Emmy Awards 2008: Part I
September 13, 2008 by Romy
The Emmy’s are coming! Are you ready? Have you been making a list of winners and checking it twice in anticipation for this year’s awards? Or is it just me…?
I’ve decided that over the next couple of days I’ll blog about the nominees and BOLD and italicize my predicted winners. Anyone who dareth oppose my choice is welcome to comment, write-in or simply disagree.
Outstanding Drama Series
Boston Legal, House and Lost are all nominated for their forth seasons. I’m not going to give detailed show synopses (I mean, if you don’t know already - where have you been for the last 4 years?!) but suffice it to say Boston Legal “follows the personal and professional lives of attorneys” living in Boston, House is about cranky-genius Dr. House who diagnoses random diseases based on few facts and Lost is about dramatic and bizarre lives of people stranded on a mysterious island in the Pacific. Dexter (played by Michael C. Hall, of Six Feet Under yet another TV series about death) is an orphaned sociopath who loves to kill - don’t worry, he only kills the deserved. Mad Men is the critically acclaimed series about 1960s New York Madison Ave. ad-execs and is the only ‘historical’ television show nominated. Man Men is also the only series nominated this year for its first season.
Outstanding Comedy Series
This category is a little tougher to predict than Outstanding Drama. Like OD, there are three series nominated for their fourth seasons: Entourage, The Office and Two and Half Men. 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s series about comedy writers won last year for its first seasona and it’s unlikely it will receive the same attention this year. Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is nominated for its 6th season, but it remains to be seen whether this season will actually earn an outstanding comedy award. Two and Half Men, Charlie Sheen’s sitcom loosely following an About a Boy plot (read: bachelor’s life is interrupted when domesticity moves in) is up against too many other strong comedic shows to win an award. Steve Carell and cast in the fourth season of The Office remain as hilarious as ever, but it seems that Entourage was the series most talked about this year. HBO’s Entourage is the series following the life of an actor and his friends making it big in Hollywood. Jeremy Piven has received a Golden Globe and 2 Emmys for his role as the egocentric Ari Gold, but the series itself has yet to be recognized.
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