Netflix’s best new show is a Surefire Emmy Competition

This week I find myself reminded of a situation back in April 2023 when I saw “beef” on Netflix for the first time. “Oh man, they both need Emmys for this,” I remember I was thinking about its leads. Then we had almost a year later Steven Yeun and Ali Wong pick up Best actor and actress in a limited series Trophies at Emmys.

Now I want to call a shot again.

Another Netflix show. Another story of terrible people. Another actor that I think will definitely win an Emmy a year from now. The show is Apple cider vinegar And the actress is Kaitlyn Dever, who plays Australian influencer Belle Gibson, who falsified to have brain cancer to build a wellness brand, even go so far as to get his recipe -app shown as part of the Apple Watch debut.

It’s hard to exaggerate how much Dever throws himself into the role of serial narcissist and unstable liar in the show, completely transformed from everything I’ve seen her in, which is a large number of entitled to booksmart to incredible. Truly, I had no idea that she could push herself this far.

One of the wildest parts of DEVER’s performance is her almost perfect Australian accent as an American from Arizona, so much that actual Australians have assumed she was Australian after watching the show, and was surprised to hear that she wasn’t . While we have seen foreign actors make pretty convincing American accents many times, this is not often the case.

But it’s not just about accent work here, it’s about DEVER’s electric, often terrible performance as the repulsive Belle Gibson, that influencer whose life was revealed after her lie was found along with discoveries of charity fraud that she had to pay $ 410,000 as a fine. Last time we heard, real life Gibson had not paid these fines, claiming to be broken, and by 2020 and 2021, the police went home to seize items related to these unpaid fines.

I definitely think Dever’s transformation into Belle will get a nomination and not even have seen other shows over the next ten months, like beef, I will call her to win, especially in the smaller pool of the category limited series . I also wanted to do the case for 100/fearing The Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey, who was re-opening for her role as Milla, an influencer who actually had cancer that she should get a best supportive nomination or win at the same time.

In fact, I think Dever might end up with two Emmy nominations in the same year, one for apple cider vinegar and another, possibly for the last of us season 2, where she will play Abby, the co-line of the second season that adapts Part of the second game. No, we haven’t seen her performance yet, but a) Knowing DEVER’s abilities, b) know what the role of Abby will involve and c) The last of us season 1 is nominated for 24 emmys, yes, I think, She wants to be nominated. And if she’s not into apple cider vinegar, I don’t know what the award show is right.

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