Realistically, probably not. The Golden Globes have announced their 2023 nominees for Best Television Series, Drama and have included the final season of Better Call Saul as one of the nominees, giving the show one last chance to bring home an award.
It’s really kind of shocking and sad at the same time how a great show like Better Call Saul has not only been passed over for nearly every “Best Television Series” type award from all of the major award outlets this season but has also never won a single “Best Television Series” award in its six-year history. It’s insane.
I mean, have these awards shows not watched the series these past six years or has another TV show been that much better every time Better Call Saul was on the air? Obviously, it’s the latter option, but I still think that Better Call Saul has been hard done by these major award outlets.
First off, this is the first time Better Call Saul has even been nominated for the Golden Globes’ Best Television Series, Drama category, even though this shows has been going on since 2015. Is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association really trying to say that Good Wife and The Affair (I haven’t even heard of this show, which ended up winning the award) was better than Better Call Saul back in 2015?
Or what about all of 2019’s nominees (The Americans, Bodyguard, Homecoming, Pose, and Killing Eve)? Aside from Killing Eve, which is a very good show, all of these other series are not only substantially less popular than Better Call Saul, but they are just worst projects.
Better Call Saul has had a great narrative, cast, crew, production design, and cinematography for its entire existence, while shows like Homecoming, Pose, and The Bodyguard were either only around for one season or have dramatically less consistency across their own, respective, airtimes.
I get award wants to celebrate the best show of that particular year, but the body of work and popularity of a said show should also be taken into account for being nominated.
I’m still baffled how Better Call Saul was not nominated for 2019.
As for the Emmy’s, the show has been nominated for their “Best Television Series” for every year of its existence but has somehow lost every single time. I can tell you now that Better Call Saul Season 4 (2019) was a far better show than Game of Thrones Season 8, and I’m saying this as a diehard GOT fan.
I love Game of Thrones and the world George R.R. Martin created, but the show had no business winning the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 2019, regardless of the fact that Season 8 was the final season of the legendary show. Better Call Saul should have won that year, and it also arguably should have won in 2020 against Succession Season 2.
Now, this is much more of a tossup than GOT vs. BCS in 2019 as both Succession and BCS were great in 2020, so I’ll leave it up to you guys to decide.
(AMC-Better Call Saul-Official Season 6 Trailer)
Nevertheless, there’s at least four different occasions in which Better Call Saul should have won one of the ‘major outlet’ “Best Televison Series” award but didn’t due to some strange reason.
So, will anything be different this year? Eh….probably not.
I’d like to think that Better Call Saul will finally break its horrific losing streak and get the recognition it deserves, but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will most definitely overlook Better Call Saul once again in favor of one of the other nominees.
Against The Crown Season 5 (a show that has already won this award), Severance, Ozark, and House of the Dragon, I’ll give Better Call Sall the second-best odds of winning the award. I don’t really have any evidence to back up that odds-maker claim, but I feel like The Crown is going to win again. Plus, I could also see House of the Dragon winning this award too as it has the Game of Thrones name attached with it being GOT’s prequel.
Though, Better Call Saul is both a prequel and sequel to Breaking Bad (a show just as popular and successful as GOT), so I don’t know how these awards get chosen anymore.
I just know that Better Call Saul is going to lose…again.
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