Cranston breaking good

It's a Spader four-peat, right?

No. Hold. The. Phone.

Three other nominations for Bryan Cranston for "Malcolm in the Middle," and he never won. Should've.

But this -- Cranston just said the restraining order must've been lifted -- is absolutely beautiful. He was the darkest of the dark horses, an apt metaphor given the teacher-turned-meth-dealer he plays.

Cranston wins best actor in a drama, showing that the TV Academy voters actually watched the submitted episodes of this series, "Breaking Bad," and that they don't recoil from baddy bad bads on FX and elsewhere on cable. In fact, they embrace those characters and the actors who transform into them (ie Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey in "The Shield").

Amazing competition, including "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm, "House's" Hugh Laurie, the aforementioned Emmy hoarder Spader, Gabriel Byrne, "In Treatment," and Michael C. Hall, "Dexter."