Both Underwood and Byrne put on a master class of acting in the submitted episode. I can't see how the Emmys overlooked such a good performance.

I really hate their preferential treatment of those "it" shows. They always nominate more on what people watch and how popular the creator is instead of rating the quality. Shows like Arrested Development were pretty much just glitches because that was maybe the only instance I can remember recently where the committee saw through their own crap.