Sam Amico
Critics and fans had some high praise for the final season of This Is Us;. But the Emmys? Not so much.
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And that didn’t sit well with co-stars Mandy Moore and Chrissy Metz.
Despite being nominated for Best Drama Series four times previously, the final run received but one nomination this year — and for just for Original Music and Lyrics to boot.
“Do I wish our show was recognized in what I think was its finest hour? Sure,” Moore wrote on Instagram.
She wasn’t finished.
“And Dan Fogelman’s brilliant writing for 6 seasons (hello THE TRAIN)?” she wrote. “Ken Olin’s impeccable direction? Our insanely, wildly talented cast and crew? Yah…. But nothing can take away what our show meant to SO MANY (us included). That’s an incredible legacy to be a part of. I will be grateful forever.”
The one nomination was for the song The Forever Now, for the song “The Forever Now,” co-written by Moore’s husband, Taylor Goldsmith, and Siddhartha Khosla.
“So unendingly proud of Siddhartha Khosla and Taylor Goldsmith for getting an Emmy nom for their song ‘Forever Now’ on our final season,” Moore wrote.
Metz was equally befuddled, as she relayed in her own Instagram post.
When there are people who are so innately, incredibly gifted and talented who write a show — Dan Fogelman — and who act and star in a show — Mandy Moore — that don’t get recognized for their beautiful work?” she said. “And the way that they have changed people’s lives and hearts and minds, and for the connective tissue between other human beings, and they don’t get recognized for it? I understand it’s not everything, honey, but it’s something.”
Series creator Dan Fogelman was a bit more diplomatic.
“The Emmy noms didn’t break for #ThisIsUs today — if you’re happy when they go your way, you’ve got to take it on the chin when they don’t,” he tweeted. “That entire group wins a ‘Danny’ in my book.”
