Lifestyle of a Fashionista

7/14/23

The 75th Emmy Awards will take place on September 18, 2023. The nominations were announced this week.

Read the list from Vanity Fair, Emmy Nominations 2023: See the Full List Here.

Nominees I watched and enjoyed

What to watch for a laugh and fun character interactions:

Only Murders in the Building (mystery/comedy, two seasons are available to stream on Hulu, season three starts on August 8th) stars Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez, plus lots of big name co-stars. The three main characters start their own podcast after there is a murder in their upper west side apartment building.

Things to love: the physical comedy of Steve Martin in season one, the older and younger generations helping each other out, the outfits on Selena Gomez, the guest stars,

Nominated cast: Martin Short, Nathan Lane

Abbott Elementary (Mockumentary, comedy, two seasons available to watch on Hulu, or ABC), A group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — find themselves thrown together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life.

Things to love: Janine’s outfits and the teasing she receives from co-workers, the relationships among the staff and how they develop over the two seasons, the custodian.

Nominated cast: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Taraji P. Henson

Ted Lasso (21 nominations, comedy/drama, all three seasons available on Apple TV+), An American football coach is hired to manage a British soccer team; what he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for in optimism, determination and biscuits.

Things to love: subtle, funny refences mixed in the dialogue, the women characters, the team spirit, the life lessons and laughs.

Nominated cast: Jason Sudeikis, Phil Dunster, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, Hannah Waddingham, Sam Richardson, Becky Ann Baker, Sarah Niles, Harriet Walter

What to watch for the outstanding performances:

Black Bird (4 nominations, crime drama/mini-series, all 6 episodes available to watch on Apple TV+), Based on: In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption; by: James Keene; Hillel Levin. As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: if he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, he will be freed; completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

Cast nominations: Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Ray Liotta

The White Lotus (23 nominations, season two on Max), following various guests over the span of a week in the White Lotus’s Sicily location.

Things I liked: the scenery and the fashion.

Cast nominations: Jennifer Coolidge, Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli, F. Murray Abraham, Meghann Fahy, Sabrina Impacciatore, Simona Tabasco, Will Sharpe and Theo James

Nominees on my to watch list

I’ve tried to start some of these series and then lost interest, but there is still a lot of buzz around these popular shows.

Succession (27 nominations, four seasons on Max), The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.

Nominated cast: Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Braun, Alan Ruck, Alexander Skarsgård, J. Smith-Cameron, Arian Moayed, Hiam Abbass, Cherry Jones, Harriet Walter

Reasons to watch: the drama and the fashion.

The Diplomat (thriller series, one season on Netflix), “The Diplomat follows Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), a woman hired as an ambassador to the United Kingdom amid an international crisis. As if juggling her career and a pending world war isn’t hard enough, her marriage to her husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell), a former political star, is crumbling too.” From Esquire, The Diplomat Season 2: Everything We Know

Nominated cast: Keri Russell

Reasons to watch: the strong female lead. From NPR, ‘The Diplomat’ is smart, twisty TV about being great at your job

Yellowjackets (drama/mystery, two seasons on Showtime), “Yellowjackets centers on a high school girls soccer team who become the unlucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness, charting their hellish descent from thriving friends to savage clans. The show also tracks some of the survivors who have attempted to lead normal lives 25 years later, but events in the present-day point to the Yellowjackets not being out of the woods quite yet.” NBC

Nominated cast: Melanie Lynskey

The Last of Us (24 nominations, zombie drama, one season on Max), The Last of Us; by Naughty Dog. The series follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting the immune teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States.

Nominated cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Murray Bartlett, Lamar Johnson, Nick Offerman, Keivonn Montreal Woodard, Melanie Lynskey, Storm Reid, Anna Torv

Review from Slate, HBO’s New Post-Apocalyptic Drama Won’t Make The Walking Dead’s Biggest Mistake.

Shrinking (comedy/drama, one season on Apple TV+), A grieving therapist starts to break the rules by telling his clients exactly what he thinks. Jimmy has lost his wife and wants to try a new approach to his loss, but it is unclear how this will help others.

Nominated cast: Jason Segel and Jessica Williams

Review from NPR, ‘Shrinking’ gets great work from a great cast

The Bear (13 nominations, comedy/drama, two seasons on Hulu), A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop.

Nominated cast: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Jon Bernthal, Oliver Platt

Review from The Guardian, The Bear: the best show of 2022 is back – and it’s the perfect example of how to ace a second series

Poker Face (comedy/crime/drama, one season on Peacock), Charlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but investigate and solve.

Nominated cast: Natasha Lyonne and Judith Light

Dead to Me (dark comedy, three seasons on Netflix), A series about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.

This series started strong, but I lost interest in season two. Now I need to finish watching or give up.

Nominated cast: Christina Applegate

Daisy Jones and the Six (9 nominations, musical drama) Based on the book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world; the band had risen from obscurity to fame, and then, after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, they called it quits; now, decades later, the band members agree to reveal the truth.

Nominated cast: Riley Keough and Camila Morrone

Fleishman Is in Trouble (7 nominations, One season on Hulu) Based on the book: Fleishman Is in Trouble; by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Recently divorced 41-year-old Toby Fleishman dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth, before he got married at the tail end of medical school. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife Rachel disappears leaving him with 11-year-old Hannah and 9-year-old Solly and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return. Nominees: Claire Danes and Lizzy Caplan

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (14 nominations, comedy/drama, five seasons), After her husband leaves her, young mother of two Miriam “Midge” Maisel discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. Could this be her calling?

This is another show I started, but never finished. I loved the talented cast and the outfits.

Cast Nominees: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Luke Kirby

Barry (11 nominations, comedy, four seasons on Max), A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city’s theatre arts scene.

Cast Nominees: Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, Anthony Carrigan

Snubs

From Vanity Fair, The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2023 Emmy Nominations

From PureWow, The Worst 2023 Emmy Award Snubs: From ‘Yellowstone’ to Meghan Markle

Yellowstone and 1923 are both on my watch list. I have a lot of friends who recommended Yellowstone.