By Karl Quinn
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Well, that’s another year done and dusted. The Emmy Awards have been presented, the tables have been cleared and the floors swept, and the drinks quaffed and/or cried into. We watched the ceremony on Monday so you didn’t have to – and if you want to know what went down, you can read the blow-by-blow blog here or the key moments summary here. Now all that’s left is for you to catch up on the shows that the Television Academy deemed the year’s best. There are plenty to choose from, but what follows are the standouts, as determined by the voters and by us. Happy viewing.
What it won: Five awards, including outstanding drama series, lead actor (Noah Wyle), guest actor (Shawn Hatosy), and supporting actress (Katherine LaNasa).
Where to watch it: HBO Max (via Foxtel and Amazon Prime Video)
What we said about it: “The show, set in real time over a 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency department, has been praised by many in the medical community for its accuracy. That goes not just for the medicine on screen (though that really is notable, with emergency room doctor/ER producer Joe Sachs on the writing team, and practising doctors training actors on set) but also the types of characters, their relationships to each other and their patients, and, crucially, the trauma they hold. The series is unflinching in its depiction of the human suffering [the medicos] deal with daily … as well as issues such as violence from patients and post-COVID PTSD.” Read Meg Watson’s feature here.
