Welcome to Marvelous Disney, the podcast that discusses the most recent doings at one of

the more dynamic divisions of the Walt Disney Company, which is of course Marvel Entertainment.

This is Entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the amazing Aaron Adams and I,

are recording this episode on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

And lots of news this week, so let's get right to that.

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Okay, Aaron, so this year's Emmy nominations got announced earlier today, like four and five

hours ago. What did you make of Marvel Studios, WandaVision, and Falcon of the Winter Soldier,

and have a combined total of 28 Emmy nominations?

Well, it seemed like it was a signal for many different things. First, the idea that superhero movies

and TV shows never get recognized as being worthy of an accolade or an award, and all of a sudden

they're making up for it now. And second, there wasn't that much competition out there,

so all you had to do was show up looking good, and you were in. And all of the Marvel stuff,

whether we've had nitpicks with story issues here and there minor little quibbles, it all looked

smoking hot. And so yeah, they looked good. They came bringing their A-game, and again, the only

thing we had were minor quibbles. And there have been other shows done for subscription streaming

services. In fact, Daredevil, The Punisher, and The Defenders, all got creative Emmy nominations,

years back. Likewise, ABC's Agents of Shield, they got creative art Emmy nominations, so we're

talking for effects, we're talking to get it for costume, set design, that sort of thing.

What was different this time around, though, was that you had above the line nominations. As in,

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