The 2021 Emmys were always going to be an exercise in anarchy. Between an eligibility window marred by COVID-impacted disappearances — count Atlanta, Succession, Euphoria, Ozark and Better Call Sau…
This presents an opportunity — an opportunity for disaster. Emmy voters have the very real chance to either infuse an already moribund category with intriguing, edgy new life or reduce an entire Emmy field to obsolescence.
Maybe, if we’re being completely honest, the latter sort of slash-and-burn approach is necessary anyway. It seems close to inevitable that the cast ofcould land as many as a half-dozen actors in a supporting field in which they clearly shouldn’t be eligible, and maybe what it will take to instigate some sort of new “best performance in a variety or sketch series” category would be shutting out dozens of supporting actors from worthy shows.
Some consideration also needs to be given to the proliferation of limited series and what it means that two of the best half-hour shows in the eligibility field —— are “limited series” and not “comedies,” despite not being inherently close-ended stories. Granted, neither show would clearly be a comedy anyway.
, which launched as a show with a gimmick — 30-something stars masquerading as teens, but not in a creepyway — but has become one of the most perceptive, painful and funny explorations of adolescence to grace the screen. NBC’sdidn’t have its best year, but who among us did? The smart working-class sitcom handled COVID-19 well, and this is the last chance to recognize it. Apple TV+’sdelivered actual and frequent laughs.
By all means, though, salute Jean Smart. It just happens that if any category has potential to overflow, it’s comedy actress — where once again I’d say any field should start withstars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, both so vulnerable and so perfectly ridiculous. Emmy voters missed out on Jane Levy last year, but thestar remains impeccably joyful and fragile in her NBC bubble show, which could really use the boost — so don’t forget about co-stars Alex Newell and John Clarence Stewart.
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