How can Lauren Graham get ...
Question: How can
Lauren Graham get nominated for an Emmy in the comedy category when all of her best scenes this season are dramatic (i.e., the car scene in the final episode)? Do you think
Desperate Housewives will sweep the nominations once again? I can probably live with two or three nominated wives, but taking four spots is kind of pushing it. In a sense I think Lauren has a great chance of being nominated because Emmy favorites
Patricia Heaton and
Sarah Jessica Parker are no longer contenders, and because the Housewives aren't as dominant as they used to be. However, she may not get nominated just because this has been the most dramatic (and least comedic) season of
Gilmore Girls —
although she did get nominated for a TCA this year. I don't get it.
Answer: Lauren Graham falls between the cracks in so many ways: between comedy and drama, and being on a network, now defunct, that almost never could find its way onto the Emmy radar. The category is a little more wide-open this year, which is good news, but the Housewives could be spoilers. My wish, like yours, is that only two Housewives make the cut:
Marcia Cross (who should win) and
Felicity Huffman (who often rose above her material, and besides, with last year's win and an Oscar nomination, sometimes you just have to face facts). I'm reasonably sure
Mary-Louise Parker of
Weeds will be nominated, and while I wasn't a fan of the show,
The Comeback's
Lisa Kudrow was brilliant, and she's a real contender as well. Our fair Lorelai's greatest hurdle, though, will be the Emmy tendency to blindly nominate what's popular and prominent, and that means the category could once again be so heavily weighted toward the ladies of Wisteria Lane that there's no room, as usual, for anyone from Stars Hollow.
