shumalek

It's shocking that season 1 got so much attention from the Emmys whilst season 2 was practically ignored in comparison. Season 2 was one of the best seasons of television in a while.

I know it was called robbin' season but that didn't mean the Emmys had to get in on it too. This was 10x better than season 1, yet lost almost everything? I'm so annoyed.

The show cared too much about pleasing its die-hard fanbase. This was one of the first shows to experience the wrath of the Tumblr fandoms, where people really go in with their love for whatever it is they discuss. And the fans constantly argued for non-canon ships like Rachel/Quinn, Santana/Quinn, as well as getting attached to couples that were never going to last (like Kurt/Adam). The writers constantly gave us all these moments to please the online fandom, thinking this made up a huge portion of the viewing audience. I mean, just look at the scene of Quinn talking to Rachel in 'On My Way'. She was practically professing her love for her, which was completely left field for the canon storyline. So whilst season 3 is my personal favourite, it's also the season where the fan-service began, and thus the viewing audience felt alienated as things didn't make much sense. I also think the show lost itself after season 3 because we were made to care for so many people and then suddenly they decided to go back to season 1 and make it about Finn, Rachel, Will and (in addition) Kurt and Blaine, as well as a bunch of new kids nobody saw much in except being replicas of the original cast. By season four we were all wondering what happened to the likes of Quinn, Santana, Mercedes, Puck etc., and slowly became disinterested because we knew they were no longer regulars on the show. It stopped being about what we loved and started being about newer versions of what we loved, which is not a good decision at all. As said previously here, the show should've made a separate show for the originals so that we didn't have a bitterness towards their replacements as we still got our fix of what we loved. Or, if that didn't work, end it after season 4. I say end it after season 4 because I know to this day I would be extremely upset wondering how good Glee would've been if it continued beyond 3 seasons. It was the greatest show to me for those 3 seasons, rarely letting me down. And with a season 4 I would've gotten the confirmation that it wouldn't have been possible to have it be as good again, and thus act as some form of closure.

Kia is AMAZING in both TNA and GLOW. So glad they cast her and also didn't settle with what her character was in wrestling. She's completely different to her wrestling persona and I love it.

Yeah Maisel won unfortunately. Love both shows and they have brilliant casting, but I feel like it's a lot easier to cast for a show like TMMM, whereas GLOW had to look deeper and try harder, whilst still managing to have a solid selection.

Brooklyn Nine Nine lost both of its Emmy nominations this year :( They lost the Outstanding Stunt Co-ordination - Comedy award to GLOW, and Katt Williams from 'Atlanta' beat Sterling K. Brown for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy

they deserved to win for casting too

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel won the following awards at last night's Creative Arts Emmys: Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series Outstanding Music Supervision - “Pilot” Outstanding Picture Editing (Single Camera Comedy) - "Pilot" Here are the people that beat TMMM in the other categories Saturday Night Live's Tiffany Hadish beat Jane Lynch for Outstanding Comedy Guest Actress The Crown's "Beryl" beat "Pilot" for Best Cinematography (Single-Camera Series, Hour) The Crown's “Dear Mrs. Kennedy” beat “The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets” for Best Period Costumes Westworld's "Akane No Mai" beat "Pilot" for Best Hairstyling (Single-Camera Series) Game of Thrones' "Dragonstone" beat “Ya Shivu v Bolshom Dome Na Kholme” for Best Production Design (Narrative, Period/Fantasy) GLOW deserved this one imo. TMMM has great casting but GLOW definitely is better here.

Comedy is for everyone. Anyone with an opinion on it can share it. What I love about the genre is that it reaches people very differently from that of a drama. With dramas the story and character arcs are *typically* received similarly amongst the audience, but with comedies we all find different things funny; some of us love the shows with LOL moments like Modern Family, whilst others thrive on the slower paced, slight giggle stuff like Atlanta. So all opinions on comedy are valid!

you're right. all 3 deserve emmy recognition too

Does anyone think the NBC pick up will increase in their Emmy campaigns? They seem to be care a little more than FOX did already, and the show is definitely a funnier option than most, if not all, of the Emmy nominated comedies.

agreed. love mrs maisel but if we're judging it as a comedy, something like b99 deserved to get nominated over it. in fact b99 is a funnier show than most, if not all of the nominees this year. still a decent category but we need actual comedies to be considered, not ones that have a hint of it.

For some reason, every show I've seen that depicts comics is really unfunny? I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the subconscious thought that we think "this moment is SUPPOSED/IS GOING to be funny" so we raise our standards? Or maybe the pressure to be funny in the writers room is too much so it feels unnatural. I feel like if they're going to make a show about stand up comedy, maybe having stand up comics write it would help. Other than that, I do love the show. It feels more tiny smile funny, rather than laugh out loud, and the drama so far has been the focal point of the emotion, narrative and enjoyment for me, rather than the comedy.

This episode was directed so well. The camera work, lighting, acting - it was all fantastic. Probably my favourite from all 3 seasons so far.