Emmys 2024 Nominations | Predictions

Well, well, zero Network TV again, this year, excluding the excellent, Abbott Elementary from ABC. Also full disclosure, I have yet to watch the highly nominated Shogun.

Here are my Emmys predictions in red & bold.....

Outstanding Drama Series

The Crown

Fallout

The Gilded Age

The Morning Show

Mr & Mrs Smith

Shogun

Slow Horses

3 Body Problem

Outstanding Comedy Series

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Only Murders in the Building

Palm Royale

Reservation Dogs

What We Do in the Shadows

Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series

Baby Reindeer

Fargo

Lessons In Chemistry

Ripley

True Detective: Night Country

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show, Apple)

Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age, HBO/Max)

Maya Erskine (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Anna Sawai (Shogun, FX)

Imelda Staunton (The Crown, Netflix)

Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show, Apple)

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series

Idris Elba (Hijack, Apple)

Donald Glover (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Walton Goggins (Fallout, Prime Video)

Gary Oldman (Slow Horses, Apple)

Hiroyuki Sanada (Shogun, FX)

Dominic West (The Crown, Prime Video)

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Christine Baranski (The Gilded Age, HBO/Max)

Nicole Beharie (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown, Netflix)

Greta Lee (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Lesley Manville (The Crown, Netflix)

Karen Pittman (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Holland Taylor (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Tadanobu Asano (Shogun, FX)

Billy Crudup (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Mark Duplass (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Jon Hamm (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Takehiro Hira (Shogun, FX)

Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Apple TV+)

Jonathan Pryce (The Crown, Netflix)

Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Néstor Carbonell (Shogun, FX)

Paul Dano (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Tracy Letts (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, HBO/Max)

Jonathan Pryce (Slow Horses, Apple TV+)

John Turturro (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Michaela Coel (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Claire Foy (The Crown, Netflix)

Marcia Gay Harden (The Morning Show, Apple TV+)

Sarah Paulson (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Parker Posey (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Prime Video)

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series

Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary, ABC)

Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, FX)

Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Maya Rudolph (Loot, Apple)

Jean Smart (Hacks, HBO/Max)

Kristen Wiig (Palm Royale, Apple TV+)

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series

Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, FX)

Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO/Max)

Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Jeremy Allen White (The Bear, FX)

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs, FX)

Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Jon Bernthal (The Bear, FX)

Matthew Broderick (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Ryan Gosling (Saturday Night Live, NBC)

Christopher Lloyd (Hacks, HBO/Max)

Bob Odenkirk (The Bear, FX)

Will Poulter (The Bear, FX)

Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Olivia Colman (The Bear, FX)

Jamie Lee Curtis (The Bear, FX)

Kaitlin Olson (Hacks, HBO/Max)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, NBC)

Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live, NBC)

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Lionel Boyce (The Bear, FX)

Paul W. Downs (Hacks, HBO/Max)

Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear, FX)

Paul Rudd (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary, ABC)

Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live, NBC)

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Carol Burnett (Palm Royale, Apple TV+)

Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear, FX)

Hannah Einbinder (Hacks, HBO/Max)

Janelle James (Abbott Elementary, ABC)

Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary, ABC)

Meryl Streep (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie

Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country, HBO/Max)

Brie Larson (Lessons in Chemistry, Apple)

Juno Temple (Fargo, FX)

Sofía Vergara (Griselda, Netflix)

Naomi Watts (Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, FX)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or a Movie

Matt Bomer (Fellow Travelers, Showtime)

Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)

Jon Hamm (Fargo, FX)

Tom Hollander (Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, FX)

Andrew Scott (Ripley, Netflix)

Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Jonathan Bailey (Fellow Travelers, Showtime)

Robert Downey Jr. (The Sympathizer, HBO/Max)

Tom Goodman-Hill (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)

John Hawkes (True Detective: Night Country, HBO/Max)

Lamorne Morris (Fargo, FX)

Lewis Pullman (Lessons in Chemistry, Apple TV+)

Treat Williams (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, FX)

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Dakota Fanning (Ripley, Netflix)

Lily Gladstone (Under the Bridge, Hulu)

Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)

Aja Naomi King (Lessons in Chemistry, Apple TV+)

Diane Lane (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, FX)

Nava Mau (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)

Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country, HBO/Max)

Outstanding Talk Series

The Daily Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Outstanding Reality Competition Program

The Amazing Race

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Top Chef

The Traitors

The Voice

New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - Under the Bridge - miniseries

Under the Bridge is another true crime drama miniseries based upon the book of the same name by Rebecca Godfrey. 

