Why Emmys Should Nominate Series, Not Individual Writers

“The case for nominating programs as opposed to single episodes goes as follows: Comedies are generally gang-written. … For everyone but the chosen series, moreover, there’s really no nice way of saying what results like last year’s imply: The fourth-best episode of ‘Mad Men’ is more deserving than the best of ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Damages’ or ‘Big Love,’ to name a few.”