TMC
07-28-2020, 10:57 PM
https://variety.com/2020/tv/awards/issa-rae-insecure-emmy-best-comedy-1234718722/
"This was TV that derived in power because of how precisely it built on what had come before," says Daniel D'Addario. "Which makes its nominations at this year’s Emmys surprising, as 'what had come before' was not an awards magnet. Insecure’s nominations this year both coincide with a leap forward in quality and seem to serve as an acknowledgement of the preceding three seasons’ of underheralded work it took to get there. They represent a rising tide of representation among the Emmy nominees (with others of this year’s nominees including Zendaya of Euphoria and Regina King of Watchmen, to name just two), and raise the question of what Insecure, in putting together a show this ambitious over the first three years, needed to do to get in. Perhaps the next show led by Black talent as promising and finely-wrought as Insecure will be met with major-scale Emmys success from its inception. What’s most worth celebrating on an exciting day for one of the year’s great shows may be a shift in power between a historically-white show and a show made by Black talent: The Emmys need shows like Insecure on the ballot in order to recognize what’s best on television, but Insecure didn’t need the Emmys to be great."
"This was TV that derived in power because of how precisely it built on what had come before," says Daniel D'Addario. "Which makes its nominations at this year’s Emmys surprising, as 'what had come before' was not an awards magnet. Insecure’s nominations this year both coincide with a leap forward in quality and seem to serve as an acknowledgement of the preceding three seasons’ of underheralded work it took to get there. They represent a rising tide of representation among the Emmy nominees (with others of this year’s nominees including Zendaya of Euphoria and Regina King of Watchmen, to name just two), and raise the question of what Insecure, in putting together a show this ambitious over the first three years, needed to do to get in. Perhaps the next show led by Black talent as promising and finely-wrought as Insecure will be met with major-scale Emmys success from its inception. What’s most worth celebrating on an exciting day for one of the year’s great shows may be a shift in power between a historically-white show and a show made by Black talent: The Emmys need shows like Insecure on the ballot in order to recognize what’s best on television, but Insecure didn’t need the Emmys to be great."