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From ‘Ripley’ in Italy to ‘True Detective’ in Iceland, How Locations Were Key For Top Emmy Contenders


In his Awards Circuit column, Michael Schneider admits that the cliche of a location "being like a character" might be true for some Emmy contenders.

For example, watching Giancarlo Esposito take control of his life through any means necessary in AMC’s “Parish” is powerful — but the fact that he’s doing it in New Orleans makes it an entirely elevated experience. You can feel the cold and the unsettling sense that you’re isolated way up north in HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” and FX’s “A Murder at the End of the World,” both of which shot in Iceland. (Iceland played itself in “Murder” and Alaska in “True Detective.”) And besides taking me on a visual trip back to Chicago, Season 2 of “The Bear” gave us a crash course on the hottest Windy City restaurants of the moment.

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