Netflix’s “Squid Game” is ready to make history: it can get the most nominations for a foreign language show. Credit … Netflix
Here’s the good news for Netflix – it’s a virtual lock to get multiple nominations for best drama career.
The hit hit “Stranger Things”, the first season of the South Korean thriller “Squid Game” and the final season of the crime thriller “Ozark” are expected at the race.
“Squid Game” by itself is about to make history and will likely get the most nominations for a foreign language program. (The Apple TV + drama “Pachinko,” which is mostly in Korean and Japanese, might also get a better look).
Emmy’s love would be welcome news for Netflix executives after a few ugly months that have brought down the online broadcast giant: the price of its shares has fallen, hundreds of workers have been laid off and missing one week to announce another subscriber. loss.
The three Netflix series will face a difficult hurdle: “Succession,” the HBO series that won best drama in 2020, the last year it was nominated. Family drama is the first favorite to win again for the third season of the show, which ended in December 2021.
Brian Cox in “Succession,” the HBO series that won the Emmy for Best Drama in 2020. Credit … Graeme Hunter / HBO
HBO and its streaming playback service, HBO Max, had a great year and will arrive armed with a programming fleet that could get a significant number of nominations, including for “Euphoria,” “Hacks,” “Barry,” ” The Gilded Age “and” The White Lotus “.
Netflix and HBO have had the highest number of nominations for any TV channel twice in the last four years. Netflix was in first place in 2018 and 2020; HBO took the title in 2019 and 2021.
Emmy-boasting rights have been fundamental to Netflix, and that was before I needed a shot in the arm.
Last year, when Netflix tied a 47-year record set by CBS for the highest number of Emmy wins in a single year, its executives made a comeback, hosting a press conference where they boasted of their “historic” night. And when visitors enter the lobby of Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters, they are greeted by the sight of dozens of Emmy statuettes placed on a wall, surrounded by hundreds of flowers.