July 22, 2025

Inside the 2025 Emmy Nominations with Jacqueline Coley of Rotten Tomatoes

Inside the 2025 Emmy Nominations with Jacqueline Coley of Rotten Tomatoes

Who got snubbed? Who surprised us? And is The Bear even a comedy? (We still don’t know.) In this star-studded 2025 Emmy Awards nominations breakdown, Kyle McMahon welcomes back Rotten Tomatoes Awards Editor...

Who got snubbed? Who surprised us? And is The Bear even a comedy? (We still don’t know.)
In this star-studded 2025 Emmy Awards nominations breakdown, Kyle McMahon welcomes back Rotten Tomatoes Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley to unpack the chaos, controversy and comedy of the 2025 Emmy nominations. From shocking shutouts (Squid Game & House of the Dragon, we’re looking at you) to Apple TV+’s quiet domination (Severance, The Studio, Shrinking), this episode dives deep into the biggest trends, breakout hits and Emmy dark horses.

💥 Topics we tackle:

  • Why Sterling K. Brown is Emmy catnip (and yes, we said that)
  • The Severance glow-up nobody saw coming
  • White Lotus vs The Pit — which prestige drama will reign?
  • The Bear’s identity crisis: Is it comedy, trauma, or both?
  • Only Murders in the Building, Abbott Elementary, and other comedy heavyweights
  • Apple TV+ as the new HBO? Kyle has thoughts™
  • International contenders, streaming shakeups, and Emmy category chaos
  • And yes, Kyle forgets about Adolescence until the very end and then has an existential moment about how good it is.

If you’re an Emmy junkie, pop culture nerd, or just here for the hot takes, this episode has it all — smart commentary, industry insights, and at least three times where Kyle and Jacqueline try not to spiral over TV politics.

Don’t miss:
  • Kyle’s mini-rant about Pedro Pascal
  • Jacqueline’s Emmy predictions (feast or famine incoming!)
  • The best hour of television Kyle’s ever seen (spoiler: it involves Adolescence)

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from iHeartRadio,

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your pop culture news, views, reviews, and celebrity interviews on

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all the movies, TV, music, and pomp culture you crave Weekly.

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Here's Kyle McMahon.

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So I am here once again with the always amazing

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Jacqueline Coley, Awards editor at Rotten Tomatoes, who we love.

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Welcome back.

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Thank you so much, Thank you so much for having me.

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Of course, it's always a pleasure talking to you. So

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the numbs just came out for the twenty twenty five

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Emmy Awards. What are your kind of general thoughts overall?

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I mean, really it was a great year for television,

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but in the kind of the Emmys this year, it

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was really feast or famine. If you were one of

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these shows that ended up being sort of like the Heart,

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sort of beloved one from the Television Academy, you received

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multiple nominations. Many of these shows broke category records for

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the number of nominations for a show, stuff like the

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studio shows like seven. But if you were some of

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these bubble shows like Squid Game, House of Dragon or

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some of the more quiet comedies, you really were just

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absent from the entire awards conversation shows like the rehearsal.

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Yeah, and that is interesting because I was shocked that

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Squid Game didn't get anything at all, like, yeah.

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Squid Game, House of Dragon.

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And then people were surprised by show like Paradise making

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it in over other shows like Your Friends and Neighbors.

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Which a lot of folks had really enjoyed.

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Yeah. Yeah, there are some interesting things this year. What

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do you do you think there's a reason for that?

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Is it just kind of one of those years.

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In truth be known? And we'll talk about this later.

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HBO, which is kind of known as the parentinal spot

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for prime time, really highly produced incredible television. They led

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with nominations, but if we really look at it, it's

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the streamers that had such a huge dominance this year

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and the viewing patterns of I would say general Americans

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have really shifted. I mean you have HBO, which is

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but then you have Netflix, you also have Apple, and

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you even have folks like Amazon with a show like

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Paradise coming into the mix. And Disney's biggest show outside

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of Abvid Elementary is and Or, which is only on

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Disney Plus.

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Yeah, so let's dive into some of these the drama category.

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What's your take on the nominations and who do you

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think is going to take it well.

