Emmys 2022: Supporting Actor In A Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees!

Annoying fact: Despite receiving widespread acclaim, The Good Fight has yet to receive a major Emmy nomination during its first four seasons. That could change this year with the arrival of known Emmy magnet Mandy Patinkin, who joined the Paramount+ legal drama's fifth season as an eccentric judge presiding over a sham courtroom.

Patinkin — who has netted seven Emmy nominations over his career, winning once (in 1995 for Chicago Hope) — will compete in the Supporting Actor category. And from our Dream Emmy vantage point, the Homeland vet absolutely deserves to be in the running.

Scroll through the list below to review all of our Dream Nominees (remember, these aren't predictions; they're wish lists) and then tell us if our picks warrant a "Hell, yes!," "Um, no" or "How could you leave off so-and-so?!"For the record, 2022 Emmy nominations will be voted on from June 16-27, and unveiled on July 12. The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is scheduled to air on Monday, Sept. 12 on NBC.

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Outstanding Drama Series — Our Dream NomineesOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series — Our Dream NomineesOutstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Our Dream NomineesOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series — Our Dream Nominees

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: Armed with Roman Roy's bottomless supply of barbs, Culkin once again delivered Succession's most laugh-out-loud-funny performance in Season 3. But the actor also upped our fascination with Roman's need for approval from dear ol' Dad, paired with his inability to stick the landing whenever high-stakes Waystar Royco business fell on his shoulders. (That phone call with POTUS, yeesh.) As Roman and Shiv weighed whether to side with brother Kendall in his corporate war against Logan, Culkin magnificently shape-shifted from cocky business bro to cowed little boy, making Succession's most entertaining character one of its most pitiable, too.

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: It's hard to imagine anyone matching the charisma and athleticism of a young Magic Johnson... but Isaiah comes damn close. A true newcomer in his first major TV role, Isaiah has Magic's million-dollar smile and winning personality down pat, and he brings a fresh, wide-eyed innocence to the budding NBA superstar. Plus, he's not afraid to dive into the dark side of Magic's sunny persona, and he even does a capable job recreating Magic's eye-popping moves on the basketball court. HBO's L.A. Lakers saga simply wouldn't be a winner without him.

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: What happens when the punching bag punches back? We found out, thanks to Macfadyen's surprisingly resilient turn in Season 3 of the HBO drama. Everyone in the Roy family loves to beat up on Shiv's hen-pecked husband Tom, and Macfadyen was hilariously, poignantly pathetic as a panicked Tom faced the prospect of serious jail time. But Tom ended up turning the tables and betraying Shiv to side with her father Logan, with Macfadyen displaying an impressive bit of backbone that's been hiding behind Tom's usual hangdog act.

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: After spending much of the past decade bursting the blood vessels in his neck while playing the combustible Saul Berenson on Homeland, Patinkin clearly relished his turn as the kinder, gentler, far more chill Judge Wackner in the Paramount+ drama's fifth season. The acting vet played the unorthodox magistrate as equal parts court jester and wise grandfather, and gave birth to one of the year's most colorful and original characters in the process.

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: This veteran actor is a true chameleon — the range of his roles over the years is breathtaking — and he reinvented himself yet again in Apple TV+'s chilling dystopian thriller. As senior macrodata refiner Irving, Turturro was the ultimate company man, rigidly adhering to Lumon's rules and regulations with an almost religious zeal. But it was the tender yearning Turturro brought to Irving's illicit office romance with Christopher Walken's Burt (!!) that really won our hearts.

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: There was nothing terribly flashy about Wilson's turn as TVA Agent Mobius, which only underscored how effortlessly charismatic the performance was. As the lone TVA employee who both believed in Loki's capacity for goodness and proved capable of reining in the god's mischievous ways, Wilson nicely mixed Mobius' laidback charm with his steady air of authority. And though Mobius didn't, in fact, perish when pruned by a colleague's Time Stick, our collective anguish at the thought of Mobius' demise speaks to the sheer likability of Wilson's portrayal.

WHY HE DESERVES A NOD: When we met Oh Il-nam (aka The Old Man), he had woken for the first time in the barracks and was laboring to count his fellow players — not because he didn't know the total, but to ward off dementia, he said. As the deadly nature of the gameplay became apparent, and because of the sweetness that O brought to the character, we worried for just how long this addled elder would last. But last he did, at least until the round of marbles, where Gi-hun exploited his partner's lack of focus. O's meticulous acting choices had us guessing, "Who is duping whom?" — a mystery not to be solved until the season's final minutes.