ER won in 1996 (season 2), then in 1997 Law and Order won best drama. I need to know way more about that year.
I get why The Practice won in 98 and 99, then the West Wing happened.
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EcstaticAd817912 hr ago
+5
West wing beating the HBO shows that were on at the time was always a joke
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lve2raft9 hr ago
+1
West wing is/was the best show ever
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Unusual-Ad489017 hr ago
+120
ER suffered from way too many competitors. The Pitt is a breath of fresh air in a stagnate genre.
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Koppite9315 hr ago
+37
Doesn't help (well it does the Pitt), that most other compelling dramas take years to release consecutive seasons now... Noah Wyle and the creators are doing it right 👍
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Purrmymeow13 hr ago
+12
Also the Pitt is on HBO. They love sucking HBO d***. ER was still getting noms up to 15th season, which is remarkable.
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notthatgeorge16 hr ago
-31
I wouldn't exactly call shows like Game of Thrones, Shogun, and Succession stagnant, and those are just the winners not even all of the nominees.
This year doesn't have many good dramas
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Unusual-Ad489016 hr ago
+21
I mean medical genres, emergency service shows etc.
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DookieFartz14 hr ago
+7
2 of those shows are already over and the third only has 1 season.
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notthatgeorge14 hr ago
-6
Okay so drama is a weak field right now so why is it so surprising they can win? It's no different than when other shows won twice in a row, it's all about competition.
And having one season like Shogun doesn't matter
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SmallshotLawyer13 hr ago
+7
It’s beyond obvious the guy is talking specifically about medical dramas mate
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notthatgeorge13 hr ago
-9
No by "genre" you could take it to mean drama, not medical drama
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TerribleAntelope613413 hr ago
+5
What year do you think it is?
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notthatgeorge13 hr ago
+1
Why does it matter?
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TerribleAntelope613413 hr ago
+7
Because we're talking about the here and now, of course. The original commenter is obviously saying it's a stagnant genre *right now*, and you're all like, "Hey, wait a minute, guys, how about *Game of Thrones*?"
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notthatgeorge13 hr ago
-5
Well I said Succession and Shogun because they were the winners immediately proceeding the pitt. It is not a stagnant genre, this year is a weak field, the rest were not.
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TerribleAntelope613413 hr ago
+3
And we're talking about this year, Einstein.
EDIT: Little twerp blocked me.
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notthatgeorge13 hr ago
-3
When someone says "stagnant genre" statistically you have to use more than one year Einstein. You're done here
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Negative_Baker_214118 hr ago
+90
Wild that “The Pitt” might get what “ER” never did, considering “ER” basically invented Prestige Hospital Chaos. This is my reminder to finally rewatch old “ER” on streaming somewhere.
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zemorah16 hr ago
+15
It’s on HBO Max or whatever they call themselves now. They’re always trying to autoplay it after I finish an episode of The Pitt lol
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Metroidman18 hr ago
+14
Does er get better? I watch like a couple episodes but it didnt scratch the same itch
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emailunavailable18 hr ago
+53
ER needed a few episodes to realize what it was able to do. The first-season episode "Blizzard" is the prototype episode for the first six seasons of the show. If your itch still doesn't get scratched after that episode, you are allowed to drop it.
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TheUmbrellaMan117 hr ago
+25
The first season had some absolutely banger episodes. Like "Love's Labor Lost." What an episode. If "Blizzard" was intense, "Love's Labor Lost" is straight-up horror.
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Peg-Lemac15 hr ago
+5
I still think about Love’s Labor Lost and I saw it when it aired. That episode and the Battleflag episode are the two most memorable of the series.
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nighthawk_md16 hr ago
-1
You can skip right to this one after the pilot. If this one doesn't grab you, then give up.
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djkhan2318 hr ago
-13
It's a very dated show at this point.
It was one of the more "prestige" network dramas but in 1994 then this was pre Sopranos and the bar wasn't very high.
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wagon_ear18 hr ago
+4
I will say, I did unironically love Twin Peaks when I first watched it in 2015, and not just in a "wow this must have been special when it first came out" kind of way.
