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You Are the Emmys Week: Best Comedy and Drama

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | July 2, 2010 | +
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For the last day of Robo-James’ Emmy week, my picks (preferences, not predictions) for the best-series nominations (comedy and drama) at the Emmys next week.

My spiel, one last time: For my personal picks, I stuck to six per category, so I left out a lot of deserving shows. You don’t have to; I will not be grading your work. (The Emmy calendar, remember, runs roughly from June through May.)

Now, I’ll show you mine, and you show me yours:

Comedy: Parks and Recreation, Party Down, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Modern Family, Glee, Bored to Death (Or Better off Ted. I don’t know! Give me a break! I’m on vacation!)

Drama: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, Sons of Anarchy, Treme, Justified

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  • originalray

    Community, 30 Rock and, in particular, Curb Your Enthusiasm, were all much better than Glee, which only strives to be half-way funny, anyway. I don’t get the love. Oh well.

  • ripetebook

    Your brilliant pick in the drama category of Justified is….justified. This show knocks me out and the humor and yes the violence is just so hot. So good for picking for me the best show period.

  • ambiotic

    Lost was better than justified.. sorry it just was… the middle weeks of justified were bad only when walton googins got more play time did it become good… and Treme meh

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    Ambiotic, we’ll have to agree to disagree, as a big fan of Lost, I felt this last season really lacked. That’s not to say that I don’t assume it will get an emmy nod for its entire series as a whole, but this specific season wasn’t better than Justified. Regardless, if anything other than Breaking Bad wins which it isn’t even close as the best show of the year, it’ll be poor judgment of the voting block.

  • bobbie140

    I feel that Lost was the BEST series on TV ever, & should get the Emmy.

  • http://dianaparadis.wordpress.com Diana

    I’m still upset about Better off Ted. Great little show that reflected (at least what some of us) feel about being the drones in the beehive. And so funny!

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