We should be happy Conway limited his submissions to four—he was also on Melissa & Joey this year. But he’s such an Emmy luminary, it’s not impossible to imagine him getting nominated as Guest Actor in a Comedy and in a Drama. How much does Emmy love him? Well, his throwback performance as an old racist in 30 Rock beat out three other performers from that show in 2008—Will Arnett, Rip Torn and Steve Buscemi (along with Shelly Berman’s lovely work as Larry’s dad in Curb Your Enthusiasm). Arnett and Buscemi are still waiting on their first trophy!

Jonathan Banks in Community and other “Special Guests”

Banks was basically hired as Chevy Chase’s replacement for season five, to be the cantankerous old man of the group, and he did an excellent job in the role, appearing in 11 of the final season’s 13 episodes. So why the hell is he submitted as a guest? Because he wasn’t a credited above-the-line cast member but a “special guest”, allowing him to submit himself wherever he wants, much like the villains-of-the-year always did on Dexter. That’s how John Lithgow could win a “Guest Actor” despite appearing in every episode of the season, it’s how Cloris Leachman got a guest nomination for Raising Hope (she was in every episode!) and it’s how Banks could slip in here. It used to be that if you were in more than three episodes of the season, you were a supporting actor, but the Emmys lifted that cap.

Damian Lewis, Still the Lead of Homeland

Damian Lewis is a great actor, and his work as Nicholas Brody on Homeland won a deserving Emmy two years ago and will be well-remembered in the annals of TV history. He was also barely in the third season of the show, which especially floundered when trying to figure out what to do with him in his Venezuelan drug house, eventually shipping him off to a suicide mission in Iran. He’s submitted as a lead, and whether that was Showtime’s decision or his own, it will almost certainly lead to a snub, which at the very least will open up that category to some new blood. Other actors (like Elisabeth Moss in Mad Men) have shifted down to the supporting category for seasons they were less involved in, but Lewis held still.

Franklin & Bash is a Drama!?

A worthy amount of fuss was made about Netflix’s decision to categorize prison show Orange is the New Black as a comedy, which seemed as much about spreading awards wealth for the streaming network (it has House of Cards in the drama category) than anything else. But similarly odd genre decisions were made for less well-regarded shows. Have you ever seen Franklin & Bash? It was about two awesome bro lawyers (Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer) who are exactly the same and live at the beach and solve awesome law cases and crack open a brew and flirt with the ladies. Am I right? The show is utterly devoid of dramatic tension. I would love to know who at TNT decided it’d have a better shot going up against True Detective.