2025 Emmys Recap
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This year’s Emmy Awards saw big wins for Adolescence, The Studio, and The Pitt. The telecast was also packed with a couple of surprise wins, a show of undeniable goodwill toward Stephen Colbert, and a tedious recurring bit led by host Nate Bargatze.
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| 0:00.0 | So hey, before we start the show, if pop culture happy hour has ever helped you explain |
| 0:04.0 | Barbenheimer, survive a Marvel phase, or helped you make sense of the Emmy winners and losers, |
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| 0:15.6 | Thanks so much. |
| 0:20.6 | Last night was a lovely night for the folks who worked on the studio, the pit, and adolescents. |
| 0:26.4 | These series won big at the Primetime Emmy Awards. |
| 0:29.4 | It was also an evening packed with a couple of surprise wins, a show of undeniable goodwill towards Stephen Colbert, and a tedious recurring bit led by host Nate Bergezzi. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm A.S. Harris. It's 1240 a.m. And don't worry, the Boys and Girls Club definitely won't be |
| 0:45.2 | penalized if we run on too long recapping the Emmys here on Pop Culture Happy Art. Joining me are my |
| 0:51.8 | fellow co-host, Linda Holmes. Hello, Linda. |
| 0:55.6 | Hello, Ayesha. |
| 0:57.7 | Hello, and Glenn Weldon. |
| 0:58.4 | Hey, Glenn. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, pal. |
| 1:02.2 | Well, this was a busy night, so let's get right to it. |
| 1:05.4 | First off, we have one of our favorites, I think. |
| 1:07.6 | We've talked about this on the show, The Pit. |
| 1:12.8 | This is the HBO Max Hospital show that followed Noah Wiley and other doctors and nurses over the course of one long shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room. This show won |
| 1:18.0 | Outstanding Drama Series, lead actor in a drama series for Noah Wiley, and supporting actress |
| 1:23.0 | for Catherine La Nassaf. She plays the charge nurse, Dana Evans. Linda, I know this is one of your favorite shows of the year. How do we feel about some of these wins? Oh, I was delighted. You know, I think there are multiple good shows in that category. You know, obviously, Severance had been nominated, which is a show I admire a lot. The Last of Us have been nominated, which is a show I think has a lot going for it. There were a lot of good shows in there. But this was my favorite. You know, this was my favorite of the |
| 1:48.8 | year. It was one that moved me the most. I also think it's interesting that it's a little bit of a |
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