2013 Emmy Nominations

The 2013 Emmy nominations came out today, and American Horror Story: Asylum scored the most nominations with 17, with Game of Thrones closely behind with 16.   30 Rock scored 13 nominations, Modern Family has 12, and The Big Bang Theory has eight.  Netflix's House of Cards became the first online series to score Emmy nods, including stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. 

1) I'm most upset about the following snubs: Simon Helberg for The Big Bang Theory and Jake Johnson for New Girl.  Both actors have done wonderful work this year, and have made what could have been very cartoonish characters seem vulnerable, funny, and grown-up. 

2) It's also a travesty that Phil Keoghan wasn't nominated again for the Amazing Race, even though the series was nominated.  I like Anthony Bourdain, but The Taste wasn't very good, and the Emmys must be somehow contractually required to include Betty White every year.

3) Yay for Carrie Prestron being nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The Good Wife.  Can't wait to see Michael Emerson and Preston on the red carpet - they are so cute together.

4) Only Jane Lynch and Dot-Marie Jones were nominated for Glee.  It is difficult to break through the ranks of the Modern Family crew in the supporting categories, all of them are again nominated except for Eric Stonestreet. 

5) Michelle Fairley, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Charles Dance, and Gwendoline Christie also deserved nominations for Game of Thrones.  At least more than just Peter Dinklage is nominated this year.  Emilia Clarke and Diana Rigg also scored nods in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, respectively, and the show is up for Outstanding Drama Series

6) No Taran Killam from Saturday Night Live?  He did a better job than Bill Hader.  Hopefully with Hader gone Taran will get his just due next year. 

7) It's great that Morena Baccarin and Mandy Patinkin got nods for Homeland, in addition to Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

8) I don't watch Nashville, but anything that gets Connie Britton a nomination is fantastic. 

9) No love for The Office in its final season, except for a writing nod for Greg Daniels. 

10) Love the nominations for So You Think You Can Dance and Cat Deeley. 

Best reaction to getting an Emmy nomination so far comes from Don Cheadle, who released the following statement about his nomination in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy category for House of Lies: "Given all the hilarious film work I've done, from Traffic to Crash to Flight, it's nice to finally be recognized as the comic genius I am. Thank you, Academy members.”

Edited to add Emilia Clarke's statement about her nomination (in Dothraki!): “Yer chomoe anhaan. Jin ha Khalaan, shekh ma shieraki anni.” This translates to: “You do honor to me. This is for the Khal — my sun and stars.”