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Los Angeles Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
2025 Emmy predictions: best comedy series
No fewer than 20 shows received votes in this category in Round 1. And in something of a surprise, 'The Studio' landed ahead of reigning champ 'Hacks' in a battle of inside-baseball Hollywood comedies. 'Two brilliant showbiz satires, 'Hacks' and 'The Studio,' will likely be battling it out,' predicts Matt Roush. Trey Mangum says 'Abbott Elementary' is at its best now, but its 'main competition will be 'Hacks,' another show that, seasons in, is delivering some of its best work.' Meanwhile, FX's once-dominant 'The Bear' is on the bubble in our poll — whether as a result of its category placement or its third season's mixed reception. 'We all know 'The Bear' is going to show up here, but let's pretend that voters gave that slot to an actual comedy,' says Kristen Baldwin, trumpeting 'Somebody Somewhere' instead. Glenn Whipp argues instead that the series' most recent run 'dazzled at its best, from the revelatory, impressionistic opener to the beautiful Tina origin story, 'Napkins.' And yes, (chef), it's a comedy.' Praising the comedy field as a much-needed respite from outside events, Lorraine Ali writes, 'Here are the comedies that deserve to be honored because they stopped us from drowning in our own tears: 'Somebody Somewhere,' 'We Are Lady Parts,' 'Mo,' 'Poker Face,' 'Resident Alien' and 'Deli Boys.' ' While Tracy Brown adds, ''Agatha All Along' had me at campy, witchy and queer.' More predictions: Comedy actor | Comedy actress 1. 'The Studio'2. 'Hacks'3. 'Abbott Elementary'4. (tie) 'Poker Face'4. (tie) 'Somebody Somewhere'6. 'Deli Boys'7. 'Only Murders in the Building'8. 'Shrinking'9. 'The Bear'10. 'Agatha All Along'
Los Angeles Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
2025 Emmys predictions: best drama series
Drama series is this year's glamour category, with perhaps the five most talked-about shows of the season. Initial polling finds a near-dead heat at the top between 'Severance' and 'The Pitt,' with 'The Last of Us,' 'The White Lotus' and 'Andor' all very much in the mix. Only two points separate 'Severance' and 'The Pitt,' shows that couldn't be more different. One elevates form to the nth degree, with some of TV's most beautifully designed (and icily metaphorical) images; the other is a gritty, grimy drama stripped of bells and whistles, including the soapy subplots common to the medical genre. 'This category feels like a toss-up between 'The Pitt' and 'Severance,' with the former leading the 'heart' brigade and the latter the 'mind' trust,' says Matt Roush, who also advocates for CBS' 'Matlock' reboot to get a rare nod for a broadcast drama. Count Lorraine Ali in the 'mind' camp: 'There's nothing smarter than 'Severance,'' she writes. 'Season 2 offers a chilling, darkly hilarious and oddly liberating spin on a bad day at the office. Praise Kier.' Glenn Whipp, meanwhile, suffers from 'Pitt' withdrawal: 'What are they doing now? Is Nurse Dana coming back? Are roomies Santos and Whitaker about to kill each other? I need answers. I can't wait until January.' 'The Last of Us' burned up the internet with its shocking character death — a feat of secret-keeping among fans of its source material on the level of 'Game of Thrones'' Red Wedding. 'The White Lotus,' with its, er, family plot, widely praised performances and 'SNL' mini-controversy, also got plenty of attention, and the recently concluded 'Andor' is getting talked up as the best 'Star Wars' incarnation since, well, its source movie, 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.' Citing its street-level, human examination of how authoritarianism can radicalize average people, Tracy Brown says, ''Andor' is not only one of the best 'Star Wars' stories but one of the best TV shows around.' 'The Pitt' isn't the only freshman series Trey Mangum shouts out: 'Two other new standouts for me are Netflix's YA romance 'Forever' and its light procedural drama, 'High Potential.'' Among the notables left off the Round 1 list: the ballyhooed return of the Man Without Fear in 'Daredevil: Born Again'; the sophomore season of 'House of the Dragon' (its first landed eight noms); the highly pedigreed 'The Agency' and 'MobLand'; and the final season of onetime Emmy darling 'The Handmaid's Tale' and the wildly popular 'Yellowstone.' And Kristen Baldwin laments, it's a shame 'that Emmy voters almost certainly will continue to snub one of the best shows on TV, 'Pachinko'!' More predictions: Drama actor | Drama actress 1. 'Severance'2. 'The Pitt'3. 'The Last of Us'4. 'Andor'5. 'Slow Horses'6. 'The White Lotus'7. 'Paradise'8. 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light'9. 'Forever'10. (tie) 'Bad Sisters'10. (tie) 'Dark Winds'
