Have we talked about the Emmys?

Yep... no outlander.
I stopped watching all the award shows years ago. They have become irrelevant to me.

I just wish they still separated cable and network TV. Network TV just can't compete with what cable is given. Veep is just extraordinary. I hear GoT is as well. But network TV has a lot of things going for it.

There are over 400 scripted TV shows each year. I'm tired of the same old people winning.

I find it so frustrating that almost all the drama nominations are from cable or online shows. While there are good shows and I do love House of Cards, did they really need to do 3 nominations for that one show in a single category?

Doing 20-23 episodes of a show for a network where you have limitations on what you can do and say is very different from doing 12 or 15 episodes (and some don't do that many) on cable. I don't think network and cable should be in the same categories. Or at least shows with so few episodes like Sherlock from PBS (which wasn't nominated this year because I'm not sure they even did a season at all) are considered series. They have seasons with only 3 episodes. That's not a series. It's a miniseries.

Also Modern Family may still be funny but it isn't nearly as good as it used to be. What about The Middle? Eden Sher is always fantastic and never gets a nomination? Allison Janey is great on Mom but she isn't the only one who is. The Emmy voters are stuck on certain people and certain shows. It's boring and doesn't recognize a lot of the talent.

I keep hearing how great Veep is and I guess I should give it a try.  But I truly think Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is one of the most over-rated actresses ever.  She plays the same person in ever series she gets and she never brings any likability to her characters.

I was happy to see nominations for Ellie Kemper and Lily Tomlin as well as Ellie's co-star Titus Burgess.

Claire Danes is nominated for best actress.

      Totally agree. Emilia Clarke who plays Daenerys Targaryen didn't do much of anything at all-in my opinion her acting is terrible. I cannot believe she was nominated for an Emmy and Caitronia Balfe who plays Claire Fraser on Outlander wasn't-especially for the episode when she gives birth to Faith and holds her dead daughter in her arms! Emilia Clarke couldn't act that well if her life depended on it! 

The actors who play Sam and Black Jack, and so many more were snubbed completely (like the cinematography), and what about the man (I can't remember his name right now) who writes the music for Outlander? It's amazing! There is so much that is so extraordinary about that show!  They filmed for 11 months to give us season 2 and they get completely snubbed by the Emmys except for costume and sets, and once again Game of Thrones sweeps them all up. 

I give up, and have in the past couple of years thought it was rigged somehow. Don't know how exactly, people say it's political-I don't know. I've just given up on it. Hope the cast and crew doesn't take it too hard. 

Debbie in MD.

I was thrilled to see Tatiana Maslany nominated, as well as Veep, Sillicon Valley, Fargo, Luther and GoT. I would have loved to see Outlander, The Walking Dead, Daredevil and Jessica Jones get acting nominations but I didn't expect them to. I didn't think Modern Family or House of Cards had strong seasons so I was surprised to see them do well.

See, I don't even think Allison Janey is that great! There are more deserving. And I definitely agree on the certain shows!

I won't be watching because I don't subscribe to the premium cable channels. A lot of HBO and Showtime shows were nominated. I'm glad there's good reviews of Outlander. I didn't like the first book.

I don't pay much attention to awards. While it's nice for the cast and crew to get the awards, they mean nothing to me in terms of what's good and what's not.

Omg. I think Ty Burrell is a comic genius!