Shōgun's Moeka Hoshi and Cosmo Jarvis snubbed from Emmy nominations while RDJ received The Sympathizer's only nod

Dear Gossips,

After the Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, there was the usual talk about snubs. Shōgun was the most nominated series overall with 25 total but nothing for Cosmo Jarvis. Is he a snub though?

That entire cast could have been nominated – like if you’re going to consider Cosmo a snub, then you also haaaaave to consider Moeka Hoshi a snub too because Fuji was an MVP on that show! How dare they underestimate her!

To go back to Cosmo Jarvis though… he wasn’t really campaigning for it. Cosmo was at a couple of events in February when the show premiered but since then, he’s been largely insignificant on the circuit which, well, if you know Shōgun, kinda tracks with the story, doesn’t it? He understood the assignment, both on screen and off. To me, it’s not an issue that he’s not nominated.

However, we may not be able to say the same about HBO’s The Sympathizer. The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, centers the experience of Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War. Hoa Xuande plays the lead character, The Captain, a double agent torn between loyalty and disillusionment and also struggling with identity, not just because of his precarious position but because he ends up living in America for a period as a spy. It’s a nuanced and delicate performance.

Robert Downey Jr, meanwhile, plays four different characters, each of them representing “American patriarchy in all its glorious ugliness”, which is how executive producer Susan Downey described his roles.

And, well, wouldn’t you know, The Sympathizer received exactly ONE Emmy nomination yesterday. Guess who got it? RDJ, of course. Did the Television Academy understand the assignment or did they not understand the assignment?

Maybe the answer here is that they just keep doing the same assignment over and over again?