Emmy Awards 2023: The ongoing feud with Stranger Things and limitations for the beloved series

Los Premios Emmy have opened a new chapter in their feud with the team of Stranger Things. Television academics have been repeatedly accused of bashing the Duffer brothers’ series after the historic lack of recognition for the casting of one of Netflix’s flagship productions, which many have pointed out as a undeserved and incomprehensible battle against the horror-fantasy series.

This conflict could increase these months with the announcement of the nominations for the Emmy Awards 2023which will be shared next June, where Stranger Things it can only be present in the technical categories. A fact that many have not liked and that is related to the change in the regulations for these awards.

The North American medium Gold Derby (via Variety) explained these days the categories that have been allowed access to Netflix for volume 2 of the second season, where all those considered most relevant are excluded. This case is especially striking with the interpretive categories, where Only Dacre Montgomery, who will play Billy Hargrove, can receive a nomination for his role as a guest actor.

The 2023 Emmy nominations

He the eligibility process for a series has a deadline of May 31, but Stranger Things divided its fourth batch of episodes into two parts. The first seven chapters were released on May 27, 2022, while the final two specials (with a duration similar to that of any feature film) were released on July 1, 2022.

This prevented Chapter Eight: Dad y Chapter Nine: The Plank celebrated as two of the best episodes of the entire series, they will be left out of 2022 nomination considerations. However, these episodes may get a second chance in 2023, as long as it is out of acting categories or the best drama series of the year, due to the rules of television academy of the united states.

He regularly leaves out actors like Sadie Sink, in the role of Max, and especially Joseph Quinnin the of Eddie Munson, whose role was limited exclusively to the fourth season. So, The regulations have left out one of the actors of the yearwith many ballots to achieve this award.

While the Academy still has a chance to redeem itself with the release of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, that it could be the last opportunity to recognize a cast that has been shining for years with notable performances such as those of Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo or Noah Schnapp, among an extensive list of performers who deserve awards for their performances.

What’s wrong with the Emmy rules?

The specific rule states that “if a series qualifies in the current eligibility year, but has additional episodes of its current season premiering after May 31those episodes will earn Emmy eligibility with the show’s following season.”

A priori, a fact that benefits Stranger Things, but that actually catalogs and limits the possibilities of these episodes. “If the series does not return in the next Emmy competition, those episodes would be eligible as ‘orphan’ one-off episodes in certain individual achievement categories. Submission from a body of work (including series and acting categories) would not be eligible under the ‘orphan’ episode rule.reflects the regulations currently in force.

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The controversy of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ at the Emmys

Problems with genre productions? A showdown against Netflix (without much sense after the victories of The Crown in past editions? The truth is that the United States Television Academy has always evaded giving an explanation on this matter, further fueling the hate of the followers of Stranger Things.

However, Hulu and HBO also suffered the ambiguity of the Emmy rules in the pastmore specifically with the series The Handmaid’s Tale. The second season about the misadventures of the Republic of Gilead characters was also divided into two parts. While the first 10 episodes were nominated for 20 Emmys and won three of them, all three episodes orphans later they only achieved 11 nominationswithout the possibility of appearing in the big categories.

The adaptation of the homonymous literary work by Margaret Atwood won at least three of these awards, with special attention to those given to his two guest actors, Bradley Whitford and Cherry Jones. A way in which the Television Academy managed to silence criticism for the absence of nominations for the rest of the cast.

How many Emmy Awards does ‘Stranger Things’ have?

The first part of the fourth season Stranger Things achieved 13 nominations, of which he received five awards (musical supervision, prosthetic make-up, sound editing, sound mixing and stunt coordination). The appearance in a series of categories that came with oblivion to actors like Sadie Sink, Joseph Quinn or Jamie Campbell Bower, sneaking in among the most resounding omissions of the 51st edition.

According to IMDb, Stranger Things has earned 51 Primetime Emmy nominations for its 42 episodes broadcast so far, of which it won 12 awards for sound, makeup or the work of specialists. However, the series left empty in any of the most relevant categories and received only two nominations for its actors in 2017directed at the work of David Harbor and Millie Bobby Brown.

Next, we leave you with the candidacies for another 13 possible nominations this 2023, as reported exclusively Gold Derby:

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