The biggest snubs and surprises of the 2025 Emmy nominations
And if you didn't hear your name called, well, you're feeling like poor Pornchai watching Belinda sail away into the sunset. Or maybe you're like Saxon, compartmentalizing the whole thing, pretending it never happened. We feel you.
With Emmy submissions down this year, there aren't as many slots available to salute all the worthy work, leading to some sad omissions — which, for the sake of alliteration and search engine optimization, we'll call 'snubs.' There were also some surprises, some worthy, some about as welcome as one of those poison piña coladas Jason Isaacs blended up in the 'White Lotus' finale.
Grab something to eat (maybe an item from the Old School Hollywood buffet table) while we run down the morning's notables.
SNUB: 'The Four Seasons' (comedy series)
You kind of hated these wealthy, entitled boneheads, and not in ways that were intended or even fun.
SNUB: Colman Domingo, 'The Four Seasons' (comedy actor)
You know it's bad when even Domingo can't snag a nom.
SNUB: Natasha Lyonne, 'Poker Face' (comedy actress)To quote Lyonne's human lie-detector Charlie Cale, that's 'bulls—.'
SNUB: 'The Rehearsal' (comedy series)
How could a show about airline safety produce more laugh-out-loud moments than any other comedy series this year? How could a show so funny, insightful and, yes, occasionally terrifying not be nominated for comedy series? (Also, and not completely unrelated: How could it take this long for the TSA to let us keep our shoes on?)
SNUB: Selena Gomez, 'Only Murders in the Building' (comedy actress)
Gomez earned her first Emmy acting nomination last year, but with the category trimmed to five nominees from six, something had to give. Detractors fault her flat, monotone delivery, though if you're acting opposite Martin Short and Steve Martin, you need to find your own lane. Arguably, Gomez has. Look for that debate to continue next year when the show returns for a fifth season.
SNUB: Kate Hudson, 'Running Point' (comedy actress)
The Lakers can't win anywhere, can they?
SNUB: Bridget Everett, 'Somebody Somewhere' (comedy actress)
Somebody, somewhere voted for Everett, so tender and vulnerable and utterly charming on this now-ended HBO series, one that seems destined for a long life of cult appreciation along the lines of 'Enlightened,' created by (yes) Mike White.
SURPRISE: Kristen Bell, 'Nobody Wants This' (comedy actress)
Not a surprise that's she's nominated — everyone watched this show in one sitting. But a surprise that this is her first nomination ever. Well-earned, even if I'm not convinced Adam Brody's rabbi would throw everything away for her character.
SNUB: Steve Martin, 'Only Murders in the Building' (comedy actor)
How do you nominate Martin Short and not Steve Martin? Big always wins over subtle. You have to wonder if voters forgot, or didn't watch, the show's last season — it has been awhile — which had Martin carrying the plot's emotional weight as his character grieved the loss of longtime stunt double and friend, Sazz (played by Jane Lynch).
SURPRISE: 'Paradise' (drama series)
The dystopian drama that asked the question, 'Would you want to be trapped in an underground bunker with the likes of these people?' I can't think of anything more frightening and enough Emmy voters agreed.
SNUB: 'Your Friends and Neighbors' (limited series)
As the Jon Hamm series went along, it felt more like a Patek Philippe ad than any kind of comment on the empty lives of the wealthy. (Are there not any rich people out there leading fulfilling lives?) By the end of its run, we were checking our watches, and voters didn't give it the time of day. (Sorry.)
SNUB: 'Disclaimer' (limited series)
What a disappointment. Alfonso Cuarón's highly anticipated seven-chapter psychological thriller premiered at the Venice Film Festival last August, screening four episodes over two nights. It then went to Telluride, Toronto and London. It was an event ... until people saw it and were left baffled. How could the filmmaker behind 'Children of Men,' 'Gravity' and 'Y tu mamá también' make something so dull that few people could to finish it?
SNUB: Renée Zellweger, 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' (limited series/movie actress)
When 'Love Island' defines romantic-comedy for a lot of people, she didn't stand a chance.
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