Pop Culture (No.1) Emmy Nominations 2014

I'm back from a really brief hiatus (like 2 hours) internet!

For the first pop culture report I'm doing Emmys! Today the nominees for this award have come down. The top nominees were HBO's Game of Thrones with 19, FX's Fargo miniseries with 18, AMC's Breaking Bad with 16 for it's final season.

Now let's break down some of the highlight nominations why don't we?

Outstanding Drama Series

• Breaking Bad
• Downton Abbey
• Game of Thrones
• True Detective
• House of Cards
• Mad Men

Now, all of these Drama nominees are outstanding, it was a pretty sure-fire that these were going to be the nominees. Of course Breaking Bad concluded it's impressive streak as one of AMC's most viewed TV series' ever. Downton Abbey, True Detective, House of Cards and Mad Men all shined with many moments in their seasons. Game of Thrones' fourth season not only made it the most watched HBO series, but also the MOST pirated series ever. The premier of the 4th season literally crashed the HBOGO server and they took over 4 hours to get it fixed.

My prediction for winner? Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad.

Outstanding Comedy Series

• The Big Bang Theory
• Silicon Valley
• Louie
• Modern Family
• Orange Is The New Black
• Veep

To be honest, I haven't watched half of these shows. But from the ones I watched, this batch is quite impressive. Of course Modern Family is the beast in this category, winning almost every single one but I thought that the very hype-driven Orange is the New Black was much better than this season of Modern Family.

Winner- Orange Is The New Black

Outstanding TV miniseries

• American Horror Story: Coven
• Bonnie&Clyde
• Fargo
• Luther
• Treme
• The White Queen

Again, I didn't watch many of these but I feel that the miniseries category is too broad, it encompasses all the genres of miniseries but I get that they can't make a million of little statues to make it nice right? Fargo was absolutely one of the most intense TV shows this past year. American Horror Story: Coven was generally a weak season, but Lange and Paulson were absolutely phenomenal in it.

Prediction- Fargo

My Emmy Upsets

I only have 3 upsets with this year's Emmys. Of course, I wish GoT was nominated for more (I love that show). But all jokes aside I thought that FX's "The Bridge" was a stellar show, it should have gotten a nomination. And here we go with the most talked about controversy. Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany. She was nominated a few years back but her performance in Orphan Black was not even barely in the ballpark, it was so far away that even Thrones' Lena Headey couldn't catch it (And she was a phoneme this season). Maslany plays almost half a dozen characters in the show Orphan Black, which talks about the government cloning people. If you have time to binge watch this summer, I definitely suggest Orphan Black.

There we have it, My basic Run-Down of the Emmys this year.

Until next time, Stay awesomely creepy internet,

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