Quibi, the quick kind streaming service that is a flop regardless of how a lot Jeffrey Katzenberg blames the pandemic for its failure, admittedly had an excellent day on Tuesday, incomes 10 nominations within the quick kind classes, together with Excellent Brief Kind Comedy or Drama Collection for Most Dangerous Game and Reno 911!, and appearing nominations for #FreeRayshawn‘s Stephan James, Laurence Fishburne, and Jasmine Cephas Jones; Most Harmful Sport‘s Christoph Waltz; Survive‘s Corey Hawkins; Dummy‘s Anna Kendrick; Flipped‘s Kaitlin Olson; and Reno 911!‘s Kerri Kenney-Silver. That is extra nominations than Showtime or AMC. Congratulations to Quibi, nobody can say you did not get 10 Emmy nominations briefly kind classes.
However who bought zero nominations this yr, regardless of portraying the best character on TV? Better Call Saul‘s Rhea Seehorn, whose efficiency as conflicted lawyer Kim Wexler on AMC’s Breaking Bad spin-off is the form of efficiency the Emmys are ostensibly designed to acknowledge.
Season 5 was speculated to be Seehorn’s yr, as she gave a fancy, emotionally devastating efficiency that balanced tight management and explosive vulnerability. Whether or not she was advocating for her slipping accomplice Jimmy “Saul Goodman” McGill (Bob Odenkirk) in opposition to a menacing drug lord (Tony Dalton) in a fiery monologue, attempting to govern an ornery outdated man right into a cooperating together with her agency by strategically deploying some beforehand unknown private particulars of her childhood, or doing a weirdly horny impression of her good ol’ boy shopper, she was magnificent, embodying Kim’s against-her-better-judgment slide into serious legal malfeasance alongside Jimmy. Seehorn took the unbelievable materials the writers gave her and elevated it to one thing even higher. Christoph Waltz is a good actor, however he did not do this on Most Harmful Sport. Most Dangerous Game sucked, and he wasn’t even in a position to preserve it from sucking, not to mention elevate one thing already nice.
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Rhea Seehorn ought to have been nominated for all 5 of Higher Name Saul‘s seasons, however she hasn’t been nominated for any. The Tv Academy has another probability to proper that improper, as Saul will air one more season, however our hopes will not be excessive. Regardless of Season 5 being one of the best season of Saul but, Bob Odenkirk has himself slipped from the Finest Actor nominees after being nominated for the 4 earlier seasons, changed by The Morning Show‘s Steve Carell, who performed a personality the present did not know what to do with. Michael Mando and Patrick Fabian have additionally been missed all through the present’s run. And do not get me began on Michael McKean not getting nominated for Season 3, which I am nonetheless cranky about three years later. If this sample holds, Saul will most likely go down in historical past alongside The Wire as the best drama to by no means win a single Emmy. It is at present at 39 nominations, zero wins. Zero!
This yr, Saul is nominated for Drama Collection, Sound Modifying, Sound Mixing, Music Supervision, Supporting Actor for Giancarlo Esposito (who’s a double nominee this yr, additionally incomes a Visitor Star nod for The Mandalorian, shoutout to him), and twice for writing: Thomas Schnauz for “Dangerous Selection Street” and Gordon Smith for “Bagman.” Given the Tv Academy’s historical past, it is not wanting probably that the present will win any of these, and Emmy voters must do some self-examination to seek out why that’s. They make worse selections than Jimmy McGill himself, and that is on them. The remainder of us will give Rhea Seehorn each trophy we’ve in our hearts. And I admit that it is a false equivalence to check Rhea Seehorn to Quibi, however Rhea Seehorn is extra profitable at she does than Quibi is at what it does.
The 72nd Primetime Emmys will air Sunday, Sept. 20 at 8/7c on ABC. Higher Name Saul is out there to stream on Netflix. Quibi is out there to stream on Quibi.
(P.S. No disrespect to Flipped, a humorous present, however the truth that Kaitlin Olson lastly bought an Emmy nomination for that present however nonetheless has by no means been nominated for her legendary performance as Dee Reynolds on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is yet one more Emmys injustice.)
Rhea Seehorn, Higher Name Saul; Liam Hemsworth, Most Harmful Sport