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Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... JANELLE JAMES as Ava Coleman in Abbott Elementary (ABC) JUSTINE LUPE as Morgan Williams in Nobody Wants This (Netflix) CHRISTA MILLER as Liz Bishop in Shrinking (Apple TV) KATE O'FLYNN as Patricia Moyer in Widow's Bay (Apple TV) MICHELLE PFEIFFER as Shyanne in Margo's Got Money Troubles (Apple TV) MEGAN STALTER as Kayla Schaefer in Hacks (HBO Max) JESSICA WILLIAMS as Gaby Evans in Shrinking (Apple TV) And the Winner Is... JESSICA WILLIAMS Shrinking (Apple TV) Jessica Williams has been a huge boon to Shrinking since the beginning but she leveled up in the third season with her best season yet. She had some great comedic moments as always but also had the scene of the year with her monologue and rage towards Brett Goldstein's Louis. I could watch that scene ove...

Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... RYAN KIERA ARMSTRONG as Francis Raybon in The Lowdown (FX) FIONA DOURIF as Dr. Cassie McKay in The Pitt (HBO Max) ALLISON JANNEY as Grace Penn in The Diplomat (Netflix) EMILIA JONES as Maeve in Task (HBO) KATHERINE LANASA as Dana Evans in The Pitt (HBO Max) ALI LARTER as Angela Norris in Landman (Paramount+) KAROLINA WYDRA as Zosia in Pluribus (Apple TV) And the Winner Is... KATHERINE LANASA The Pitt (HBO Max) Katherine LaNasa returns to the winner's circle for a second year in a row after she turned in an even better second season. Fresh off her Emmy win, the show upped what was required of her in the second season to the point that she basically became a co-lead. She had all the hallmarks of the character from the first season but what really led to her havi...

Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... GRACE GUMMER as Caroline Kennedy in Love Story (FX) STEPHANIE HODGE as Helen Schaffer in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) KATE MARA as Nancy in Imperfect Women (Apple TV) EMILY PENDERGAST as Amy Patterson in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) CAILEE SPAENY as Ashley Miller in Beef (Netflix) YOUN YUH-JUNG as Chairwoman Park in Beef (Netflix) And the Winner Is... CAILEE SPAENY Beef (Netflix) I've seen Cailee Spaeny in a few things before, but she's never made much of an impression on me until Beef . She was an endlessly fascinating character on the show. At first glance, she seemed to have it all together but it was very quickly apparent that she did not and was pretty naive in important ways. Spaeny expertly play...

Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... CARMEN CHRISTOPHER as Rick Santana in English Teacher (FX) PAUL W. DOWNS as Jimmy LuSaque Jr. in Hacks (HBO Max) HARRISON FORD as Paul Rhoades in Shrinking (Apple TV) TED MCGINLEY as Derek Bishop in Shrinking (Apple TV) NICK OFFERMAN as Jinx Millet in Margo's Got Money Troubles (Apple TV) MICHAEL URIE as Brian Lorenzo in Shrinking (Apple TV) TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS as Gregory Eddie in Abbott Elementary (ABC) And the Winner Is... TED MCGINLEY Shrinking (Apple TV) If Jessica Williams is the Shrinking 's heart then Ted McGinley might be the show's secret weapon. In a role that continues to grow, McGinley has effectively shed his reputation as a show killer in the best role of his career. McGinley is great at bringing humor to the show - his episode where he was incre...

Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... PATRICK BALL as Dr. Frank Langdon in The Pitt (HBO Max) KEITH DAVID as Marty Brunner in The Lowdown (FX) SHAWN HATOSY as Dr. Jack Abbot in The Pitt (HBO Max) MICHAEL HITCHCOCK as Ray Moseley in The Lowdown (FX) GERRAN HOWELL as Dr. Dennis Whitaker in The Pitt (HBO Max) KYLE MACLACHLAN as Donald Washberg in The Lowdown (FX) EBON MOSS-BACHRACH as Richie Jerimovich in The Bear (FX/Hulu) And the Winner Is... SHAWN HATOSY The Pitt (HBO Max) After his very beloved guest appearances in the first season of The Pitt , Shawn Hatosy's Dr. Abbot appeared in a few more episodes of the second season to get upgraded to a Supporting Actor. In a season of The Pitt where Noah Wyle's Dr. Robby was in a downward spiral and all the day shift doctors were stressed to the max, Jack Ab...

Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... ALEX BONIFER as Dougie Womack Jr. in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) STUART CAMPBELL as Young Ruben in Half Man (HBO) DAVID HARBOUR as Floyd Smernitch in DTF St. Louis (HBO) CHARLES MELTON as Austin Davis in Beef (Netflix) NICK OFFERMAN as Chester A. Arthur in Death by Lightning (Netflix) SHEA WHIGHAM as Roscoe Conkling in Death by Lightning (Netflix) And the Winner Is... NICK OFFERMAN Death By Lightning (Netflix) It's no surprise that Nick Offerman is a great actor. He can play comedy and drama equally well and I know we're going to get a great performance no matter the role or show. His portrayal of a pretty unknown president - Chester A. Arthur in Death by Lightning  - was nothing short of fantastic. On top of easily lo...

Today's award is Outstanding Directing of a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... LUCIA ANIELLO, Hacks "Hacks" (HBO Max) REBECCA ASHER, Shrinking "The Field" (Apple TV) ANDREW DEYOUNG, Widow's Bay "Your Baggage" (Apple TV) SAM DONOVAN, Widow's Bay "Beach Reads" (Apple TV) JOHN HOFFMAN, Only Murders in the Building "After You" (Hulu) JONATHAN KRISEL, English Teacher "Covid in America" (FX) DEARBHLA WALSH, Margo's Got Money Troubles "The Hungry Ghost" (Apple TV) And the Winner Is... ANDREW DEYOUNG Widow's Bay "Your Baggage" (Apple TV) Widow's Bay was the surprise hit of the spring and it worked best for me when it wasn't dabbling in the overarching lore of the series but instead doing a sort of "monster of the week." "Your Baggage" was a take off of Halloween , a movie I ju...

Today's award is Outstanding Directing of a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... MACON BLAIR, The Lowdown "This Land?" (FX) BRADLEY BUECKER, 9-1-1 "Hearts and Flowers" (ABC) VINCE GILLIGAN, Pluribus "We Is Us" (Apple TV) STERLIN HARJO, The Lowdown "The Sensitive Kind" (FX) GORDON SMITH, Pluribus "Got Milk" (Apple TV) JOHN WELLS, The Pitt "9:00 P.M." (HBO Max) SALLI RICHARDSON WHITFIELD, Task "Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing, There is a River" (HBO) And the Winner Is... VINCE GILLIGAN Pluribus "We Is Us" (Apple TV) The first episode of Pluribus was very different from the rest of the series so that might be a knock against it if it wasn't incredibly compelling. The episode took some hallmarks of the apocalyptic event tropes but made it much eerier and more compelling than something like a zombie or...

Today's award is Outstanding Directing of a Limited/Anthology Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... ALEXANDRA BRODSKI, Half Man "Episode 2" (HBO) ANTHONY HEMINGWAY, Love Story "Search and Recovery" (FX) GILLIAN ROBESPIERRE, Love Story "The Wedding" (FX) MATT ROSS, Death By Lightning JAKE SZYMANSKI, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) LEE SUNG JIN, Beef "Oh the Comfort, the Inexpressable Comfort" (Netflix) And the Winner Is... JAKE SZYMANSKI Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video) There might not be a show I've been more impressed with in recent memory than Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat . First of all, it's impressive enough that they made it all work again with an equally or more compelling "hero." But to do it in a less-controlled environment where a lot more could go wrong really was something to behold. I credi...

Today's award is Outstanding Writing of a Comedy Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... LUCIA ANIELLO & PAUL W. DOWNS & JEN STATSKY, Hacks "Hacks" (HBO Max) LANG FISHER, The Four Seasons "Maratona" (Netflix) BRETT GOLDSTEIN, Shrinking "Happiness Mission" (Apple TV) STEPHANIE KOENING, English Teacher "Grant's Dinner Party" (FX) CHAD MORTON, Abbott Elementary "Mall" (ABC) BEN SMITH & ELLA ROBINSON BROOKS, Only Murders in the Building "After You" (Hulu) SANAZ TOOSSI, Adults "Roast Chicken" (FX) And the Winner Is... BRETT GOLDSTEIN Shrinking "Happiness Mission" (Apple TV) I debated quite a bit on this award because the Shrinking episode "Happiness Mission" is far from the funniest script for a comedy category. But it did have my favorite scene in the entire TV season when Jessica Williams' Gaby to...

