As is our habit, we polled Team Experience this morning to see which Emmy snub yanked them straight to mourning this morning. Here are their answers. Please share your own in the comments, won't you? Misery loves company!
CHRIS FEIL: MJ Rodriguez in POSE. While we can hope that Billy Porter's immensely deserved nomination can represent the entire ensemble with a win, it still leaves Pose's exquisite female cast members unrewarded including the most deserving: Mj Rodriguez's resilient and compassionate house mother Blanca. It's infuriating that the show's directing and writing went unrecognized due to the Game of Thrones glut, but to have denied the season's emotional epicenter is just about unconscionable. Hers is the work that most embodies the multifaceted show and all of its triumphs and power.
DEBORAH LIPP: Gentleman Jack got crowded out, why? Emilia Clark over Suranne Jones is not supportable. FOUR nominations for Game of Thrones over Sophie Rundle in supporting actress is not supportable. Game of Thrones' worst season over this breakthrough new series is NOT! SUPPORTABLE!
lots more weeping after the jump...
EUROCHEESE: Poor D'Arcy Carden. Standing there, trying to make those jokes work this morning, seeing The Good Place finally get in for Series... but no special announcement at the end telling her about her nomination. It hurts even more when you realize the writers received a (completely deserved) nomination for her most prominent episode, Janet(s) - how can one be there without the other? Sigh.
DANCIN' DAN: I was so happy to see Pose nominated for Drama Series - a HUGE breakthrough for trans visibility. But to not nominate the heart and soul of the show, MJ Rodriguez, for her charismatic, heartfelt performance stings quite a bit. In fact, for NONE of the ladies of Pose to get acting nominations almost makes the Drama Series nomination feel like a back-handed compliment. And I don't know what Rhea Seehorn has to do to get recognized for her remarkably nuanced, blistering work on Better Call Saul, other than have a penis.
BEN MILLER: WHAT THE HELL DOES KIM WEXLER HAVE TO DO TO GET SOME RECOGNITION! How many tasteful blouses paired with simple, yet elegant earrings have to die in order for the world to realize how great Rhea Seehorn is? Without Kim/Rhea, Better Call Saul has no soul. Everything we learn from BCS is based off the characterizations we had from Breaking Bad, but Seehorn crafts such an original, imperfect, humane, overworked/underpaid slice of realism that it is an absolute atrocity that we have gone four seasons and have barely gotten a Critics Choice Award nomination. For shame Television Academy...for shame!
ERIC BLUME: Ignoring Richard Madden's incredible work in Bodyguard (despite a Best Drama nomination for the show itself) seems bananas. Madden managed to scale big emotional heights through a character who does not show emotional heights. Madden has a rollercoaster going on inside, but his job is to remain a shadow, and you never fully witness an unleashing. But the journey of the show...and the often unbearable tension you're held in throughout the series...registers fully through Madden's detailed, electrifying acting.
SPENCER COILE: I’m sending out a quick RIP to Elizabeth Olsen for her devastating work on Sorry for Your Loss (which is somewhat ironic). Portraying grief has never felt so genuine or so fresh, and it hurts knowing that such an astonishing performance is being ignored largely because her show is only available… on Facebook. So let’s grieve together, while also streaming through the pain.
NATHANIEL R: I was so shocked to see Schitt's Creek finally receive attention that it took me some time to sift through the other wreckage and realize what bodies were even missing. Like Deborah, I can't imagine a world where Suranne Jones didn't deserve to be nominated for complex and precise work on Gentleman Jack but right now I'm just over here furious that the gut-busting The Other Two, which did receive a nomination for 'Outstanding New Program' at the Television Critics Association Awards, was entirely shut-out. "In this climate?"
LYNN LEE: Where is GLOW (Season 2) for best comedic series? Why so little love for a show that got so much of it last year and has only gotten better since then? While the first season, despite terrific elements, didn't completely come together, the show truly came into its own in season 2, demonstrating a more assured tone and shifting more deftly between its comic and dramatic registers. Not only did it continue to mine riches from the central relationship between the frenemies played by Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin, it also did a far superior job developing the rest of the female wrestlers while finding new depths and shadings to their cranky, sometimes cruel, but ultimately supportive leader Sam (Marc Maron). Plus, who can forget the totally bonkers - and totally delightful - hijinks in GLOW's go-big-or-go-home episode "The Good Twin"? In a way, the Emmys' snub is appropriate for a show about underappreciated underdogs: you may forget or sideline these ladies, but they won't stop fighting for the attention and plaudits they deserve.
MICHAEL CUSUMANO: We didn’t need more proof Cate Blanchett could do anything but we got it with her loving spoof of Marina Abramovic on Documentary Now! She was never less than fully committed no matter what bonkers task the role demanded.
J.B.: Broad City. Full stop. There were a number of painful snubs today, but by far the most egregious was the lack of recognition for the titular broads of this landscape-changing comedy for its superb final act. While it is so wonderful to see Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle nominated for their fantastic writing on Pen15, there is no Pen15 without Broad City. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson created a space for themselves in a television universe where none had existed before, and they THRIVED, bringing wit and whimsy and the right amount of feelings to lucky viewers for five great seasons, and they deserved a lot more credit for it than they got. This show was the deepest, most hilarious and most poignant ode to friendship on television since Will & Grace, and the Academy not recognizing it as such on their last opportunity to do so is bitterly disappointing.
How about you, dear reader and TV watcher, which shows or performances are you in mourning for right about now?