The 2020 Emmy season — like pretty much everything this year — is turning out to be strikingly unpredictable. Traditionally, the knock against the TV Academy has been that voters tend to choose the same handful of shows year after year — a rap not entirely undeserved.
But with last year's comedy and drama winners (Amazon's Fleabag and HBO's Game of Thrones, respectively) no longer in the running, the Academy has the chance to salute some new players and even spotlight a few underappreciated series that feel especially relevant now.
The protests of the past few weeks, sparked by the killing of George Floyd and the seemingly intractable pattern of police brutality that brought about his death, have marked a seismic cultural shift in the.