Draper Denied: No Emmy for Jon Hamm

With no Bryan Cranston in this year’s Best Actor Drama category, thanks to Breaking Bad‘s year-long hiatus, we were sure this was Jon Hamm’s year to win his first Emmy. And so was pretty much everyone else who watches television. Everyone who watches television, that is, except the Emmy voters. Kyle Chandler inexplicably won for his work in Friday Night Lights.

Look, we’re sure Chandler’s work is great. But Don Draper is a cultural icon. Plus Mad Men is on hiatus for a year.

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