I watch about 1-2 hours of TV a day, unless I find a good film on TCM or cable or Amazon.
I just saw a news program about the shows that got the most Emmy noms. Other than SNL (which I rarely watch anymore) and a teaser for the Mandalorian- I have not seen a single episode of ANY of those shows.
Not one!
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How about the rest of you? have you seen a lot of these shows? Watch them on a regular basis?
Seen every episode of 12 of them:
Andor, Yellowjackets, Barry, Only Murders in the Building, Ted Lasso, Wednesday, Poker Face, Shrinking, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Beef, Bob’s Burgers, and Rick and Morty.
There are others on there that are on my “try eventually” pile.
(I’ve seen a few hundred episodes of The Simpsons, of course, but I’ve mostly skipped the last several seasons.)
Other than Succession and The White Lotus, yeah I’ve seen pretty much all of them.
It’s not like it’s a bunch of little obscure shows.
You haven’t seen Better Call Saul? Ted Lasso? The Crown? Barry? House of the Dragon?
…I’m silently cheering on the Bear for everything here 
Easily my favourite show in the last ten years, I think. I haven’t seen many of the shows nominated this year, but I’ve heard of pretty much all of them.
I’m not surprised though that people haven’t heard of some of these shows. If your time on the “traditional broadcast networks”, none of these shows would be on your radar. The finale of Succession peaked with a series high of 2.9 million viewers: while a show like The Good Doctor (that I had never really heard much about before clips from the show went viral last month) gets on average 4 million viewers, a show like Yellowstone gets 11 million viewers.
Scrolling through the list…
Shows I’ve seen in their entirety (or what is the entirety up to this point): Better Call Saul, Wednesday, Abbott Elementary, Primal, Dead to Me
Shows I’ve seen a lot but got tired of and haven’t seen recently: Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live
I’ve seen one episode of Beef. Will probably pick it up again and finish it out.
I’ve seen the Weird Al movie.
I’ve never watched a game show regularly, although I might land on Jeopardy on the odd occasion if I’m channel surfing and don’t see an early-season eposode of Two and a Half Men, when the kid was small and stole the show, or yet another showing of Goodfellas. I haven’t seen it (Jeopardy) with Bialik or Jennings hosting.
I don’t see After Life in the list. Is it recent enough to be eligible?
In Drama - I think my husband put on Better Call Saul once so I might have seen part of it.
In Comedy - I watched the first couple of seasons of Mrs. Maisel, but lost interest.
I’ve seen clips of the listed talk shows but haven’t watched one in its entirety in years.
Haven’t watched The Simpsons in years.
Haven’t watched Diners, Drive-Ins in years.
I don’t watch much TV. In fact, unless it’s time for the evening news, I mostly turn it on for Sesame Street or Baby Einstein for the grands. My husband watches a lot more, and I might see bits and pieces of whatever he watches - lately it’s Air Disasters on Smithsonian or endless reruns of Chuck Lorre series.
I’m not an anti-TV snob, but nothing much seems to appeal to me these days. Maybe I’m missing out.
I don’t have HBO, so that rules out quite a few of the nominees.
Eh, in general I agree - those should all be well-known shows, at least by word of mouth. But I can also see the access issue. So I personally haven’t seen Ted Lasso, though I’d like to, because I don’t have Apple TV+.
The Crown requires Netflix. Barry and House of the Dragon, HBO. Better Call Saul is the only one of those that was on a widespread basic cable channel, AMC. Now, I myself do happen to have both Netflix and HBO. But the proliferation of paid streaming services has understandably fragmented the TV-watching landscape. Many just don’t want to pay for everything.
It’s difficult to keep up with all the good ‘buzz’ shows with the ever-increasing balkanization of streaming services. Mrs. solost and I have seen at least some seasons of most of the Emmy-nominated shows, but only because we cancel certain streamers when we’re done with a season of something, then sign back up when a new season comes on.
