The Washington Post: This year’s Emmy nominations are a reminder to treasure great TV before we run out of it

It’s tempting to say there’s much too much going on in the world right now to pay any mind to something as trivial as awards-show nominations, and normally I’d agree.

But Tuesday’s announcement of this year’s prime-time Emmy nominees comes at a time in which audiences have never been more prepared to scrutinize, applaud and, in a few cases, rue the choices made by the Television Academy (more formally known as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences). Under what feels like permanent house arrest, we’ll be even more ready when the awards are presented Sept. 20 on ABC, in a virtual ceremony hosted by the network’s late-night guy, Jimmy Kimmel.