For Your Emmy Consideration: ‘The Walking Dead’ Guest-Star Edition

As we enter Emmy season — nomination voting runs through June 27 — Yahoo TV will be spotlighting performances, writing, and other contributions that we feel deserve recognition.

How many noggins does a guy have to bust open with his barbed wire-covered baseball bat to get an Emmy nomination around here?

Perhaps just the one, if Jeffrey Dean Morgan is rewarded with Emmy recognition for his chill-inducing debut as The Walking Dead baddie Negan in the series’ Season 6 finale.

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Not that JDM is the only Season 6 TWD guest star worthy of a nod. Alicia Witt, as Saviors member Paula, was a more formidable Carol opponent than that whole truckload of dudes Ms. Peletier dispatched with her hidden sleeve gun.

And in one of the season’s best episodes, “Here’s Not Here,” John Carroll Lynch portrayed Eastman, Morgan’s Zen mentor, who helped the damaged friend of Rick’s recover from his apocalyptic meltdown in the time period between Season 3 and Season 5.

Will TWD finally get some Emmy recognition for its standout lineup of performers? And who would you choose for a guest actor nomination?

You know what they always say… you can’t go wrong praising a man carrying a spiky baseball bat.

The Walking Dead will return this fall on AMC.