Mary McNamara: Are TV dramas ... OK? The Emmys nod to cynical visions of a world beyond our control
It would be nice to view the Emmys as a moment of escapist fun. For folks in the television industry, of course, the race for Emmy gold is a cut-throat competition worth multimillion-dollar ad campaigns. But for the rest of us, Tuesday's Emmy nominations should be a news-cycle bright spot, a little light reading among the stories of mass shootings, Jan. 6 committee revelations, post-Roe ...
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Jul 12, 2022
4 minutes
It would be nice to view the Emmys as a moment of escapist fun.
For folks in the television industry, of course, the race for Emmy gold is a cut-throat competition worth multimillion-dollar ad campaigns. But for the rest of us, Tuesday's Emmy nominations should be a news-cycle bright spot, a little light reading among the stories of mass shootings, Jan. 6 committee revelations, post-Roe horrors and inflation panic.
And yet.
And yet I am concerned. I can't help noticing that most of the leading contenders for drama series involve characters fighting to survive situations far beyond their control.
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