Supporting Performers Submit Strongly

Often the supporting performer Emmy nominees really are lead stars who are afraid to place themselves up against the heavy hitters of daytime.

Not this year.

The nominees in the Daytime Supporting categories this year are appropriately placed and extremely competitive.


Outstanding Supporting Actor -

SEAN BLAKEMORE (Shawn, General Hospital.) Wisely submitted his final scenes as the character where Sean plead guilty and is sent of to prison. The only problem is this is Tequan Richmond's reel and why he didn't submit it in his Younger Actor race is puzzling.

STEVE BURTON (Dylan, The Young and the Restless.) Submitted his breakup with Avery. Too bad Jessica Collins totally dominates his reel, she was brilliant. Burton, not so much.

BRYTON JAMES (Devon, The Young and the Restless.) Strong reel where Neil confesses his part in Hilary's disappearance and James goes ballistic.

JACOB YOUNG (Rick, The Bold and the Beautiful.) Contrasting
 reels between Rick shooting at Ridge abd Caroline and discovering Maya is transgender. For voters, though, Young's range displayed may take second fiddle to the two reels that seem out of context when viewed side by side. Second reel would have been enough and is far superior to the first.  And by submitting the first, he may have hurt his chances of winning, even though the second reel is sublime.

DOMINIC ZAPROGNA (Dante, General Hospital.) Two extremely powerful episodes, one where he accused Lulu of cheating on him, the other where she finds out he actually cheated on her. My bigger question after watching his reel was how on earth was Emme Ryan (Lulu) not even pre-nominated?

Torn between two hugely strong reels from Dominic and one magnificent reel of Young. Is his misstep in submitting the first reel going to deny him the Emmy that the second one alone would have clinched for him.

As in my younger performer blog, I'm not predicting the winner, just saying who I'd vote for.

1. Jacob Young
2. Dominic Zaprogna
3. Bryton
4. Sean Blakemore
5. Steve Burton





Outstanding Supporting Actress - 

LAURALEE BELL (Christine, The Young and the Restless.) Finally nominated after 33 years on Y&R, Bell's reel consisted of Chris learning she lost her baby and then breaking down about it later while with Paul. Solid, but beatable.

JESSICA COLLINS (Avery, The Young and the Restless.) Confronting Joe about their relationship followed by the episode after she was raped. Definitely a strong performance, but the two reels put together could be a little confusing for voters who don't know the whole history of the characters. Think her breakup with Dylan would have been a better first reel, as she dominated Burton's reel.

LINSEY GODFREY (Caroline, The Bold and the Beautiful.) Strong reel where Caroline tells Ridge she slept with his son and is pregnant from the one night. Thorsten Kaye surprisingly sort of dominates this, though, Godfrey is definitely up to his challenge and is a contender.

PEGGY McCAY (Caroline, Days of our Lives.) Taken out of context, her first reel might seem to be a possible winner, her second seemed laughable, tho. And since Days' writers totally dropped the Alzheimer's story and made it a being drugged story, instead, the whole reel is questionable. Though, voters probably don't know that and think Caroline was suffering from Alzheimer's abd that may work in her favor. Not my favorite. submission.

MELISSA REEVES (Jennifer, Days of our Lives.) Hugely powerful  episode where Jennifer confronts Eve and JJ after finding her son in bed with her archenemy. Perhaps, the finest episode of Reeves 30-year run on Days. Not the strongest of the five actresses in totality, you wouldn't know it from this reel, though. Explosive and she rose to the occasion.

Definitely a difficult choice between Collins and Reeves, but based on performance and fluidity of the reel - and the fact that this category - in particular - often produces an upset, here's how I'd vote.

1. Melissa Reeves
2. Jessica Collins
3. Linsey Godfrey
4. Lauralee Bell
5. Peggy McCay




My next blog will look at the lead categories.