# Better Call Saul season 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063 "2022-04-19T17:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 82
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1623 "2022-09-15T15:09:42Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > An Emmy question - who determines whether a nomination for best actor/actress vs best supporting? I was surprised Rhea Seehorn’s nomination was only for best supporting - certainly she had nearly as much screen time as Odenkirk for the first half of the season. I believe the ultimate nomination is up to the voters, but the shows production and the actors push for a specific category. Example: > ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1624 "2022-09-15T15:13:38Z")
And category is definitely something that is gamed. For example, if there’s a “definitely will win” person going for say, lead actor, they might say someone is a supporting actor to try and win that category. Or if a production company has two comedy-dramas they want to win, they might push one as a comedy and one as a drama. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1625 "2022-09-15T17:18:59Z")
I can’t find a cite but I read something about actor vs supporting actor has to do with the number of episodes in which the actor appears. The context was that they killed off Michael Mando’s character off after so few episodes so that they could run him as supporting actor where he would have a better chance. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1626 "2022-09-15T18:44:17Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > No we won’t. The last half was not as good as the first half of season 6. Watching Gene playing in the fake snow teaching Jeffy how to pull off a department store heist was not nearly as interesting as the stories of Nacho and Howard and Lalo. But as already mentioned earlier, the overall quality of the show theoretically shouldn’t matter for the Best Actor/Actress categories. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1627 "2022-09-16T06:59:51Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > An Emmy question - who determines whether a nomination for best actor/actress vs best supporting? It is up to the performer to make the decision which category to enter. Seehorn was also nominated this year for Outstanding Actress In A Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for a show called Cooper’s Bar (she lost), so maybe politics, gamesmanship, tradition or something else precluded her from entering as a lead for BCS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063.md?page=81)