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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird of the 2024 Emmy Nominations
Shōgun leads the pack: good! Devery Jacobs snubbed: bad! And, wait, the Pop-Tart movie got a nom?
If you zoom out to the perspective of, say, a bird with bad eyesight flying a mile up in the sky, the most surprising thing about the Emmy Awards, back for a second time in 2024 thanks to the quirks of post-strike scheduling, might be that, in aggregate, they kind of got it right. But zoom in any closer, and the outline devolves into chaos: The Emmys went hard on prestige-ish streaming shows, skipped over movie stars and broadcast hits, and seemed generally indifferent to a lot of work that had us most excited about the current state of television. For years, she’s led the young cast, and as the series continued wrote some of its most emotionally devastating episodes, “Mabel” and “Elora’s Dad,” and directed “Wahoo!” She’s one of the most significant creative forces to come out of this show, and for her to be so ignored is perhaps a sign that the Emmys haven’t changed that much after all.
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