East The bear a comedy? The recent premiere of the third season of the series, which follows the stressful daily life in a restaurant kitchen, has fueled a debate that has been active for some time. The bear (Disney+) broke the record this year for the most nominated series for a single season at the Emmy Awards. The problem is that, in the opinion of many, the series is not a comedy at all, but a drama with chapters of just over half an hour. The 2024 Emmys, whose award ceremony concluded with this Sunday's ceremony (after two other galas last weekend), dotted the i's: maybe The bear became the comedy that garnered the most awards for a single season in a single year, but it wasn't the best comedy of last season. It won that title in Tips (Maximum).
Few expected anyone to be able to cope with the show's highly regarded and award-winning second season. drama (so to speak: drama, suffering, tragedy perhaps more precise) The Bear. The plot twist for the 2024 Emmys came during the final awards show of the night, when it was revealed that the Emmys would be Tipsand no The bear (which had already won four awards at the gala), which won the award for best comedy. The television industry thus recognized the excellent joint work of Tipsa real comedy, capable of making people laugh, of allowing two extraordinary actresses, Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, show off. And also to excite, because of course comedy can be linked to emotion. You have to do it. The third season of Tips It's the best so far of a series that has only grown, supported by masterful scripts and performances and that has painted a great journey of evolution for its protagonists.
In a way, the Emmys wanted to support comedy as a genre by standing out with their choice. Or maybe it's just that voters got the third season of Tips the most recent in his memory, while the second The bear It aired in the summer of 2023 and the third installment, the one seen this summer, received more mixed reviews. One of the things that has been blamed on him is precisely having stumbled in this evolution that Tips Yes, it showed.
The comedy won at the 2024 Emmys, but the epic too. Shogun (Disney+) has become the drama that has won the most Emmy Awards in a single season in history, with a total of 18 awards. The first season of the samurai game of thrones lived up to its expectations and added four statuettes this Sunday to those already obtained in the technical awards presented in the previous days. The production who could be described as the spiritual heir of Game of Thrones, and which also managed to combine audience, critical and award appeal, was about to compete as a miniseries, but ultimately made the jump to the drama categories when it was announced that its story would continue.
The other big winner of the evening was My stuffed reindeer (Netflix), which dominated the miniseries awards. Its victory is the reward for the unexpected. Its creator and protagonist, Richard Gadd, has taken the stage three times and has claimed stories that are out of the ordinary. Before its premiere and before word of mouth began to take effect, no one would have bet that this British series with unknown actors and creators, a story of harassment and sexual abuse based on the real experiences of its protagonist, would become the phenomenon that it was. It achieved this because it went out of the ordinary by telling one of those stories that are not normally told and by doing it in an austere way.
The 2024 Emmys celebrated the surprise of My stuffed reindeerthe laughter of Tipsthe show of Shogun and the formal commitment and emotional intensity of The Bear. And they also rewarded varied television. Because unlike what had become common in recent years, where three or four titles monopolized the vast majority of awards during the ceremony broadcast on television, this year the great advertising showcase that is the Emmys wanted to distribute games. In this way, there was a little for everyone: The Morning Show, The Crown, Ripley, Fargo, Slow Horses And True Detective They also had their moment in the form of recognition.
But above all, the big winner of these Emmys was Disney. The platforms and channels that belong to it accumulated a total of 60 awards in this edition. Specifically, FX added 36, more than any other channel or platform. It is followed by Netflix, which ended up with 24 statuettes, while the sum of HBO and Max had to settle for 14 statuettes. The big loser? Linear television: none of the series awarded this Sunday is broadcast on a free American channel.