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Severance led in total nominations with twenty seven and this

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is definitely one over at Rotten Tomatoes that everybody has

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been sort of digging. Every single season has been certified fresh,

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you know, with Ben Stiller. So I think the fact

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that people have finally watched Severance. Its first season was

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very good, but it was less watched. Now it's sort

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of this cultural phenomenon. Everyone sort of appreciates the desperate

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nature of corporate America. I think we all have, especially

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post COVID, you know, going back to sometimes these not

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really fulfilled office spaces. They it's really kind of hit

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the seis geist moment, and so I'm really excited for

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that one. But then a new show like The Pit,

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which honestly feels like an old show because it echoes

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so much with er that finding its way into the

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drama category winning over like we said, shows like shows

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like Excuse Me that We're snubbed, that is I think

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very noteworthy considering that it really does feel like an

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old school drama that also certified fresh and also had

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great audience scores.

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Do for something like Paradise, which kind of I feel like,

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at least in my bubble, kind of flew under the

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radar viewer wise and really buzz wise. Was that a

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surprise to you for forgetting a non for outstanding drama?

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Well, I will go ahead and say that I did

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predict it.

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Over at Rotten Tomatoes dot com we have our yearly prediction,

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So I actually did feel this, But it actually speaks

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to more of the enduring love affair that the folks

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within the television academy have for Sterling K. Brown. This

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is a guy who sort of bursts onto the scene

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with a show like The People versus OJ Simpson and

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then goes to cover that bet with an instellar run

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back with the COVID creator from This Is Us.

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decided if Sterling K. Brown is in it, I'm going

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to give it its time, and I'm gonna go ahead

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and commit to this. And it was one that the

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critics also liked. It was eighty seven percent certified Fresh,

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sterling k Brown of it all. But yeah, I think

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more people will tuned in for him and then found

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out once they got there how great the show was.

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a You know, I don't feel this way, but I

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feel like oftentimes in major award ceremonies, those types of

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shows are ignored.

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Were you surprised that No, I wasn't on that one?

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The more surprising thing that I found was that Diego

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Luna was left off of the Best Actor in a

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Drama Series. I mean, this show has really lived and

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died by everything that he brought to the role of Kasian.

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So I'm very glad to see that the show got honored,

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but it was interesting that he wasn't.

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So it was a bit of a mixed bag. Brander.

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of the technical stuff, visual effects, the production design, so

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on and so forth, but you really would like to

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see them have more of the actor performances. But side note,

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voice performances by I believe Alan Tudic and one other

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were nominated, so the show did get some above the

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lines thing, but again only in the voice categories.

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Okay, and how about the Last of Us? I don't remember,

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and I'm sure you do. If the first season was nominated,

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it was, but yeah.

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First season was nominated, and also Pedro got nominated for

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the first season was well yeah, yeah, it had a

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pretty good run in the first season, but this second

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season was less well received. So it was interesting that

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pretty much every category that they expected they had another

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slew of nominations, and Pedro Pascal, who's only in half

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of the episodes, still managed to garner a Best Lead

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Yeah, which is pretty cool. I feel like everybody loves

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him in my opinion.

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You know, it's another one where it's like, and this

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is the thing with the Emmy's ballot that I really

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want people to understand. Think about how many shows that

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you want to catch that you haven't, and think about

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how many names are involved in those shows. So when

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folks are sitting down to make these votes, being somebody

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like Pedro and Sterling K. Brown and other folks that

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has that really instant name recognition and more importantly, a

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name you can't forget because they're in a project every

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other week that really helps them with voting.

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I mean it's a joke, but it's true.

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Yeah. Yeah. And Sterling, I mean he's as you said,

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you know, he's such an amazing actor in general. Like

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disappointed in.

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The So who are you thinking it'll go to for

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Outstanding Drama.

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Well, at this point, I feel I've made the show

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to pit my personality.

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I fell in love with that.

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Law and Order raised me an er, like put me

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to bed. It's so, it's so that, But I have

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to see the White Lotus, that those acting nominations really

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dominating those below, those supporting casts, all of them getting noams,

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has to make me think that that, along with the

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sort of virality of you know, Buddhism and Parker Posey

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and the Patrick Schwartzenegger and the snl of it all,

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it seems like White Lotus was just so a part

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of the consciousness that it may ride that way of

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public understanding into an Emmy win.

