Emmy nominations day is an annual celebration of life as a mixed bag, validating popular obsessions and artistic breakthroughs in some ways and living up to its reputation for rewarding repeat winners and legacy titles in others. The list of 74th Primetime Awards nominees evinces this yet again, featuring the usual number of selections that make sense and others that prove what a curiously stodgy group the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences voters can be. (Check out the Academy's full list of nominees.)
In the main, this round of Emmy nominations underscores a positive note about this time of Too Much TV: we may have to filter a lot of mediocrity out of a deluge of options, but the past year has yielded so much extraordinary work that the most well-rounded nominations list still would have left many deserving titles out in the cold.
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