It’s a tight call: which of the major performance awards are the most biased and meaningless? Even after the Oscars went completely DEI the Emmy Awards were the clear winner of the Most Partisan and Biased Awards Award, but this time the voters outdid themselves.
Billy Bob Thornton is one of the most versatile and interesting actors alive. Actors of his caliber traditionally stay away from television though that tendency is breaking down rapidly now: aging super-stars like Nicole Kidman have been making one streaming series after another. Billy Bob is the star of “Landman,” easily one of the best series on TV, and the latest season of the show (that’s the trailer for the next one above) gave him an especially fine showcase for his talents. Yet he was not nominated for an Emmy, and neither was “Landman.”
The reason was, simply, politics. Taylor Sheridan, the creator of “Landman,” “Tulsa King,” “Yellowstone” and all of “Yellowstone’s” excellent spinoffs, tells stories that embrace conservative values and characters like Billy Bob’s Texas oil man. Today’s Hollywood neither likes those values or the nation that birthed them. The partisan bias is undeniable: Even the reliable Axis mouthpiece Esquire noticed and objected.
Ethics Alarms 
Is Gutfeld! considered a variety show? Or is it mire of a politics and current events show, which is not in the Emmy ranking?
jvb
I don’t see how it could be a variety show. No musical guests, no band, no stand-ups, no guest interviews. It’s basically “The View” without morons.
Sad to hear of the Emmy snub of “Landman.” The cast is brillant, the writing concise, the message clear.
As an aside, I was just invited to a concert of the “Boxmasters, ” Thorntons off season gig withhis rock band. Admittedly the music was a bit too loud for my old ears, I cannot tolerate strobe lights and the Peace sign invokes memoriesof being spat at while in uniform.
However, as the last song played, Thornton, made it a point to shake hands and acknowledge all who he invited and made it to the edge of the stage.
The lack of an Emmy did not dimish his humanity!