Right here’s the excellent news for Netflix: It’s a digital lock to get a number of nominations in the most effective drama race.
The smash hit “Stranger Issues,” the primary season of the South Korean thriller “Squid Sport” and the ultimate season of the crime thriller “Ozark” are anticipated within the race.
“Squid Sport” by itself is poised to make historical past, and can in all probability garner probably the most nominations ever for a overseas language present. (The Apple TV+ drama “Pachinko,” which is usually in Korean and Japanese, might additionally rating a finest drama nod.)
Emmy love could be welcome information to Netflix executives after an unpleasant few months that has despatched the streaming large right into a tailspin: Its share worth has nose-dived, tons of of staffers have been laid off, and it’s every week away from doubtlessly saying one other subscriber loss.
All three Netflix sequence will run right into a difficult impediment: “Succession,” the HBO sequence that gained finest drama in 2020, the final yr it was nominated. The household drama is the early favourite to win once more for the present’s third season, which wrapped up in December 2021.
HBO, and its accompanying streaming service, HBO Max, had an enormous yr, and can come armed with a fleet of programming that might land a big variety of nominations, together with for “Euphoria,” “Hacks,” “Barry,” “The Gilded Age” and “The White Lotus.”
Netflix and HBO have every had the best variety of nominations for any TV community twice prior to now 4 years. Netflix was tops in 2018 and 2020; HBO took the title in 2019 and 2021.
Bragging rights on the Emmys have been important to Netflix, and that was earlier than it wanted a shot within the arm.
Final yr, when Netflix tied a 47-year-old document set by CBS for the best variety of Emmy wins in a single yr, its executives took a victory lap, staging a information media convention the place they boasted about their “historic” night time. And when guests stroll into the foyer of Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters, they’re greeted by the sight of dozens of Emmy statuettes affixed to a wall, surrounded by tons of of flowers.
