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Jaime can put on his dashing brown leather from the opening of Season 4 (when he's back in KL and cleaned up), so they can fight over Cersei.

I just rewatched "Who Are You", the Buffy/Faith body-switch episode of BTVS yesterday. Fantastic work from the two actresses (and Whedon's writing).

Leave it to Rory McCann to enliven a largely dull script in this episode. He is one of the biggest MVPs of the show across all the seasons. Love that we're getting more of Beric, Thoros and the Hound this season.

I was shocked that the friendliness wasn't just setting up a bloody mass-murder. I kept waiting for them to make some sexual advance on her, or something, that she'd retaliate. She glanced at their weapons, I think? Trying to ascertain their allegiance?

I'll share my HBO Go password with you. And by "my", I mean the one I borrowed surreptitiously from someone else. And by "share", I mean that it'll cost you.

<< toilet flushes >> << laughter >>

There are Variety categories for Talk, Sketch, and Special, and for directing and writing, but acting shares the same field as comedy series actors.

Most of that list reads like rubber-stamping noms for whatever film stars decided to do TV, but in fact they are giving legit, worthy performances, as you said. Lange, of course, is a fixture now with AHS.

She's the weakest live sketch actor currently on SNL by a long shot, and in no possible way deserves an Emmy nomination. Ghostbusters, or whatever else, doesn't enter into it. It's the stupidest acting nomination I've seen in ages.

That's Silicon. "Silicone Valley" is my unproduced pilot script about the world of giant fake boobs. HBO seems interested.

That would be 335 years, not millennia, but your point is well taken. :)

Another fun fact: The last time that more than two of the Best Drama nominees (typically 5 or 6 total) were new shows, in their 1st season, was 1962. Now FIVE of the seven are new: Stranger Things, This Is Us, Handmaid's Tale, Westworld, and The Crown.

Downton Abbey deserved its noms in Season 1, it was quite strong; then it didn't deserve them (mostly) after that.

I never figured Stannis Baratheon for a modernist.

If all were right with the world… (Sigh.) Apparently they needed to give three Supporting slots to SNL.

"We Tapped That Ass"! It's a really great song and dance number, featuring two awesomely talented guys, so I'm happy to see that nom.

I'm even more irritated that a fine comedic actress like Donna Lynne Champlin gives a great supporting performance, but the Emmys would rather nominate THREE women from SNL including Leslie Jones. In an ACTING category. With the word OUTSTANDING in its name. Just want to underline that.

Adlon is a really good actress, I was very impressed with her on Better Things. Tony Sirico played a "version of himself" as Paulie Walnuts, but he wasn't gonna be getting any acting noms… This is a different scenario.

Same reason Buffy and SMG got no Emmy attention (except makeup, etc), it's an out-of-the-way show on WB/UPN/CW. Whedon getting a writing nom for Hush in S4, and especially Christophe Beck winning for his beautiful scoring in S2 (both well deserved), were shocking.

How much must Ed O'Neill hate that we all still reference Al Bundy… But damn, it's still funny.