Emmy nods reveal a lot about those we put on thrones
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Jul 17, 2019
3 minutes
Fantasy collided with reality when the nominations for the 71st Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday: The Television Academy overwhelming chose to fly with dragons and tackle real-world racism, all in the same election cycle.
The final season of "Game of Thrones" - by far its weakest - landed 32 nominations, the most ever for a drama series in a single season. But a new crop of nominees suggests that the industry is also looking beyond Westeros and toward a place called Earth.
Netflix's powerful limited series "When They See Us" landed a surprising 16 nominations,
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