I slept on this Disney+ (Hulu in the USA) series which commenced streaming mid-April this year. The basis, on Vancouver Island, Victoria, the series follows the murder of Reena Virk, as a writer enters the hidden world of the accused killers. All young, slightly damaged in the late 90's.

It also has a great soundtrack of late 90's jams.

If you are late to watch the late May finale, Mercy Alone like me. Beware there are spoilers ahead.

In the eight episode, Kelly’s trial gets underway. CMC members Dusty, Laila, and Maya testify against her, but Josephine refuses to do so. 

Rebecca encourages Warren to testify. He meets with Suman, who explains that her faith encourages mercy, and she forgives him. 

Warren testifies, admitting that he and Kelly beat up Reena before Kelly drowned her. Kelly takes the stand and vehemently denies killing Reena. She is found guilty and given the minimum sentence of 5 years imprisonment. 

Rebecca worries that Gabe’s death was a suicide. Cam insists that it wasn’t Rebecca’s fault. She returns to New York to publish her book. Cam learns that she was part of the Adopt Indian Métis Program and was forcibly taken from her birth family. She seeks them out to reconnect. 

Suman and Manjit sit in Reena’s room and sense her presence as a Notorious B.I.G song plays. Overall this is the most depressing, full on episode of the run.

It was a very sad, full on true crime series. This however is must watch TV. I am surprised The Bear continues to dominate the Emmy's when there are great under the radar series like this.

Finally in the credits, it explains that the Virks became anti-bullying activists. Suman died in 2018. Rebecca died in 2022. Warren was released on parole in 2010. Kelly appealed her case and was given a life sentence. She confessed to murdering Reena in 2016. Shortly afterwards, she was granted day parole.

New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - Star Wars: The Acolyte - Season One

The Acolyte (also known as Star Wars: The Acolyte) could be the worst of the Star Wars franchise thus far.

The Acolyte started streaming on Disney+ early June, with its first two episodes. The following six episodes were released weekly.

Part of the Star Wars franchise, set at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the Skywalker Saga, and follows a Jedi investigation into a series of crimes.

Starring an all-star cast, Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Charlie Barnett, Dafne Keen, Rebecca Henderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, Manny Jacinto, Dean-Charles Chapman, Joonas Suotamo, Margarita Levieva, Lauren Brady, Leah Brady, and Harry Trevaldwyn.

The Acolyte is set at the end of the Star Wars franchise's High Republic era, approximately 100 years before 1999's Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Seeing a respected Jedi Master investigating a series of crimes that bring him into contact with a former Padawan learner and reveal sinister forces.

SPOILER ALERTS! Osha has a vision of apparently Mae killing Sol without using weapons and they head out to find them while being watched by Darth Plagueis. 

On the ship, Mae breaks free and escapes to Brendok in a capsule while she is followed by Sol; Mae crashes on the planet. Vernestra gathers a group of Jedi to head to Brendok. 

On Brendok, Sol, Qimir and Osha begin searching for Mae. Inside the fortress, Sol and Qimir begin to fight as do Osha and Mae. Mae arrives and disarms Sol, but chooses to let him live so he can confess before the Council; Sol reveals that she and Osha are the same person. 

Learning that Sol killed her mother, Osha chokes Sol to death with the Force and corrupts the Kyber crystal in Sol's lightsaber; Osha and Mae escape together. Upon arriving, Vernestra discovers Sol's corpse. Osha and Mae reconcile when they are found by Qimir; Osha agrees to train with him if he lets Mae go by erasing her memory. 

