The Emmy Awards 2024 came and went, and this year, too, the fan-favorite series Better Call Saul failed to get the true recognition it deserves.
Despite being a massively critically commended six seasons spin-off series for Breaking Bad, the show faced much worse treatment than the original series at the Primetime Emmy Awards this year as well.
As it turns out, just like last time and every single time before that till 2015, Bob Odenkirk was left once again on the nominated stage only, with other shows stealing the Emmys from him — the Emmys that he so genuinely deserves for reasons more than one.
In fact, to say that at this point, Better Call Saul‘s historic Emmy snubs have become a tragedy worthy of television would be nothing short of an understatement.
Bob Odenkirk and Better Call Saul get snubbed at the Emmys once again
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While Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul‘s Breaking Bad may have been the original thoroughly acclaimed series, it was actually its spin-off series from 2015, i.e. Better Call Saul, that truly stole the show.
Thanks to Bob Odenkirk and others’ massive hard work in making it, it earned its recognition among critics, ranking with 98% approval ratings from the critics at Rotten Tomatoes — which is notably 2% more than Breaking Bad.
Yet, despite this critical acknowledgment by fans and die-hard critics alike, both the series as well as its lead actor failed to get their so truthfully deserved recognition at the Primetime Emmy Awards, all the way from 2015 to its recently held 2024 ceremony — year after year after year.
This year, too, Odenkirk and Better Call Saul season 6 got nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series and the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series categories respectively, along with Rhea Seehorn getting nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
However, all three of them couldn’t make it out of the nomination stage, with the award for the lead actor, drama series, and supporting actress going to Kieran Culkin for Succession; Succession season 4; and Jennifer Coolidge for The White Lotus instead, respectively.
Thus, to express their exasperation about the constant snubbing the fan-favorite series and actor have been facing for almost a decade now, fans once again took to X, saying:
Bob Odenkirk suffered more that Jesse Pinkman pic.twitter.com/SepgG506NB
— better call saul spoilers (@odenhead) January 16, 2024
Feel like he knew the award was never coming and finally stopped caring this year. Last year tho you can see disappointment and hurt in his eyes 😩
— Wai Yan Aung (@strawdogs1999) January 16, 2024
The least they could’ve done is just give him an Emmy since he almost died filming BCS
— Grunge Dude (@DootDootYeah) January 16, 2024
Bro died and came back for nothing 😭
— TheForza65432Dude (@theforza65dude) January 16, 2024
It’s a breaking bad light show. Academy were never going to recognize a series from the same world
— Luke Easton (@3ku1) January 17, 2024
fr, never gonna get tired of saying how unfair this was
— ayuwoki jiji (@uwhishuknew) January 16, 2024
At this stage, it has become beyond crucifying to watch the legendary actor and series get snubbed at the Emmys again and again. But then again: What can be done?
Some of the worst Emmy losses by Better Call Saul
As mentioned before, this wasn’t the first time that Better Call Saul got snubbed at the Primetime Emmy Awards. In fact, this game has been going on for as long as one can remember, i.e. ever since the series initially started in 2015.
But some of its Emmy losses are worse than all the others because the series was inevitably the most deserving of the accolade, and still lost it to some other show.
Like in 2016, when Season 2 of Bob Odenkirk’s drama was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards, but Game of Thrones Season 6 scored it away, which was a snub because of the declined quality of GoT content after Season 4 that even fans can’t deny.
Or in 2019, when BCS S04 was once again nominated for the same category. However, it got snubbed yet once again by none other than GoT S08, which didn’t even come close to Bob Odenkirk’s performance in the entire season.
Then in 2022, the series got nominated for its best season to date, i.e. Season 6 for the same category. Yet, once again, this time, Season 3 of Succession stole the show even as viewers called the series out for being too repetitive.
All in all, these are just a few examples out of all the ‘every single time’ the series got snubbed at the Emmy Awards: Of all its 30 nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards, it has made the record of not being acknowledged even once, with zero Primetime Emmys bagged to date.
If anything, to say that Bob Odenkirk has suffered more than even Breaking Bad character Jesse Pinkman wouldn’t be an understatement, considering how the actor almost even died while shooting for Better Call Saul and the Academy still refused to acknowledge his commitment.
