Last year’s nominees: Breaking Bad, Dexter, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood
Emmy nominees: Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Mad Men
Semi-finalists: The Chicago Code, The Closer, Covert Affairs, Hawaii Five-0, Human Target, In Treatment, No Ordinary Family, Parenthood, True Blood, Undercovers
Finalists: Sons of Anarchy deftly handled an international storyline and stayed on task while remaining extraordinarily compelling. Treme graduated to a second year with even more intriguing and complicated characters and storylines. The Walking Dead presented a wondrously fresh and chilling take on a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by zombies. Game of Thrones took some time to develop, but got really, really good by season’s end with its ever-revolving legions of royalty. Lights Out lived far too short a life as it told a fascinating one-season arc with honest, vulnerable characters.
The nominees:
Justified entered into its second season with fascinating new villains and a magnetic storyline. The Good Wife created mesmerizing scenarios and characters in its superior and strong second season. Dexter followed a fantastic fourth year with a deeply introspective and meaningful fifth year. Boardwalk Empire launched slowly out of the gate but proved to be exceptionally well-done and entirely intriguing.
The winner:
Mad Men refocused its fourth year with a new business and an equally enthralling cast of characters and series of events.
Next up: Best Comedy Series
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