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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Severance' Dominated in Emmys Nominations — But for the Wrong Season
The second season of Apple TV+ series Severance was nominated for a whopping 27 Emmy Awards on Tuesday. It is a tremendous total and the most of any show, but still not an all-time record for a drama series: Game of Thrones was nominated for 32 Emmys in 2019. You just can't compete with dragons. 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. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The White Lotus' Checks Into the 2025 Emmy Noms With 23, Ties With 'The Studio' Apple's Matt Cherniss on Record Emmy Haul and 'Studio' Breakthrough: "Their Gut Was Right" Why Do the Emmys Hate Taylor Sheridan Shows? 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. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tramell Tillman could make Emmy history as the first Black Best Drama Supporting Actor winner
In 2015, Viola Davis won the Best Drama Actress Emmy for How to Get Away with Murder, becoming the category's first Black winner. That left one acting category that had yet to produce a Black champ: Best Drama Supporting Actor. Ten years later, that remains the case — even the short form acting categories, which were created in 2016 and consolidated into one in 2024, have awarded Black performers — but that could finally change in September with Severance star Tramell Tillman. Tillman is currently in third place in Gold Derby's Best Drama Supporting Actor odds, trailing Walton Goggins (The White Lotus) and Severance costar John Turturro. Tillman is the only Black performer in the top seven. Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Sam Rockwell (The White Lotus), and Patrick Schwarzenegger (The White Lotus) round out the predicted field. More from GoldDerby 'Forever' star Lovie Simone on traveling back to a 'nostalgic' time for Netflix's teenage romance show Kristen Kish dishes on Season 22 of 'Top Chef,' Emmys, and the show's global impact: 'It's all driven by the fans' New 'Freakier Friday' trailer, Mia Goth set for 'Star Wars: Starfighter,' Samuel L. Jackson heads to Taylor Sheridan's 'NOLA,' and the rest of today's top stories Tillman was not nominated for the first season in 2022, not surprising for an unknown actor on a new show. Severance received 14 nominations for Season 1 and the Best Drama Series frontrunner is expected to expand this year. If Tillman makes the cut amid a possible deluge by White Lotus dudes, a win — and a historic one at that — is certainly not out of the question. The Apple TV+ drama was bigger than ever in Season 2, and Tramell got to shine even brighter as his Lumon stooge Seth Milchick faced a crisis of confidence, leading to his instantly viral line, "Devour feculence." Oh, and there was the whole Choreography and Merriment marching band dance. It also doesn't hurt that the actor has brought his unique line deliveries to Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. SEE The ultimate oral history of Severance Season 2 It's not surprising Turturro is ahead of Tillman in the odds. He's a bigger name and a past winner who was nominated for Season 1 and had meaty material early in Season 2 before a diminished presence in the back half. Tillman had a consistent presence and arc throughout the season, ending with a bang with the aforementioned dance sequence (Turturro was MIA in the finale). And voters have shown through the years that when they're paying attention to a show — and there's no reason to think they're not paying attention to Severance — the underdog can topple the "obvious" frontrunner or bigger name (see: Jodie Comer beating her heavily predicted Killing Eve co-star Sandra Oh). Of course, Goggins is the frontrunner, not Turturro. And taking down The White Lotus, an acting branch fave, will be tougher. Formally established in 1970, Best Drama Supporting Actor has seen 13 Black actors receive 23 nominations over the years. 2021 was the last year with a Black nominee — and there were a record three: Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian), O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid's Tale), and Michael K. Williams (Lovecraft Country), who died shortly after voting ended. They lost to Tobias Menzies (The Crown). There have been POC nominees since then, however, with Squid Game stars Park Hae-soo and O Yeong-su in 2022, The White Lotus' Will Sharpe, who is half-Japanese, in 2023, and Shōgun duo Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira in 2024. Best of GoldDerby The Making of 'The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day': PBS variety special 'comes from the heart' From 'Hot Rod' to 'Eastbound' to 'Gemstones,' Danny McBride breaks down his most righteous roles: 'It's been an absolute blast' Jay Duplass on exposing his 'dad bod' and playing a 'soft villain' in 'Dying for Sex': 'Easily one of my biggest acting challenges' Click here to read the full article.
The Independent
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Severance's John Turturro on fans getting ‘intimate' tattoos of him: ‘I don't want to look at that'
Severance star John Turturro has a blunt response to super fans getting tattoos of him on their bodies. Speaking to People at a Severance event on April 11, Turturro shared how social media has altered the relationship between actors and fans. He said it's been an adjustment, especially as he's gone viral for a singular line on the latest season of the hit Apple TV show, in which he plays Lumon Industries employee Irving Bailiff. "Years ago, people didn't have social media, so they would say those lines to you on the street or they'd get tattoos of you," Turturro, 68, told the outlet. "A lot of people have tattoos of me on intimate parts of their body and they sometimes want to show them to me and I'm like, 'I don't want to look at that', you know what I mean?" he continued. Turturro also largely stays off of social platforms, he revealed. "I'm not really on social media because I don't really want to read about myself and then I don't want to be self-conscious. I like being free and oblivious," he explained. But that doesn't mean Turturro isn't grateful for how audiences respond to his roles. "You're always appreciative when the audience responds, because you do it for people," he said of performing. "I do it for myself, but you hope that it will reach someone." The second season of Severance recently came to a close with a finale that left viewers with more questions than answers. Fans have been especially concerned that Turturro might not be returning for season three due to the season's penultimate episode and how his character's arc concluded. But Turturro has reassured viewers that he doesn't think this is the end of the road for Irving. 'If someone wanted the story to be complete? It could be! But I think there's so much more here,' Turturro told The Hollywood Reporter. Severance has been renewed for season 3, but it's not yet clear when it will premiere. In the meantime, fans can catch up on the first two seasons on Apple TV.
