The people who vote for both the Emmy Awards and the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll are idiots. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if if is one group of people voting on both.

Let’s start with last night’s Emmy Awards show:

Oustanding Drama Series — the nominees this year included HBO’s Deadwood and Six Feet Under, 24, The West Wing, and Lost.

Deadwood and Six Feet Under are in a league by themselves as far as being outsanding. They are groundbreaking, while the casting, acting, and writing are better than anything being else being produced in Hollywood—big or small screen. These two shows and their respective casts should have been nominated for and won nearly every category of the Emmys. Even the comedy categories, because some of the dialog on Deadwood is funnier than anything Ray Ramano has said in more than 3 years.

I expected The West Wing to win, though, since it’s Hollywood’s dream version of the actual American Whitehouse: run by a moonbat Limo-Liberal from Hollywood.

But when they announced that the winner of this season’s Outstanding Drama was Lost — well, all I could think was the voters had lost their fucking minds. Of all the shows nominated, Lost was the worst of the bunch. I know. I’ve seen nearly every episode of every one of the shows nominated. Lost was worse than 24, which jumped the shark after it’s first season.

So, let’s move on to Best Actor in a Drama Series. The nominees were: Ian McShane, Deadwood, Hugh Laurie, House, Hank Azaria, Huff, James Spader, Boston Legal, and Kiefer Sutherland, 24.

I was torn when they read the nominees. McShane, Laurie, and Azaria all deserved to win — each of their characters were the three brightest, refreshing, and well acted roles on Television since Tony Soprano. I think I was most captivated by McShane’s character, which in its complexities of swearing whore house proprietor mixed with compassionate and honorable soul, should have been the clear winnner.

When they announced that James Spader had won, I was in near disbelief. James Spader? Are they kidding? Did they watch Huff? Do they hate Hugh Laurie because he’s British?

One of the other “you’ve got to be kidding me” winners of the night was in the Best Actress in a Drama Series. The nominees: Jennifer Garner, Alias; Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Patricia Arquette, Medium; Glenn Close, The Shield, and Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under.

Jennifer Garner is by-far-and-away the hottest one of the bunch. But that doesn’t make her a good actress, nor her character anything deeper than what it is: young, hot, hard-bodied chick wearing skimpy outfits while she plays action heroin. Kind of like Zena, only better looking.

Frances Conroy is better as the matriarch of Six Feet Under than any of the other nominees have ever been at anything else in their lives.

But, this is Hollywierdo. So of course Patricia Arquette won. Why? Hell, I can’t figure it out. My wife watches this show every week. And every week, I look up and ask her if it’s a repeat — because every moment of each show, every line of dialoge, sounds exactly like the episode from the previous week.

Other outrages include:

• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series — William Shatner in Boston Legal. Shatner was a better actor in those PriceLine commercials. Who should have won: Oliver Platt, Huff.
• Best Comedy Series — Everybody Loves Raymond. No> Everybody does not love Raymond…at least not in the last three years, which is how long it’s been since they’ve produced a funny or good episode. But this “win” continues the HollyWierdo trend of awarding shows that are going bye-bye (last year was Frasier, and the year before was Sex in the City). Who should have won: Arrested Development.

After watching the awards, I can only conclude that a majority of voters do not have HBO. Either that, or they are pissed that HBO is consistently producing better programming than everybody else in Hollywood (big and small screen).

I’ll get to the idiocy of the AP College Football poll in another post.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Monday, September 19th, 2005 | Trackback |