larry david

Bitching about the Emmy nominations is a beloved tradition, but it's hard to get too worked up over any single category because scripted TV is so creatively healthy right now. (For a rundown of nominees, click here.) This is a far cry from when I first started covering TV about fifteen years ago, and you'd see, say, ER or NYPD Blue or Frasier or Friends getting nominated over and over and over again every friggin' year, as if the Emmy voters were filling out ballots out of sense memory. Yes, it stinks that Louie, Community, Parks and Recreation, and Raising Hope didn't get nominated as best comedy, but the six sitcoms that did (The Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girls, Modern ...