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Today's award is Outstanding Writing of a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... STEVEN CONRAD, DTF St. Louis (HBO) ISIS DAVIS & SMITA BHIDE, The Girlfriend "Episode 4" (Prime Video) RICHARD GADD, Half Man (HBO) MIKE MAKOWSKY, Death By Lightning (Netflix) KIM ROSENSTOCK, Love Story "Battery Park" (FX) LEE SUNG JIN AND ANNA OUYANG MOENCH & GREG HONG, Beef "The Increasing Flimsiness of Any Certainties About the Future" (Netflix) And the Winner Is... MIKE MAKOWSKY Death By Lightning (Netflix) One of my biggest gripes with Limited Series since I started doing these awards is how often they feel inflated. Even though I like longer seasons for on-going series like The Pitt , there have been way too many starry limited series that just don't have enough story to tell over eight or ten episodes but also can't detour in the way an ongoing ...

Today's award is Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... CONNIE BRITTON as Elizabeth in Rooster (HBO) D'ARCY CARDEN as Luciana in Loot (Apple TV) JEFF DANIELS as Randy in Shrinking (Apple TV) TARAJI P. HENSON as Vanetta in Abbott Elementary (ABC) CHERRY JONES as Kelly Kilpatrick in Hacks (HBO Max) KAITLIN OLSON as DJ Vance in Hacks (HBO Max) MICAH STOCK as Gil in English Teacher (FX) And the Winner Is... D'ARCY CARDEN Loot (Apple TV) I've watched three seasons of Loot and this is the first award I've nominated it for. D'Arcy Carden is a treasure in most everything she's in but I'm not sure she's ever been funnier. When she immediately switched from the voluptuous Italian to her real persona - a trashy Delaware girl - I was laughing out loud. She was goofy with the Italian accent but the scenes with her act...

Today's award is Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... STEVE BUSCEMI as Simon Carroll in Elsbeth (CBS) JAMIE LEE CURTIS as Donna Berzatto in The Bear (FX/Hulu) PETER DINKLAGE as Wendell in The Lowdown (FX) COLMAN DOMINGO as Ali in Euphoria (HBO) MARY MCCORMACK as Dr. Linda Conley in The Pitt (HBO Max) BRADLEY WHITFORD as Todd Penn in The Diplomat (Netflix) SHAILENE WOODLEY as Annie Clay in Paradise (Hulu) And the Winner Is... PETER DINKLAGE The Lowdown (FX) Because I wasn't a Game of Thrones watcher, I wasn't very familiar with Peter Dinklage's work (except for Elf and Wicked ) when he appeared on The Lowdown . By the end of the episode, I wanted an entire buddy cop series starring him and Ethan Hawke. Playing frenemies, Dinklage and Hawke were electric on screen together. You got the sense that those two...

Today's award is Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series! To qualify for this category, they had to appear in four episodes or less than half, whichever is smaller. Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... LISA GILROY as Christine Westbrook-Clark in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) JESSICA HARPER as Ethel Kennedy in Love Story (FX) ZELJKO IVANEK as Doctor Willard Bliss in Death by Lightning (Netflix) IAN ROBERTS as Scott Norris in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) NAOMI WATTS as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Love Story (FX) CONSTANCE ZIMMER as Ann Marie Messina in Love Story (FX) And the Winner Is... CONSTANCE ZIMMER Love Story (FX) Since her acclaimed run on Mad Men , it feels like we haven't seen that much of Christina Hendricks aside from her run on Good Girls . I'm still waiting for that real great vehicle fo...

Today's award is Outstanding Technical Design of a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... THE FOUR SEASONS (Netflix) HACKS (HBO Max) MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES (Apple TV) NOBODY WANTS THIS (Netflix) ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (Hulu) SHRINKING (Apple TV) WIDOW'S BAY (Apple TV) And the Winner Is... THE FOUR SEASONS Netflix This might seem like an odd choice but there's something I just love about the "vibes" of The Four Seasons and I think a lot of that has to do with the distinct settings for each season. Now through two seasons, they have had very distinct looks for each season. I know that's sort of the point of the show but it's impressive nonetheless. Whether scaling a mountain in the spring, relaxing at the Jersey Shore in the summer, hitting up a cabin in the fall or traveling to Italy in the winter, each pair of episodes was very specif...

Today's award is Outstanding Technical Design of a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... THE BEAR (FX/Hulu) EUPHORIA (HBO) THE LOWDOWN (FX) THE MADISON (Paramount+) THE PITT (HBO Max) PLURIBUS (Apple TV) TASK (HBO) And the Winner Is... PLURIBUS Apple TV Pluribus was such a unique show and that included its technical style. There were parts of it that had the trappings of a post-apocalyptic drama but it also was a sunnier and in some ways even eerier version of that because of the premise of the show. The show was very distinctly set in Vince Gilligan's beloved New Mexico and used that location to its advantage with the wide open spaces and of course the cul-de-sac. There was also some incredible technical work from the hive whenever they were doing something in concert with each other (such as leaving when they needed space from Carol). It was ...