2016 Emmy Predictions: Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Lead Actor in a Drama Series is the most unpredictable category at the Emmys this year Lead Actor in a Drama Series is a wide open category. Two of last year’s nominees, Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), are ineligible this year and only two seem like locks. The two actors that…

2016 Emmy Predictions: Comedy Series

Newcomers will define the Emmy race for Comedy Series Comedy Series feels a lot more open than it actually is. While two of last year’s nominees, Louie and Parks and Recreation, are ineligible this year, the other five are returning. However, I think there is room for a lot of movement in the category especially…

2016 Emmy Predictions: Drama Series

Five of last year's Emmys' Drama Series nominees should make it back in. Which one will be left off? Drama Series is a category that probably won’t have a lot of movement from last year’s line-up. Of course, Mad Men is out of the way which opens up a spot, but barring a huge shock,…

2016 Emmy Predictions: Limited Series

This year, Limited Series is a surprisingly competitive category this year. There are feasibly nine legitimate competitors for the five slots. At the top of the list is FX's "The People vs. O.J. Simpson". They are going to feasibly be the nominations leader with multiple nominations in each category and it has the cultural clout that…

2015 Emmy Predictions: Our final picks on who will win

The 2015 Emmy Awards are this Sunday where Television's finest will come together to honor the best and brightest of the year. Below are our final predictions on who will win and who should stay home. Here are our 2015 Emmy Predictions! Come back to Smash Cut tonight for our Live Blog of the ceremony!…

Emmy 2015 Spotlight: “Mad Men”

Photo by Vulture How will Don Draper die? Throughout the final episodes of Mad Men, which aired the second half of its final season this past spring, it was this question, and increasingly speculative answers to it, that dominated so much discussion of the show. As is so often the case…

Emmy Spotlight: Inside Amy Schumer

By most measures Amy Schumer is an unlikely It Girl. She is crude and often vulgar. She does not look like or present herself as a vapid, bleached-blond wastrel. She speaks bluntly and frankly about the very system that regularly anoints It Girls, and what she has to say is sharply critical. And yet here…