'Orange Is the New Black,' 'Baskets,' 'Mindhunter' and 'On Becoming a God in Central Florida' are among releases from early in this year's Emmy eligibility period that may get lost in the strange time blur caused by confinement
'Orange Is the New Black,' 'Baskets,' 'Mindhunter' and 'On Becoming a God in Central Florida' are among releases from early in this year's Emmy eligibility period that may be overlooked due to the way confinement has warped our sense of "then" and "now."
What that means for Emmy purposes is that this year there are two distinctly different eligibility windows: shows that launched between June 1, 2019, and March 11, 2020, and shows that aired between March 12 and May 31, 2020. It's hard enough to keep track of the dozens of things that premiered in the second window, but shows in the first can feel like memory fragments from a different age.
The concern is that Emmy voters' already established tendency toward recency bias and repetition will become amplified, causing a lot of great television to slip through the cracks.
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