It’s like the first world, 21st century equivalent of being a migratory tribe going where the food and game is, depending on the season. We follow the entertainment 
I haven’t seen any of those. We just signed up for Peacock for the TdF so we’ll watch Pokerface. We finished Marvelous Mrs Maisel a short while ago. And I might watch Wednesday.
There are many of them that I don’t have access to, unless I pony up for a streaming service that I’m not currently subscribed to.
With the way TV shows work nowadays, I’ve come to think of TV shows more like the way I think of books (and to a lesser extent, movies): not as something I have to see right when they come out, but as something I can experience someday when I get a chance, and in the meantime, if I’m looking for something to watch, I may just look through whatever’s available to me, no matter how long ago it was created.
(Grumble grumble) My spouse basically controls our viewing choices, and they are not in the least bit adventurous, and has a lot of “I don’t like to watch…” categories. SO…I have missed out on a lot of the nominees also.
Why would I? Not only do I not have access to some, I just don’t care! I know, shocking!
Better Call Saul and Ted Lasso just don’t appeal at all, and I never even heard of the rest.
There’s like 2000 new shows on every format; network, cable, streaming, etc etc. Who can keep up?
I watch Never Have I Ever. If you don’t, what’s wrong with you!
From the dramas, I’ve seen the bolded:
“Andor”
“Better Call Saul”
“The Crown”
“House of the Dragon”
“The Last of Us”
“Succession”
“The White Lotus”
“Yellowjackets”
In comedy:
“Abbott Elementary” (watched the first few eps, didn’t like it)
“Barry”
“The Bear”
“Jury Duty”
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
“Only Murders in the Building”
“Ted Lasso” (haven’t yet watched the final season, Apple TV is so hard to subscribe to when you don’t use Apple devices)
“Wednesday”
Limited series
“Beef”
“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
“Daisy Jones & the Six”
“Fleishman Is in Trouble”
“Obi-Wan Kenobi”
Barry in the comedy category seems strange to me. It seemed like more of a comedy in the first couple season, it’s moved into drama category for me. Better Call Saul seemed like more of a comedy.
The Simpsons
The Price is Right
Jeopardy
once in a blue moon, Family Feud
I don’t watch television much at all. No pride in that since my time is spent rotting my brain on the internet instead but something in me doesn’t jive with even the implied commitment of 8-10+ hours per season of staring at a show, especially since almost everything these days is continuity driven versus “bottle episodes”. So it’s always a hurdle for me to start a show even if it’s widely praised and I know I’ll probably like it.
That said, my wife has me watching Ted Lasso, which I am enjoying, and I’ve seen the first season of Mrs Maisel and intend to watch The Bear and Only Murders in the Building at some point.
I am passingly familiar (I could give the broad elevator pitch) with Wednesday, Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Last of Us, and Handmaid’s Tale though the last two are cheating since I know the source material. I’m ignoring all the animated, game show, reality TV, etc programming.
With SAG-AFTRA going on strike and now both the writers AND actors guilds striking, it looks like playing the long game has played off. I have years of quality television backlogged for viewing!
I wish “Ghosts” had gotten a nomination.
Ok? I was responding to the OP who made it sound like the nominees were a bunch of little known obscure shows. Which is not true. Many of them are very popular and well-known and if you are into watching TV you’d know of them.
(And yes, Never Have I Ever is also a great comedy. I just started catching up with season 4.)
Me too! I think “Abbott Elementary” is a great show but “Ghosts” is actually funnier. I understand why “Abbott” gets so much love but I don’t understand why “Ghosts” gets left out (although CBS’s current commercial for the show is literally just a list of positive reviews).
I’m kinda with the OP, in that I watch a shitton of TV every week, but there’s a ton I have missed. I need to still watch “Yellowjackets”, “Beef”, “The Bear” (season 2), “Poker Face”, “Shrinking” and “Jury Duty.” And those are the ones I WANT to watch.