So, here's an obligatory Emmy's follow-up post. I'd almost written one when the nominees were announced but really... this was a boring and predictable year of nominations. And, no shocker, the winners were mostly predictable as well. So how did the Emmy voters do?

No brainer. Mad Men won last year and it has huge buzz. Big Love is too weird, Breaking Bad too philosophical, Damages too drab, Dexter too violent and Lost is too hard to follow to attract Emmy voters in large numbers. And everyone can admit the last season of House sucked pretty hard. (Bring back the original team! Stop it with the hallucinations!)

Who should have won:  Lost. It's hard to see how amazing this season was with a just couple of screeners. You need to have seen the whole saga up to this point to appreciate the machinations of this season. And...well, didn't most people stop watching during the unbearable slog of Season 3?

Best Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Other Nominees: Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Weeds 

Also a no brainer.  30 Rock has a great rep, and even if is took some missteps last season, it was consistently the most laugh-out-loud comedy of the year. Family Guy didn't have a chance; Conchords is too ironic, The Office is past it's prime, Weeds is still about, well, weed, and How I Met Your Mother is on CBS, which deducts 75 coolness points (18-55 demographic).

Who should have won: 30 Rock. Good job! You got one right!

Lead Actress, Drama: Glenn Close, Damages                          Other Nominees: Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters; Holly Hunter, Saving Grace; Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men; Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU;    Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

This was just a silly category. With the ridiculous omission of Battlestar Galactica from any of the big awards, they failed to capture many of the best female performances this year. None of the contender can match Mary McDonnell or Katee Sackoff in Battlestar's final season. I mean, seriously-- Detective Olivia Benson but no Starbuck? No Six? No President Laura Roslin? Please. Plus-- no actresses from Big Love? 

Who should have won: Glenn Close, I guess, if you're given this list. So, +1.

Best Lead Actress, Comedy: Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Other Nominees: Christina Applegate, Samantha Who; Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine; Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Sarah Silverman is too outrageous. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is still Elaine Bennis to most people. Christina Applegate is...well, herself. So really it was a race between Tina Fey, Toni Collette, and Mary-Louise Parker. Mary Louise Parker plays a weird character on Weeds-- to weird for a lot of voters, I'm guessing. And everyone new Tina would already be carrying out shopping bags full of Emmy's by the end of the vote. So, sure, Toni Collette as a woman with multiple personality disorder.

Who should have won: Well, Tina Fey. Clearly. Shame on you, academy!

Best Lead Actor, Comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Other Nominees: Steve Carell, The Office; Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords; Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory; Tony Shalhoub, Monk; Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

I'd thought that maybe Tony Shalhoub might have won as a nod to his final season of Monk, but apparently I'm the only person who still watches that. And since everyone watches Two and a Half Men, we all know Charlie Sheen shouldn't win. The Office is stagnant; Flight of the Conchords is really only watched by hipsters. That leaves...

Who should have won: Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory, who makes a unique character both funny and sympathetic, is an extremely close second. But with Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin has created a symbol of corporate America that is both subversive and hella funny. Hey! You're doing really well, Emmy voters!  

Best Lead Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Other Nominees: Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment, Michael C. Hall, Dexter, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Hugh Laurie, House, Simon Baker, The Mentalist 

Bryan Cranston quite literally owns Breaking Bad with his amazing performance in a way unmatched by the other nominees. Simon Baker was clearly a populist nod never seriously in contention. The others? Michael C. Hall is too creepy; Hugh Laurie fell victim to bad writing this past season, no one has heard of In Treatment, and John Hamm fell victim to the same curse as Tina Fey -- too intwined with the identity of his show.

Who should have won: Toss-up. John Hamm and Bryan Cranston would both have been acceptable answers for two equally excellent, although dramatically different, performances. Whatever. I'll give you the point.

Well, Emmy Voters, congratulations you scored 4/6 on the major categories. In the other categories...well, you're still the Emmy's. Little Dorrit instead of the epic, masterful Generation Kill? John Cryer beating out Neil Patrick Harris?

Props, however, for recognizing the performances of Kristin Chenowith in Pushing Daisies (oh, how I miss that show) and Michael Emerson in Lost. Too long shots who absolutely should have won. 

And just a final squawk about the nominations. Okay, fine, BSG was on the Syfy channel and was about fighting killer robots and you were too caught up in the fact that is was that dreaded "science fiction" to nominate it. But where was True Blood? It's a massive hit on HBO helmed by Alan Ball and starring Anna Paquin. That's the sort of trifecta you guys normally love! I guess the Emmys must really hate graphic violence, full-frontal nudity, and dirt orgies. 

 For a complete list of winners, check out Vulture.