The 12 Most Shocking 2018 Emmy Snubs

Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones cleaned up, but what happened to Killing Eve, The Good Place, Billions, and Trust?

Brandon Anderson
7 min readJul 12, 2018

The 70th Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced this week, and in the age of Peak TV, it was a bloodbath. Favorites like The Handmaid’s Tale, Game of Thrones, and This Is Us cleaned up as expected, while critical darlings like The Americans and Atlanta got plenty of their own deserving recognition.

But in every Emmy season, we must start with the snubs. With so much prestige television, there just isn’t enough room for everyone on the ballot. So after perusing the full list of nominations, which TV shows and actors should be most incensed about their omission?

The Emmy’s don’t come until September 17, but that just means we have two full months to wonder what could have been for the 12 most glaring Emmy nominee omissions below…

Better Things (comedy)

Fine, Better Things isn’t really a comedy, and there certainly isn’t anything funny about being associated with Louis C.K. this year. But Better Things was brilliant and told stories from a women’s perspective that simply…

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Brandon Anderson

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