On Coruscant, Vernestra blames Sol for all the events that occurred on Brendok; Vernestra reveals that Qimir was her apprentice. 

Vernestra visits Yoda to tell him everything.

YODA is back baby! However not even Yoda can save this train wreck. As a Star Wars fan from a very young age, these new series are really getting more and more average.

Seriously give this one a miss.

Tomorrow, a real treat from Disney+, Under the Bridge! See you then!

New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - All American - Season Six

All American will be the last standing CW series when it returns in 2025 13 episodes, seventh season. Renewed last month, I am predicting this to be the final season, the final US produced CW series.

Lead Daniel Ezra will not be returning as a series regular for the seventh season. Apparently he will feature as a guest star, with other leads also set to make way for new cast members.

All American ended its sixth season on Stan last night, with a wedding. Building for months, the Spencer James and Olivia Baker, arrived in the expanded two episodes. Season 6 episode count, went from 13 to 15 earlier this year. This allowed showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll to give Ezra a fitting farewell, and pay tribute to Spencer and Olivia’s long road to romantic bliss.

If you are not up to date on your Stan stories, watch out, spoilers below the trailer....

When All American was picked up for Season 7 in June, speculation had begun that the show could cast a wave of “next-gen young characters” to keep production costs down for next year’s episodes — and Monday’s finale certainly gave closure to most of its current characters, should they not return in 2025. 

A newly married Spencer and Olivia will now live in New York together; Coop got into law school at both GAU and Yale (no decision was made, however); Laura put the Baker house’s deed in Jordan and Layla’s name, so they can have the place and start their new lives there; and Jordan accepted a coaching gig at South Crenshaw High, following in his dad’s footsteps.

There was a very slight cliffhanger. Like nothing life changing, if the series does get cancelled after being renewed. It has happened before!

Hunky Jordan found a baby photo he didn’t recognise in his dad’s old Crenshaw coaching binder. At Spencer and Olivia’s wedding, Jordan presented the photo to his Grandpa Willy, who reluctantly revealed that the child in the photo was Billy’s older brother.

This was a result of a previous relationship Grandma Mary had had, before Willy was in her life. But when Jordan pressed his grandfather for more answers on the child, Willy got agitated and dropped the conversation, leaving us without closure.

Truth bomb from a grandpa!

Will Jordan return in 2025? Here is hoping! The CW have the weakest of all line-ups for the upcoming USA Fall season. With Superman and Lois returning for their swan song in October. Ten episodes and it's the end of the Arrowverse.

This was not All American's worst season, however I think the end is insight.

Honestly no one would miss this series if it ended at the end of its seventh. Tonight on Disney+ we say farewell to Star Wars: The Acolyte, whilst later in the week, The Boys crazy fourth season comes to an end.

Until then bye!

Post Strike Cinema 24' - Twisters

Twisters is my latest visit to the cinema in 2024. Like the previous post, this is not a fresh idea, however a new take on an old hit.

Weather disaster films in this day and age, have a lot more weight than when the 1996 film Twister landed on the big screen.

On the weekly we see, floods, fires, cyclones depending on what season we are in.

Acting as standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane all star in the Oklahoma based sequel.

So far the film has received positive reviews from critics. Including me. Like A Quiet Place: Day One, I was pleasantly surprised.

Also you must see this on the big screen. The Twisters and effects are insane.

Haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado, Kate Cooper (Edgar-Jones) gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (the handsome Anthony Ramos), to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Anyone but You's Glen Powell), a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures. 

As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma.

Look on paper this sounds like a rip off of the 1996 original. Yes it borrows the name and environmental theme, however with bringing in YouTube channel/influencers, current climate/weather uncertainty, this was worthy of a remaking.

The two hours also flies by like a cow in the Twister like the OG film.

3.5 Stars.

New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - Fantasmas - Season One

Fantasmas is possibly the weirdest show since Emma Stone's other series of 2024, The Curse.

The six part comedy series created, directed, and written by Julio Torres, concluded yesterday on Binge with the episode The Void.

