This week, the Cooler Gang looks at the 2018 Emmy-nominated Guest performance races. Who’s ahead going into the second week of Emmy voting? Who’s a potential spoiler? Plus, Consider… our Emmy favs.
Last Monday marked the start of the Television Academy’s second and final round of voting for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. So, this week, we’re continuing our exploration of the below-the-line categories. Guest performance in a comedy and drama series isn’t your typical craft-based below-the-line category. However, they’re presented with the Creative Arts ceremony a week before the official primetime telecast. So this podcast looks at each performance in the comedy and drama Guest performance races. We predict who will take home the Emmy and who could be a potential spoiler.
Also, since we’re halfway through the voting window, we each offer up our personal favorite Emmy nominees. This is our annual Consider… voting push. We nominate someone or something that we want the Television Academy to strongly consider in their final round voting.
We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.
Be sure to catch up with Andrew Fleming’s Dick in advance of next week when Joey offers this up as his pick for the latest entry in the Our Favorite Movies series.
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I watched one episode of Good Place but then had trouble fitting it in to my viewing schedule. I may revisit it at some point. Right now I am enjoying old seasons of a guilty pleasure of mine, Big Brother. I’ve been watching old seasons. Once we get Showtime next week I will see Billions, Twin Peaks, Patrick Melrose, and Homeland. So exciting!
Another top honor for The Good Place last night; it became the first broadcast network series in 15 years (Buffy, 2003) to win a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (1 hour or less). Its competition was Black Mirror (USS Callister); The Deep [music video from PBS’ This American Life]; Doctor Who Christmas Special (Twice Upon a Time); fellow Good Place nominee Michael’s Gambit (season 1 finale) and Star Trek: Discovery, for Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad.
TCA three weeks ago, the Hugo last night. Emmy Who?
Ohhhhh. I see what you’re doing now. First you were pissed that the Television Academy didn’t give it nominations but now it’s picking up stuff elsewhere and you’re saying the Emmy Awards don’t matter. I just want to make sure I’m caught up.
Absolutely. I intend to grind it through everyone that visits ADTV that the Emmys are as much a fraud as Lumpy Hannity’s state run TV nightly hour. For the academy to have EIGHT SLOTS for Comedy Series and include the years-past-its-prime CYE, a declining (sadly) Silicon Valley, a non-comedy ‘comedy’ (Barry) and The Unbearable Kimmy Schmidt but LEAVES OUT the TCA and Hugo Award-winning Good Place? That’s just forked up and we BOTH know it.