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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Emmys Nominations: 'The Studio,' 'Severance' Reign, Shocking Snubs, and Love for 'Somebody Somewhere'

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

David, Richard, and Rebecca discuss the biggest surprises and snubs of the Emmy nominations, from Squid Games' complete shut out to big wins for The Rehearsal and Sirens. They also chat about why Black Mirror did so well and which White Lotus star sadly didn't make the cut.

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0:00.0

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0:06.7

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0:11.5

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0:18.1

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for Film, TV, and Awards Lovers.

0:23.7

I'm David Canfield.

0:24.8

I'm Richard Lawson.

0:25.7

And I'm Rebecca Ford.

0:28.1

Welcome back, Rebecca.

0:29.5

You are here just in time for Emmy nominations.

0:32.0

It is Tuesday morning here in Los Angeles.

0:34.8

They were announced by Brenda Song and Harvey Guienne. Some surprises, some snubs, a lot of what we were expecting, and we are ready to get into all of it. In addition to just talking about how we did on our predictions, I think, pretty well, right, guys? Yeah, we did pretty well. I think just the most extreme of surprises got us. Yeah, we didn't see Megan Fahey coming.

0:55.6

No, who could.

0:56.3

There were plenty of categories where it was exactly what was predicted.

0:58.9

Yes, I'm going to be asking Rebecca about the Sirens nominations for about 10 minutes.

1:03.6

Probably not the headline that Sirens got four nominations, but maybe it's our headline.

1:08.8

Technically speaking, the headline is probably that Severance got 27 nominations for its second season.

1:16.0

And when we think about just how much of a question mark that show was before it returned after such a long break with so much reporting of behind the scenes drama, it's a pretty remarkable turnaround.

1:27.4

And then meanwhile, a show that

1:28.7

did seem much more solid at one point as an Emmy player, Squid Game, which won a bunch of Emmys

1:33.7

for its first season, got zero nominations in the drama races. So let's start there. That's

1:40.8

quite a discrepancy, but I was pretty shocked by just how badly Squid Game performed.

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