Insecure Emmy Nominations 2022 | POPSUGAR Entertainment

The final season of “Insecure” was among the many honorees when the 2022 Emmy Award nominations had been introduced on July 12. The present, which wrapped up in December 2021, bought nominations for excellent actress in a comedy collection for Issa Rae, plus excellent single-camera image enhancing for a comedy collection and excellent cinematography for a single-camera collection (half-hour). But the information was nonetheless disappointing to followers, because the present missed out on a nomination for excellent drama collection, and nobody else from the solid acquired a nod.

Rae reacted to the brand new on Tuesday afternoon in an Instagram Story. “Emmy-nominated on a Tuesday?! On a Tuesday?” she mentioned with an enormous smile. “I gotta give like to my ‘Insecure’ fam, to Prentice [Penny], Yvonne [Orji], Jay [Ellis], to our wonderful writers,” she continued. She additionally gave like to Nena Erb and Ava Berkofsky, who acquired the present’s different two nominations. Then she shouted out different nominees, together with Robin Thede and “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” Quinta Brunson and “Abbott Elementary,” and her “Insecure” costar Natasha Rothwell, who was nominated for her work on “The White Lotus.” Rae completed her video with a shout-out to “Just all people out right here successful, all people Black that is doing it,” a reference to her own viral comments about rooting for everyone Black on the 2017 Emmys.

“Insecure” has been nominated 11 occasions earlier than, together with two nods for Rae as lead actress and one for Orji as supporting actress. The first yr the present was nominated was in 2020 for excellent comedy collection for season 4. The present has solely received as soon as earlier than, for enhancing that yr. It’s disappointing, although not shocking, that the Emmys — which have been previously criticized for ignoring diverse actors and creators — didn’t acknowledge and honor this groundbreaking, hilarious comedy collection about Black ladies and their experiences.

Back in October, Orji opened as much as POPSUGAR concerning the final day on set for the present, which ran 5 seasons. She mentioned, “[It] was very emotional. Tears had been shed. For me, it was realizing [that] that is it, that is actually it.”

Orji defined, “We knew the tip was coming, however we bought to the tip and it was like, ‘Wow, it is not the identical anymore. We need to let one another go to do different issues.’ Love remains to be there, friendship remains to be there, nevertheless it’s not the identical. We had a shared expertise [where] all of us bought to be the ‘first’ in so many various methods and now that has helped us to develop into the those that we are actually.”

“Nothing will ever be the identical, however we can’t get these moments once more as a result of it already occurred for the primary time with one another, so now we now have to let one another go to go do different dope issues,” Orji mentioned. “So it was great.”

The 74th annual primetime Emmy Awards will air on NBC on Sept. 12.