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I could really see that happening.

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And do you think that it ever And this is

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when there's multiple people, so many people from a series

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that are nominated, does it ever cannibalize itself cannibalize the voters?

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I mean sometimes it does, but like from a show,

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even like last year with the Last of Us, where

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they had a ton of guest star performances that ended

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up being nominated, it seems that although that does happen,

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they eventually usually coll aalesque around one performance that stands

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out on top of the other ones. And I think

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this year, especially with somebody like Parker Posey, really sort

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of stands above everybody else in that particular show, or

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even maybe a Carrie Coon. I think it's only when

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there's two performances kind of split the vote where I

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think it might be a little bit different. But with

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the White Lotus, I think there's like a front runner

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in each of those categories amongst the cast.

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series there, there's some not surprising series there. What do

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you think about the NAMS this year for Outstanding Comedy.

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I think it was a great overall microcosm of where

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televisions today. You have network show like Abbott Elementary, you

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have streaming shows like Nobody Wants This and Only Murderers

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in the Building.

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shows I think show what Apple's been quietly doing over there,

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which is getting some of the biggest stars I mean

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Shrinking ern Harrison Ford his first Emmy nomination at eighty

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three years young. And the Studio becomes this inside, behind

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the scenes, satirical look into Hollywood that anybody who works

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in Hollywood would see truth and kinship. So it's no

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surprise that this, you know, Hollywood workplace drama is the

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one that ends up resonating with the Television Academy.

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I love that.

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And then we have the controversial figure of the bear.

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which is also a part of the category. So I

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just like how it shows everything you have wacky slapstick

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stuff like what we do in the Shadows, and then

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you have really grounded stuff like the Bear, and they

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all work on this interesting and comedic level.

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So it's interesting, you know, with the studio, which I love.

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What I've noticed though, was all the people that I

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talked to that know it and have watched it are

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in the industry, and I wonder, I mean, for an

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industry voted you know, award that doesn't really matter, but

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is the general is it resonating with the general public,

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Like none of my friends that aren't in the business

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have have watched it, So I do wonder about that.

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I wonder about it too, because again I live in

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a bit of the bubble of the industry and all

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of my friends live for it. But Apple has said

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that it has some of the best ratings on the

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platform for the studio for a comedy. So Severan's I believe,

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was its lead in for part of the season, and

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then the studio had the lead in for Your Friends

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and Neighbors after that, and Apple has said all of

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the shows do extremely well. So I think it does

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play because yes, Hollywood's stories about Hollywood, but I think

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what the studio does really well is it's a farce,

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Like it's so farcical.

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People think that's what Hollywood people are like, So showing

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them to be that cartoonish is something that even if

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you aren't a part of it, you would still like

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to be it. I've never really followed soccer, but I

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liked Ted Lasso, and I think that may be the

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appeal to audiences as well.

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That's a great point, nobody. I mean, I'm sorry, only

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murders the building. Uh this is I feel like it's

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a celebrated show. Has it won any major awards yet?

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won Best Comedy Ensemble and I was actually there to

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see the cast that was present. I believe it was

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Selena Gomez, Kamil Nan Gianni. I want to say Richard

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Kine was there, Like, don't quote me on that, but

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a few of the cast members there to accept it.

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But Martin Short and Steve Martin, who had been snubbed

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every year that they went, did not come. And then

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Martin Short actually won for Best Lead Actor as well.

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So it is a it was funny to kind of

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watch that, But.

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Yeah, it has won a few awards and This past

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season was also great. They had new folks like Jane Lynch,

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I mentioned, Kamil nan Gianni was in it, Melissa McCarthy

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this last season had a ton of new folks out

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of him.

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What do you think, who do you think is or

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what what do you think is going to take it

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this year?

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It's interesting.

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I do think Only Murders Left in the Building had

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one of their best seasons last year. But Hacks has

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been the sort of perennial favorite in this category. I mean,

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the first year that the Bear came out, it swept

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all of the Emmys categories, and I believe again even

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the second year. But from its third year on it

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has been losing to Hacks. And Gene Smart has been

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dominating the Best Lead Actress category with straight wins every

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year of their eligibility. So I actually think that it'll

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be Hacks again this year. It is what people consider

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to be the most pure, pure comedy in the category.

