‘Succession’ Dominates the Emmy Nominations, but Bigger Questions Loom Over the Ceremony

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“Succession,” Logan Roy may be dead and Waystar RoyCo may have been sold off to a Nordic streaming company. But in the real world, or at least the world according to Emmy voters, the Roy family still wields immense power.And while the AFC Richmond soccer team (sorry, football team) coached by Ted Lasso on the comedy series named after him may have fallen short in its quest to finish in first place, the show itself remains the champion of its league, aka the Emmy comedy categories.

In nominations that were announced on Wednesday morning, the reigning drama and comedy series winners topped their respective categories, with “Succession” landing a personal-best 27 nominations to lead all drama series and “Ted Lasso” picking up 21 to handily beat all comedies.

Their dominance was not unexpected, but it was impressive nonetheless – and even with new rules at least partially designed to curb the kind of category-hogging we’ve seen in recent years, both shows managed to put multiple nominees in the same category: three lead actor, four supporting actor, two guest actor and three guest actress nominations for “Succession” and two supporting actor, two supporting actress and three guest actress noms for “Ted Lasso.”In fact, we should probably acknowledge that the new rules that prohibit voters from casting ballots for an unlimited number of acting nominees (a presumed advantage for widely-watched shows with big casts) didn’t really do much in the face of juggernauts like “Succession,” which tied its Emmy-record 14 nominations, and “The White Lotus,” which dominated the supporting drama categories with four actor and five actress nominees.Even under a new system that limits voters to a number of choices equal to the number of.