But donât worry: Weâll have the answers about "Succession," "Ted Lasso" and lots of others in January 2024
[ed Lasso Fire Island Succession]( [5 Burning Emmy Questions Thatâll Take a Long Time to Answer]( [Steve Pond]( Thereâs usually a gap of about three weeks between the end of final Emmy voting and the Primetime Emmy ceremony that reveals the winners. But this year, thanks to delays caused by the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild strikes, there will be almost four-and-a-half months between the end of voting on Aug. 28 and the Emmy telecast on Jan. 15, 2024. (Two Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies will take place a week earlier.) And that means that the burning questions we have as the final ballots are cast wonât be answered for a long time. And others will never be answered â for instance, which nominees were hurt the most by the inability of actors and writers to campaign leading up to final voting? (To answer that, weâd need to know who would have done the most effecting campaigning.) But some of our questions will be answered. Eventually. Â Here are a few. Â Can anything beat âSuccession?â
This seems to be one of the easiest questions to answer about this yearâs Emmys. After winning the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy for its second season in 2020 and its third season in 2022, HBOâs drama is the odds-on favorite to win for a third time for its fourth and final season. And when you figure that [it leads the field with 27 nominations](, including a record-tying 14 acting nominations, three directing noms and one writing nom, Jesse Armstrongâs series appears to be all but invincible. If voters for some reason are feeling âSuccessionâ fatigue, the other contenders include three new shows (âAndor,â âHouse of the Dragonâ and âThe Last of Usâ), one second-year show (âYellowjacketsâ), one fifth-year show that won in this category in 2021 when âSuccessionâ took a year off (âThe Crownâ), one beloved show that has never won and is now up for its final season (âBetter Call Saulâ) and one series that dominated the limited series category last year but has now been shifted to the drama series category (âThe White Lotusâ). The two strongest rivals to âSuccessionâ are probably the two other shows that also received acting, directing and writing nominations, âThe Last of Usâ and âThe White Lotus.â But really, âSuccessionâ has been on a three-year roll at the Emmys and it hardly seems likely to falter at the finish line. Can anything beat âTed Lasso?â On the surface, Jason Sudeikisâ Apple TV+ comedy series seems to be in the same position as âSuccessionâ: It won for its last two seasons, itâs trying to complete a trifecta by winning for its (presumably) final season and it has more acting nominations and more total nominations than any other show in its category. And yet âTed Lassoâ doesnât feel like a lock the way âSuccessionâ does. Partly, thatâs because its third season felt disappointing to some, drawing [the seriesâ lowest Rotten Tomatoes scores]( from both critics and audiences. Its competitors include âAbbott Elementary,â which seemed to have a shot to knock off âTed Lassoâ last year; âBarry,â which won across-the-board raves for its final season; and especially âThe Bear,â which is eligible for its first season but which dropped a knockout second season just before nominations were announced, reminding voters of why they liked it at just the right time. Still, this is the Emmys, where voters have long been set in their ways. âTed Lassoâ could well be vulnerable, but betting that Television Academy members are looking to make a change is often as not a foolish move. Will category splitting hurt some favorites? The Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category has six nominees. Three of them â Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong â are from âSuccession.â Will voters settle on a favorite in that group, throwing enough votes to Strong (whoâs won before), Cox (who died in Episode 3) or Culkin (whoâs making his first appearance in the lead category)? Or is the âSuccessionâ vote going to be split so evenly that Pedro Pascal could land the biggest award for âThe Last of Usâ or Bob Odenkirk could finally win an Emmy for playing Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill in âBetter Call Saul.â This is certainly Odenkirkâs best (and last) chance, but donât underestimate Culkin. And then thereâs Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, where the eight nominees include five (!) from âThe White Lotusâ and one each from âThe Crown,â âBetter Call Saulâ and âSuccession.â (Of course, one of the five is the universally beloved Jennifer Coolidge.) And Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, where three of the seven nominees are from âSuccession,â with Mark Mylod probably edging out two of his colleagues for the episode in which the Logan kids learn of their fatherâs death in an astounding 27-minute take. And what can we make of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, where the eight nominees are evenly split between two shows, âSuccessionâ and âThe White Lotus?â Maybe thatâll come down to one from Column A (Matthew Macfadyen from âSuccessionâ?) and one from Column B (F. Murray Abraham from âWhite Lotusâ?). [For the rest of the Awards Beat column, click here or in the box below.]( [Read More]( ---------------------------------------------------------------
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