“Reservation Dogs” (finally) nominated for the Emmy as best comedy series

Reservation dogs finally gets some Emmy love in its final season.

The FX/Hulu comedy, co-created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, has long been a critical darling, garnering acclaim at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, Spirit Awards and Writers Guild Awards, but it hasn’t received any Emmy nominations – until Wednesday morning.

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The show was nominated for Best Comedy Series at the 2024 Emmys, competing alongside Abbott Elementary School, Curb your enthusiasm, Hacking, Only murders in the building, Palm Royale, The bear And What we do in the shadows.

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai was also nominated for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, as well as for Cinematography in a Single-Camera Comedy Series and Cinematography in a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour), for a total of four nominations. Reservation dogs has only received one Emmy nomination before this year, for Sound Editing in 2023.

The third and final season of the series, which follows a group of teenagers (Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs, Lane Factor and Paulina Alexis) coming of age on an Oklahoma Indian reservation, aired in the fall.

“I always knew how this story would end, I just didn’t know when it would happen,” Harjo wrote on Instagram last summer when he announced that season three would be the last. “As we continued to uncover stories and write scripts this season, it became clear to the producers, Taika and I that the season three finale was the perfect series Final.”

In addition to Reservation dogsFX had a particularly strong Emmys morning, with recognition for Shogun, The bear, Fargo, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, What we do in the shadows, Welcome to Wrexham And American Horror Story: Tender.

The 76th Emmy Awards will broadcast live from the Peacock Theater at LA Live on ABC on September 15 and stream on Hulu the next day.

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