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This Year’s Emmy Trends: Severed Arms, Ibérico Ham and Ron Howard are Some of the Strange Motifs Popping Up in Shows

This year's top Emmy TV trends include Ron Howard, post-apocalypse cities, severed arms, Ibérico ham and more.

It’s been 25 years since “The West Wing” gave us an idealized picture of what a presidential administration could be — but this crop of White House shows are a bit more sinister in tone. Hulu’s “ Paradise ” stars Sterling K. Brown as a secret service agent who must figure out who killed the President of the United States of Post-Apocalyptic America. Taking it one step further are the choreographed opens to CBS’ “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” (a tango between the duo), Apple TV+’s “Pachinko” (the cast exuberantly grooving to “Wait a Million Years,” by The Grass Roots) and Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple,” which turned Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals” into an iconic dance routine.

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