The Next Best Series Podcast: Episode 40 - Setting The Stage For The 2024 Emmy Awards Season

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[00:00:14] Hello everyone and welcome to the Next Best Series Podcast where we talk about television

[00:00:20] under the Next Best Picture umbrella.

[00:00:23] We are back doing this.

[00:00:24] We do it only for a portion of the year around the Emmy season which is what we are officially

[00:00:30] in now.

[00:00:32] You have a couple of shows that have been around for quite a while, that even have been

[00:00:38] rewarded during this past Oscar season at Golden Globes Acritic's Choice and the Screen

[00:00:43] Actors Guild Awards.

[00:00:44] And then you have shows that are currently airing right now that people are watching.

[00:00:49] And then there are some that are going to be released over the next couple of weeks

[00:00:52] all the way up until that May 31st deadline to compete this year for the Emmy Awards.

[00:00:59] Here to join me to welcome us back to the World of Television this week I have, Nadia Dalamate.

[00:01:05] Hi everyone.

[00:01:08] And Giovanni Lago.

[00:01:09] Hello.

[00:01:10] Alright so what we are going to do for this episode is we are going to get everyone up

[00:01:17] to speed on what we have been watching and what has happened so far at the Critics Choice

[00:01:24] Golden Globe and SAG Awards.

[00:01:27] Now those who listen to the regular MVP Podcast know what happened at those award shows.

[00:01:34] We are not going to just simply say oh the obvious because everybody knows what one.

[00:01:38] We know what one.

[00:01:40] But what I want to know from you guys is I want to know are those winners, whichever ones

[00:01:46] are carrying over because let's face it something like succession for example is over.

[00:01:51] It's not competing for this year's Emmy Awards.

[00:01:53] Are these winners going to translate come Emmy Award time?

[00:01:58] That's the question that's on my mind for this week's episode.

[00:02:02] So what I want to do is first start off with what everyone has been watching this season

[00:02:09] so far and Nadia we can start off with you.

[00:02:13] I know that as we go over the next couple of weeks we are going to be catching up with

[00:02:16] more and more stuff is going to be premiering but for now what have you been watching that

[00:02:21] you've been enjoying?

[00:02:22] Yeah I am definitely playing catch up with television but over the past couple days I have started

[00:02:29] getting back into the swing of things trying to keep up for Emmy season so I watched

[00:02:34] the first three episodes of the Marvel animated series X-Men 97.

[00:02:41] I've been hearing a lot of people say that this is excellent.

[00:02:45] Yeah I mean the reviews were really enticing to me.

[00:02:48] I mean for those who have seen the original X-Men animated series from the 90s this new

[00:02:53] series is essentially a continuation of that narrative and then for those like me who

[00:02:59] haven't seen that original I think X-Men 97 also works really well as a standalone piece.

[00:03:06] I mean I've seen some of the X-Men live action movies but I wouldn't say that I'm especially

[00:03:11] well versed in that universe and the Marvel Universe in general so I was a little hesitant

[00:03:16] to kind of dive into this one but the reviews as I said got me interested and I think it's

[00:03:24] really so far a very welcoming series for newer fans or for those who might not know

[00:03:30] about the characters in as much detail.

[00:03:34] It's pretty engaging and retaining so far and really through the writing you really get

[00:03:39] a strong sense of the thematic layers that X-Men tackles.

[00:03:43] The animation is really great and playful like kind of feels like watching a retro cartoon

[00:03:48] on a Saturday morning.

[00:03:50] The first episode was a little shaky for me but three episodes in I feel like I'm pretty

[00:03:56] much on board and I'm looking forward to the next one and I got to say as well I'm

[00:04:01] a big fan of horror and the third episode has a really fantastic call back to horror movies

[00:04:06] which was really unexpected.

[00:04:08] It's sort of like a love letter to the horror genre which I enjoyed a lot so there's

[00:04:12] quite a bit here that I'm really jelling with so I'm looking forward to seeing where

[00:04:17] that goes.

[00:04:18] Nice nice all around.

[00:04:21] Gio I know that you keep up with television pretty much year round.

[00:04:27] Yes.

[00:04:28] So, I couldn't ask you to list everything because we would be here all night but what

[00:04:32] have been some of the standouts for you?

[00:04:34] I'm not trying to keep it towards this year instead of like you know the show is that carried

[00:04:39] over than our season but like if I did mention something I would mention the curse which

[00:04:44] I thought started at the end of the last year and finished at the beginning of 2024.

