After Netflix’s record-tying efficiency in 2021, HBO reasserted its dominance in its now-annual battle with Netflix for supremacy within the realm of status TV. The pay community was led by the restricted collection “The White Lotus,” whose 5 awards on Monday night time — coupled with a handful of technical prizes on the earlier Artistic Arts ceremonies — let it try with 10 general wins this season, greater than every other program.
“Ted Lasso” grew to become comedy’s back-to-back winner for the present in addition to stars Jason Sudeikis and Brett Goldstein — an more and more uncommon feat, if solely as a result of reveals now extra often take longer breaks between runs.
Including the sooner ceremonies with Monday night time, HBO totaled 38 Emmys this 12 months, far forward of second-place Netflix, at 26. Apple’s “Ted”-powered exhibiting left the streaming service with 9 general, tied with Disney+ behind Hulu, with 10 thanks largely to its fact-based restricted collection. (Like CNN, HBO is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.)
Quinta Brunson, the present’s star and producer, was additionally honored for writing the sitcom about lecturers, a lift heading into its second season subsequent week.
Ralph introduced vitality to a telecast that in all probability may have used extra of her. Hosted by “Saturday Evening Reside’s” Kenan Thompson (and together with a mini-reunion with former co-star Kel Mitchell), the ceremony bounced alongside at a clumsy tempo. Politics performed a muted position within the night, and the efforts to have a good time the breadth of tv typically felt as in the event that they got here on the expense of time dedicated to the precise awards.
There was, as regular, a good quantity of repetition, and an entire lot of bleeped-out phrases. The previous included the seventh consecutive award to “Final Week Tonight With John Oliver,” and one other trophy for the long-running “Saturday Evening Reside.” Oliver’s HBO present has owned that class, in a lot the best way Jon Stewart did at his former residence, “The Each day Present.”
Zendaya claimed her second lead-actress award for HBO’s bleak high-school drama “Euphoria,” and Julia Garner acquired her third Emmy for her supporting position as Ruth in Netflix’s grim drama “Ozark.” Jean Sensible joined the repeat winners for the HBO Max comedy about comedians, “Hacks.”
Nonetheless, different first-time winners broke by as nicely. Matthew Macfadyen took the supporting actor award for “Succession,” this 12 months’s most-nominated program, joined by limited-series stars Michael Keaton for “Dopesick” and Amanda Seyfried for an additional Hulu manufacturing, “The Dropout,” and her portrayal of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
First-time nominees Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge had been additionally acknowledged for “White Lotus,” with the latter having to beat 4 of her co-stars within the bountiful solid. Coolidge bought performed off throughout her ebullient acceptance speech, after just a few recipients had talked over the music. Mike White additionally gained for each writing and directing the collection.
HBO was the most-honored community in 2019 and 2020, tying with Netflix the 12 months earlier than that.
The presentation kicked off with a tribute to TV theme songs, and a standing ovation for Oprah Winfrey, who introduced the primary award of the night time.
After record-low rankings in 2020 with a digital ceremony, viewership of the Emmys rebounded final 12 months to an estimated 7.4 million viewers — nonetheless low by historic requirements, however a marked enchancment over the earlier two years.
Rankings for linear TV have been declining usually, and the Emmys are perceived to have been impacted by nominating fewer broadly well-liked reveals as streaming has taken over the awards competitors.
TV rights to the Emmys rotate among the many 4 main broadcast networks. This 12 months’s present moved from its regular Sunday broadcast as a result of it is airing on NBC, which carries “Sunday Evening Soccer.”
