This is the fourteenth category of the 3rd Annual AFT Television Awards, my personal choices for the best in television this past season. For the directing and writing categories, I’ve included only honorable mentions rather than semi-finalists and finalists. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order.Last year’s nominees: Battlestar Galactica (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), Dexter (The Dark Defender), Dirty Sexy Money (The Chiavannesca), Lost (The Beginning of the End), Mad Men (The Dark Defender)
Emmy nominees: Lost (The Incident), Mad Men (The Jet Set), Mad Men (Meditations in an Emergency), Mad Men (A Night to Remember), Mad Men (Six Month Leave)
Honorable mentions: Battlestar Galactica (Daybreak Part One), Battlestar Galactica (Sometimes A Great Notion), Brotherhood (Let Rome Into Tiber Melt), Dexter (Our Father), Lost (Because You Left), Lost (The Incident), Lost (LaFleur), Mad Men (The Jet Set), Rescue Me (Iceman), Rescue Me (Sheila), The Shield (Coefficient of Drag), Smallville (Bride)
The nominees:
Rescue Me (Perspective)
The Shield (Family Meeting)
True Blood (Strange Love)
True Blood (You’ll Be the Death of Me)
Tommy’s interview with the French reporter about 9/11 while sitting right next to Ground Zero was an incredible turning point in quality for the series. The series finale of “The Shield” was gripping and utterly tragic, and a fine salute to all its fantastic characters. The season premiere and finale of “True Blood” were the tremendous high points for the first season of the show, which introduced a darkly compelling story in its pilot and wrapped it up boldly and impressively in its finale.
The winner:
Battlestar Galactica (The Oath)
A show which frequently probed deep internal motivations of humanity and ethics dug deeper than ever into all of its characters’ psyches as the crew of the Galactica was divided in half with mutineers on one side, and the battle resonated stronger than the show ever has.
Next up: Best Directing in a Comedy Series
1 comment:
I'm sad there was no Mad Men in your line-up, but that's a solid list. True Blood's pilot, finale and BSG's Oath were very strong episodes.
I only watched the first season of Rescue Me, but that's an awesome show as well.
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