I Don’t Care About The Emmys

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Really.  I don’t care that Glee had19 nominations.  I don’t care if Jane Lynch won Oustanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy series.  I don’t care that 30 Rock didn’t get anything.  I don’t care that the 63rd Annual Tony Awards won the Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special award. And! I don’t care that I had to go to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences website to download the PDF list of all the winners because  I didn’t actually watch the Emmys!

Why?  Because.

And, because a little gold statue doesn’t mean anything. Yes, some of these programs may be cleverly written and the actors may give solid performances, but who really watches a television show because the writer, or director, or actor, has a Emmy statuette knickknack collecting dust on a shelf somewhere?

There are at least 500 channels of available television programming at any given moment in the average American household, but there is never anything good on.  That’s probably why we all change the channel so much.

Emmy nominated or not, the show just has to not suck bad enough that we stop channel surfing long enough to actually watch something.