Sandra Oh has made history as the first Asian woman to be nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category for her role in the BBC America series Killing Eve, Los Angeles Times writer Glenn Whipp reports on Twitter. She’s among good company, too. The other women nominated in…
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Betty Gilpin pulls a lot of faces as Debbie “Liberty Belle” Eagan, a former soap star turned campy stars-and-stripes-clad wrestling heroine on GLOW, Netflix’s comedy about a ’80s female wrestling league that’s back for a second season. (Caution: Spoilers for the season ahead.) There’s one in particular that pops up most frequently: a manic beauty-pageant…
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PHOTO: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Before the 2017 Emmy Awards even started, it was getting props for its diversity. Never had there been so many nominated shows starring people of color, like “Master of None,” “Atlanta,” “Black-ish,” and series about pressing women’s issues, like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and” Big Little Lies.” And they didn’t disappoint: it…
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PHOTO: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Sometimes, if you want something done right, you’ve got to do it yourself. And according to Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, that’s exactly what they did when they signed on to produce and star in HBO’s Big Little Lies. At the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night, the show took…
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PHOTO: Jackson Lee/Getty Images Did you catch Ben Affleck at the 2017 Emmy Awards? No? That’s because he was busy being a dutiful plus-one to his new girlfriend Lindsay Shookus, who is a producer on Saturday Night Live. While Affleck is used to being front and center at awards shows—typically as a nominee, winner, or…
Read moreThe 2017 Emmy Awards was an amazing night for women—both in front of and behind the camera. Not only were a slew of female-fronted and created TV shows nominated, they actually won. Several times over. Hulu’s searing drama series The Handmaid’s Tale and HBO’s Big Little Lies especially emerged as the powerhouses of the evening,…
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