The Emmy Awards had the opportunity to honor three shows which ended last year: Ted Lasso, Barry and Succession. They completely blanked on Ted Lasso and Barry, yet Succession got the mother of all farewell parties. Incidentally, I’m happy that Lasso’s final season has been a complete non-factor in the current awards season. The final season was horrendous, poorly written and phoned-in by Jason Sudeikis. Meanwhile, Succession’s final season was amazing, arguably one of the best stand-alone seasons of television in a long time.
Just like the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, Succession picked up the big awards for Best Drama, Best Actress for Sarah Snook and Best Actor for Kieran Culkin. At the Emmys, Matthew Macfayden also won Supporting Actor. Jeremy Strong avoided all of the award shows in the past eight days – apparently, he’s prepping for a play in New York, but it would have been nice to see Strong’s work honored too.
Sarah Snook wore Vivienne Westwood. Pedro Pascal also joked that Kieran Culkin beat the sh-t out of him and that’s why his arm is in a cast! Also: the “Connor’s Wedding” episode won big, for directing and writing.
“A lot of people have been asking about my arm… Kieran Culkin beat the shit out of me,” – Pedro Pascal
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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 16, 2024
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Wow, I’m so glad they swept last night! The whole show was incredible, but the final season, in specific, was a masterpiece.
I wish there had been something for J Smith-Cameron. Without her Gerri to work off, Kieran’s Roman wouldn’t have been so compelling
Yes! I have no concept of the difference between any of these awards shows (some are prestigious and some are not?) but am I dreaming that one of them has a “best ensemble” award? Truly, Succession was a flawless ensemble piece. I haven’t seen a cast work together like that for some time.
SAG has a best ensemble award.
Well, I guess I need to go look for Succession in reruns somewhere. I missed it the first time around.
It’s on Max
Connor’s Wedding is televisions best episode. Period.
It showed Alan Ruck was perfectly casted and I wish award members took his performances more seriously.
She looks perfect in that red! If I had my pick of designers, VW would be up there. Sexy and empowering!
Where is Jeremy Strong? Missed him in carpet for GG and Emmy’s..
Sarah Snook’s styling/makeup/hair – all of it was GORGEOUS!
Just recently, I tried to get into Succession, but I struggled to make it to episode 5, it really bored me. Maybe it’s the shaky camera/mockumentary style that didn’t work for me. Either way, I liked the way Kieran Culkin played along with Pedro’s “confession” and Sarah Snook looks cute in that red dress.
Sarah Snook’s dress is the most perfect shade of red and looked beautiful on her.
I enjoy S1, but then the news in the world kept getting worse and I found no entertainment from watching a show about another family of horrible, awful people.
Ah, it was sad not to see the eldest boy. I didn’t know he had a play. I am gonna miss this series so much, but I am also happy they decided to end it instead of milking to the fullest.
Kieran Culkin’s expression to Pedro cracked me up.
I watched a few episodes of Succession here and there with my mom and I just realized the guy who played Sarah Snook’s husband is played by Matthew Macfayden. He played Mr. Darcy from the 2005 movie Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley which I’ve seen several times. I had no idea he was British until now and he totally disappeared into the role, he looks very different in his natural British accent and period costume lol. He was also much younger too but I did not recognize him all this time until I finally looked up his Wikipedia.