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Morning After: 66th Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards fell a little flat last night. We're pretty sure it's because a lot of the following folks we're about to highlight received ZERO airtime (note: we couldn't even find pictures of Idris Elba OR Louis C.K. OR Mark Ruffalo for our Best Dressed Man contender, unconscionable!) The usual winners prevailed, and, while it was nice to see our beloved Breaking Bad peeps take home the final piece of recognition they deserved, we were too busy wondering if we could hire Heisenberg to sabotage Jim Parsons & Modern Family next year to really enjoy it. Seth Meyers came off cheesy at times, and, in our opinion, was saved only by Amy Poehler and this hilarious Billy on the Street segment. But anyway, as always, the true joy in awards shows come from discussing the clothes! So without further ado, let's get started.

Best Dressed Ladystar: Teyonah Parris wearing bold and beautiful Christian Siriano.

Runner Up Best Dressed Ladystar: Taylor Shilling wearing figure-flattering Zuhair Murad.

Worst Dressed Ladystar: Lena Dunham wearing Giambattista Valli.

Runner Up Worst Dressed Ladystar: Laura Prepron wearing Gustavo Cadile.

Best Lady Pants: Robin Wright wearing Ralph Lauren.

Best Red : TIE! Julia Louis Dreyfus wearing Carolina Herrara and Uzo Aduba wearing Christian Siriano.

See more after the jump!

The 6th Ever Bangin' Awards: 66th Primetime Emmy Edition

Our beloved fall TV season is right around the corner, so what better time for the Primetime Emmy Awards! As is customary, we can't wait to celebrate and scrutinize our way through tonight's broadcast, but first have some business to attend to: The Bangin' Awards.

When it comes to the stylish and fictitious some characters truly steal our hearts, so please allow us to share with you what we deemed #flawless this past year in television.

Best Dressed Leading Female Character
Mindy Kaling as Mindy Lahiri, The Mindy Project Go to look: BRIGHTS! AND LOTS OF 'EM.
Enviable Accessories: Statement everything: earrings, necklaces and handbags.
We’d like to see: More evening wear and fewer sweater vests.
Style Rival: Jessica Day, New Girl

Best Dressed Supporting Female Character
Francis Conroy as Myrtle Snow, American Horror Story: Coven Go to look: Witchy Grace Coddington, if she were mad for bow blouses & tartan.
Enviable Accessories: Cat-eye glasses, a wickedly enviable glove collections and capes.
We’d like to see: Actually wearing Balenciaga!
Style Rival: Ilana Wexler, Broad City

Best Dressed Leading Male Character
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Go to look: Modern suiting, dark shirts and that ab-fab double breasted wool trench.
Enviable Accessories: Scarves, deerstalker hat and luxurious robes.
We’d like to see: That tailcoat again, at some point. Formal wear was on point.
Style Rival: John Luther, Luther

Best Dressed Supporting Male Character
Andrew Ranells as Elijah Kantz, Girls Go to look: Narrow fitting pastels, styled for the cottage and theatre! Oh my.
Enviable Accessories: Sass and cross body bags.
We’d like to see: Whatever, as long as there is more Elijah in season four.
Style Rival: Californian Pete Campbell, Mad Men

Best Dressed Cast in a Television Series
The cast of Masters of Sex Go to look: Lean trousers, knee length skirts, bateau tops and vintage lingerie.
Enviable Accessories: Bowties, Peter Pan collars, x-rated gadgets.
We’d like to see: Better lighting. Why so dark? Give those garments the spotlight they deserve!
Style Rival:The cast of Mad Men

Best Office Wear in a Television Series
Sola Bamas as Shirley, Mad Men Go to look: NSF(modern)W bold and short minis, read: get it gurl!
Enviable Accessories: HOOPS!
We’d like to see her in: Executive wear.
Style Rival: Claire Underwood, House of Cards

Most (seemingly) stylish profession according to Television
Lawyer. As seen on Suits, The Good Wife & White Collar
Go to look: Suits that fit so well it should be illegal & obvious investment pieces.
Enviable Accessories: Brooches, Windsor knots, and designer footwear.
We’d like to see: Sans suits. We love their off-duty wardrobes as well.
Style Rival: Working in Washington. As seen on Scandal, House of Cards and Veep

Doing the best with what they got in a Television Series
The ladies of Litchfield Penitentiary, Orange is the New Black

Go to look: Khaki or orange issued jumpsuit.
Enviable Accessories: Shower shoes and contraband makeup.
We’d like to see: Another 'Dress for Success' fashion show.
Style Rival: Those crazy kids of the Seven Kingdoms, Game of Thrones

Familiar Faces: New Girl Strikes Back Edition

Like many of you, we are delighted to be again watching new episodes of New Girl (after a summer of binge re-watching...). We think it's necessary to point out that Schmidt's part-time girlfriend Elizabeth and recent Emmy winner Merritt Wever first made our acquaintance in one of our all time fave movies: Strike.

The 1998 film was mysteriously renamed All I Wanna Do at an unknown date (but was clearly called Strike when I rented it monthly from Blockbuster circa the 2000's). If you haven't seen it, we highly recommend! It stars Kirsten Dunst too! Yay for teen movies that stand the test time!

Although it doesn't seem like she has been up to much (in Hollywood) since Strike, a quick IMDB query has revealed she has in fact been up to a lot! We are loathe to admit that we didn't make it past a few early Nurse Jackie episodes (only because we are poor and without cable). Anyway, she was a hit at the Emmys with this memorable acceptance speech:

We approve! And hope to see more of her in future projects.

Morning After: The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards

Best Dressed Lady: Rose Byrne in Calvin Klein Collection. If we ever need to go anywhere fancy ever again, we wanna look like this.

Best Dressed Man: Zachary Quinto

The Cast That Dressed Exactly How We Expected: Girls obviously. We kinda wanna see Lena Dunham in TLC's What Not To Wear, she has so much potential.

Best Dressed Young Fashionistas: Homeland's Morgan Saylor in Honor and Kiernan Shipka in Delpozoa.

Best Dressed Lady (Circa the 10th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1958 of course): Zooey Deschanel in J. Mendel

Hottest Couples: Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt, Shasi Wells and Dylan McDermott, Julianna Margulies and Keith Lieberthal

Campaigning For Sex Symbol Status: Contrasting the 50's housewife frock she wore to the (hilarious) James Franco Roast, Sarah Silverman is looking seductive in a $60 form fitting dress, you go girl! Linda Cardellini wearing a gorgeous Donna Karan Atelier dress.