How vicious is the Roy family from HBO’s “Succession”? Brian Cox, who plays powerful patriarch Logan Roy, and Jeremy Strong (as his son Kendall Roy) managed to help push out two mainstays in the Emmys’ lead drama actor category this year: Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) and Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us”). Odenkirk was nominated four times, while Ventimiglia earned three consecutive nods — but neither are in the mix this time out, now that Cox and Strong have joined the race. Also new to the field, and perhaps the biggest surprise this year, is Steve Carell. Like Cox and Strong, Carell plays a despicable media figure in “The Morning Show”: disgraced news anchor Mitch Kessler, whose sexual misconduct leads to the series’ Season 1 plot. Meanwhile, returning are last year’s category winner Billy Porter (“Pose”), 2017 victor Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) and Jason Bateman, in his third consecutive nod for “Ozark.
- 8/12/2020
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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