What to watch in anticipation of the Emmy awards?

With 25 quotes, Succession sits at the top of the nominations. To sum up Succession for those who don’t know this wonderful TV series looks like this: the four adult children of the CEO of a media conglomerate stick knives in their backs, insult each other royally and do not hesitate to throw brother or sister under the wheels of the proverbial bus to dethrone their conservative dad, Logan Roy (superb Brian Cox).

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This is the most heartwarming series of the last two years, filled with kindness, benevolence and good gags. Parachuted into London, American football coach Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) finds himself at the head of a declining soccer team, which he must bring back together. You don’t have to love sports to get into Ted Lasso. Each of the secondary roles is well defined and important in the story. It is not for nothing that honors rain down on this pure happiness production.

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Available on Apple TV+. Nominated 20 times at the Emmys.

hacks, it’s good, funny and smart. It is the comedy of the year and it is to be viewed on the Crave platform, which offers eight half-hours of the second season in English as well as in a French version with subtitles. The series is based on the complicated relationship that develops between boomer Deborah and her young millennial author Ava (Hannah Einbinder).

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Nominated 17 times at the Emmys.

It is at the same time superb, exhilarating and depressing. Glaucous, too. We look at a single plan and we know immediately that we are entering Euphoria with its overloaded suburban houses with brown wooden walls. But at the same time, what would Euphoria without all these excesses? The screenwriters screwed the abuse into the center of the plots. Darker and more violent, the second season picks up on New Year’s Eve, shortly after the breakup between Rue and his girlfriend Jules (Hunter Schafer), who jumped on a train to disappear at the end of the road.

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Available on Crave. Cited 16 times at the Emmys.

The series offered on Apple TV + collects 14 quotes. Without exagerating, Severance is one of the most original and surprising series of 2022. Yes, it starts slowly, it is the biggest flaw of the first two hours, do not despair. But when the anxiety-inducing plot takes off, it’s almost impossible to get out of it.

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Stranger Things is cited in 13 categories. Stranger Things has aged, like its performers, and its references are no longer aimed at pre-teens. It became a thrilling series of horror Itwhere new villain Vecna ​​resembles the terrifying Night King in Game Of Thrones. The children of Stranger Things have grown well. Their fans too. It was time to put away the ghostbusters to switch to The Opera of Terror.

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The comedy offered on Disney + collects seven quotes. Shot in the form of a mockumentary, this touching, intelligent and captivating series transports us to an elementary school in the heart of an underprivileged neighborhood in Philadelphia. Think of Modern Family and Parks and Recreation who would have had a baby.

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You Must Watch Survival Horror Thriller Yellowjacketsin which Quebec actress Sophie Nélisse landed one of the main roles alongside Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis, two icons of the 90s. gorebrilliant, intriguing, creepy, frightening and full of mysteries to be solved.

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Available on Crave. Nominated seven times at the Emmys.

Only Murders in the Building is a fun and witty series. Big thumbs up from my side. It is viewed in one go. Throughout the episodes, the viewer juggles motley pieces of the puzzle like a million-dollar erotic painting, hidden elevators, spicy secrets from the past, and rivalries that date back to the 1970s. Again, Martin Short inherits the the most powerful replies. He is hilarious.

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Available on Disney+. Nominated three times at the Emmys.