Comments | hesychasm: TV catch-up

hesychasm

TV catch-up

Sep 30, 2012 23:54

It's fall TV season time!

In my version of The Good Wife's S4 premiere, in which lawyers know their rights and the characters act like themselves instead of like idiots because the idiot plot requires them to be idiots, ( spoilers through 4x01 )

tv: scandal, tv: homeland, tv: the good wife, tv: downton abbey

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hesychasm October 1 2012, 04:21:10 UTC

LOL, I noticed the bitchfaces during the broadcast. I know from interviews that Cranston's got a healthy actor ego on him so I'm sure he expected to win -- I mean, don't get me wrong, he says all the right things, but I can still tell he knows exactly how good he is. But like, he's right. He's the best. Damian Lewis was very very good in Homeland but his best work over the season just did not compare to Crawl Space or multiple other episodes Cranston could have selected for submission ( ... )

marakara October 1 2012, 04:29:37 UTC

you don't tell Usain Bolt it's someone else's turn for gold. The best is supposed to win. Bryan Cranston is the best. Period.

Exactly. I have issues with the Emmys for other reasons but that's not one. If Cranston is doing excellent work and choses to participate (people like Bill Cosby, Michael J. Fox and John Larroquette took themselves out of the running after a few wins in a row back in the NBC glory days), he gets to win. It is a merit award, not a participation prize.

What I don't like is when voters/Emmy people explain that The Good Wife didn't deserve an Emmy nomination because the first six or seven episodes were weak and that hurt the excellent final 15 or 16 episodes. If the program produced 16 excellent episodes, that's twice the number Downton Abbey did. There should be something like the Daytime Emmys were there is a different category for young performers so a teen on General Hospital isn't fighting off established stars like Susan Lucci, Erica Slezak or Helen Gallagher ( ... )

hesychasm October 1 2012, 04:44:47 UTC

I definitely see good reasons to overhaul the drama category. You're right that the style of storytelling is just different for shorter, more serialized seasons (although Scandal, with 7 eps, still tried to do a case of the week format) and that The Good Wife is juggling a lot more and requires different kinds of writing and showrunning than, say, Breaking Bad or Homeland. I saw it also in panel and roundtable interviews with showrunners during the Emmy lead-up, where the network guys were talking to the cable guys and were like, "You get months beforehand to plot out your entire season? WE WISH ( ... )