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But don't count out a new show like Nobody Wants

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This or even something like Only Murders Left in the

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Building because a lot of the people that are in

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SAG are also in the Television Academy.

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Okay, let's talk about some of these shows, specifically Severance,

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and you know, on the Apple side, Severance and the Studio,

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let's dive into that. What do you think about out

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you know, I love I love both of them. Severance.

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The first season was kind of slow Burn for me

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that I loved and I felt I thought was a

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little bit too weird for kind of the general public,

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but clearly in the second season that you know, was

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not true. And then like the Studio we talked about,

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you know, what do you think about those two?

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for a lot of folks, as we mentioned, who maybe

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not are watching Apple TV plus posts Ted Lasso, how

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dynamic and diverse the slate over on Apple TV is.

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You have Severance, this dark, dystopian workplace sci fi drama

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where these folks are severing parts of their personality so

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that they can become more appropriate corporate automatons and the

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cover up around it. And then on the other side

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you have this farcical, very broad comedy take the Studio,

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and both of them led their categories with the most nominations,

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the Studio time the Bear with twenty three nominations.

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And when you look at the nominees.

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Both of them managed to get acting nominations for their

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small parts. You have Zach Cherry from Severance as well

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as Tremmel with his incredible marching band sequence from this

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past year. You have these dazzling visual set pieces of Severance,

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and then you have the long, sweeping one shots of

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the studio, and both of these shows have huge production values.

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Think of like F one style production value in these

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television shows, and they bring out some of the best

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on television. Martin Scorsesey and Ron Howard both earned Emmy

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nominations for their work on the Studio, essentially playing themselves.

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Zoe Kravitz did as well. And then, like I said,

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with those acting and also visual effects and sequence nominations

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for Severance.

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I think too many people still sleep on Apple TV Plus.

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It is from me. Since day one. It has been

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consistently the best streamer where I know it is going

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to be a high quality, not just production, but well written,

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like they're for me. Apple TV Plus, I've not gotten

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a miss from for anything that I've seen. It reminds

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me of when I was a kid and HBO was

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like the big thing that you went there for Prestige TV,

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and I feel like Apple TV for me is now

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that place. Not that HBO doesn't have great stuff, but

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I feel like Apple TV is kind of the new

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HBO and the fact that everyone is whether it's a

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hit or not, it's just like a knockout. What do

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you think about that now?

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Their consistency is key.

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I mean, we haven't even talked about some of the

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other shows that they had this year. They had a

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show with David o'ellio called Government Cheese. They also had

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several docs including like number one on the Call, She

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shows that have come through there previously, like Emily Dickinson

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obviously Ted Lasso. Either way, I think when they have

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the goods, they can put out a very smart campaign

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and they have put out very smart campaigns about how

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to get them in front of the Television Academy audiences.

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And again, like I just feel the creative is behind it.

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You have been Silver also seth Rogen, which the studio

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is one of the highest rated comedies that we have

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on our comedies list this year, and from the minute

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it premiered at south By Southwest, it has just kind

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of been something that both audiences and critics like it.

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I mean, I think we certified fresh that one before

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the show even came out, and it's been ninety percent

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all season.

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And they're having a great year. And I feel like,

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you know, they're really starting to break through at least mainstream,

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which is hysterical to say about Apple that's trillion dollar company,

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but at least in this category, you know, in this

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lens with F one being such a big hit, and

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you know, I really feel like they're they're making their

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marking their territory, if you will. It was what a

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few years ago that Coda won the Oscar and that

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was kind of like the big debut I would say

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for Apple as a serious contender here, and then they've

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slowly been like, you know, chipping away at that to

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to greater and greater acclaim and and I would say

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awareness from like the general public of a lot of

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these shows. So I'm happy to see it.

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I agree.

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On the other end, speaking of great shows, HBO with White,

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the White Lotus and The Pit, you know, they are

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still consistently putting out bangers as well that kind of

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have never you know, HBO has never really gone off

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the map in regards to award ceremonies. Would you say,

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would you agree?

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I mean, in this past year, they led the distributor

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platform with the most nominations at one hundred and seventy three.