But I do know what you mean - especially with television, it's tough for me to go back to many older network shows after having seen how far the medium came in the years that followed.
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djkhan2317 hr ago
Yeah Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, and Buffy are the only 90s shows I would go out of my way to recommend today. Technically Sopranos started in 99 so it goes in too.
For the reason you mentioned, the medium has evolved. Nothing about ER would feel original today. ER would be another network drama and would be cancelled within 1 season because The Pitt exists.
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pumpkinspruce16 hr ago
+3
Some of the storylines on ER are very much a product of their time, like any HIV/AIDS storyline, but mostly the show holds up fairly well. And it had incredible characters, plus the casting was a total home run.
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ERSTF12 hr ago
+2
I love The Pitt but ER was something else. Rewatch it and every episode felt like a mini movie. Somehow production values are higher in ER. The camera work is amazing and The Pitt looks like a TV show. As I said, The Pitt is great (if a bit too conventional) but ER was on a league of its own
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pepperbet116 hr ago
+14
Seems likely. Last year, its biggest competition was Severance. There's not an obvious alternative front runner this year.
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Itzli17 hr ago
+6
That's crazy, I really thought back in the day er was more respected than say grey's anatomy but it never got a second Emmy?
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Reveal-Basic17 hr ago
+19
It seems to have held its own, but its contemporaries were very hard to compete with. West Wing, The Practice, The Sopranos.
Same issue that befell Mad Men, which I love dearly, where it lost out of Emmy wins due to Breaking Bad existing during the majority of its seasons.
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DaHarbinger200015 hr ago
+3
It never won a 2nd Emmy for best drama. Winning twice doesn’t happen super easily. But ER was still getting noms out the ass and was always highly regarded. Not winning against no knock on it
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Purrmymeow13 hr ago
+1
I think ER is still the most nominated TV series ever.
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notthatgeorge16 hr ago
+6
ER competed against really good dramas, the drama field this year is really weak
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Captain-Wilco17 hr ago
+15
Andor deserved the first one
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AZ_RBB16 hr ago
+3
This is where awards become somewhat trivial
How can you compare those two shows and say one is better than the other
Putting aside how subjective the topic is to begin with, even if you focus on objective stuff like - storytelling, acting, production quality - the two shows are quite literally from different worlds
Either way, both beautifully made and great to watch
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higzgridz17 hr ago
+13
I don't think second season is worth the next emmy.. maybe another series should win...
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DaHarbinger200015 hr ago
+12
I think right now it’s still in the lead for quality of what is currently in contention. Task is probably in the anthology category. Knight of the 7 Kingdoms will compete. I mean I can’t name anything CURRENT in the drama category that is swinging at its weight class…do you? Even if season 2 wasn’t as good to you, what beat its right now?
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AKBearmace13 hr ago
+2
Interview with the Vampire but AMC refuses to air it in nomination windows or push it for nominations.
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adryy811 hr ago
+1
Task has announced another season iirc so it won't be in limited series.
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DaHarbinger200015 hr ago
+2
The Pitt tracking best makes sense but the most the others in that list were wack. Like I don’t know how they track the “odds”. Euphoria will NOT be nominated for this season. 2nd season of Paradise that ain’t happening. Task is an anthology show I’m pretty sure. Anyway it seems only based on past placement and not at all on if the latest season of something is any good.
But yes Pitt is front runner again right now only because it is still that good.
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pepperbet114 hr ago
+1
Task will submit as drama series. Ruffalo is returning for S2, and reprising his character, it's not an anthology.
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Eastcoastpal15 hr ago
+2
I hope they win the best ensemble again this year
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IMO202114 hr ago
+2
Stop with the comparisons. Things are different now than 20 years ago. ER will always be the best medical drama ever. To me, the Pitt doesn’t compare. Only saw S1 but the show lacked humor and personal chemistry; roles seem stoic. Recently watched ER and loved it. So far, the Pitt may be ok but nothing like ER.
*just one person’s opinion. *
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bolonomadic17 hr ago
+1
And so starts the cycle of the Emmys awarding the same series over and over and over again until it goes off the air.
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MidwestTroy9213 hr ago
first show in a while i have not half slept through on the couch. deserves the hype honestly.
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