Monday, June 11, 2007

LISTEN, ABOUT YOUR FATHER: Last night's Sopranos finale nicely coincides with the fact that Emmy nomination ballots are now in the television academy's hands, so it's time for ThingThrowers to make their recommendations and pleas.

I'll start with a few that shouldn't be too surprising -- Robert Iler did some really complicated work on this final Sopranos season, and that growth deserves recognition with a nomination at least. That Best Supporting Actor/Drama category will not be complete, however, unless Lost's Michael Emerson is also included. Flipping over to comedy, 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan and Alec Baldwin both deserve props, and it's about time that Kevin Dillon, not Jeremy Piven, got the Entourage nod. Playing that dumb is hard.

I have no idea which actors from The Office should fill out that category, so let me just offer up a futile prayer for recognition for Leslie David Baker as Stanley Hudson, who wakes up every morning in a bed that's too small, drives his daughter to a school that's too expensive. Then he goes to work, to a job for which he gets paid too little. But on Pretzel Day -- well, he likes Pretzel Day.

Also, hopefully, this is the year that The Amazing Race finally doesn't win for best reality competition series; it doesn't even deserve the nomination. That's all about Top Chef 2 and Project Runway 3 as far as I'm concerned.

Finally, veni, vidi, vici -- season two of Rome came, we (okay, some of us) watched it, and it kicked ass. It'd be nice to see Ray Stevenson (Pullo), Kevin McKidd (Vorenus), James Purefoy (Antony), Lindsay Duncan (Servilia) and the series as a whole all get recognized with nominations, but I doubt it will.

You can review last year's nominations and winners over here.

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