Emmy 2012 - Dream Ballot

It's Emmy time again, and tomorrow morning the nominations for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced.  Considering how late I'm posting this, most of you will read it after the announcements.  In any case, you can see how different my tastes and the tastes of the Academy are (hint: very, very different).  I'll have a post up later highlighting those differences, but for now this is who or what I would choose to nominate if I had any say in the matter.

Breaking Bad - Season 4

I swear this show gets better every season.  Breaking Bad is about the slow build, and this season perfected the technique.  We knew from the first episode that this season would be about Walt vs Gus, and slowly over 13 episodes things would move closer and closer to that confrontation being resolved.  Then they hit you with the last string of episodes where everything comes together and things get crazy.

The Legend of Korra - 1x11/12 - Skeletons in the Closet/Endgame

I want to say upfront that for the most part, this was a pretty great finale to an overall pretty spectacular season.  Knowing that there were going to be two seasons, I kind of expected the Amon story to play out over both seasons, with this one ending on some sort of downer (a la Book 2: Earth) or maybe with a resistance building in the underground.  Instead the Amon storyline is brought to a close and done very well.  Overall, this is not a bad thing, many series do season long arcs with one big bad, a problem arises in the final wrap up though.