I am in the minority and am ...
Question: I am in the minority and am
not a fan of
Desperate Housewives. On the flip side, I do understand the concept of a guilty pleasure, which I consider this show to be. And, of course, it's extremely popular. Since when does extremely popular guilty pleasure necessarily translate into superior acting? I don't understand why the actresses on
one show have to gobble up all the nominations. (This used to happen with
Sex and the City and it drove me nuts.) I don't think the show is poorly acted, but the performances are not top-notch either. If it were in the drama category, I don't think
any of the actresses would be in the top five. What do you think?
Answer: Have you seen how weak the drama-actress category is? Dramatically speaking,
Marcia Cross and
Felicity Huffman would easily qualify, and I'm thinking Cross in particular could give
Glenn Close more of a run for her money than any of this year's other drama contenders. (Close would probably still win.) Hot ensemble shows, whether comedy or drama, tend to clog certain categories — think
The West Wing and
The Sopranos in peak seasons.
Desperate Housewives, like
Sex and the City and
Golden Girls many years before, is so full of talent that this kind of logjam was inevitable. And all of that is separate from your point about
Housewives being a guilty pleasure and thus somehow less deserving of serious award consideration. Couldn't disagree more with that one.
Housewives not only transcends genre, it elevates the traditional prime-time soap beyond its usual (unfair) second-class status.
