A Few Random Thoughts On a Few Categories for the 2023 Critics Choice Awards

Best Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO)
The Bear (FX)
Better Things (FX)
Ghosts (CBS)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Reboot (Hulu)
Reservation Dogs (FX)

I ride or die with Abbot Elementary but What We Do in the Shadows not being on here is a crime. Same with Girls5eva!! Also, Welcome to Flatch.  Also, both Barry and The Bear, whatever you think of them, are NOT comedies!!

Best Actor in a Comedy Series

Matt Berry, What We Do in the Shadows
Bill Hader, Barry
Keegan-Michael Key, Reboot
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Reservation Dogs

Matt Berry by a mile. Also, why Steve Martin but not Martin Short? Dafuck?

Best Actress in a Comedy Series

Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
Renée Elise Goldsberry, Girls5eva
Devery Jacobs, Reservation Dogs
Jean Smart, Hacks

I love Quinta Brunson but sometimes she's overwhelmed with how great her entire cast is. Same with Goldsberry - ANY character from Girls5eva could've been nominated AND IT SHOULD'VE BEEN PAULA PELL ANYWAYS!!! ALSO, the funny one in The Bear wasn't Jeremey Allen White but rather the guy who played John Q. Adams in the amazing John Adams HBO doc.

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Brandon Scott Jones, Ghosts
Leslie Jordan, Call Me Kat
James Marsden, Dead to Me
Chris Perfetti, Abbott Elementary
Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
Henry Winkler, Barry

Perfetti's been killing it all season but his batting average is juuuuuuuuust below the hilarious Brandon Scott Jones, who single-handledly has pushed this version of Ghosts past its British origins.

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Paulina Alexis, Reservation Dogs
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Marcia Gay Harden, Uncoupled
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Annie Potts, Young Sheldon
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary

Janelle James. Janelle James. Janelle James. Janelle James. Janelle James. 

Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television

Murray Bartlett, Welcome to Chippendales
Domhnall Gleeson, The Patient
Matthew Goode, The Offer
Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird
Ray Liotta, Black Bird
Shea Whigham, Gaslit

He's been my boyfriend since  Brideshead Revisited so I'm biased but I thought Matthew Goode was fantastic in The Offer. Also, I didn't watch any of the other shit, so.

Best Animated Series

Bluey (Disney+)
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal (Adult Swim)
Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)
Undone (Prime Video)

Camon. I am #TeamBluey. One minute with those fucking farting dogs and if you're not in love then I don't know what to fucking tell you.