Bonus Ep: Breaking Down the 2025 Emmy Nominations (with Myles McNutt)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, David and Myles McNutt from the Episodic Medium newsletter discuss the 2025 Emmy nominations (you can watch our live broadcast on YouTube here).
Which shows came away with some of the biggest nominations? Why do the “Guest Actor” categories continue to be a travesty? What were the biggest snubs? And was this overall a shameful year for the Emmys or did we experience less shame? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. It's me David Chen here at Decoding TV. Welcome to Decoding TV bonus episode. Today we're going to talk about the 2025 Emmy nominations. And joining me for this conversation is one of the most knowledgeable people about television who exists on the internet. He's the creator of the episodic medium newsletter, which I consider a must read. |
| 0:21.3 | Check it out at episodicmedia.substack.com. Miles McNutt, welcome back to Decoding TV. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you so much for having me. And in addition, I appreciate the night words about me and TV |
| 0:31.0 | generally, but I am particularly obsessive about the Emmys. So I do feel like, well, I might |
| 0:35.6 | sometimes be like, oh, no, no, that's not true. |
| 0:38.1 | I am 100% the most obsessive person to have this conversation with to discuss this particular |
| 0:43.4 | time. |
| 0:43.8 | And that is why we are so blessed to have you here. |
| 0:46.5 | So the Emmy nominations were announced today. |
| 0:49.9 | And what we wanted to do here is talk about some of the biggest stories to come out of these nominations. |
| 0:55.6 | And I'm going to read a little bit here from the Hollywood Reporter about what the nominees were. |
| 1:00.1 | So let's just kind of talk about what some of the big stories were here, all right? |
| 1:05.3 | Severance leads the nominees for the 2025 Emmy Awards, which were announced Tuesday. |
| 1:10.0 | The Apple TV Plus series nabbed a total of 27 nominations, including Best Drama Series, |
| 1:15.3 | where it will compete alongside Andor, the Diplomat, The Last of Us, Paradise, the pit, slow horses, and the White Lotus. |
| 1:21.3 | The Penguin was next with a total of 24 nominations followed by the studio and the White Lotus with 23 apiece. The Last of Us was 16 |
| 1:28.8 | and or and hacks with 14 nominations each and adolescents, the bear and the pit with 13 |
| 1:35.2 | nominations a piece. The studio tied the record for most nominations in a single year for |
| 1:40.3 | a comedy series tied with the Bears Hall in 2024 and it will compete for best comedy series |
| 1:44.8 | with Abbott Elementary the bear nobody wants this only murders in the building shrinking and what |
| 1:49.2 | we do in the shadow so those are some of the big shows that got a ton of nominations those were |
| 1:54.6 | basically the shows that the television academy recognizes these are the biggest highest quality |
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