Today's award is Outstanding Writing of a Drama Series! Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... AYO EDEBIRI & LIONEL BOYCE, The Bear "Worms" (FX/Hulu) BRAD INGELSBY, Task (HBO) KRISTEN PIERRE-GEYFMAN & R. SCOTT GEMMELL, The Pitt "1:00 P.M." (HBO Max) OLIVIA PURNELL, The Lowdown "This Land?" (FX) CHRISTOPHER STORER, The Bear "Goodbye" (FX/Hulu) ALISON TATLOCK & GORDON SMITH, Pluribus "La Chica o El Mundo" (Apple TV) SCOTT TEEMS, The Lowdown "Dinosaur Memories" (FX) And the Winner Is... BRAD INGELSBY Task (HBO) It doesn't quite seem fair to pit the writer of an entire season against individual episodes but it's the rule I've gone with so Brad Ingelsby gets the award for his writing throughout the first season of  Task . I really appreciated how Task broke some usual conventions of its type of show. The main characters, played by ...

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 ...

The first award is Outstanding Technical Design of a Limited/Anthology Series! This award considers all technical elements of a show including sets, costumes, and cinematography.  Past Awards in This Category:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 This year's nominees are... BEEF (Netflix) DEATH BY LIGHTNING (Netflix) DEVIL IN DISGUISE: JOHN WAYNE GACY (Peacock) HALF MAN (HBO) JURY DUTY PRESENTS: COMPANY RETREAT (Prime Video) LOVE STORY (FX) And the Winner Is... DEATH BY LIGHTNING Netflix The limited series Death by Lightning captured a time and story in American history that doesn't get the attention that many other eras get. And the show masterfully captured the 1880s. Despite being filmed overseas (what isn't these days), the show had a unique look that made the story feel fresh and not like a stodgy period piece. Not to mention the costumes and beards! The most impressive scenes were in the convention hall. Whi...

Here are the nominees for the Comedy Series categories! Check out past nominees in this field:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 There are 29 eligible shows I watched at least four episodes of. Since that falls between 21-30, my rule is seven nominees per category. The eligible series in alphabetical order are: Abbott Elementary (ABC),  Adults (FX), American Classic (MGM+), Best Medicine (FOX), Big Mistakes (Netflix), Chad Powers (Hulu), The Chair Company (HBO), DMV (CBS), English Teacher (FX), The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC), The Four Seasons (Netflix), Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (CBS), Ghosts (CBS), Hacks (HBO Max), I Love LA (HBO), Loot (Apple TV), A Man on the Inside (Netflix), Margo's Got Money Troubles (Apple TV), Nobody Wants This (Netflix), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), The Paper (Peacock), Platonic (Apple TV), Rooster (HBO), Shrinking (Apple TV), St. Denis Medi...

Here are the nominees for the Drama Series categories! Check out past nominees in this field:  2025     2024     2023     2022     2021     2020 There are 24 eligible shows I watched at least four episodes of. Since that falls between 21-30, my rule is seven nominees per category. The eligible series in alphabetical order are: 9-1-1 (ABC), The Bear (FX/Hulu),  Boston Blue (CBS), Chicago Fire (NBC), Chicago Med (NBC), Criminal Minds: Evolution (CBS), The Diplomat (Netflix), Elsbeth (CBS), Euphoria (HBO), High Potential (ABC), The Hunting Wives (Netflix), Landman (Paramount+), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), The Lowdown (FX), The Madison (Paramount+), Matlock (CBS), Memory of a Killer (FOX), The Morning Show (Apple TV), Paradise (Hulu), The Pitt (HBO Max), Pluribus (Apple TV), Smoke (Apple TV), The Summer I Turned Pretty (Prime Video), Task (HBO) And the Nominees Are... Outstanding Drama Series The Bear (FX/Hulu) The Diplomat (N...