I follow award shows, but I've never been one to get emotionally invested in them. If a good show wins an award, it doesn't validate my tastes, and if a bad show wins something, I don't consider it a crime against humanity. The Emmys are a weird beast -- the nominations are based on a very specific kind of buzz, and once the voters decide they like something, they tend to nominate that thing over and over again. After a while of paying attention to them, you eventually start to realize that The Emmys are a pointless endeavor. So what better way to celebrate a pointless award show than by making my own pointless nominations?
This year's awards will be honoring television that aired from June 1, 2013 to May 31, 2014. That means, for example, that the season of
Orange Is the New Black that's eligible is only the first season. In formulating these wish list nominations, I took this very meaningless thing seriously by following the rules and going by the
official ballot of eligibility in each category.
Now before getting into my nomination choices, let me just explain one thing that confuses most people: The Hanging Episodes Rule. Obviously, there are many shows whose season runs right through the cutoff date. For instance, Game of Thrones season four began in the eligibility window (April 6th) and ended outside of the window (June 15th). The Hanging Episodes rule states that if half of the episodes in a season fall within the eligibility window, then the entire season is eligible, and any episode that hasn't aired at the time of nominations will be made available to voters. Thus, all of Game of Thrones is fair game.
So is everybody up to speed on all things Emmy now? Okay, let's dive into my personal picks (NOTE: the choices in each category are ordered from favorite to least favorite)...
