Hulu Awards Week 4: Sam Christopher's List (Part 2)

First, the final nominations:

Best Documentary
This just isn’t a great category for me. I enjoy a good doc as well as anyone but the selections here, for the most part, just didn’t grab me. So…

1. Cosmic Voyage
2. Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
3. Australia: Land Beyond Time
4. Search for the Great Sharks
5. Ocean Oasis

Note: I realize Split will get a lot of votes but I don’t need an hour and a half doc to tell me that rank-and-file Rs and Ds think differently, I’d rather someone tell me why neither side ever seems to notice that the Rs and Ds in government always lead us to the same place.

Best Dramatic Short
There was more depth to this category than I expected. I had originally thought I would find two or three I really liked and then would have to pick the “least worst” for the last two. By the end, though, I had to choose between four for the last two spots.

1. Save the Children - Really grabbed my attention. And I can’t even tell you why. That’s the mark of great cinema.
2. Not What I Expected - Not a lover of musicals usually (past Grease, Singing in the Rain, and Once More with Feeling, anyway), but this was a pleasant—and poignant—surprise. I guess it was (wait for it) not what I expected.
3. The Rip-Off - Cute magic show on film.
4. The Critic - Fun little film about one of the greatest American writers ever. Well, sort of.
5. One Down - An interesting look into the nightmare of a killer. If only this could have starred Vincent Price.

1st Round Nominations

Celebrity Reality Show
And now we move to possibly the worst thing ever put on television—except for one choice. Words cannot describe what I feel for these shows, which told me that I just don’t have the mind to grasp them—except for one. So I did the best thing I could think of. If I don’t have the mentality for a subject, I go to someone who does. I asked the one person I know with the maturity and intellect to glean the inner meaning and fathom the wonderful nuance of these wonders of modern “entertainment”—my 16-year-old niece Samantha. The first pick is mine, the rest were put down as per her sage advice.

1. Work Out - Athletic lesbians exercising in a gym? I think I can handle that.
2. Snoop Dog’s Fatherhood
3. Tori and Dean
4. Living Lohan

Non-Competitive Reality Show
These were a little better. At least I can sit through more than ten seconds without feeling the need for an immediate shower and de-lousing.

1. America’s Most Wanted - I always liked this show and it actually performed a service.
2. Cops - Nothing wrong with watching half-naked drunks and drug addicts do stupid things and go to jail for them.
3. Ghost Hunters - I can watch it. I actually like Most Haunted better, but this is good, too.
4. Ghost Hunters International

Competitive Reality Show
Laughter, lust, and lunacy are the order of the day for this category.

1. The Search for the Next Elvira - Absolutely hysterical! I could not stop laughing when this was on. I actually watched a marathon of it once.
2. American Gladiators - “Follow me, yes, follow me! I’ve got my love, I’ve got my brunette Crush!” With apologies to REM.
3. Battle Dome - Incredibly cheesy American Gladiators rip-off.

Well, that’s it for this week, folks, there will be more next week.

(Editor's Note: The general public can participate in the nominations as well. Go to the links above for any or all of the categories you are interested in and cast your vote for the shows you think should win. All of the general votes will be tallied up and count as one panelist in deciding the final winners. PSW)