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Justice for “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars after all?

The shows include Shōgun(Hiroo Minami, Nobuyuki Obikane, Martin Cochingco, and Johnson Phan); Fallout(Justice Hedenberg, Hannah Scott, Adam Shippey, and Noelle Mulligan); The Righteous Gemstones(Ryan Disharoon, Mike Endoso, Jett Jansen Fernandez, and Rich King); The Continental(Jay Hawkins, Jerry Quill, and Ivy Haralson); and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where the sole nominee is Tara Macken. In this case, Emmy electors will have to weigh their inclination to reward star power — as in the Uber One commercial/short film where Asa Butterfield befriends Robert De Niro, or the State Farm commercial where Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t say the phrase “like a good neighbor” correctly or the ad where Michael Cera pretends he’s the namesake for skin lotion CeraVe — versus the deep sentimentality of Apple’s George Harrison-scored animated holiday tale. Then there’s the kind of voter who tries to award the most important subject matter, in which case watch out for the ad for gun violence-prevention organization Sandy Hook Promise, which gathers a bunch of comedians like Billy Eichner, Wanda Sykes, and Margaret Cho to read excerpts from school-shooter social media posts to make the point that we shouldn’t assume threats like that are jokes.

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