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But did she really deserve one over, say, Katey Sagal?

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For example, and staying with the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category, where is the love for Katey Sagal of FX's intense biker drama Sons of Anarchy?

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"Couldn't you just have guessed it?" thinks Katey, a Brooklyn-born secretary, one cool customer and the narrator of most of the story, which is told in flashback from the vantage point of the late 1960s.

A Spirited Climb Into Café Society Joanne Kaufman 2011

But as Katey learns over the course of a tumultuous year, it's sometimes hard to figure out who truly belongs to Café Society and who is actually more coffee shop.

A Spirited Climb Into Café Society Joanne Kaufman 2011

Katey Kontent accent on the second syllable and her boarding-house roommate, a corn-fed beauty named Eve Ross, are down to their last few dollars.

A Spirited Climb Into Café Society Joanne Kaufman 2011

He can deftly and wittily sketch a minor player—"she had changed into high heels and a tangerine-colored blouse that clashed with all her best intentions," he writes of Katey's secretarial-pool colleague—but more important characters like Katey's roommate, Eve Ross, and Tinker Grey never come alive.

A Spirited Climb Into Café Society Joanne Kaufman 2011

The drama, created by Kurt Sutter, stars Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal and Ron Perlman and follows the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club This season has been averaging 5.8 million viewers, with the premiere episode the most-watched program in the network's history.

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Tom Arnold reprised his juicy role as adult-film-industry sleazeball Georgie Caruso, and notoriously cranky SOA creator and Mickey Rourke lookalike Kurt Sutter returned as one-eyed inmate Otto to play poignant scenes opposite his real-life wife, Katey Sagal, as well as the always-great Mark Boone Junior.

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Gemma (Katey Sagal) makes her big move, showing Jax the way to his seat as the head of the SAMCRO motorcycle club, while Jax's girlfriend Tara (Maggie Siff) out-Gemmas Gemma by making plans for she and Jax to leave Charming — and Gemma — forever.

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For Katey, the meeting is the first leg of her arduous climb to the vertiginous reaches of New York society; along the way, she is helped by the wonderfully named Dicky Vanderwhile, a supremely good-natured party boy of impeccable lineage; a diffident captain of industry; and a shrewd, patrician, forward-thinking widow who uses underwear sparingly and spends money freely.

A Spirited Climb Into Café Society Joanne Kaufman 2011