There are, roughly, four-thousand-million-billion TV shows airing right now. Distilling those into a list of the eight “best” in poorly defined genres is silly, because who can complain about what’s chosen? They’re all great. But who can complain about what wasn’t chosen? Everyone!
Welcome to Complain Day.
I love this year’s Emmys nominations because of how they are a reminder of how Extremely Online we are. If you search through the Twitter response to these nominations, you will see what an “OUTRAGE!!!” it is that certain series or actors didn’t make it into the shortlist, which is correct. It is an outrage! There’s been a lot of good TV this year. Your favorite show? Give it Emmys! But the Television Academy doesn’t care. They just liked Ted Lasso.
