Most of the 2022 Emmy nominees are in the usual announcement — get tired of hearing the “inheritance” and “Ted Lasso” called on September 12 — some slightly There was an unexpected event. Nothing was more shocking than last year’s outstanding comedy nomination for Emily in Paris, but there were some notable omissions. As the actors and actresses of “This Is Us” and “black-ish” discovered, it wasn’t a good year to be loved in the final season and star in a long-running series.
Snab: “Yellowstone”
Taylor Sheridan has built an impressive television empire with a vision backed by nostalgia and testosterone, but expects it in the flagship series of Paramount Network, the most acclaimed entertainment show on television during the 2021-22 season. I couldn’t get the nomination for the drama series to be played.
Snab: Sterling K. Brown and Mandy Moore
The sentimental NBC hit “This Is Us” was a four-drama series nomination and didn’t get a lot of attention in this category in the sixth and final seasons, but the star was nominated in each area. It was expected to be done. This is the first and only time since the series began that Brown, who won the 2017 title, has not been included as a candidate for a drama actor.
Surprise: Reese Witherspoon
Jennifer Aniston was expected to win a drama starring actress nomination for her role in the Apple TV + series The Morning Show, but instead nodded to her co-star Witherspoon. .. Also slightly unexpected in this category was the presence of both BBC American “Killing Eve” stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh.
HBO Max’s uplifting post-plague miniseries “Station Eleven” was popular with critics, but there wasn’t much talk of the Emmy Awards about Patel’s performance as a writer who happened to be his father. Patel’s nomination may have been made at the expense of Samuel L. Jackson, one of the favorites in the Limited Series Actors category of “The Last Days of Tremy Gray.”
Snab: “Reserved dog”
It would have been nice to see FX’s soulful and fascinating series about a group of Native American teenagers create an outstanding comedy field, and it was considered a decent opportunity. But don’t underestimate Larry David. Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” picked up one spot that was probably not pre-determined. I was also absent from another well-known FX series called “Atlanta,” a two-time nominee.
Surprise: “Inventing Anna”
Julia Garner was expected to be nominated for playing serial scammer Anna Delvey, but the Netflix show itself, despite its popularity, was at the end of the debate in the limited series category. .. Two more criminal non-fiction dramas have been excluded: the more acclaimed Netflix miniseries “Maid” and HBO Max’s “The Staircase” and Hulu’s “Under the Banner of Heaven.”
Snab: “Amber Raffin Show”
Two candidates in the Variety Sketch category, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and HBO’s “Black Lady Sketch Show,” were guaranteed above all Emmy Awards. But it’s a shame I couldn’t find a room because of Raffin’s smart and entertaining series at Peacock.
Surprise: Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult
Both stars in Hulu’s satirical comedy “The Great” about Catherine the Great were strong candidates, but each defeated someone who was considered more certain in the comedy acting category: Hulu’s “Only Murderer of the Building” Selena Gomez and Anthony Anderson have been nominated seven times in the final season of ABC’s “Blackish”. Anderson, like Brown, was nominated for all previous seasons of his show’s run.
Snab: Conan O’Brien
None of the candidates for the Variety Talk series were surprised, and all of them would have been groaning loudly about being left behind. But it was a bit sad that last year’s nominee “Conan” was excluded in the final round, which was the long (at least for now) end of O’Brien’s late-night host.