[00:04:50] Brilliant, many series by the Safty brother Benny and Nathan Fielder it's the most perfect

[00:04:57] blending of both their styles so if you think it's like wow this is the rehearsal on steroids

[00:05:02] and then on Cudgem's mixed in.

[00:05:04] It yeah it is and it's excruciating painful to watch and Emma Stone personally to me if

[00:05:10] you thought what she did and bore things was like brilliant what she does in the curse

[00:05:14] is unreal and probably one of the more terrifying like performances I've seen in recent memory.

[00:05:21] Another show that carried over that was really good that I enjoyed was Fargo season 5.

[00:05:25] I as someone you know haven't watched every season of Fargo I watched you know when it started

[00:05:30] and kind of dipped in and out.

[00:05:32] The consensus is by many that this is like the best the show has been since it started.

[00:05:37] John Ham I think also probably is the best thing he's done since Mad Men.

[00:05:41] He is amazing everyone in the show is amazing but just the fact that we're getting like great

[00:05:46] John Ham performances still and he's starting to you know get back in the groove of things

[00:05:49] I'm loving it.

[00:05:51] And terms of stuff now like we're going to talk about show again a bunch I these series

[00:05:56] of podcast because it's phenomenal you know when people are it's coming out and people

[00:06:00] are saying one of the few shows that I think conveys scope and compare it a lot to Game

[00:06:05] of Thrones and those comparisons are very apt.

[00:06:08] I think all around it's a technical marvel from like the production design the costuming

[00:06:13] the visual effects work just seeing an actor like Harunuki Sonata you know getting a platform

[00:06:19] to be a leading man he's great and and Mad is probably already exhausted for me just impersonating

[00:06:25] cars Cosmo Jarvis's voice on the show because you could listen to him talk for hours.

[00:06:31] It's amazing.

[00:06:32] It's one of the best things on TV this year.

[00:06:34] Another thing I watched I came out a couple months ago this year was Lou Wong's ex-pats

[00:06:39] on Amazon Prime.

[00:06:43] Beautiful mini series Nicole Kidman's amazing everyone in that show is really I think

[00:06:47] the writing is exemplary in terms of other shows watching right now Abidel Mentry I keep

[00:06:54] up with personally might be a hot take so far the weakest I would say of the three seasons

[00:07:01] I enjoy it like it's a delightful watch it's breezy I think the quality I don't know if

[00:07:07] it's you know this is one of the first shows to immediately resume post strike and to get

[00:07:11] into a certain time frame for that television slot for the end of year.

[00:07:17] The quality is just a little bit a certain story lines I'm wondering why we're going with

[00:07:21] it especially the whole Janine and Mike government compared to her being a teacher kind

[00:07:26] of keeps her at arms length at times for the rest of the ensemble.

[00:07:29] But other than that it's good it's still quality television I think that's probably more

[00:07:34] so what I've been watching recently there's just a bunch of Tokyo vice I've seen a few

[00:07:40] ups as in the new season from what I've heard it's fantastic improvement upon the first

[00:07:45] which I enjoyed but yeah I think that I watched a bunch if I just kept going on about

[00:07:50] what I've seen it we would be going on for a bit so I'll I'll end it there.

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[00:09:07] 24 well my list is considerably a lot shorter I probably should have spent a little bit more

[00:09:14] time post Oscars through the month of March watching more shows but it just hasn't worked

[00:09:20] out that way I thought I was going to have the time but I'm starting to get the time

[00:09:24] a little bit more now or maybe it was because I knew that this time was coming and I was

[00:09:30] like okay I need to scramble scramble and catch up on some things but this is what I've

[00:09:36] obviously the bear I love it yep it's amazing season two I thought was just as good as the

[00:09:43] first season maybe even better so that's top of the list beyond that yeah I am so sorry like I

[00:09:55] like trust me I have a lot of catching up to do but I did watch the curse as Gio mentioned

[00:10:00] earlier I'm also in the middle of watching show gun I haven't finished it both technically

[00:10:07] it's also not finished but I'm not caught up yet I'm still a few episodes behind compared to

[00:10:12] everybody else but I'm getting there and beyond that wow this is embarrassing oh you know I did

[00:10:21] watch the final season of the crown yeah I couldn't finish it I don't know if you watched the whole

[00:10:27] season throughout I probably stopped halfway through I got through it and I have to admit

[00:10:34] I really didn't enjoy it that much to be honest with you but hey I got through it it is what it is

