OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE Even if Nine Perfect Strangers had not been turned into a regular series (why Hulu) it was an inevitability that several of Hollywood’s greatest actresses of all time would be among the nominees. For some it is a question of which actresses from…

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE Two quasi-related things. Last year, I overestimated the number of potential nominees. So this year, I’m only going to include six and give a possibility for a seventh. Second I’m aware of the number of potential nominees with connections to the MCU…

OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES Before I get started, I’m going to break my own rule and advocate for a couple of nominees in the Best TV Movie category. I would be grateful if the Emmys would nomination Ray Donovan: The Movie and Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas. The former was an exceptional conclusion…

People Like Them Just Don’t Want to Do The Work Last year around this same time I relayed an article that someone had suggested to the Emmys that we should stop separating the acting categories by gender in order not to offend those performers who identified as binary. I think…

(And Yes, I’m Sometimes Guilty of It As Well) Early in Stephen King’s magnum opus It, future best-selling novelist Bill Denborough is in the middle of his college writing course. All of his fellow classmates and teachers are pretentious who are exactly the kinds of people that critics of higher…

The Old Man Review Is Jeff Bridges the most underrated actor in history? There are few rhetorical questions that seem to have such an obvious answer. How could one of the most iconic actors in history only get four Academy Award nominations over the first four decades of his film…

Outstanding Supporting Actress in A Drama This category would seem to be a lock for Sarah Snook on Succession, but considering what happened at the SAG awards, I say there’s more than room for an upset. I actually don’t have a problem is bout Succession and Ozark have nominees in…

How Much Does A Winning Streak Matter Over the current Jeopardy season and the past few weeks in particular, I’ve been mulling over the standards Jeopardy has had for qualifications for its Tournaments of Champions. In all my years of watching the series, I’ve never had a real reason to…

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA Yes, I’m more than aware that the likely winner in this category is going to be Kieran Culkin for Succession. And given how entertaining his Roman like speech was in front of the Critics Choice, I wouldn’t mind if he ended up winning. But…