2024-01-16 09:21:58
“Succession”, “The Bear” and “Bronca” swept the highly anticipated Emmy gala held this Monday in Los Angeles, which made up for four months of waiting with a nostalgic trip through the programs that defined television in the last 50 years. . The great favorite of the night, with 27 nominations, “Succession” left with its hands full.
The final season of the HBO series that follows the backstabbing of a wealthy family swept six of the drama categories, including the coveted best series. An excited Kieran Kulkin won the Emmy for best dramatic actor, a category in which the show set a record by placing three of the six nominees, while Matthew Macfadyen took home best supporting actor.
Sarah Snook, his wife in the series, won best dramatic actress. “Thank you for loving the series as much as we love making it,” Snook said when collecting the statuette.
The series also won for best direction and screenplay. “We ended the series with a lot of sadness, but it was a great pleasure to make it,” said its director Jesse Armstrong.
“The Bear”, the series regarding the ups and downs of a frenetic restaurant kitchen in Chicago, did the same, emerging as the best comedy series. Ayo Edebiri received the first statuette of the night for best supporting actress, while her screen co-stars, Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach took home the Emmys for best actor and best supporting actor, respectively.
The series’ acclaimed first season (the Emmy voting occurred before the second season aired) also took home awards for best directing and writing for a comedy series.
Faced with the total dominance of «Succession», “The White Lotus”, the satire that ironizes the intimacies of high society and which in this edition went on to compete in the dramatic category with its second season set in Sicily, had to settle for the Emmy for its star Jennifer Coolidge, as the best supporting actress in a miniseries. “I want to thank all the evil gays,” Coolidge said in gratitude for the recognition, reviving one of the most memorable lines of her charismatic character, Tanya McQuoid.
For its part, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the popular game show that pits Drag Queens once morest each other, bagged another Emmy for best reality show.
“Bronca”, the Netflix show that develops the unexpected love-hate relationship between two strangers who fight in traffic, won in its segment as the best miniseries, in addition to awarding acting awards to its protagonists Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.
nostalgic celebration
The 75th edition of the Emmy Awards kicked off with a short musical led by comedian and actor Anthony Anderson, accompanied by a gospel choir. Anderson, who took charge of the ceremony with his mother, continued with a nostalgic review of series that marked American television in recent decades such as “The Facts of Life,” “Good Times” and “Miami Vice.”
“Tonight is one of celebration, we are honoring the shows that kept us glued to the television,” said Anderson, who was also accompanied by Blink-182’s Travis Barker, in charge of a drum solo.
The nostalgic tone of the night continued with the participation of several casts from super-hit shows such as “Cheers”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Saturday Night Life” and “The Sopranos” who reproduced their highly recognized sets at the gala.
The ceremony arrived four months late. Scheduled for September 2023, they were postponed due to the strikes of actors and screenwriters that at the time paralyzed Hollywood and dried out the red carpets.
Organizers opted for January as a safe date, although votes were cast in the American summer, and some of the nominated shows premiered 18 months ago.
With the strikes behind them, the stars of the industry gathered at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles for the biggest night on television and exuded glamor on a carpet in which red and purple tones competed with the always classic black.
On a night of memories, one of the emotional moments of the awards ceremony was the In Memoriam segment that honored the artists who died in 2023, including “Friends” star Matthew Perry.
Although organizers didn’t have many options, the delay of the Emmys to January, right in the middle of the Hollywood awards season, represented a challenge in terms of audiences.
The awards ceremony was watched in 2022 by just 5.9 million viewers, a figure lower than the 2020 pandemic edition called “pandEmmys”, which was broadcast from an empty theater and in which the stars accepted their awards at home from the hands of delivery workers wearing protective suits made of toxic material.
It remains to be seen if the nostalgia trip brought viewers back.
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