Let’s just call it green with Emmy.
There can be no reasons other than envy (or cluelessness) that made the voting actors, producers and directors snub “The Walking Dead,” one of the best written, acted, and produced dramas on TV.
Worse, they did this while giving 17 — count ’em — 17 nominations to the ham-filled, badly written, cheese fest, “American Horror Story.”
This year’s repeat nominations and the conspicuous absenc
e of the ones that should be there, (like “NCIS,” the most popular drama on TV) proves that the Emmy voters are as bad as the 93 freelance foreign “press” schnorrers who vote for the Golden Globes.
While the Emmy voters aren’t graft-accepting creeps like many of the Globe voters, they, too, have committed a crime. This one against art, by clearly watching only some of the shows — smells like the ones that were hipster-approved or known as actor-worthy watching.
If they really had watched all the shows, this travesty would not have taken place.
“The Walking Dead” is not about zombies. It’s about humans trying to survive a plague.
That makes “Dead” one of the liveliest, brilliant and thought-provoking series on TV right now.
Along with “Fring
e,” which was also snubbed, this series asks the kinds of questions that Rod Serling used to force viewers ponder in the original “The Twilight Zone.” (Hollywood was smarter then — Serling won six Emmys.)
Shame on every actor who didn’t vote for “Dead’s” principals: Sarah Wayne Callies, the beating heart of the show about walking dead people, Jon Bernthal, its white-hot passion and Andrew Lincoln, its very soul. They make us feel what actors are supposed to make us feel — while killing zombies. Now, that’s acting.