Emmy Poll!

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So, Emmy nominations were announced today. And since I very rarely care about the actual nominations, which are weird and sometimes random but far too often just plain bad, I've made my own poll, in which we will consider some VERY important and overlooked categories.

Poll #13905 Emmy Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

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Best Broadway Actor on a Canceled TV Show

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Christian Borle (Smash)
1 (16.7%)

Josh Gad (1600 Penn)
1 (16.7%)

Jeremy Jordan (Smash)
1 (16.7%)

Lin-Manuel Miranda (Do No Harm)
0 (0.0%)

Andrew Rannells (The New Normal)
0 (0.0%)

Sebastian Stan (Political Animals)
3 (50.0%)

Best Broadway Actress on a Canceled TV Show

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Ellen Barkin (The New Normal)
0 (0.0%)

Laura Benanti (Go On)
0 (0.0%)

Sutton Foster (Bunheads) (Meh, it's not canceled yet, but it's not looking good.)
3 (42.9%)

Megan Hilty (Smash)
4 (57.1%)

Krysta Rodriguez (Smash)
0 (0.0%)

Julie White (Go On)
0 (0.0%)

Best Fake American Accent

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Alan Cumming (The Good Wife)
2 (25.0%)

Damian Lewis (Homeland)
0 (0.0%)

Sam Palladio (Nashville)
0 (0.0%)

Matthew Rhys (The Americans)
3 (37.5%)

Yvonne Strahovski (Dexter)
0 (0.0%)

Anna Torv (Fringe)
3 (37.5%)

Best Fake Non-American Accent

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
0 (0.0%)

Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones)
2 (28.6%)

Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black)
0 (0.0%)

Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones)
3 (42.9%)

Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black)
2 (28.6%)

Elisabeth Moss (Top of the Lake)
0 (0.0%)

Actor Whose Talents are Being Wasted the Most in a Comedy

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Kristen Bell (House of Lies)
2 (25.0%)

Don Cheadle (House of Lies)
3 (37.5%)

Kat Dennings (2 Broke Girls)
2 (25.0%)

Jane Lynch (Glee)
0 (0.0%)

Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly)
0 (0.0%)

Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother)
1 (12.5%)

Actor Whose Talents are Being Wasted the Most in a Drama

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Giancarlo Esposito (Revolution)
2 (33.3%)

Lauren Graham (Parenthood)
1 (16.7%)

Elizabeth Mitchell (Revolution)
1 (16.7%)

Terry O'Quinn (666 Park Avenue)
0 (0.0%)

Krysta Rodriguez (Smash)
2 (33.3%)

Kiefer Sutherland (Touch)
0 (0.0%)

Best Multitasker

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Louis C.K. (Actor/Writer/Dirctor/Producer/Editor for Louie)
0 (0.0%)

Nina Dobrev (Actor - Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce on The Vampire Diaries)
1 (12.5%)

Lena Dunham (Actor/Writer/Director/Producer for Girls)
1 (12.5%)

Tina Fey (Actor/Writer/Producer for 30 Rock)
2 (25.0%)

Mindy Kaling (Actor/Writer/Producer for The Mindy Project)
1 (12.5%)

Tatiana Maslany (Actor - Sarah Manning/Beth Childs/Alison Hendrix/Cosima/Helena/etc. on Orphan Black)
3 (37.5%)

Best Wig Collection

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Michael Douglas and Matt Damon (Behind the Candelabra)
3 (30.0%)

Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black)
1 (10.0%)

Matthew Rhys (The Americans)
0 (0.0%)

Keri Russell (The Americans)
1 (10.0%)

The Entire Cast of Game of Thrones
5 (50.0%)

Best Musical Performance

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Clare Bowen (Nashville)
0 (0.0%)

Sutton Foster (Bunheads)
0 (0.0%)

Neil Patrick Harris (The Tony Awards)
2 (28.6%)

Megan Hilty (Smash)
3 (42.9%)

Jeremy Jordan (Smash)
0 (0.0%)

Hayden Panettiere (Nashville)
2 (28.6%)

Best Performance on a Show Nobody Watched

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Troian Bellisario (Lauren)
0 (0.0%)

Kenneth Branagh (Wallander)
0 (0.0%)

Andre Braugher (Last Resort)
2 (28.6%)

Romola Garai (The Hour)
2 (28.6%)

Megan Hilty (Smash)
2 (28.6%)

Emmy Rossum (Shameless)
1 (14.3%)

Best Child Actor

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Max Burkholder (Parenthood)
0 (0.0%)

Donis Leonard, Jr. (House of Lies)
1 (11.1%)