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To put it in perspective, Apple had eighty one, so

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double what Apple achieved with THEIRS. But that is also

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a more comprehensive list of nominees. I mean, you can

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take a show like Dune, which didn't get any above

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the line nominations, but Dune Prophecy, that show that they

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did on Hbox, received a ton of below the line nomination.

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Same thing for House of the Dragon. And that's not

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to mention we haven't talked about it yet. They also

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have a very busy original film slate, and so they

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did Mountainhead this past year with Steve Carell, and both

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him and the film ended up garnering a ton of nominations.

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And that's just talking about the drama side.

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On the comedy side, they managed to score their very

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first two nominations for this quiet show that they've had

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on their platform called Somebody Somewhere. It is written and

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directed by Britt Everett. Folksing recognize she's sort of a

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comedian who's been on the circuit for a long time.

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But it's one of those shows where your really cool

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friends know about it and they've been trying to get

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you to watch it for years, but you probably haven't.

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And that both the show and one of the supporting

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actors from the show got a nomination. They got a

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writing nomination in that, and I think it just shows

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again HBO plays with more decks than anybody else in

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very different places. They will have documentary series that are nominated,

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they will have drama, comedy.

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Also.

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I didn't even mention the stand up specials that they

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also managed to earn for nomination. So the breath of

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what HBO does is just so much bigger than what some.

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Of these other folks, even Netflix could and can do.

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Speaking of that, Netflix has often been toe to toe

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with HBO in regards to noms. That's a little different

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this year, right, Yeah, Like I.

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Said, so, HBO I believe topped. I believe they topped.

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Sorry, HBO topped the total nominations, but Netflix was still

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up there and definitely in the triple digits. And they

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always kind of go back and forth with NETS and

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HBO to see who gets the best of the total nominations.

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Because they also have the largest market share, and with

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Netflix it's global, So even their global product like Squid Game,

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that will earn some nominations, it'll happen for these products

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that are not even in English language, that were marketed

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to an entirely different part of the of the globe.

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HBO manages to do this mostly with stuff that's marketed

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and set for North America.

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And speaking of that, Showgun was one that really surprised

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me this year. Was that a surprise to you at all?

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From last year? Last year? Sorry from last year?

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Yeah, No, Showgun wasn't post squid Game, post Parasite. There's

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been this globalization of our viewing habits and our theater

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habits over the past few years. I mean, we see

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it rotten tomatoes. We have a lot of folks that

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visit our site that are not from English language countries,

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that are not from countries that we can even like

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translate the site easily to. But they're passionate about film,

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they're passionate about storytelling, and with these streamers and with

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the sort of like access that you're able to have

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now with digitization, a lot of folks become fans of

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things being very far removed. We've seen this with like

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k dramas becoming popular here. A lot of the HBO

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products that are made here are then put on British

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television and other parts of Europe.

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So I think that is.

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The reason why you're able to see shows like Showgun

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happen younger audiences, which are very much used to subtitles

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because of how they interact on the Internet. They are

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less turned off by the idea of seeing something with subtitles,

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whether it be a television show or a film. So

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I think all of those sort of combined to make

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it to where, yeah, this is going to be old hat,

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and we'll see more what I consider international productions in

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the Emmys as things continue.

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And is there this year a show Gun not? You know,

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obviously that didn't do a million different nums, but is

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there anything kind of on the radar similar to that

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in an you know, in an international way.

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There is They just did not receive Emmy nominations. I

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know crunchy Roll had a few things that it was

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able to get nominations for this year, in some short

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form and animated series, but for the most part, squid

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Game got some nominations.

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Below the line stuff like that, but they were kind

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of shut out.

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Out of those major ones, and I don't think I

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can think of one.

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Besides Bad Sisters, which is not.

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Foreign language but is an Irish BBC. I'm sorry, in

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Irish production. Adams the international import that made a big

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impact in any of the above line categories, or if

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you maybe wanted to say Alfonso Quran's disclaimer, Yes, that's

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in English and mostly America performers. So it's like it's

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sort of like international issue.

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Right right? Are you going back to Squid Game for

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a moment. I have been obsessed since it started, and

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you know, binged the last season as of now. I

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really thought this year that it would kind of get

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all these noams. I mean, you know, I feel like

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traditionally award shows, will you know, look at Lord of

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the Rings where in the theaters or for the Oscars

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where it was the third one that you know what

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I mean? I kind of was expecting that with Squid Game.

