Emmys 2023: Who will win from ‘Succession’? All the drama from the drama categories
LA TimesAre all those great moments, big and small, from the final, glorious season of “Succession” — the grief, the backstabbing, the ludicrously capacious bags, the thick and chewy earlobes, the off-the-rack, Reagan-with-tweaks funerals, the “eldest boy” staring off into the Hudson River — still burned in your brain? I’ve noted that Strong has already won, which in my perfect “Succession” Emmy universe would have happened for Season 3 for his work in the episode that found Kendall throwing himself a 40th birthday party, singing Billy Joel’s “Honesty” and curling up into a fetal position after declaring himself “anti-fragile.” And that would leave the final Emmy for Culkin, who I think will indeed win, as Roman spent the final season in a heartbreaking spiral, culminating in a eulogy to his father that he couldn’t pull off because a part of him still hadn’t fully accepted that Logan was no longer alive. Couldn’t the three “Succession” nominees split the vote, allowing Bob Odenkirk to finally win for “Better Call Saul”? At this point, it’s a better record if “Better Call Saul,” starring Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk, never earns an Emmy at all. When the apocalypse arrives, I sure hope I meet someone as resourceful as Bill, the survivalist who has mastered the art of booby traps and pairing rabbit with Beaujolais, or someone as kind as Frank, the lovely man he meets and falls in love with in “Long, Long Time,” the beautiful third episode of “The Last of Us.” Offerman and Bartlett, writer Craig Mazin and director Peter Hoar gave us a magical, moving and, yes, epic love story, remarkable given that they sketched out the relationship’s 16 years over the course of about 40 minutes.