The pandemic of coronavirus has made the Emmys an unusual affairBut when it comes to the awards, the ‘pandemics’, as Jimmy Kimmel has baptized them just after opening the anomalous gala on television, have largely followed the expected script.
‘Watchmen’, which arrived with 26 nominations, has been crowned as best miniseries, the most important of its 11 awards. Another applauded HBO product, ‘Succession’, has achieved in its second attempt, and without the competition of ‘Game of Thrones’, the award for best drama. And although the victory of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ was anticipated as a comedy, the Canadian series has made history with its sixth and final season.
It has taken nine statuettes, including in the seven categories that have been broadcast on television at the gala. Y never before no production, neither comic nor dramatic, had managed to prevail in the four categories of interpretation.
Netflix is still waiting
Netflix, which has broadcasted the first five seasons of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ in the US, can have the satisfaction of having made that vehicle created by Daniel Levy that allows you to savor the gift of your father, Eugene Levy, and Catherine O’Hara. reached an audience (already voters of the Television Academy) that had not been so favorable on its original channel, PopTV. The queen of platforms, however, will have to keep waiting to conquer the definitive crown in the Hollywood television industry, where rivals such as Disney + (whose ‘The Mandalorian’ won seven awards at the Emmys prior to the television gala) and Apple + (with 2 awards, including Billy Crudup as actor distribution).
Aunque Netflix came with a record 160 nominations to these Emmy, it has once again been HBO who has been placed at the top, and the cable channel has won 30 awards compared to Netflix’s 21.
Nothing can be objected to that HBO domain. Because the quality seal that usually accompanies their productions it’s clearly stamped on ‘Succession,’ the edgy family drama where the relative but perhaps appropriate surprise at these Emmys has been Jeremy Strong’s victory over Brian Cox, son over father. And it is undoubtedly in ‘Watchmen’, the first adaptation of a graphic novel to win one of the main Emmys, in addition to 10 others, including recognition for Regina King as the lead and for Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a supporting actor.
Race and politics
They were two of the black performers who played these Emmys the most diverse in performance categories, like Zendaya, who with her award for ‘Euphoria’ (another HBO product) has not only become the youngest winner as a protagonist of a drama (24 years old) but also the second black woman, or like the also awarded Uzo Aduba, who plays Shirley Chisholm in ‘Mrs. America’. And their presence, their victories, the shirts that King and Aduba have worn from their homes with the image and name of Breonna Taylor, one of the black victims of the police in the USA, and some appearances, speeches and interventions, have contributed to underline the connection of the gala with the social reality of the country.
It has been heard on the stage of the Staples Center from where Kimmel presented without an audience, occasionally accompanied by other stars, the Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, which runs through the US. Zendaya has told young people protesting in the streets “I see them, I admire them, I respect them“And when Damon Lindelof accepted the award for best miniseries for ‘Watchmen’ with a t-shirt that called to remember the Tulsa (Oklahoma) massacre of 1921 that was taken as the origin story of the series, he recalled that” the fires that destroyed the black Black Street still burn today. The only way to turn them off is if we all fight them together. ”
It was by no means the only politically charged message at a gala, sprinkled with some tender moments because of the video connections, where one of the recurring themes in speeches by many winners has been the call for American citizens to vote in the November 3 elections. And the finishing touch has been Jesse Armstrong accepting the Emmy for best drama for ‘Succession’. After the thanks he wanted to give the “misfortunes”: to the coronavirus, to Donald Trump “for his unfortunate and uncoordinated response”, to Boris Johnson and his government for “doing the same thing” in the UK, to all the “nationalist and quasi-nationalist governments in the world who are the exact opposite of what we need now, and to the media moguls who do so much to keep them going. in the power”.
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