Torres also stars, on the search for a golden oyster earring, and the people he encounters on the way. Emma Stone guest stars alongside Julia Fox, Ziwe, Alexa Demie, Steve Buscemi & Kim Petras.

The 30 minute, six part series premiered on early June 7, on HBO. It has been a long time between drinks for a 30 minute comedy on the network. With the wait still on for The Righteous Gemstones fourth season along with the return of Somebody Somewhere.

Across the random AF episodes, Julio Torres goes on the search through New York City, for a golden oyster earring, encountering people along the way.

Take a look at the preview below.

This is clearly not for everyone. I binged episodes one to four, before doing the last two week to week as I was desperate for a comedy series on my rotation. That goodness Apple TV+ have also delivered a nice, new wholesome comedy, Land of Women.

I wouldn't see this 100% returning for a second season, however the ending does leave this wide open.

Next week a big week of finales with the expanded lone standing All American finale Tuesday, the very average latest Star Wars series concluding mid-week along with The Boys closing out it's fourth season.

See you then kids!

New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - Red Eye - miniseries

OK, another UK binge, in record time. This time around, Red Eye which landed on Stan back in April.

Red Eye stars Richard Armitage (Spooks, The Hobbit) and Jing Lusi (Crazy Rich Asians, Gangs of London - also on Stan, where I just started season two today). When Dr. Matthew Nolan (Armitage) is renditioned to China from the UK, inexplicable deaths onboard the red eye flight raise suspicions. 

Hana Li (Lusi), the police officer escorting Nolan, forms an unlikely alliance with Head of MI5 Madeleine Delaney and journalist Jess Li, her sister, work to uncover a wider global conspiracy. 

The six-part British thriller has Hijack vibes from Apple TV+ with the dreamy Idris Elba. For me Hijack was the better series and I for one cannot wait for season two.

However back to this Stan series, where Lesley Sharp also stars on this all-night flight between London and Beijing.

Spoiler alert below for those like me that slept on this fun, high-energy flight. I honestly felt bad for the other passengers on this mad flight. However it was a fun, easy watch with each episode just spinning past.

In episode six it kicks off with flashback scene, CIA operatives led by Mike Maxwell monitor Nolan and Shen Zhào at the night club as part of an American operation to sabotage the Anglo-Chinese nuclear deal.

After failing to stop Zhào from injecting the nano SIM card into Nolan, Maxwell and Eric Jones murder her and plant her body in Nolan's car. Hana and Nolan's plane lands at a British military airbase in London but escape Tennant and MI6 with the help of Delaney and Jess. 

Meanwhile, British security forces identify Zhang and the other operative as freelancers working for a CIA shell company. At the US Embassy, Nolan recognizes that one of the Embassy staff was a staff member at the Beijing night club. Suspecting that the CIA have drugged their drinks Nolan, Hana, Jess, and Delaney overpower their CIA captors. 

Maxwell attempts to stop them from leaving the Embassy but Jess hands him a Vodafone chip, which he mistakes for the SIM card. After escaping the Embassy, the four send the file to Tennant, exposing a CIA cyber-operation to cause a meltdown in one of the Anglo-Chinese nuclear power plants in order to damage Sino-British relations. 

Maxwell tracks Hana, Nolan, and Delaney down to the grounds of the Chinese Embassy. Maxwell shoots Nolan but is arrested by Chinese soldiers and handed over to Minister Tang to face justice for Zhào's murder. While recovering in hospital, Nolan proposes to Hana. 

To avoid damaging United Kingdom-United States relations by exposing the CIA plot, Delaney allows Hana to break a story about MI6 using doctors as unwitting couriers for intelligence operations. During a family gathering, Hana provides her father with files on her mother supplied by the British government.

There are many twists and turns in this fast paced series. You never really know who is good and who is rotten to the core. Across the six episodes there is double crossing, corruption and a fair share of murders on the plane.

There is so much content coming and going on streaming services right now, it's hard to keep up! Hoping over the weekend I can head to the movies too, to bring some cinema to the blog. It's been a hot minute again.

Happy weekend ahead!