Warning: this post is simply something I have to get off of my chest. It's mostly not political, nor is it original, but since we're posting (funny) Thiller videos now, I think I can write this.

 As I watched the promising premiere of Mad Men last night on AMC (it repeats tonight at 7, and I'm sure several more times throughout the week; I highly recommend it), I saw that it was created by Matthew Wiener, one of the writers on The Sopranos, which led the primetime series Emmy nominations with 15. The Sopranos deserves to win one more Best Drama award, having unfortunately come along when the West Wing was rightly sweeping the category early in the decade. Now The Sopranos deserves to win, if only because a show that great deserves more than one Best Series win. 

 But I support it only because it's the best of the five remaining. I can live with Scrubs and Studio 60 basically not being recognized, because their quality this year was only very good, not great. But once again, The Wire, the best drama in the history of television, was not nominated. 0 nominations.

 Before anyone calls me a snob, let me quickly point out that I thought Casino Royale should've been a strong contender for best picture at the last Oscars. But this lack of nominations, let alone any wins for 4 seasons, is unbelievable. One can understand leaving off Lost (early season letdown), 24 (by far its worst season), or Battlestar Galactica (the name, plus nothing really happened in its worst season so far). But The Wire has become better and better, with the 4th season being its best yet. As I said, this isn't an original post: TV critics from the AP to the Chicago Tribune to the San Francisco Chronicle brought this up. I'll leave you to choose your reason (the show has too many minorities, the voters don't have time to watch the whole season, and/or it's just not popular enough), but something about the system needs to be fixed, and I needed to say that too. Just rent the first disc of Season 1, and you almost certainly won't go back.