The Excellent Drama award classes at this 12 months’s Emmy Awards went off with no upset or surprises: it was a Shogun sweep, save for Billy Crudup’s much-deserved win for his compellingly weird efficiency as a chaos-agent CEO on The Morning Present. The present got here into the printed with a report variety of wins within the un-televised classes; Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai’s historic wins added to the pot earlier than the FX sequence walked away with Greatest Drama Sequence general.
That is all good and well-deserved—Shogun is unimaginable. However lest we overlook, Shogun—very like Donald Glover’s Prime sequence Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which additionally nabbed its fair proportion of nominations—ought to have most likely been within the Restricted Sequence race as an alternative. It’s not a class shuffle worthy of countless debate like say, The Bear’s standing as an Excellent Comedy, and there’s precedent for miniseries going most, like Large Little Lies. However the easy reality is the 2 most acclaimed reveals within the working for Excellent Drama awards have been envisioned as one-offs, with the dialog for extra taking place solely within the aftermath of overwhelming acclaim. They’re ongoing as a result of it will be dangerous enterprise to not, not as a result of there’s an actual multi-season story unfolding.
Succession, very like the late Logan Roy, has left a serious energy vacuum in its wake. It seems like The Bear, Hacks and Abbott Elementary are going to carry comedy down for the foreseeable future, however the place’s the brand new blood in drama? The truth that The Morning Present made off with probably the most drama nominations ever feels extra like a byproduct of that present’s plain star wattage than its high quality or its buzz. The Crown is over. Sluggish Horses was—forgive me—a darkish horse. Fallout? The way forward for that sequence is anyone’s guess— it may simply as simply fall off. And the much less stated about 3 Physique Drawback, the higher.
As of proper now, the stage is about for Business to return by way of and fill that void, because the third season of the HBO sequence has already lived as much as the burden of Making Sunday Night time HBO Prestigious Once more. However that’s just one slot. We’ll absolutely see some nods for Presumed Harmless, Apple TV+’s splashy summer season present that bought a shock season 2 even quicker than Shogun did. However what else? When Logan departed, his successor wasn’t clear, however the selections have been. The state of play within the drama panorama is far much less assured, which is mildly regarding. However within the midst of chaos and uncertainty is usually when flashes of brilliance strike.
