It’s official: Higher Name Saul hasn’t received a single Emmy.
The acclaimed Breaking Unhealthy spinoff scored 53 Emmy nominations over its six-season run however did not win a single award. The ultimate season was nominated for seven awards on the 2023 Emmys, together with the highest prizes of greatest actor in a drama collection and greatest drama collection.
Throughout its AMC run, Breaking Unhealthy received 16 Emmys, together with two awards for greatest drama collection.
However Saul, which additionally aired on AMC, couldn’t compete with its predecessor’s Emmy success.
Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter forward of Monday’s Emmys, Higher Name Saul actress Rhea Seehorn, nominated for supporting actress in a drama collection, indicated she was pleased with the collection even when it went into historical past with out an Emmy win.
“I feel at this level, all of us actually really feel pleased with the work we created and [co-creator, finale writer-director] Peter Gould, even when I wasn’t on this present, nailed the ultimate season and the finale and that’s a extremely onerous factor to do. I suppose I’d be mendacity if I didn’t say, who doesn’t wish to run up on stage and go, ‘Thanks for recognizing our final trip right here.’ However I’ve a sense we’ll really feel that manner about our present it doesn’t matter what,” she stated.
Higher Name Saul wasn’t the one a number of nominee that went house empty-handed from the Emmys telecast, the place The Bear, Succession and Beef dominated the comedy, drama and restricted collection classes.
Throughout the three-hour Fox awards present, 21-time nominee Ted Lasso (a previous Emmy favourite successful in a number of classes together with comedy collection for its first two seasons) did not win a single award. Equally, The Final of Us, the second most Emmy-nominated collection in 2023, didn’t win any awards handed out on the broadcast ceremony on Monday. The Final of Us did, nonetheless, win eight awards through the Inventive Arts Emmys, the place nearly all of this yr’s Emmy trophies have been handed out final weekend, however none of these wins have been televised throughout the primary ceremony. Ted Lasso received two awards on the Inventive Arts Emmys.
And former greatest comedy collection winner The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which scored 14 nominations for its last season in 2023, additionally went winless throughout the primary Emmys ceremony, regardless of receiving two awards on the Inventive Arts Emmys.
Different prime nominees shut out throughout the primary ceremony embrace Wednesday (12 nominations, 4 awards on the Inventive Arts Emmys), Barry (11 nominations, one win on the Inventive Arts Emmys) and Solely Murders within the Constructing (11 nominations, one win on the Inventive Arts Emmys).
Nonetheless different a number of nominees have been shut out completely, failing to win even on the Inventive Arts Emmys. Restricted collection Fleishman Is in Hassle and Welcome to Chippendales received nothing regardless of touchdown seven and 5 nominations, respectively. And former Emmys winner The Crown did not win from any of its six nominations, however it would have an opportunity on the 2024 Emmys for the ultimate season of the Netflix collection, which premiered on the finish of 2023. 4-time nominee Jury Responsibility was additionally shut out.
Throughout the telecast, among the surprises got here within the few classes that The Bear, Succession and Beef didn’t win, together with comedy actress, one of many few comedy classes through which The Bear wasn’t nominated as star Ayo Edebiri was nominated for (and received) supporting actress for the present’s first season. As an alternative, Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson received the lone award for the ABC sitcom, which went into the Emmys nominated for eight awards. Nonetheless, Brunson and Abbott have been anticipated to carry out effectively on the Emmys (the dearth of extra wins was maybe the larger shock).
Black Chook‘s Paul Walter Hauser beat two Beef actors (Younger Mazino and Joseph Lee) for the most effective supporting actor in a restricted or anthology collection or TV film, and Dahmer-Monster‘s Niecy Nash-Betts topped Beef‘s Maria Bello within the supporting actress in a restricted collection class.
And whereas quite a few pundits argued (appropriately) that The Day by day Present would win greatest speak collection in mild of the absence of perennial winner Final Week Tonight With John Oliver, others prompt that The Late Present With Stephen Colbert was the extra possible victor.
