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Who Will Succeed Succession as Emmys Darling?


When a TV show that has dominated the ballot for years ends, the subsequent ceremony presents a scramble to fill the blank spaces.

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s The Curse may have confounded some audience members and left others disappointed by its ending, but this was a show that wore its ambition on its sleeve, and Emma Stone is basically a lock for a Best Actress nomination. Significantly less feted in its first season was HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was unable to to translate creator Julian Fellows’ Downton Abbey awards success into an American context. As with The Morning Show, it turns out it’s a lot more fun watching theater-trained actors make a meal out of themes of turn-of-the-century social change and the life-or-death stakes of party planning.

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