Awards Daily’s Jalal Haddad joins Joey, Megan, and Clarence to take a closer look at the 2022 Emmy race. Only six weeks remain in the Emmy season! With roughly six major limited series to premiere in the remainder of the season, what has the potential to break through? What already seen series lead the race currently? We break the Limited Series race down with a deep conversation about Showtime’s The First Lady.

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Last week, Elizabeth Holmes changed out of her black turtleneck, stopped lowering her voice, and got a dog. One of the most buzzed about limited series of 2022 so far, The Dropout has been steadily gaining momentum as a true contender for this year’s upcoming Emmy race. Is the series itself in contention or will Amanda Seyfried be the show’s best shot? Can someone in the show’s huge cast make the cut to help solidify its award chances? Is this the last we will see of Seyfried as Holmes? Megan and Joey speculate on this week’s episode.

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We’re in between series, and much of what we’ve seen is under embargo. So, this week at the Water Cooler, we’re taking a little breather. Joey constructed a quick quiz for Megan and Clarence based on our knowledge of Emmy trivia. Who wins? And does Joey actually get all his own questions right? Find out on this week’s podcast!

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This week, we’re reviewing the 94th Annual Academy Awards ceremony where a bunch of films won some awards. You may also know it as the ceremony where Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s hair, and Will Smith smacked him across the face. We talk about the ceremony: what we liked, what we didn’t like, and what we lamented.

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This week, the Water Cooler Podcast looks at Hulu’s new limited series The Dropout. Oscar-nominee (Mank) Amanda Seyfried stars as Elizabeth Holmes, the infamous founder of tech startup Theranos. The series explores Holmes’s journey from a Steve Jobs-wannabe to a convicted criminal. On the podcast, we examine the series and Seyfried’s performance. Are both Emmy contenders? Or is this just a play for Seyfried? Find out as we dive into The Dropout on the latest Water Cooler Podcast.

As always, we close with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

Be sure to join us next week for another Twitter Spaces live discussion. We’ll be joined by Jalal Haddad as we discuss the crazy-packed Comedy Emmy race.

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This is a recording of our first Water Cooler Podcast Twitter Spaces. In it, Clarence, Joey, Megan, and Jalal lead a panel discussion about the 2022 Emmy Season, starting off with Drama Series. Who are the major contenders, and how did this weekend’s SAG Awards influence the race? Plus, are there any late-breaking series that could alter the trajectory?

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This week, the Water Cooler Gang is happy to welcome Steve Mason, of ESPN radio and the co-host of the Culture Pop podcast, to break down the big races at this weekend’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. The SAG Awards cover performances and stunts in both film and television, and it’s time to figure out who’s going to win. We look at who the front runners are and who could potentially upset. Oscar nomination leader The Power of the Dog received three individual performance nominations, but it missed out on a SAG Ensemble bid. So, what could win in its place? It is Belfast? CODA? Don’t Look Up? On the TV side, Succession and Ted Lasso lead all SAG contenders with five nominations each. Will those translate into wins? Join us as we sort through all of the nominations and try to make sense of it all.

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Make sure to follow Awards Daily TV on Twitter for next week’s premiere Twitter Spaces outing. Megan, Joey, and Clarence will be joined by Jalal Haddad to discuss the latest in the 2022 Emmy race.

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This week, the Water Cooler Gang discusses Netflix’s newest limited series Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky. Critics have been mixed on the Shonda Rhimes-produced series, but is it better than its reputation? Does Julia Garner’s performance — underneath that bizarre accent — deserve Emmy recognition? What about Anna Chlumsky? We review the series and forecast its potential Emmy chances.

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Make sure to tune in next week as Steve Mason of the Culture Pop podcast joins us to weigh in on the upcoming SAG Awards!

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HBO’s Sex and the City returned late last year with a new series that famously excluded Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones. However, critics and the internet in general greeted And Just Like That with knives out. And perhaps justifyingly so. The pilot episode missed the original run’s breathless delivery and light execution. Granted, someone died, which wasn’t exactly a hilarious way to start a very different, very modern series, very Che-filled series. But we’ve got 10 episodes behind us, so how did the series stick the landing? Joey leads the conversation in a defense of And Just Like That. Are Clarence and Megan along for the ride?

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Are you ready for it?

Hulu’s Pam and Tommy limited series dips back into the mid-1990s and explores the infamous internet sensation of the first major sex tape commonly sold on the internet. Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), the series takes a broad approach to what appears to be a relatively simple storyline. Lily James and Sebastian Stan play the titular characters with James crafting a remarkably sensitive portrait of the Baywatch star. But does the material warrant an 8-episode limited series? We dive into the series on the latest edition of the Water Cooler Podcast.

But first, Megan gives us a look at the fully remote 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

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