HBO Max, Hulu best bets for watching Emmy-nominated shows
The 2022 Emmy nominations landed Tuesday morning, which may help you prioritize your streaming choices before the awards ceremony on Sept. 12. Here’s a guide to help you navigate your Emmys catch-up, from awardwinning series to splashy newcomers.
HBO is always a power player at the Emmys, and it’s no surprise that its current buzziest dramas — “Succession” and “Euphoria” — made a big impact. The second season of druggy teen drama “Euphoria” took nominations for best drama series, while Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney were nominated for their performances. The third season of Jesse Armstrong’s Shakespearean tragedy of mergers, acquisitions and family business, “Succession,” took a nom for best drama series and swept the acting nominations, with Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong nominated for best actor, and J. Smith-Cameron, Sarah Snook, Nicholas Braun, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen taking supporting acting nominations. Fingers crossed Macfadyen’s performance as the cheerfully Job-like figure Tom Wambsgans takes the win. Mark Mylod, Cathy Yan and Lorene Scafaria deservedly received directing nominations for the series as well.
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White’s limited series “The White Lotus” unsurprisingly swept the acting categories in the limited series or TV movie category, with Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney (again), Murray Bartlett, Jake Lacy and Steve Zahn all nominated in supporting acting categories.
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White was also nominated for writing and directing, and “The White Lotus” was also nominated for best limited series or TV movie. Also in the limited series category, Toni Collette and Colin Firth were nominated for their work on “The Staircase,” Oscar Isaac snagged a nom for “Scenes from a Marriage,”
and Himesh Patel was nominated for “Station Eleven.”
HBO’s winning standup series “Hacks” also took nominations for best comedy, while Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder received notices for their performances, and Bill Hader’s hitman comedy “Barry” was also nominated for best comedy, best actor (Hader) and best supporting actor (Henry Winkler and Anthony Carrigan). Elsewhere on HBO, Kaley Cuoco and Issa Rae were nominated for best actress in a comedy for “The Flight Attendant” and the final season of “Insecure,” respectively. The longrunning Larry David comedy series “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” also scored another best comedy nom.
If you have to prioritize your streaming services, Hulu is your best bet after HBO Max. The streamer bet big on star-studded limited series “Dopesick,” “The Dropout” and “Pam & Tommy” and it paid off. “Pam & Tommy” stars Lily James and Sebastian Stan were nominated for their transformative turns, along with co-star Seth Rogen. Amanda Seyfried was nominated for her equally transformed performance as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in “The Dropout,” and Michael Keaton, Mare Winningham, Kaitlyn Dever, Will Poulter, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg were nominated for their performances in the opioid drama “Dopesick.” Andrew Garfield was also nominated for his performance on the Mormon true crime limited series “Under the Banner of Heaven.”
Hulu also scored with comedies, with “The Great” receiving noms for stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, and Steve Martin and Martin Short receiving nominations for “Only Murders in the Building,” which was also nominated for best comedy. It also helps that Hulu streams ABC and FX programming too, so catch up with charming ABC newcomer “Abbott Elementary,” which scored a best comedy nom, as well as acting and writing nominations for star/creator Quinta Brunson, and costars Janelle James, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tyler
James Williams. The FX vampire mockumentary “What We Do in the Shadows” also scored a nom for best comedy, while “Killing Eve’s” Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh picked up acting noms for the beloved assassin series.