wonderfulwizard11 said: "I don't think Audra is a comparable situation. She was very good in an overstuffed show, so therefore a bit easier to overlook. Ebersole and LuPone are almost the entire show and the roles are beautifully crafted for them. Of course it's possible that one or both won't be nominated, but thats true of anyone here. "
I would add this that last year really did have a surfeit of incredible leading female performances. This year, there are a lot of eligible women, and each have their advocates, but I don't think it's generally as powerful a set of performances as we had last year. This is, I'm sure, hugely influenced by the fact that I was personally underwhelmed by Altomare, Benton, Soo, and War Paint in general and don't think any of the performances could hold a candle to last year's Erivo, Cusack, Benanti, Mueller, and Soo, any of whose performances would be my favorite lead female performance of this season had they actually been this season. It's a wide open field, but I have the (potentially unpopular) opinion that it's because it's a rather weak one, not that we have too many amazing performances to choose from a la last year.
