Another year at Emmys, another surprise at the last minute. Last year it was “Hacks” who beat defending champions “The Bear” after the FX show set a new record for most victories in a single year of a comedy series.
This year it was “Prick” Sneak in and wins the last two prizes At night to upset “severance”, which had entered the show with 27 nominations, more than twice as much as its rival.
The two series had square at the beginning of the night, with “departure” which seemed to have the upper hand. “The Pitt” co -star Katherine Lanasa’s victory over four different nominees from “The White Lotus” early in the show was the first sign of how strong “Pitt” was with Emmy voter (although it may also have been a reminder of the dangers of voting), and enthusiasm in the room for its profit.
But a few minutes later, the “Severance” star Tramell Tillman received an equally scary reception. And when Britt Lower followed by beating the strongly favored Kathy Bates (“Matlock”) for best actress in a drama series, it seemed as if it seemed like “Severrance” Be on a roll.
But the towering sci-fi show, the subject of a joke on stage about how impervious it can sometimes be, did not win again after the two actor. And “The Pitt” may have overcome the great leadership “Severance” had in nominations by simply being more emotional and Timelier, given that it was released in early 2025 when the Trump administration made changes that would Imporil Healthcare for many people.
“Pitt” always blanket As more of an Emmy show in spite of the statistics that favored “departure value” and it turned out be More of an Emmy show.
Its win was part of an Emmy ceremony that felt differently than others in recent yearsWhen television academic voters tended to dump many prices on some shows. They did it again this year, especially in the limited serial categories, but in the middle of the shower a lot, they also threw some fairly large beat changes. Even in the areas where you knew pretty much where you were going to end up – with the “studio” and “teens” that won the great comedy and limited serial awards – you didn’t know exactly how you would get there or what detours you would take on the road.
It was a change from the latest Emmy programs, when it was not uncommon for all seven prizes in a specific area to be divided between only two programs. Last year, “Hacks” and “The Bear” were the only comedy series that won at Emmy Night; The year before, “inheritance” and “The White Lotus” were the only two drama series that were honored.
If in recent years, voters have seen surgically focused on specific shows and shower them with awards, their spray patterns were much wider this year – and for the most part it was very satisfactory.
When the first five Drama Awards went to four different shows, with “Slow Horses” which made a surprise win in the director’s category and “Andor” after a screenwriter victory, it seemed almost as if Emmy voters were actively trying to spread love, which they seemed to have forgotten to do in the past five years.
On the comedy side, Jeff Hiller’s victory was for “someone somewhere” more of the same, with Harrison Ford or Ike Barinholtz seemingly prepared to take the honor over the guy from a show that had been completely closed by Emmy voters until his last season.
But that it just relaxed Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s victory march “The studio,” Who went in the night after winning nine awards at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies. Within the first hour of Sunday’s show, it had won two Emmys to bind the record as “The Bear” last year for most victories for a comedy show in a single year; 40 minutes later it won a third to Own the disc directly.
In many ways, the “studio” was made for Emmys. It was fun but also visually bold with its use of long shots; And for people in the business, it was an insider’s delight, with a murderer’s row of luminaries playing themselves: Martin scorsese, Ron Howard, Sarah Polley, Olivia Wilde… In a year in which 2023 Winner “The Bear” Seemed to SeeMed to Didn’t have the heat it did when it upset “The Bear” Last year, it was a clear favorite, Even after “Hacks” Star Hannah Einbinder finally won Supporting Actress Award after losing for the first three seasons of the show.
“Youth” If possible, be even more a lock. Released by Netflix in the same window as Emmy winner “Baby Reindeer” was last year, was the story of a teenage boy who was accused of killing a female classmate urgent and moved in a way that made it a front entrance from the beginning. It won six of the seven prizes with a limited series that were awarded on Sunday-all except outstanding principal actress in a limited or anthology series or film, a category where the “teens” did not come into anyone, who won by Cristin Miliot for “The Penguin.”
The fact that Milioti’s co -star, Colin Farrell, lost the best actor category to Stephen Graham was the ultimate sign of how dominant “teens” was.
Until “The Pitt” pulled off its eleventh hours upset, the biggest excitement was not what would win, it was whether the host Nate Bargatze would have to donate any of the promised $ 100,000 to Boys and Girls Clubs of America, or if speech that drove over 45 seconds would eradicate the entire donation. (And then they did just that with half an hour to go, but there wasn’t even much excitement about whether bargatze and TV Academy would go into the end of the night and Do well on a full $ 100,000 and then some.)
For starters, that gimmick from Bargatzes actually managed to reduce acceptance speeches in a way that other prices show constant reminders and temporary gimmicks do not, although it also cut that aspect of the show and robbed some of the speakers in some feelings.
But the last stretch of the show regained part of that heart, mostly because of the popularity of the big winners: First “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Then “Adolescence”, then “The Studio”, then Noah Wyle and “The Pitt.”
It is a list of Emmy receivers who were extremely popular in the PeaCock Theater and also played well on TV. And at an Emmys that was remarkable to be different from the latest show, Deja Vus Blixt was at the end a welcome Capper for a good night.
