is awful, all about the same embarrassing mannerisms (quivering lips, unshed tears when emo, or grimacing when delivering a speech)!--, and I think that Tolman was even better than them! Yes she was that good. Boo.
Aside the obvious -- that is that they snubbed RECTIFY and its fantastic cast, The Americans and the astonishing Matthew Rhys, or Tatiana Maslany, when they released the nominations -- I think that the Emmys mostly went to those who deserved them.
I'm glad for the coronation of Breaking Bad because it might be the best tv series of all time (tomorrow I'll say it's Deadwood, but today...), and for Cranston and Paul, it was probably the roles of a life time. Walter White is a character that defies any tv formula; he is not a hero, but not really a anti-hero, and not quite a villain either. Bryan Cranston fleshed him out in a way that is unbelievable, so as terrific as was McConaughey's performance in True Detective, Cranston deserved that last award indeed. The journey was amazing and Cranston was at the top of his game in the last episodes. Walter's phone call to Skylar in "Ozymandias" is nothing but an acting master class.
My only big disappointement is for Allison Tolman, who gave the female performance of the year in a mini-serie(and frankly in television), but didn't win for FARGO. I admittedly haven't seen the other miniseries from her category so I can't tell about Kathy Bates' performance but still.
Julianna Margulies (lead for TGW), Allison Janney (guest for MoS) and Anna Gunn (supporting actress for BrBa), were all great and deserved their award, in their category -- btw I can't believe that Kerry Wahsington was nominated too, her acting in Scandal is awful, all about the same embarrassing mannerisms (quivering lips, unshed tears when emo, or grimacing when delivering a speech)!--, and I think that Tolman was even better than them! Yes she was that good. Boo.