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Reaction to the 2015 Emmy Nominations: Snubs and Surprises

Reaction to the 2015 Emmy Nominations: Snubs and Surprises The Primetime Emmy nominations were announced Thursday morning, here are my thoughts on some of the big categories.  Outstanding Comedy Series:  Louie,  Modern Family,  Parks & Recreation,  Silicon Valley,  Transparent,  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,  Veep The surprises here were good ones, Parks and Recreation and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt are both terrific shows and deserved their spots. Veep , of course, is always deserving. Emmy voters were never going to deny Louie and Modern Family. Haven't seen the other two.  Outstanding Drama Series:  Better Call Saul,  Downton Abbey,  Game of Thrones,  Homeland,  House of Cards,  Mad Men,  Orange Is The New Black The snubs include Empire, w hich I haven't seen, but many people seem to like, and Bloodline , which I liked, if not loved,   The Americans and The Good Wife . Hon...

Ranking of Every Walt Disney Animated Film

A Complete Ranking of All 54 Walt Disney Animated Films In late 2013 while trying to come up with article ideas for the blog I was intending to start, I came up with the idea to rank all the Disney films. It seemed like an easy enough task, but I soon realized there were several Disney films that I had never seen, or had not seen in years. To accurately be able to rank all of them, I decided I would watch every film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series in the order which they were released. I watched a film a week for the entire year of 2014. It was a great experience, as I got to see not only the evolution of animation as an art form, but the highs and lows of Disney as a studio. Each week I would learn something new about the films I thought I knew every about. After a year and a half of research, here is how I ranked them: