Top 12 Shows of the First Half of 2025

1. Resident Alien (Syfy) – Long one of my favorite series on the airwaves, the increased entanglement of characters in the alien storyline has the potential to improve the sprawling ensemble piece into a tighter catharsis. It's only four episodes, but the infrastructure is really coming together.

2. The White Lotus (HBO) – The first three episodes were too slow of a burn for an eight-episode season. There were minor character tics that didn't quite land: The power lady trio never got hooky enough, the Scott Glenn character's actions made no sense, Sam Rockwell's relationship to his sexual and drug wagon were too tangential, and a White Lotus Parker Posey was more over-the-top than even a Christopher Guest Parker Posey. Still, this is by far, the best thing on TV and has so much ambition and craftsmanship at every step.

3. The Four Seasons (Netflix) – Unfairly compared to the original film by the critical sphere. Steve Carell, restless from his marriage (to Kerri Kinney), experiences a mid-life crisis and subsequent May-December romance that threatens to throw off the long-standing equilibrium of the friendship between three couples. The show's format of rotating over four vacations is clever. The show is largely populated with comedic actors, but it's oh so sweet, and the automatic reaction by the gang to the May-December romance is surprisingly salient.

4. Deli Boys (Hulu) – The show operates at that dark comedy level around Good Girls or the TV version of Fargo, but I'm not sure if I've seen a dark comedy that's so funny despite the WIDE proliferation of this genre. Poorna Jagannathan as the aunt steals every scene, and it's a blast seeing Brian George take on something new (speaking of something new, the Pakistani member of Queer Eye debuts as an Indian mobster). Aasif Ali and Saagar Shaikh handle every turn with this unique comic energy as if they've just boarded a roller coaster that they didn't know was going to be so intense.

5. Poker Face (Peacock)-Leans on the same three tropes every episode -- accidental murderer, detective in the right place at the right time, and deus-ex-machina to get the hero kicked out of her home every -- BUT Riann Johnson imbues every episode with movie-level quality. That's a pretty high level of consistency for a show that switches settings every episode

6. Ghosts (CBS) – My iTunes bill can confirm that I can't get enough of this show even when I think I've quit it. It's a rare sitcom that harkens back to the whimsical comedy of the mid-2000s as laugh tracks were getting left behind. It keeps expanding its world without losing charm: The show is the most evenly balanced and strongest ensemble.

7. Grosse Pointe Garden Society (NBC) – Even with a flat murder twist, the show delivers a compelling take on adulthood adrift and the intersecting plots are doubly rich. Two actors that have been begging for meatier work --Melissa Fumero and Josh Radnor -- turn in career-high work here.

8. America’s #1 Family (Amazon Prime Video) – Ramy Youssef pivots fully into comedy, shedding introspection for a breezier, punchier sitcom approach. It's an animated family sitcom and it fully uses the capacity of animation to make characters visually funny.

9. Black Mirror (Netflix) – Three episodes this season—Hotel Reverie, Bête Noire, and USS Callister: Into Infinity—were fully realized, while one episode (Eulogy) came close but ended up more of a downer than a provocative episode. Still, going four for six at this level of ambition this late into an anthology show's run is highly impressive.

10. Running Point (Netflix) – A sports-family sitcom powered by inspired casting—Kate Hudson, Drew Tarver, Justin Theroux, and Scott MacArthur—as siblings who inherit a basketball team. It moves fast, cleverly segments certain episodes to tangential stand-alone shots, and features a great array of guest stars.

11. Going Dutch (Fox) – Military culture gets a sharp satire here. The humor is a little broad at the dialogue level, but the basic premise-- a military support base that's exclusively designed for bowling, laundry, and cheese-making -- is pretty hilarious. The chemistry is so great between Taylor Misiak and Dennis Leary as a headstrong father and daughter working out their baggage years after childhood has ended, I'm here for it. Catherine Tate is miles better as a foil than she was on The Office.

12. Krapopolis (Fox) – Animated show set in a city adjacent to the glory of Athens. The show gets endless mileage out of reality-bending plots and mythology gags. There's plenty of amusing in-fighting within this clan, but it's more along the lines of a family sitcom, making it a kinder and gentler cousin to the nihilistic-leaning Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites.

What I'm Watching March Edition: Grosse Pointe Garden Society, Going Dutch, Deli Boys, Laid, Running Point

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Grosse Pointe Garden Society (Peacock): Four disparate grown-ups struggling with grown-up problems get caught up in a yet-to-be-revealed murder through a gardening society. Also, there’s a gardening society with the requisite scenes of hoeing and weeding, if you really are itching to see the title work itself into the plot somehow. Brett’s (Ben Rappaport) recovering from the emasculation of his wife leaving him and has a custody battle on the forefront; Alice (Annasophia Robb) is a teacher caught between kowtowing to a school’s rich benefactor and her integrity, on top of a rocky marriage and a dead dog; Catherine (Aja Naomi King) is the other woman in an extra-marital affair, but her regular marriage isn’t so hot either; and Birdie (Melissa Fumero) is a snooty (and quite fun) socialite who becomes entangled with her biological son and their adopted family. There are time jumps to this big tragic murder thingy six months out, but it’s not really a strong point of the show. Instead, this show is one of the best on TV for the four fully realized story arcs, the juicy drama, and the pointed classism satire. The arcs (particularly Brett and Alice) interact enough to give a sense of connection, and I’m assuming (I’m only halfway through) it will all point to some grand catharsis.

Laid (Peacock): Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet make a good pair of friends (with whom some nice tension develops midway through) who are investigating a supernatural phenomenon of all of Hsu's exes dying in a certain order. It's an unapolagetically sex-positive take on a woman who's gotten around, but that's not really new (Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, Broad City, Girl Boss have treaded this territory). In this take, there's an interesting counter-current of "sex has consequences." It might even be read as a metaphor for STDs. If this is a "conservative take", it's all wrapped up in enough of a flippant overly comical storyline that I doubt anyone will care. It's developed by Nahnatchka Khan who generally treads in absurdist genre spins on the traditional formula (Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, for example) so there's some of that absurdity here.

 

Running Point (Netflix): In my book this is one of the best casts on TV: Kate Hudson, Drew Tarver, Scott McArthur, Justin Thoreaux, Brenda Song, Jay Ellis, and Jon Glaser. And four of them play siblings quite convincingly. It's a behind-the-look at a female executive in the NBA played by Jeannie Buss, though it never feels like it has a whole lot of verisimilitude to NBA life. Instead, the episodes are arranged more around various themes as sitcoms are wont to do: One episode is more about trades, one episode is about disciplining the players, one episode is about tackling double standards between genders in the front office.

Going Dutch (Fox): An excellent military comedy about a stubborn man (with a capital M) and daughter forced to share commanding duties on a military base.

Unlike MASH which took medics to the front-lines and found humor in bleak situations, this show is more devoid of social commentary about war, because it doesn't take place anywhere near combat. Going Dutch gets a lot of comic mileage from its setting: This is a support base in the Dutch countryside which features a laundromat, bowling alley, and cheese factory (which they refer to as a “formagerie”; hey, I learned a new word).

The targets of satire are the crusty military traditions and classicism of the instutitons are the satire target in the form of the excellent general and failure of a father in General Quinn (Dennis Leary, did not know he had this type of character in him). The chemistry between Taylor Kisiak and Dennis Leary is reason enough to watch this show alone.

Deli Boys (Hulu): Solid mob comedy that gets better as it goes. There probably was a point when “ordinary  people falling too deep into illicit activity that they were stuck in bed with organized crime” was an original comic idea. El Mariachi? Mickey Blue Eyes? By now, it’s pretty old hat but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for something like this which has great execution and even better characters. The show features an all South Asian cast, so part of the fun is taking this small subpopulation of character actors who we generally associate with Glee and Community (Iqbal Thegba); Never Have I Ever (Poorna Jagannathan); Seinfeld (Brian George); and even Queer Eye (Tan France) and turning them into stone cold killers.

Other stuff I'm watching that I've either previously reviewed

Animal Control (Fox): Premiering the same night each week as Going Dutch, it's getting better each week. I've covered it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyfdQB_mc9I

Ghosts (CBS) and Krapopolis (FOX)-Still two of the strongest comedy programs on TV. They've preiously appeared in my top 10s.

Dark Winds (AMC)-Another new Native American-centered show. A bit more of a slow burn than I'm looking for, but it has an interesting setting.

20 Best TV Episodes of 2024

1. Who Dat, Life and Beth (Hulu)-The hidden gem of a show explores the relationship between a rustic outsider on the spectrum (played improbably well by Michael Cera) and urban sophisticate Amy Schumer as (for lack of a better characterization) Amy Schumer. The wedding episode exemplifies the taking-more-than-giving nature of Beth with regards to John, and the way the pair's compromises leads to its own sweet union. The wedding episode expands the world of the pair's circles, it's wild, it's funny, and it's achingly sweet.

2. Ill Somerso (Episode 3), Ripley-The show doesn’t provide much surprise if you’ve seen the 1999 film “The Talented Mr. Ripley” which is also adapted by the Patricia Highsmith novel. But in the hands of Andrew Scott, his steely exterior turns the murder of the object of his adoration (Johnny Flynn) into a complete shocker. Scott’s lightning-fast psychopathic instincts are here on full display and it’s chilling. The show is lit in a picturesque black-and-white setting while also being muted in its sound scape, which makes the experience of a drama in an episode like this more vouyeristic.

3.     High Potential-One Of Us (Midseason finale)-For a show that's never designed to be more than a serial with a snarky protagonist, it ramps up the pathos quite well between Morgan and her the daughter gives the episode real stakes. The kidnappers' dynamic as one of them becomes steadily more unhinged is a treat.

4. Sleep Hypnosis, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)-It’s more in ROFTL territory than plot movement, but how often is s Colin Robinson ever given the chance to do something this smart (hypnotizing Nandoor into talking up Colin in his native language)? And how much more random can one get than making a vampire believe he is Richard Nixon? The episode also makes great use of Guillermo in his “I’m so over this” mode.

5. Do You Get it Sports are Huge in this Town, Clone High-Frida Kahlo has a knacok as the star of "sport" of snorkeling (pointing at fish) with a hilariously on-point send-up of the VH1 style documentary on a past life of Scudsworth as a world-class snorkeler who's achilles heel was overconfidence and fast food. Anything that sheds light on Scudsworth's past is worth it in my book.

6. Krapocalypse, Krapopolis (Fox)-King Ty has to save civilization in Groundhog Day fashion. The entire day resets when a volcano kills him and he has to learn from his mistakes and bring everyone up to speed before the volcano devours them. In Krapopolis tradition, no one actually appreciates he king, and when they do, In another Krapopolis, the God who set up this hellish situation is driven by equal parts fickleness and boredom.

7. Halloween 5, Ghosts (CBS)-It’s hard not to love what the ultra-rigid Patience (Mary Holland) brings to the crew. She fits in less with the octet than any other character we've seen to date and I love those jagged edges. Namely, she scares everyone to death and bloodies up the walls. Bring on the chaos.

8. March Madness, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)-Shawnie gets obsessed with another sports phenomemenon in March Madness, and as usual, the vampires have no idea what’s going on. These are the same guys who attended a Superb Owl party. And in the B-plot, Guillermo is getting along in the corporate world when he blah blah blah Colin punches Guillermo in the face. Wow, that happens. Multiple times too. Guillermo and the crew interacting in the corporate world was an outstanding arc that bought along some of the crew’s best interactions with the non-vampire world -- especially, Nadja, who has the sharp-tongued insult catalogue for a finance bro.

9. Episode 5, Baby Reindeer (Hulu)ts-This is a show that's so hard to watch, that it's not gonna fully feel cathartic until the last episode when Martha is done away with, but this hope spot when Donny and his parents can release their demons together. What a sentimental gut punch.

10. Episode 2.2, The Tourist  (BBC ---> Netflix) Ethan obnoxiously inflicting both his aerophobia and his route to self-discovery on his seatmate is worth the price of admission for this episode alone. On top of that, this episode sets up the eventual collision course between leprechaun Norman Bates (he’s Irish and short, come on, it’s an easy target) and Helen. It also has the best dramatization of the Frog-Scorpion (the fable about the scorpion stinging the frog because it's in his nature) analogy TV has done to date.

11. A Shiksa Walks into a Temple, Nobody Wants This (Netflix)-The incompatibility between Jewish values (which discourages intermarriage, if not outright bans it in some sects) is never easy to reconcile with our modern-day conception of romance and free will. Throughout the first two episodes of the series, hunky Rabbi Noah seems to be broadcasting entirely different things between his head and heart. It's an episode where we have no idea what's happening. Why is he following her into a car on the middle of Shabbat. Even crazier, why is Sasha going along? Is this a date? It's also the start of Morgan and Sasha as sublime third and fourth wheels to this pairing.

12. Thor, Krapopolis (Fox)- It’s hard to get better than a cosmology crossover with the Norse gods. As someone who has completely skipped over the Thor franchise, my knowledge of these gods is a little thin, but the characters of Thor, Freya, Odin, and Loki came pretty ready-made with comic quirks that made the episode delightful. Besides, Scandanavian archetypes are pretty universal. Jealous Deliria was also a new shade to witness and the plot all got resolved on a nice brick joke.

13. The Killer Inside Me, The Caped Crusader (Amazon)-A very interesting retelling of the Harvey Dent story that leaves Harvey a bit more sympathetic. There's a lot of dramatic irony here--we know Dent is going to turn bad--that limits the possibilities of any of this, but the remorse on Harvey's part is something new.

14. Circle Sewn with Fate/Unlock thy Hidden Gate (Episode 2), Agatha All Along (Disney Plus)-The creation of the coven. I don't think Agatha All Along worked. It was too insiderish rather than what Marvel properties are at their best: Comic-book level knowledge serves as easter eggs, but otherwise the TV shows/films should be inviting to those outside the nerddom. However, this creation of the uneasy truce among former enemies and this realpolitik on Agatha's part of negotiating what these people wanted and needed. The scene of four wannabe witches and put-upon neighbor Sharon singing the Witches Road song in the round medley is also something else.

 15. Eunjangdo (Episode 10), Cobra Kai-For a show that used up all its plot threads by season 5's finale, it’s supremely impressive that the show gave us anything worth caring about in the final season. Season 6. It took us a little while to get there, though, but it found its groove by the end, and as per custom, we got an epic brawl. Though Terry and John Kreese continue their annoying habit of being part of the plot, they’re at least displaced from center stage to make way for fresh blood. With the fall of Kwon, the show left a gaping question mark of a cliffhanger.

16. Ice Day, Krapopolis (Fox)- it's a rare episode in which King Ty succeeds with a love interest and there are multiple late stage twists. It's not the most monumnetal episode, but it's sweet.

17. Lovebird (Episode 5), Resident Alien-Harry and Heather (Edi Patterson) fall in love and have an interspecies romp in the middle of a helluva awkward dinner party with Asta and D'Arcy, hard to get more riotously funny than that in this show that plays comedy straight.

18. Pilot, Interior Chinatown (Hulu)-The show had a distinct culturally specific noir feel to it at the start. Unfortunately, it became too much of a procedural with the preposterousness of the Josh Schwartz series Chuck (ordinary Joe Shmoe is useful to crime fighting), but it started out really strong. Jimmy O. Yang’s subdued voiceover drips with a sad semi-noirish pathos and there’s an outlandish tone is the show transitions between the mundane and a gnarly fight scene.

19. Episode 1.7, KAOS (Netflix)-The lengths of Zues's amorality and power lust are shown in their fullest extent here in the pool party frying. It's a penultimate episode that raised the urgency of the stakes

20 He Sees Dead People, Ghosts (CBS)-Jay’s sister Bella has turned a wheel from her penchant of bad boys and has shacked up with adorkable pushover Eric. Personally, I’m still rooting for her to work out the beyond-the-dead logistics and get with Trevor, but this will have to do for now. The episode takes a sublime twist when it’s discovered that Eric can’t really see dead people.
Eric’s pushover tendencies is a great source of comic humor and it drives the plot brilliantly as he is encouraged to throw himself down the stairs to sell his loss of ghost connection.

Best TV Ensembles of 2022

 I contributed a couple entries to this TV Fanatic crowd-sourced article about best ensembles on TV.

My top pick: Reboot (Hulu)

Reboot is about the coexistence of different generations of artists. In that vein, who could be better epitomize that clash than Paul Reiser and Rachel Bloom as an estranged father and daughter entrusted with co-running a sitcom?

Reiser is an old-school 90s sitcom star with a comic delivery that borrows a little from Borscht Belt comedy. Rachel Bloom made her way to TV fame as the star and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend via YouTube stardom that turned musical theater conventions on their head.

The pair is complemented by a writing room that echoes Bloom’s Gen Z approach to artistic merit with Riser’s Borscht Belt big laughs approach, and the combination is hilarious.

Meanwhile on the show’s set, Keegan-Michael Key, Judy Greer, Johnny Knoxville (who thought of that casting choice?), and Calum Worthy play a quartet of has-been actors who form a found family with healthy doses of comedy and heart.

Other picks:
Ghosts (CBS): The eight actors who play the ghosts weren’t particularly hot on casting lists before this show. In an ideal world, they should be now. Each member of the octet provides such pitch-perfect character beats to create this great whirlwind of humor. It’s like your favorite comedic duo expanded by six with the rat-a-tat banter still operating like clockwork. Of course, credit goes to Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) for bringing the heart and grounding the plots. (I also wrote about Ghosts here)

Star Trek Picard (Paramount Plus): Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, and Santiago Cabrera bring a sense of visceral edge that I’ve never seen in Star Trek before. Pill’s displays an antsy-ness at being in space that seems pretty logical for most humans, but somehow Star Trek has never shown that side of the 24th century populance before. It makes sense: Star Trek: The Next Generation was designed to appeal to a broad audience in the 1980s so the actors weren’t aiming for high drama, but when the TNG cast is introduced they also are up to that higher bar.

Yellowjackets (Showtime): The show centers around a plane crash involving a teenage soccer in the 90s, and the way the survivors are traumatized all the way through their adulthoods. How fitting that the show cast three of the most promising ingenues of the 90s as the roles of the four main survivors: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis. All three have long been underrated actresses and deserve to be attached to one of the hit shows on television. But that’s half the battle: The show also succeeds in casting matching teenage versions of these characters with all their drama.

Winning Time (HBO)-When you have two Oscar winners in your cast (Adrien Brody and Sally Field) and neither of them are central characters, then you’ve got a pretty deep talent pool. This docudrama about the Lakers 1980 championship features John C. Reilly in one of the most complex roles of his storied career as larger-than-life team owner Jerry Buss. Quincy Isaiah shines here in his first screen credit playing Magic Johnson as a bright-eyed superstar that’s still in the incubation phase. His main rival for the starting position is Norm Nixon played with swagger by the real-life figure’s son, DeVaughn. Surrounding them are a murderer’s row of character actors in Jerry West, Hadley Robinson, Jason Segel (did not see that coming), Tracey Letts, and the aforementioned Brody alongside Field who makes a strong impression with little screen time.

Ramy (Hulu): Ramy Yousef just plays a less self-assured version of himself, but there’s so much idiosyncrasy in the characters around him that this show deserves a place. Watching this show and not knowing the names of all the actors is a good reminder of the scarcity of Middle-Eastern actors with name recognition. Ramy’s parents are played by Amr Waked (Syriana, Salmon Fishing in Yemen) and Hiam Abbass (The Visitor) who have both done enough good work to be names among more astute American audiences, but everyone on this show deserves a brighter future. It also helps that the show format gives characters like Dena (May Calamaway), Uncle Naseem (Laith Nakli), and Ahmed (Dave Marheje) an episode in the spotlight or two.

The White Lotus (HBO)-This one is going to pop up on a lot of my lists because you can't make a TV series that works on so many layers without doing so many things right. This show has Lost/Arrested Development levels of Easter Egg placement and you better believe that the actors are in on the intricacies of each character. The show's brightest star is Emmy-winner Jennifer Coolidge but deserves a lot of credit for finding a new tone of deadpan for Aubrey Plaza, and making spaces for the largely unknown-to-American-audiences Italian newbies.

Catching up on Derry Girls (Netflix) Season 3, and Ghosts (CBS) Season 2

Derry Girls (Netflix)- Books and media taking place in the pseudo-war zone of Ireland are an odd phenomenon to reflect on today. With this greater awareness for “people of color” and images of genocides in Haiti, Cambodia, and Ethiopia sprawled on the covers of National Geographic, it’s hard to picture Ireland---one of the world’s biggest tourist hubs—as some sort of war zone: Between civilized people of the same pale color.

My sister briefly taught abroad in Ireland and it was exciting to see this normally apolitical get all passionate about the conflict there. But I must confess—five years later, I don’t remember who did what to whom. Still, the interesting thing is that Ireland is much closer than actual war zones—Ethiopia, Haiti, Nigeria, Indonesia—to the creative centers of power so if creative figures like Kenneth Branagh, Neil Jordan, and Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee have stories to tell about it, there’s a much higher chance that that story will be told.

Derry Girls, now entering its third season, tells the story of five childhood friends bound together by familial bonds (among the five are two sets of cousins and they all grew up in the same side of the neighborhoods) who are getting into enough trouble in their Catholic girls’ school to make Lucy Ricardo look tame by comparison. One of the running jokes is that one of the five “Derry Girls” is an ordinary straight guy, James, who tags along with them to the girls’ school because, well, who knows. It's not important. The show uses a lot of 

It’s not exclusively about war zones and class conflict but class (the protagonist Erin’s parents and grandfather all live under the same roof) and religious conflict (the fear that James might be picked on if he went to a protestant school) insert themselves in organic ways to create a very strong sense of place which is this show’s biggest appeal.

 

Ghosts (CBS)-Continuing to work my way up the list of best shows of the year, the show is about a mansion run by a couple of yuppies that is inhabited by ghosts of eight different time periods—a Viking, a Native American pre-Columbus, a Revolutionary War soldier, a widow from the guilded age, a jazz age singer, a hippie, a dweeby travel agent from the 80s, and a Wall Street boy-with lots of unresolved issues and a great sense of camaraderie. Due to a near death experience, the wife (Rose McIver) can interact with ghosts (who use most of their interactions with her, using her as a TV remote control among other things) but her husband can’t, which creates a pretty ripe dynamic for comedy. The first season was pretty exposition heavy with each character getting a day in the limelight so the writers can milk entire episodes on exposition.

In the second season, Ghosts seems to find their groove even more as the characters change enough to keep things interesting but not hard enough to disrupt the status quo. After all, these characters have been in existence for centuries in some cases. The mood whiplash for them in changing overnight is a real thing, so it's been wise to take the changes slow.

It's also interesting to note how even though Utkarsh Ambudkar is the epitome of coolness (he raps with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Daveed Diggs), he successfully pulls off a dork here (his hobbies aren't too far off from Phil Dumphy on Modern Family

If I Picked the Emmys 2022

Best Limited Series

Winnter: White Lotus*
Nominees:

Dropout*

The Shrink Next Door

Winning Time

MAID

American Crime Story: Impeachment

Actor: Clive Owen, ACS

Nominees:

Will Ferrell, The Shrink Next Door

Quincy Isiah, Winning Time

Paul Rudd, Shrink Next Door

Mike Meyers, Penuverate

Best Actress: Margaret Qualley, Maid*

Nominees:
Beanie Feldstein, ACS

Sarah Paulson, ACS*

Amanda Seyfried, Dropout*

Alexandra Daddario, White Lotus* (Different Category)

Julie Garner, Inventing Anna*

 

Supporting Actor:  Naveen Andrews, Dropout

Jason Segel, Winning Time

Dan Bakkehdal, ACS

Murray Bartlett, White Lotus*

Adrian Brody, Winning Time

Fred Hechinger, White Lotus

Tracey Letts, Winning Time

 

Supporting Actress: Kathryn Hahn, The Shrink Next Door

Nominees: Kaitlyn Dever, The Premise

Annika Noni Rose, Maid

Annaleigh Ashford, ACS

Jenniifer Coolidge, The White Lotus*

Sidney Sweeney, The White Lotus*

Laurie Metcalf, Dropout

 

