Melissa Leo

critics-choice-excerptThe nominees for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards were announced today, and with no surprise, HBO took the top spot raking in 22 nominations while ABC and Netflix tied for second with 14 nods. With critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, the new Donald Glover comedy Atlanta, and the uber-successful The People Vs. OJ Simpson FX ranked fourth.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMAfter losing her boyfriend, job, and waking up naked in the middle of a bachelor party due to her constant hunger for physical intimacy, Joy realizes she has a problem: sex and love addiction. She seeks help and meets Maddie, who becomes her sponsor and gets Joy to agree to try to go 30 days without her ex, boys, sex, or romance.

Logline: An Afghan journalist, exiled from his war-torn country to a small bohemian community in Northern California, attempts to turn his menial job on the local police blotter into “Afghan-style” coverage of local crime until he gets drawn into the backwoods of the small town – a shadow Northern California where sex is casual, true friendship is hard to come by and an unfamiliar form of violence lurks all around.

Logline: Secret Service agent Mike Banning and the President of the United States must work together to thwart a terrorist attack in London on the day of the Prime Minster’s funeral.