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Is that not a thing for on the Emmy side, like, oh,

466
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we know it's your final season, let's praise it.

467
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I think there's two things.

468
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The television calendar has shifted. If you look at the

469
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shows that got nominations. A lot of them premiered further

470
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back than we're used to to carry over. A show

471
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like Abbot Elementary starts in September. I believe the Pit

472
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started in January of this year. Severance was already finished

473
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long before any voting season started. And a lot of

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these shows that premiered later, like Squid Game, for example,

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which premiered almost right before the voting window closed, they

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did not fare as well. And people forget this, but

477
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Copra Kai used to be a part of the any conversation,

478
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and they came and went and so or even a

479
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show like the Rehearsal, which was also a bit later

480
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in the year than what we've typically seen. It's sort

481
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of shifting. And I think Squid Game may have suffered

482
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from it's late in the calendar premiere because I believe

483
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part two was what April May April?

484
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Yeah, Okay, that's a completely makes sense, you know.

485
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Taken it for me, I don't know, but that's the

486
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way it felt.

487
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So you know, we'll see, we'll see what ends up

488
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happening either way, but yeah, it seems that way.

489
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So zooming out, What are you expecting from the twenty

490
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twenty five Emmys.

491
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Well, I think it's gonna be again some more Feast

492
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or Famine. I don't know which of these titles the

493
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Television Academy is going to favor more. I think sometimes

494
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there's backlash against over nominations, so like if they feel

495
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a show overperformed in absence of better things, they may

496
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take it out on that. You know, they may be like,

497
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we'd really need to have all of the guest performances

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of one category B for White Lotus, because there is

499
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a category this year. I believe best guests are in

500
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a comedy, for example, they all are the studio and

501
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then it's John Barenthal. Some people say, oh, they may

502
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just go with John Barenthal because.

503
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They don't want it to be bullied by all the

504
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folks from the studio, So that could happen. But I

505
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think it's going to be like a sweep.

506
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I think shows like Adolescents on the Limited Series a

507
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lot of the categories over there. I think either the

508
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White Lotus or the Pit or Severance, whichever one ends

509
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up being the one that the Television Academy loves more,

510
00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:09.839
it will be a clean sweep. They'll get you know,

511
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lead supporting and a lot of the writing and acting,

512
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and as of this moment, on the comedy side, because

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Hacks has been so perennial and so dominating, they're the

514
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only ones I feel very safe at this point in predicting.

515
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They had an incredible season last season. Even more, somebody

516
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they brought in last season as a new assistant instantly

517
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walked into an Emmy.

518
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That shows the strength of that show.

519
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I love that. And I didn't plan on asking about this,

520
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but just as a note Adolescence, because I had completely

521
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forgotten about it. That second episode of that and I

522
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know that that kid is nominated is probably the most

523
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powerful hour of television I've ever seen in my life.

524
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I don't disagree. And that's the thing I think Adolescence

525
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has on its side. It managed to captivate the globe

526
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and spark conversations and be incredibly entertaining and well made

527
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in four episodes.

528
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Four episodes, that's it.

529
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It's in and out, and it manages to go really

530
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oceans of places in character development. So I think that

531
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actually is going to be the biggest thing about that show.

532
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And you're right.

533
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The second episode is really where you're like, Oh, this

534
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isn't just good, this is incredible.

535
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Yeah, yeah, with and it was one take, you know,

536
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I mean that with the kid and I feel horrible

537
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that I don't know his name. And the therapist, I

538
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mean that was, like I said, I would say, the

539
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best hour of television I've ever seen. It was so captivating.

540
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The character.

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The woman who plays the therapist Aaron Doherty. She also

542
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played Queen Anne or Princess Anne sorry in The Crown.

543
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I believe she got snubs for her performance in that,

544
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and so this is like very just desserts that she

545
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finally gets an Emmy nomination here.

546
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I love that. Jacqueline. Where can we find you to

547
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catch up with all of your awesome covering, Well, you.

548
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Can find me at that Jacqueline Anywhere and my writing

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