Korean sequence ‘Squid Game’ to compete for Emmys historical past
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By AFP
LOS ANGELES: Hundreds entered, however just one can triumph: South Korea’s “Squid Game” will make a play for Emmys historical past Monday because it goals to develop into the primary foreign-language tv present to win high honors for greatest drama.
The Netflix present — by which misfits and criminals compete for money in barbaric and deadly variations of schoolyard video games — is aiming to observe within the footsteps of Oscar-winning film “Parasite” with success at TV’s high prize gala.
It is already the primary non-English-language sequence to earn a greatest drama sequence nomination. To convert that right into a trophy on the ceremony in Los Angeles, it might want to overcome a earlier winner in HBO’s “Succession.”
“It’s pretty hard to go against that HBO juggernaut,” stated Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond, noting that the cutthroat drama a couple of highly effective clan vying to inherit a media empire secured essentially the most total nominations with 25.
“I do think [‘Squid Game’] is going to win best actor,” stated Hammond — an end result that will make Lee Jung-jae the class’s first winner whose efficiency was not in English.
Other reveals contending for the night time’s high drama prizes embody Apple TV+ dystopian office sequence “Severance,” starring Adam Scott, and the ultimate season of Netflix’s much-lauded crime saga “Ozark.”
Zendaya, who grew to become the youngest-ever greatest actress winner two years in the past for hard-hitting teen drama “Euphoria,” is tipped to repeat along with her work on the present’s sophomore season.
LOS ANGELES: Hundreds entered, however just one can triumph: South Korea’s “Squid Game” will make a play for Emmys historical past Monday because it goals to develop into the primary foreign-language tv present to win high honors for greatest drama.
The Netflix present — by which misfits and criminals compete for money in barbaric and deadly variations of schoolyard video games — is aiming to observe within the footsteps of Oscar-winning film “Parasite” with success at TV’s high prize gala.
It is already the primary non-English-language sequence to earn a greatest drama sequence nomination. To convert that right into a trophy on the ceremony in Los Angeles, it might want to overcome a earlier winner in HBO’s “Succession.”
“It’s pretty hard to go against that HBO juggernaut,” stated Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond, noting that the cutthroat drama a couple of highly effective clan vying to inherit a media empire secured essentially the most total nominations with 25.
“I do think [‘Squid Game’] is going to win best actor,” stated Hammond — an end result that will make Lee Jung-jae the class’s first winner whose efficiency was not in English.
Other reveals contending for the night time’s high drama prizes embody Apple TV+ dystopian office sequence “Severance,” starring Adam Scott, and the ultimate season of Netflix’s much-lauded crime saga “Ozark.”
Zendaya, who grew to become the youngest-ever greatest actress winner two years in the past for hard-hitting teen drama “Euphoria,” is tipped to repeat along with her work on the present’s sophomore season.
