There is a tendency to say that “there are too many series”, that “it is impossible to watch them all” and that “there is too much quality”. If we pay attention to the latest Emmy Awards, however, it seems that only three series deserve to be recognized: Succession, The bear and Bronca, which swept the drama, comedy and miniseries categories respectively without mercy for series like The last of us, which did not obtain any statuettes in the main categories.
In this way, HBO’s Succession was crowned for the third consecutive time for the season with which the members of the Roy family said goodbye definitively to the audience and with a total of six awards. In addition to best drama series, it won the Emmy for best script for Jesse Armstrong, the creator, best direction for Mark Mylod, dramatic actor for Kieran Culkin, dramatic actress for Sarah Snook and finally Matthew Macfadyen as a supporting role for his role as the ragpicker son-in-law. of the Roy family. In total, therefore, it won six awards
The only artist who was able to prevail in the dramatic field, ironically, was an actress with an impeccable comedic vision: Jennifer Coolidge, who after winning the Emmy for best supporting actress in a miniseries for the first season of The White Lotus (HBO) the year past, this time it has triumphed as a secondary drama after changing the category series.
In comedy, Disney’s The Bear did more of the same. Creator Christopher Storer won both comedy writing and directing, awards that he did not go up to collect as he was absent from the gala. Jeremy Allen White took the stage as best comedy actor and Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Taking into account that it won four technical Emmys last weekend, including best comedy casting, the culinary series made the record of the night with a total of 10 statuettes.
It should be remembered that The Bear was competing for the first season in these Emmy Awards, which were broadcast late due to the actors and writers’ strike and which were to be held in September. The series eligible to be awarded were those that had aired their episodes between June 2022 and May 2023, so the episodes of the second season will compete in the next edition.
Only an excited Quinta Brunson, creator of Abbott School (Disney), took home an award in the main comedy categories as best actress, in which it was the only award of the night for a fiction series produced for free-to-air television in USA.
And, in miniseries, Netflix’s Bronca won easily: miniseries, direction and script for creator Lee Sung-jin, lead actor for Steve Yeun and actress for comedian Ali Wong. This peculiar proposal, which could be defined as a tense comedy about two frustrated people who decide to make each other’s lives miserable after an altercation in a parking lot, confirms the good streak of the audiovisual with Asian talent. After Everything at Once Everywhere at the Oscars, the Emmys valued Bronca with eight statuettes (it also won three technical awards).
As supporting miniseries, two true crime wins: Paul Walter Hauser for Black Bird (Apple TV) as Larry Hall, a serial psychopath convicted of the murder and rape of 14 women, and Niecy Nash-Betts as the worried neighbor from Dahmer (Netflix), the series focused on the Milwaukee butcher.
The lack of diversity among the winners, with three series capturing an overwhelming majority of awards, has worked against the Emmys themselves. On the one hand, because in such a prolific television landscape, they have behaved as if they had only seen Bronca, Succession and The Bear. And, on the other hand, as the awards ceremony was delayed due to the Hollywood strikes, the ceremony has been a constant déjà vu of the Golden Globes held last week.
Of course, where the Emmy Awards have defeated the Globes has been in the presenter, Anthony Anderson, accustomed to this type of gala, who even brought his mother as a speech admonisher: whoever went over the 45-second limit received his reprimand. from the seats of the Peacock Theater.
