Nothing tops an Emmy win in terms of how it can change an actor’s career, their casting appeal and earning potential. Okay, maybe an Oscar does, but still you get what I'm going for.
In the spirit of getting it right, here are four performers that could feasibly lose out on Emmy hardware this year if I‘m reading the buzz correctly. But perhaps they shouldn’t – because their performances were fresh, lusciously layered and stuck with me long past their binge-by date.