The Snubs, Surprises, and Historic Nods of the 2022 Emmy Nominations

The nominations for the 2022 Emmy Awards—which will air on Sept. 12—arrived Tuesday morning in a fiercely competitive TV landscape. Prestige TV and docudramas have proliferated across networks and streamers, contributing to what TIME’s TV critic Judy Berman has dubbed “peak redundancy,” a phenomenon marked by tediously similar offerings on streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, and Apple TV+. HBO, however, broke away from the pack with 25 nominations for Succession (this year’s most nominated show), 20 nominations for The White Lotus, 17 for Hacks, and 16 for Euphoria. Netflix’s global megahit Squid Game made history as the first non-English language nominee to receive a series nod (for best drama series). Two of its stars—Jung Ho-yeon (who played tenacious North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok) and Lee Jung-jae (who played tough-to-love protagonist Seong Gi-hun)—became first-time acting nominees. They numbered among 50 n