Netflix’s Squid Game is poised to make history: It could garner the most nominations for a foreign-language show. Credit… Netflix
Here’s the good news for Netflix: It’s a virtual lock to land multiple nominations in the Best Drama race.
The hit “Stranger Things”, the first season of the South Korean thriller “Squid Game” and the last season of the crime thriller “Ozark” are expected in the race.
“Squid Game” is poised to make history in its own right, and is likely to garner the most nominations for a foreign language show. (Apple TV+ drama “Pachinko,” which is mostly in Korean and Japanese, could also win Best Drama.)
The Emmy love would be welcome news for Netflix executives after an ugly few months that have sent the streaming giant into a tailspin: its stock price has plummeted, hundreds of employees have been laid off and a week remains before a possible announcement of a new subscriber loss.
All three Netflix series will face a challenging obstacle: “Legacy,” the HBO series that won best drama in 2020, the last year it was nominated. The family drama is the early favorite to win again for the series’ third season, which ended in December 2021.
Brian Cox in Legacy, the HBO series that won the 2020 Emmy for Best Drama. Credit… Graham Hunter/HBO
HBO and its companion streaming service, HBO Max, have had a big year and will come armed with a slate of programming that could secure a significant number of nominations, including for “Euphoria,” “Hacks,” “Barry,” “The Gilded Age ” and “The White Lotus”.
Netflix and HBO have had the most nominations of any television network twice in the last four years. Netflix was on top in 2018 and 2020; HBO took the title in 2019 and 2021.
Bragging rights at the Emmys was crucial for Netflix, and that was before it needed a shot in the arm.
Last year, when Netflix tied a 47-year-old record held by CBS for the most Emmy wins in a single year, its executives took a victory lap, holding a media press conference to boast about their “historic” night. And when visitors enter the lobby of Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters, they’re greeted by the sight of dozens of Emmy statuettes mounted on a wall, surrounded by hundreds of flowers.
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