The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards is now in the books, bringing an end to the 2025-2026 TV awards season. Now it’s time to try to figure out why we wound up with the results that we did. Let’s start with Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay, which essentially swept the comedy categories. Between Monday’s Primetime ceremony and last week’s Creative Arts ceremonies, it claimed a field-leading 14 wins including best comedy series, actor (Matthew Rhys), supporting actor (Stephen Root), supporting actress (Kate O’Flynn), directing (Hiro Murai) and writing (Katie Dippold) — all despite barely registering on anyone’s Emmys radar until well after it began…
