Fuck the Emmys

One lousy writing credit for The Wire and Boston Legal gets nominated for Best Drama?!?!?!?!? The Wire makes Boston Legal look like Hurl for pete's sake. The Wire by far has the best actors, best dialogue and flat out best show ever put on that box we call television and the academy is too dumb, blind and rascist to see it. I know you have trouble understanding the street slang, you white, old Hollywood-types but come on, there were plenty of white people speaking your language in season 5 - what's the problem? I like many of the shows that were nominated (Mad Men, 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies) because they are amusing and pretty sharp but nothing could ever hope to touch the American masterpiece that is The Wire.

The saddest part is that by snubbing The Wire, the academy is telling Hollywood that it would rather see more celebrity-drive, trite shit than insightful, brilliantly innovative and executed shows like The Wire. If we ever want to break out of the garbage chute in which our TVs have found themselves, Hollywood will need to realize that a little brains and a little diversity makes life more interesting.

So someone call me when they call the winner for best writing for a drama series and when The Wire loses in its one category I will throw something across the room, scream and take myself to a movie.

P.S. I do also have to point out that they pretty much snubbed my other favorite entertainment show, Rescue Me. However, Charles Durning was nominated for best guest actor for playing Denis Leary's character's father. Since he had an amazing, heartbreaking scene to close out the last season, I am hopeful that the academy will at least do the right thing in that category.