But I'm now a self-employed TV critic, which means I can show my contempt for the way the Emmy selection process works by NOT watching endless hours of gunk just to give the impression that I'm unbiased. The truth is I am biased, just like you and virtually everybody else. Not on purpose, of course. It's just human nature. I didn't like it in any of the prior seasons and never thought it was good enough to be nominated for anything.
Truth is one man's comedy is another's toothache.
To me, that was a very effective put-down. Actually, I'm more trustworthy now than I ever was as a TV critic because I'll now tell you my biases in advance. You would be surprised how many TV critics pretend they've seen everything, but really never watched more than the first episode of most shows. But that was because I took the job of critic seriously. I'll even concede I might have taken it to the extreme of becoming obsessively serious.