Did the Emmys give crime the shaft?
the true crime that's worth your time
As noted yesterday, The Dropout and Dopesick each got a nice Emmys nod this week. But when it comes to true crime — or true crime-adjacent shows, like Only Murders in the Building — the genre was, dare I say it, ROBBED.
OK, I’ll show myself out, but before I do, the real question might be if the Emmys need to break out a separate true-crime category, the way it does competition or sketch shows? And once we establish that, let’s move on the the actors: Was Keaton (who won) really that much better than fellow nominee Colin Firth’s creepy Peterson take in The Staircase, or Andrew Garfield’s conflicted detective in Under the Banner of Heaven?
Another question, posed by Sarah: Was Julia Garner’s Ozark win (“I know literally no one who watches Ozark,” she Slacked me — same) actually a true crime body-of-work award, for Dirty John and (to a far lesser extent) Inventing Anna (for which she was also nominated)?
The full list of nominees and winners is on NPR, among other websites. Take a look, and let’s talk about what they did wrong. — EB