The Television Academy voters prefer escapism to excellence in a rogue year
is so vast that you begin to wonder if the coronavirus situation addled some brains at the Television Academy. Perhaps they were so smitten with baby Yoda they lost their minds.is undoubtedly this year’s masterpiece. An unsettling meditation on the stain of slavery and the toxicity of racial hate, it is both a trenchant dismantling of the superhero genre, and a deeply disturbing portrait of the white-supremacist perspective in the United States.
, almost nothing for Pamela Adlon and her little masterpieceon FX, and a strange lack of notice for HBO’s acclaimed and timely adaptation of Philip Roth’sThe acting nominations also present a puzzle. But the absence of some performances can be explained by the sheer volume of TV on network, cable and streaming these days. For instance, according to the Academy, the submissions for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series amounted to 135, and last year the number was 88.
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