The Emmy Nominations 2018: Game of Thrones and The Tale of the Maid, a Duel Drama

Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have received nominations in the 70th edition of the awards of the television academy of the United States, both in the interpretive categories of limited series. But the battle will look more close is the best drama between Game of Thrones and The Tale of the Maid (The Handmaid’s Tale), as well indicate the nominations.

When Game of Thrones decided not to compete in the previous edition because it had no new episodes, it not only allowed Elisabeth Moss’s The Fairy Tale to sweep for best drama, as well as getting awards in direction, photography, screenplay, high school and guest actress, but the Seven Kingdoms also created a monster with which they will have to fight on September 17.

The Game of Thrones domain is noted in the technical categories, in addition to mentions for Peter Dinklage, Lena Heady and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as secondary, while The Handmaid’s Tale is the rival to fear in the interpretative categories with Elisabeth Moss as the leading actress , Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd and Yvonne Strahovsky as secondary and Joseph Fiennes as secondary. It is a battle between quality and show against quality and the message where The Americans, The Crown, Stranger things, This is us and Westworld, also nominated as best drama, seem to have been awarded the role of mere spectators of the duel.

As for the best comedies, highlights the absence of Veep, the winner of the last three editions, because it has not issued episodes in the eligible period. This leaves freeway to Atlanta, Barry, Blackish, Curb your enthusiasm, Glow, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Silicon Valley and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

It also allows an actress other than Julia Louis-Dreyfus to finally win the Emmy as best comedy actress since 2011 (yes, Louis-Dreyfus had six consecutive victories). It’s time Pamela Adlon (Better Things), Rachel Brosnahan (Mrs Maisel), Issa Rae (Insecure), Tracee Ellis Ross (Blackish), Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie) and Allison Janney (Mom) to win the prize. The latter, who has already taken twice the prize for Mom as a secondary, has changed category after taking the Oscar in the spring for Yo, Tonya.

And where do Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas fit into all this? Well in the categories of limited series, what was previously known as a miniseries and now includes the series of anthology that change the plot each season as The murder of Gianni Versace: American crime story where Penelope Cruz nailed her performance as Donatella Versace, paper by which already part as a favorite as a secondary actress. His rivals will be Adina Porter (American horror story), Merrit Wever (Godless), Judith Light (The murder of Gianni Versace), Sara Bareilles (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Laetitia Wright (Black Mirror).

Antonio Banderas, however, competes to get into the skin of Pablo Picasso in Genius, who does not have many options to take the award for the best miniseries where Criss part as a favorite. The other nominees are Benedict Cumberbatch (Patrick Melrose), Jeff Daniels (The Looming Tower), John Legend (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Jesse Plemons (Black Mirror).