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Emmy, Eve Lockdown Edition Awards

2020-09-20T17:10:58.963Z


Dystopias and evasion dominate. Netflix leads with 160 nominations (ANSA)


Very topical dystopias like "Watchmen" and "The Handmaid's Tale"

that evoke the political tensions of our days but also shows characterized by lightness like "Schitt's Creek" and "Marvelous Mrs. Meisel".

No red carpet, no theater full of insiders, perhaps not even really special evening dresses: because of the Coronavirus, the night of the Emmys, broadcast in prime time on the ABC TV network, will be tonight different from past editions in the format, but this it does not mean that the rewards will be no less relevant than in the past.

With the curtain down on the great favorites of past editions such as "Game of Thrones", "Veep" and "Fleabag", Netflix dominates the race with 160 nominations but Apple TV and Disney + arrive at the appointment with their dose of nominations respectively for the series "Morning Show" and "The Mandalorian": confirming an increasingly crowded television scene.

For the 72nd edition, productions made between June 2019 and last May could compete, therefore finished before the outbreak of the pandemic.

But to frame the evening of the Oscars for television will not be only the health challenge that has kept billions of people in lockdown and in front of the small screen: this edition comes under the banner of Black Lives Matter events: and here is therefore the importance of shows such as Hbo's "Watchmen" (Regina King protagonist), based on a DC Comics comic set in Tulsa, Oklahoma under a Robert Redford presidency threatened by white supremacists.

The miniseries set the 2020 edition record with 26 nominations, followed by twenty for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "Ozark" and "Succession" (18 at par) and 15 for "The Mandalorian".

By snatching the lead from Hbo, which had held it 19 times out of twenty in the past, and which this time finished second with 107 nominations, Netflix promises to make a clean sweep, I have won placements in ten of the eleven categories.

Among the "firsts", the irreverent Hulu show "Ramy" starring Ramy Youssef won the first nomination for a Muslim-American sitcom.

So many big returns, including Eve favorites Olivia Coleman for "The Crown", two rivals from "Killing Eve", Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, and Rachel Brosnahan from Amazon's "Mrs. Meisel".

Also nominated Cate Blanchett for the part of ultra conservative Phillys Schlafly in the original Hulu series "Mrs. America".

Among the competing shows there are two "non" miniseries: "Unbelievable", not credible, on a real news story, and "Unorthodox", unorthodox, whose protagonist Shina Haas is nominated for best actress in a limited series .

The story of a Hassidic girl from Brooklyn who after a year of arranged marriage decides to escape to Berlin and start a new life, is Netflix's second almost entirely recited in Yiddish after "Shtisel".

Source: ansa

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