Cash wins! Succession, HBO’s monetary household dramedy, gained Excellent Drama Collection for its second season on the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday night time, triumphing over Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Killing Eve, The Mandalorian, Ozark, and Stranger Things.
The win capped off a stellar run for the sequence on the 2020 Primetime Emmys, the place it was the most-nominated ongoing sequence. It additionally gained Finest Actor (Jeremy Strong), Writing, and Directing. On the Creative Arts Emmys, Succession gained Excellent Single-Digicam Image Enhancing for a Drama Collection, together with Excellent Casting for a Drama Collection and Excellent Visitor Actress in a Drama Collection (Cherry Jones).
Creator Jesse Armstrong accepted the award from London, along with his speech being briefly interrupted by room service ringing his lodge room doorbell (Emmys 2020!). He tried one thing completely different along with his speech, giving “un-thank yous.”
“Un-thank you to the virus for protecting us all aside this 12 months,” he stated. “Un-thank you to President Trump for his crummy and uncoordinated response. Un-thank you to Boris Johnson and his authorities for doing the identical in my nation. Un-thank you to all of the nationalist and kind of quasi-nationalist governments on the earth who’re the precise reverse of what we want proper now.”
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He concluded with “And un-thank you for the media moguls who achieve this a lot to maintain them in energy,” ending with a dig on the kind of individuals Succession is about.
Succession‘s win means Will Ferrell is an Excellent Drama Collection winner, as he’s credited as an govt producer via Gary Sanchez Productions. It is the third consecutive drama sequence win for HBO, which gained for the ultimate two seasons of Game of Thrones.
Succession Seasons 1 and a pair of can be found on HBO.
Brian Cox, Succession