 
Best Episode: Momento Mori, Winning Time

Nominees: Pilot, Dropout

Toxic Fan, Premise

The President Kissed Me, ACS

Pentagon City Mall Interrogation, ACS

String Cheese, MAID

Bear Hunt, MAID

 

Best Writing: White Lotus

Nominees:  American Crime Story

Winning Time

 

Best Animated Show

Winnter: Central Park

Nominees: Adventure Beast

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Dicktown

Inside Job

Solar Opposites

COMEDY

 

Best Show: Resident Alien

Nominees: 

The Afterparty

What We Do in the Shadows*

Killing It

Ghosts

We Are Lady Parts

Marvelous Mrs Maisel*

 

 

Best Actor: Alan Tyduk, Resident Alien
Nicholas Hoult, The Great*

Craig Robinson, Killing It

Matt Berry, What We Do in the Shadows

Keegan Michael-Key, Schmigadoon

Ben Falcone, God’s Favorite Idiot

Glenn Howerton, AP Bio

 

Actress: Claudia O’Doherty, Killing It

Nominees:

Rachel Brosnaham, Marvelous Mrs Maisel*

Tiffany Haddish, The Afterparty

Cecily Strong, Schmigadoon

Aya Cash, Welcome to Flatch

Elle Fanning, The Great*

Sosie Bacon, As We See It

 

 

 

Supporting Actor: Gwilym Lee, The Great

Mark Prosch, What We Do in the Shadows

Michael Zengen, Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Brandon Scott Jones, Ghosts

Tony Shalhoub, Marvelous Mrs Maisel*

Alan Cumming, Schmigadoon

Sacha Dawson, The Great

 

 

Supporting Actress:  Marin Hinkle, Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Alice Wetterkund, Resident Alien

Belinda Bumilow, The Great

Dana Silver, Space Force

Phoebe Wright, The Great

Alex Borstein, Marvelous Mrs Maisel*

Tifany Haddish, The Afterparty

Guest Actor:  Colm Meany, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Nominees: Matt Walsh, Ghosts

Enrico Colantoni, Ghosts

Owen Wilson, SNL

PJ Byrne, Never Have I Ever

Common, Never Have I Ever

Luke Kirby, Marvelous Mrs Maisel

 

 

 

Guest Actress:  D’Arcy Carden, Killing It
 

Nominees: Kristen Schaal, What We Do in the Shadows

Alex Borstein, Resident Alien

Natasha Lyonne, SNL

Jane Lynch, Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Danica McKeller, Home Economics

Selena Gomes, SNL

 

 

Writing: What We Do in the Shadows

Nominees:

Schmigadoon

AP Bio

The Great

Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Welcome to Flatch

 

Drama

 

 

Winner: Yellow Jackets*

Nominees: The Chair

Orville

The Resort

Severance*

Flight Attendant

Star Trek: Picard

 

Actor: Adam Scott, Severance*

Nominees: Jay Duplass, The Chair

Billy Zabka, Cobra Kai

Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Picard

Actress: Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets*

Britt Lower, Severance

Sandra Oh, The Chair

Annie Murphy, Kevin Can Go F**k Himself

Elizabeth Moss, Shining Faces

Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant

 

 

Supporting Actor: Luis Gerardo Mendez, The Resort

Bob Balaban, The Chair

Skyler Gismodo, The Resort

Kevin Bigley, Upload

Daniel Dae Kim, Kevin Can Go F*** Himself

John Turturro, Severance*

Supporting Actress: Christina Ricci, Yellow Jackets*

Allegra Edwards, Upload

Holland Taylor, The Chair

Juliette Lewis, YellowJackets

Peyton List, Cobra Kai

Rosie Perez, The Flight Attendant

Allison Pill, Star Trek: Picard

 

Guest Actor:

Paolo Costanzo, Upload

Michael  Chernus, Severance

PJ Byrne, Cobra Kai

Guest Actress:
Leighton Meister, The Orville

Mackenzie Carroll, Upload

Whoopi Goldberg, Star Trek: Picard

 

 

Episode:  The Chair, The Chair
Dinner Party, Upload

Pilot, Yellowjacket

F Sharp, Yellowjackets

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From Unknown Graves-Orville