Column: 'Game of Thrones': The Emmys sweep that wasn't
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Sep 23, 2019
3 minutes
In the hours before Sunday night's Emmys telecast, a "Game of Thrones" sweep was the second-safest bet in town, the first being Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning her 187th Emmy or whatever for "Veep."
So much for safe bets. Although the "Thrones" cast avoided "Veep's" strange and, one imagines, highly uncomfortable experience of assembling for a farewell in front of an audience that gave it absolutely no Emmys, the HBO epic discovered its much-predicted sweep was fantasy too.
Though it won drama series, and Peter Dinklage took his record-breaking
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