Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

I'm David Canfield.

I'm Rebecca Ford.

And I'm Chris Murphy.

Yes, listener, you heard that correctly.

Richard has not left us, but he is on vacation because we're now talking about television

and he thought this was the perfect time to take a break.

He'll be back in a few weeks.

But in the meantime, we have Vanity Fair staff writer, Chris Murphy, here with us to Talk TV.

Hi, Chris.

Yes, I'm so happy to step in for Richard in his absence and excited to be back.

We are thrilled to have you.

So a little housekeeping on how today we'll go.

We are talking finally about Emmy season.

We're going to catch you guys up on shows we've been watching and what to expect this Emmy season.

But before we give a preview

of what's coming up later, what the frontrunners are, we're going to go around and each

provide some recommendations to get everyone in the Emmy mood. This helped me get in the Emmy mood.

So we selected two new shows that have already premiered are available for streaming and will contend

for Emmys this summer. And these are personal favorites, not signals of who will be destined to rack up the most

nominations. We will talk about those in a bit, although these deserve to rack up nominations.

So let's start, Chris, with one of your picks.

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