I thought I’d take a quick break from the Morocco story to just talk about voting for the Emmys tonight (as tomorrow is the last day)!
I love to think I’m a responsible citizen who always votes… And I’ve been waiting so long to become a member of the academy who gets the opportunity to vote, that I need to always be voting.
But the pandemic has been such a blur that I don’t actually remember voting? Did I skip two years? I’m not 100% sure. I guess I’ve been blacked out for two years, in some ways. BUT here I am now!!!
And I have been watching TV like a madwoman, just show, after show, after show. Let’s go, baby!
Ted Lasso truly is great. I get it. People love it. I understand. I really need to go back and watch the whole thing now, as opposed to just a little taste.
Barry is insane. Insane. Like, what is that show about?! The episode they put in our viewing platform starts with like death, destruction, bribery, wildness all the way around. Like, for some reason, I thought it was a show about the industry. I was stupid. It’s not. It’s about a hitman, and I’ve missed a million chapters!
I’ve said this before, and I’m not completely sure if it’s true, but I always kind of think they should put the pilot episodes of everything in our viewing platforms as well, so we can get just some sense of each show if we haven’t seen it. [I know we’re not judging the pilots. We’re voting based on what they’ve submitted for this year. And I guess if the show has grown a lot, maybe they don’t want us taking that into account. But, I dunno. For context, it might be nice, maybe… I dunno. I mean, TV is plentiful. I’m sure we could find the pilots out there in the world pretty easily, usually.
[Note: In some of the overall categories, for newer shows, they did put their pilots. I love them for that, and it truly did make a difference. (Adam Scott is AMAZING in Severance, by the way!]
Anyway…
In *some ways* it’s actually *nice* to be dropped in not knowing what’s going on.
And this is where I’ll pick up tomorrow –