wow- i wholeheartedly agree. i've just finished season one, but i can't imagine a show being better. avon barksdale must own a piece of the emmys

That's such a crime. I knew they would get shut out when a few weeks ago the ten semifinalists were leaked for best drama, from which the voters could choose the top 5 for nomination. They didn't even see The Wire to be fit for the top 10. I'm sort of a sucker for the big awards shows, or at least I was. With this, I've completely written off the Emmys. Season Four may have been the best season yet and I've never seen a better hour of television than the penultimate episode of Season four.This is an outrage, and it has been for years. Funny thing is, The Corner cleaned up years ago as a miniseries. The Wire has only been nominated once, in the writing category for the episode where *SPOILERT ALERT* Stringer gets shot.

Ahh, but see, then they would have to watch a show that has a cast that is around 70 percent black and deals explicitly with poor, inner city realities. That just aint gonna happen, now is it...(*sigh*)

Amen, and true dat. The only possible excuse is that The Wire is so seamlessly perfect on every level that the absence of grandstanding ego moments somehow makes it invisible to industry idiots. A universe in which Michael K. Williams (Omar) is not best supporting actor every year is a world run by cheese-faced bitches.

I'm in the middle of Season 3 now, which I like a little less than Season 2 (which I rolled through last weekend) so far, but this show consistently blows my mind. The commentary on the war on drugs in Season 3 really solidifies my opinions on the situation. Can't wait until Season 4 comes out.

I too love The Wire. Sadly, I think the industry just doesn't get the show. To them, I think it acknowledges way to many social complexities and has way too many black characters to be a candidate for their awards. I am consistently blown away by the quality of the writing and acting on that show. Such a shame that something so good is not recognized!

Yeah, it's the Emmys, man. Basically irrelevant. For all the right choices (The Sopranos, 30 Rock, The Office), there's more wrong ones (Boston Legal, Entourage, etc). It'll always be that way, I reckon.

Amen brother, amen!

I think if you're waiting for the Emmys to recognize truly quality programming, you're in for a long wait. The Wire, while arguably the best of the snubbed, is by no means alone.

Your headline certainly paints an intesting mental picture.

i thought this blog was about comedy. isn't this a small subject for this blog/podcast. I'm kind of disapointed. i thought we we're trying to figure out how to be funnier, not bitching about the emmys. wait.... Grease didn't get nominated for a Tony, we should post about that next week.

Well at least they recognized the brilliance of the art direction of Hell's Kitchen when stakced against other reality-contest shows (not to be confused with reality-reality shows like Kathy Griffin). I mean that part where when a contestant gets knocked off the show and then it goes to their picture and you see the picture go up in flames, the first time I saw that I thought "someones gonna win an award for that".

It won a Peabody in '03. Isn't that more acknowledgeable than a Emmy?