Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 11:05AM Ken Jeong and D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place) announcing the nominees for the television Academy's 71st annual prizes.
And here are the nominations in the top categories announced live via screenshots. We'll talk more about the Emmys once we wrap our head around these nominations...
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 9:20AM by Nathaniel R
105 shows, that's what. This is a peculiar obsession of ours because, apart from the handsome site Art of the Title, it gets precious little attention, interest, or coverage online. The awards aren't given out on air and sometimes they make terrible mistakes as to what's nominated or excluded (same as it ever was, in any category). Nevertheless we'd argue that title design is important, not just in the soulless connotations of "branding" but in its soulful counterpart "identity". A show's title sequence gives you just that (if it's good), setting the tone. We curse Netflix for letting you skip past opening titles if you're bingeing. To our way of thinking if you won't sit through the opening titles, you don't deserve the show...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 10:14PM For this final season of Game of Thrones, Team Experience members Ben Miller and Eric Blume have been alternating on coverage. Now they're joined up for the final wrap. - Editor
BEN MILLER: Alrighty Eric. We are at the end of the line. Before we get to the final episode, are you happy with the final season leading up to the finale has gone?
Personally, I feel it's been pretty fulfilling. The problems everyone seems to be having are more related to the spectacle and anticipation as a whole. This might be the last piece of monoculture we have for a while, so everyone has strong opinions about what it should and should not be. I also believe our culture does not lend itself to objective criticism. Instead of watching an episode and forming your own opinion, you watch the episode while the rest of the world is simultaneously tweeting about it. After the episode, you watch the immediate reaction videos and fiery blog posts. The next day, you laugh or scoff at the thousands of produced memes, read seven reaction articles and reviews, take in another dozen YouTube videos, then you suddenly have an opinion. I started my personal media blackout until my opinion was formed after episode 2 of this season.
ERIC BLUME: While I agree with your assessment of how movies and TV are now consumed, I think there's a more disturbing trend at hand with this season: armchair criticism. Obviously it's cool to be disappointed with this final season in whatever way you're disappointed. But the ugly dismissal of Benioff and Weiss by viewers is deeply gross to me...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 12:31PM 
by Ben Miller
Boy howdy, that was an episode. Regardless of your thoughts on the final season, we can probably all agree that the penultimate episode, “The Bells,” was the MOST episode Game of Thrones has had in a long while, if not ever. Before we get to the big developments in the back half, let's focus on some of the other quieter scenes that really popped...
Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 11:18PM by Eric Blume
In this season’s best episode yet, Game of Thrones head creatives David Benioff and D.B. Weiss display their astounding aesthetic taste and uncanny ability to know exactly what viewers want to see. This episode featured one powerhouse match-up after the next, giving us duet after duet of characters we want to see together, talking about what we want them to talk about, in exactly the way we want them talking about it. The episode also features particularly fine writing, an element of Game of Thrones that often goes unsung despite being one of the show’s strongest features.
The show opened with a funeral segment and an extended banquet scene that paid tribute to last week’s monumental battle...
