‘Severance' Dominated in Emmys Nominations — But for the Wrong Season
Specifically, Severance season two received nominations for — deep breath — best drama, writing, production design, casting, choreography, cinematography, directing (twice: Ben Stiller and Jessica Lee Gagné), picture editing (three times), title design, music composition, music supervision, lead actor (Adam Scott), lead actress (Britt Lower), supporting actor (three nominations: Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman and John Turturro), supporting actress (Patricia Arquette), guest actress (three nominations: Jane Alexander, Gwendoline Christie and Merritt Wever), sound editing, sound mixing, special effects and stunt performance. And here's a cool feat: Gagné is the first woman to be nominated for both best cinematography and best directing for a drama series.
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Best of luck to all — especially those competing with one another. If Tillman (and sure, Cherry's good, too) doesn't split votes, Turturro should win their category. Ironically, Turturro could and probably should win simply for the way he uttered Mr. Milchick's (Tillman) first name all of one time: 'Do it, Seth.' I'm not going to make a very strong case here for Wever over Christie — goats are biters.
The 27 nominations nearly doubles what Severance got for season one. In 2022, the freshman Fifth Season series was nominated for 14 Emmys and won just two: best music composition and main title design.
It's an honor to be nominated, sure, but it is much more of an honor to win. And in this not-so-humble TV editor's opinion, Severance season one really should have won several more trophies, including best drama series. (Also, Tillman — who wasn't even nominated — probably should have won supporting actor.)
Critics have graded both Severance seasons within the same ballpark of each other, but audience members are in clear agreement with me. It is both the lure and the lore of Lumon that has made Severance arguably the top series for fan engagement and theories since Lost. (The early days, before message boards probably caused J.J. Abrams and Carlton Cuse to drastically change course in their story, leading it to a very unsatisfying end.)
Don't get me wrong, Severance season two was excellent and is a deserving pack leader here — but season one was a revelation. Unfortunately, that revelation ran into the buzz saw that was the penultimate season of HBO's Succession. In (almost) any other year against (almost) any other shows, the Succession season three win would have come with zero controversy. But 2022 was the year of Severance — or at least it should have been — a totally fresh, totally inventive (and totally bonkers) new series from Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. But the academy was more charmed by that other great drama of the past seven years, the one closer to its own natural end than its beginning — and it's a pattern. The only year Succession did not win the best drama Emmy Award was its own first season — it lost to fellow HBO program Game of Thrones in that show's final season, the second Thrones win in a row and its fourth in five years. The seventh and eighth seasons of Game of Thrones were … not among its best.
So this morning's 27 Severance nominations sit somewhere between earned acknowledgment for a strong second season and a mea culpa for the Television Academy nearly ignoring season one. Expect the kissing and making up to continue on Sept. 14 when trophies are handed out — and if the one-TV-season-and-three-calendar-years-too-late celebration hurts your brain like it will hurt mine, just turn off the half that causes you pain and exist for a few hours in blissful ignorance.
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