Morgan Saylor (Homeland)
0 (0.0%)

Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men)
2 (22.2%)

Holly Taylor (The Americans)
1 (11.1%)

Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones)
5 (55.6%)

Best Whedonverse Actor in a Non-Whedon Show

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David Boreanaz (Bones)
0 (0.0%)

Reed Diamond (Franklin & Bash)
0 (0.0%)

Nathan Fillion (Castle)
1 (12.5%)

Christian Kane (Leverage)
0 (0.0%)

Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men)
7 (87.5%)

Alan Tudyk (Suburgatory)
0 (0.0%)

Best Whedonverse Actress in a Non-Whedon Show

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Morena Baccarin (Homeland)
1 (12.5%)

Julie Benz (Defiance)
0 (0.0%)

Charisma Carpenter (The Lying Game)
0 (0.0%)

Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother)
1 (12.5%)

Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
3 (37.5%)

Gina Torres (Suits)
3 (37.5%)

Comments

[frayadjacent]

I don't watch many of these shows, but I had to throw in my hat for Cobie Smulders (wasted in a comedy).

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It's such a shame, isn't it? Someone give Cobie her own show!

[jae]

Any of your readers who vote for Elizabeth Moss in that category are high. I'm just saying.

-J

[likeadeuce]

Also Peter Dinklage, for all his talents, I don't think ANYBODY knows what kind of accent he's doing.

[jae]

Agreed!

-J

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Yeah, IDK what is happening there, but the accents on that whole show are rather wackadoo, lol.

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LOL! That was a REALLY HARD category to fill, okay? (I didn't think she was that bad, but Australian is not one of my better accents at identifying.)

[jae]

Oh my god, really? I can't pay attention to anything else that's going on when she's in the scene--I'm that distracted by her accent. I think part of the problem is that about two-thirds of the vowels she gets exactly right, and the rest are pure American, so she ends up with this CRAZY thing that I find myself picking apart...and then I've missed half the scene. ;)

There was a bit in the first episode where someone says: "You're from Sydney? It sounds like you are." And I was like: "BWAHAHAHA."

-J

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LOL! Wasn't she supposed to be from New Zealand but sound Australian? IDEK.

[jae]

DON'T ASK ME, I WAS LISTENING TO THE ACCENT. :D

No, but I think she was supposed to actually be from Sydney. I think.

-J

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LOL but wasn't that her hometown where she was investigating the case? She worked in Sydney but she was home in NZ visiting her mother and got sucked in. IDK why she "sounded" like she was from Sydney, I guess her accent was supposed to have changed (or she deliberately changed it) from living there?

OH WHO CARES.

[likeadeuce]

I've seen very few of these, though it was enough to vote in almost every category.

I'd like to write in the cast of Portlandia for best wigs, though. Totally serious. It's such a weird thing for sketch comedy to excel at but they do.

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I have not seen Portlandia but now I look forward to epic wigs!

[likeadeuce]

Here's a sample.

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WOW. I wish I could edit polls... lol.

[goldenusagi]

I don't know who any of the people are for best Fake American Accent, lol. I would vote Hugh Dancy.

I voted for Peter Dinklage for Best Fake Non-American Accent, but I guess he's not a good choice, lol, based on the comments? Someone on my flist from the UK said they at first thought Tatiana Maslany's Sarah character was Australian, so I'm not sure how good a job she's doing, either. (In retrospect, Americans shouldn't vote on this question, because how would we know.)

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Sarah's sort of a weird one, because she was raised in both England and Canada by an Irish foster mother, so her accent's kind of a muddle anyway. But Maslany also did a German and a Ukrainian accent for the other clones, so she gets points for variety. :)

[lorax]

This is way more fun than the actual Emmy noms.

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\o/

[rosaxx50]

I watch... none of these shows, and as such recognise only the Whedonverse people and Nina and Tatiana -- Tatiana only from my f'list too.

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You should watch more of these shows! Especially Orphan Black! And Game of Thrones. And The Americans.

[dante_kent]

Wait, this was way harder than it should have been. I had to vote against so many people I love! Meanwhile, the actual Emmys are a depressing slew of why.

ALL THE BROADWAY ACTRESSES, I WANT THEM ALL. Also, Alan Cumming gets my bet accent vote, only because he can do every accent ever, and he's fucking SCOTTISH, of all things. Love.

Krysta was so wasted, which I will never be over. And UGHHH THE HOUR. NEVER FORGET. I WILL NEVER RECOVER. A lot of nevers in this melodramatic mini-paragraph.

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LOL that was my evil plan.

THIS IS BASICALLY A POLL OF MOURNING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN.