The Contending team members gather around the Water Cooler to discuss their reactions to the 2025 Emmys nominations.
Severance dominated the 2025 Emmys nominations with 27 bids for the AppleTV series. That’s not a record (Game of Thrones still holds that), but it’s still a massive upswing from its freshman season. Will the series dominate the 2025 Emmys when they’re announced next September? Or is this another Ozark situation where massive nominations equates few wins? The Contending staff gathers to discuss this and much more as we react to the 2025 Emmys nominations. Beware, things get a little catty here and there…
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Unfortunately behind the Detroit Free Press paywall, but to the one of you who said if she wins, he will shoot himself, sorrynotsorry:
Huntington Woods native Kristen Bell waited 20 years for an Emmy nomination:
https://www.freep.Com/story/entertainment/television/2025/07/20/kristen-bells-prime-time-emmy-nom-20-years-career/85263771007/
You wanna talk rubber-stamping, name-checking and just plain lazy putting somebody over year after year?? The alpha and omega of that in 2025 is one Jean Smart. Classic overcompensating.
We've seen this movie before. Amy Sherman Palladino, who royally took it up the hoo-ha with Gilmore Girls being denied all those years, then those awards she finally racked up for Mrs. Maisel screamed makeup calls. We're seeing the sequel with Smart. Not being recognized enough for Designing Women and now this avalanche of awards when there were better performances out there.
Now she’s got a legit challenger in Bell, who, in an ideal world combines her badassery in great acting with an irresistible underdog storyline; finally breaks through after 2 decades of snubs and disrespect. It won't happen, of course. This IS the Emmys we're talking about.
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