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AUGUST 26, 2021
The Homestretch of Emmy Season
An Emmy season’s period of eligibility runs for only a year, like nearly every other award season, but you can be forgiven for sometimes thinking it’s longer. The period begins and ends each June, which means that many of the TV seasons competing for Emmys this year—including those of The Crown, PEN15, and Bridgerton—debuted nearly a year ago. But no show seems to be in quite the same time warp as best-comedy-series contender Ted Lasso, which is up for a whopping 20 Emmys for its first season, even with its second season currently airing on Apple TV+.
It’s a scheduling quirk that actually benefits the show—everyone is still talking about Ted, even though some of the episodes for which the show is actually nominated aired more than a year ago. But as the Little Gold Men team discusses on this week’s episode, it also muddies the conversational waters a bit. Is someone on Twitter complaining about the sweetness of season two Christmas episode “Carol of the Bells” going to hurt the Emmy campaign? Probably not. But it just goes to show that when everybody is talking about how much they love you, someone is bound to jump in as a contrarian. If Ted Lasso were real, he’d probably win them over—and the show’s Twitter feed is doing such a good job keeping up with the discourse that it might happen in the end anyway.
And speaking of Ted Lasso! This week’s Little Gold Men also includes an interview with Juno Temple, who is among the seven actors from the show who earned an Emmy nomination. She’s in the supporting-actress category alongside costar Hannah Waddingham, and their real-life bond has been a topic of conversation in many of their interviews about the show. So is it awkward to be nominated against each other? Not really, it seems—Temple says she thinks Waddingham might win, and that would be “a very, very wonderful thing...I think Hollywood can really, really use seeing a woman like that accept an award, and hear her speech and see her beauty and see her realness and her bravery and vulnerability and her grace, and I think she’s a truly spectacular woman.”
The episode also features a conversation with Maya Rudolph, who is nominated once again for two very different roles, as the host of Saturday Night Live and as Connie the Hormone Monstress on the animated series Big Mouth. As she tells Vanity Fair’s Hillary Busis in the interview, returning to Saturday Night Live during the COVID era was “intense” and “not normal,” but also “joyful” for the veteran of the comedy series: “It’s my favorite place. But it was, for me, if anything, just really cathartic to be doing something at that time, because it was a really frustrating time, it was a really depressing time, and it was a really scary time. As Lorne [Michaels] was pep-talking us through it all, it did feel like being on the right side of history.”
And finally, this week marks the return of the Little Gold Men Book Club, with a segment going deep on the Thomas Savage novel The Power of the Dog, soon to premiere as a movie adaptation by Jane Campion. For anyone still doubtful that this could be a defining role for Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars as the pitiless, self-consciously macho rancher Phil Burbank, pick up the book to see what a rich character awaits us all when The Power of the Dog begins its festival run next week.
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