[00:10:39] yeah Loki season two I watched that because I did like the first season so I figured why not

[00:10:47] let's go back to this and yeah the one show that I was hoping to start by the time we got here

[00:10:54] but I haven't yet is the three-body problem but I think I need to work my way up to that because I'm

[00:11:00] still traumatized by David and Dan did to Game of Thrones and to my life the fact that I can't

[00:11:08] talk to anybody about that show ever since it ended hurts me still to this day it's okay it's okay

[00:11:15] back no it's never gonna be okay truly you have house in the dragon yes yes I do have house in a dragon

[00:11:22] coming back sometime this summer I believe in June if I remember correctly so I'm looking forward

[00:11:26] to that and there's everything too that have not premiered yet that I'm looking forward to I'm looking

[00:11:31] forward to checking out Ripley with Andrew Scott which is going to be coming to Netflix shop

[00:11:36] by Robert Ellswitt and black and white oh no like no like it's it's gorgeous like the trailer for

[00:11:43] alone I'm in and then you have Andrew Scott you know just continuing off like an amazing performance

[00:11:49] of all of us strangers and and then now he's Ripley I was like yeah okay let's do it I just

[00:11:54] want to see him just chill around in Italy and shot by Robert Ellswitt so I'm very excited for

[00:11:59] this many series but one thing that this season is showing us because of the strikes

[00:12:05] is that a lot of shows that were hoping to return are not going to be able to return for

[00:12:10] this eligibility window and thus we have a lot of unlikely contenders this season a lot of

[00:12:18] heavy hitters are missing out this year so now maybe this is the time for certain shows that

[00:12:23] didn't get their time in the spotlight so much to shine something like the gilded age or the morning

[00:12:31] show or maybe this is the year where hacks now takes I I mean listen the bear is going to be

[00:12:37] hard to to throne but like hacks I think is going to be up there against it possibly for outstanding

[00:12:43] comedy series and then there's a couple of other ones to hear reservation dogs is going to be

[00:12:50] in contention again what we do in the shadows is going to be in contention again so

[00:12:56] there's a lot of elements have played here and that is probably the most exciting part I think is

[00:13:00] that there are shows that usually are kind of sitting off to decide lines because there are

[00:13:05] larger shows that are hogging up the spotlight and now something like say slow horses which is in

[00:13:12] its what fourth season third season descended it's going to do season four is the next one so

[00:13:19] so the third season is the one that's up for the consideration yeah yeah this is the time for

[00:13:24] that show to be properly recognized now by the television academy so I think that's like probably

[00:13:29] the most exciting piece of the season the problem is that a lot of these shows because they weren't

[00:13:35] the big heavy hitters have not been widely seen by even yours truly so now I have to catch up on

[00:13:42] seasons were for material just to be able to speak to somebody shows that are in contention this year

[00:13:49] well Matt if it makes you feel better you will probably end up putting more work than television

[00:13:54] academy voters this year which has me very terrified especially in certain races where I'm like

[00:14:00] are we really going to doff all to this because that's just you know what you know and I think

[00:14:05] they have shown that that's what they will do in the situation this year is going to be really bad

[00:14:10] like last year you know people were like wow okay three shows one last year was convenient where

[00:14:14] all three shows that predominantly dominated in drama comedy and limited series were all fantastic

[00:14:21] like they were all great this year it's not looking great for like some of them and I'm actually

[00:14:26] concerned it's we might get like a Game of Thrones final season type winner and certain

[00:14:31] category especially drama I think that's the big fear for me is drama so the crown you're thinking

[00:14:37] unfortunately yes I think that yeah you know they might default to it I don't think it's going

[00:14:43] to be a sweep in every major category like you know it did for the final Coleman season I just

[00:14:49] think it's a go to de facto beloved show that I know these people watch in the television academy

[00:14:55] I think you know it's possibly gonna win drama series is I think supporting actors is happening

[00:15:02] I think you know we look at Elizabeth DeBecky who's practically I don't know I can't say she

[00:15:07] swept she no no you can't you can't say she swept she won the Golden Globe yeah C.A. and Saga yeah so it's

[00:15:16] most likely that she's winning which you know what out of my complaints out of the final season

[00:15:20] which I did not really like or even here to finish sadly I thought DeBecky was the highlight

[00:15:25] of that whole final arc with the the new chapter of new actors in this series so I want to be

[00:15:31] too upset I'm happy if you know what let's give all the awards so Elizabeth DeBecky but I can see

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