Category: Outstanding Drama Series
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The winner: Breaking Bad
Our choice: Game of Thrones
The most-pirated HBO series in its fourth season has been nominated in the category thrice but not won it. A gripping storyline, brilliant execution by the directors, outstanding acting by the entire cast and lots of action (of every kind) surely deserves the Emmy nod.
Category: Outstanding lead actress in a Drama Series
The winner: Julianna Margulies, Good Wife
Our choice: Kerry Washington, ScandalOlivia Pope, the crisis manager or “fixer” on Scandal, whose expertise is in managing political situations, is strong, powerful and complicated. We think Kerry Washington deserved the Emmy for portraying one of the most complex female characters on television.
Category: Outstanding lead actress in a Drama Series
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The winner: Julianna Margulies, Good Wife
Our choice: Kerry Washington, Scandal Olivia Pope, the crisis manager or “fixer” on Scandal, whose expertise is in managing political situations, is strong, powerful and complicated. We think Kerry Washington deserved the Emmy for portraying one of the most complex female characters on television.
Category: Outstanding Supporting actress in a Drama Series
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The winner: Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Our choice: Lena Headey, Game of Thrones Yet another complex female character but here she uses everything she has (read BODY) to be powerful in a man’s world. Cersei is deadly, cruel and cold even as she seethes with hate and impotency against her father’s decisions. It is time GoT got the spotlight.
Category: Outstanding comedy series
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The winner: Modern Family
Our choice: Orange Is the New Black The American comedy drama is just two seasons old and has already received critical acclaim. The show about Piper Chapman, a bisexual woman who is sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison, and the story of the other inmates, has the right amount of dark humour and drama.
Category: Outstanding lead actor in a Drama Series
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The winner: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Our choice: Matthew McConaughey, True Detective There is no debate about Bryan Cranston’s brilliance when it comes to playing Walter White but he’s now won the Emmy for the role four times. And when there was another outstanding performance in the form of the alcoholic, cold and aloof detective Rust Cohle, that should have been the one to win.
Category: Outstanding Supporting actor in a Drama Series
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The winner: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Our choice: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Paul is gorgeous as Jesse Pinkman, but this was his third Emmy for the role. Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister has been simply stunning, a chameleon who goes from frivolous to dejected, charming to bastardly, cruel to kind, in just one season.
