The Emmys Cold List: Here’s a Final Salute to Shows and Stars That Voters Overlooked in 2022
thewrap.comPortions of this story first appeared in TheWrap’s final Emmy magazines, Down to the Wire: Comedy and Down to the Wire: Drama.In the last two Emmy magazines of this season, TheWrap showcased a pair of “Emmy Hot Lists” — one for comedy, variety and reality shows and one for dramas and limited series.
But as voting enters its final three days, can we take a moment to salute some of the shows that didn’t make it onto the hot lists, or onto the roster of nominees?The year in television wouldn’t have been the same without these shows, although you wouldn’t know that if all you had to go by was the choices of Television Academy voters.
So maybe those voters deserve their own Cold List for some of the decisions they made.SentimentalityFor its first five seasons, the NBC series “This Is Us” made us cry and brought the broadcast networks back to the top drama categories, landing four Outstanding Drama Series nominations and 24 acting noms, including five for Sterling K.
Brown, three for Milo Ventimiglia and one for Mandy Moore. Its sixth and final season, which — spoiler alert — included the very tear-jerking death of Moore’s character, was extremely well received by its audience and by critics, but it was strangely and almost completely ignored by voters, who steadfastly refused to get sentimental about the end of a landmark network drama. (They did the same on the comedy side with “black-ish.”)And no, it was not much consolation that the one nomination it did get, for the original song “Day of the Wedding,” was shared by composer Siddhartha Khosia and songwriter Taylor Goldsmith, who happens to be Moore’s husband.“Saturday Night Live” actorsThe show that has long dominated the supporting- and guest-acting categories hit a.
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