X-Men ’97 Deserves a Best Drama Emmy Nomination

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( for your consideration [X-Men ’97 Deserves a Best Drama Emmy Nomination]( Move aside, Loki. Photo: Marvel The best drama on TV this season killed off a major character in its fifth episode, set an entire other episode amid a coup attempt on a far-off planet, and is a 27-years-later animated follow-up to a Saturday-morning cartoon. And if Disney+’s overlords are smart, they will make the radical but brilliant decision to push [X-Men ’97]( for a nomination in [Outstanding Drama Series](. X-Men has always used its mutants as a conduit to talk about real-world issues of discrimination and assimilation, and series creator Beau DeMayo and his writing and production team picked up exactly where X-Men: The Animated Series left off in 1997. Seamlessly translating [that show’s style](while thematically bringing the new series into the present day, the deep moral complexity of the Magneto-versus-humanity story makes this a more relevant show to our current moment than, to use but one Emmy-favored example, The Crown. Charles Xavier and Magneto’s longtime beef concerns whether it’s best for mutants to work toward a future co-existence with humans or just outright supplant them as the new dominant species of life on Earth. Admittedly, Magneto’s pitch has always sounded cooler, and with Professor X spending the majority of this season off-world with his alien lady friend, DeMayo has marinated ’97 in the idea that Magneto might just be right. What to do when a majority refuses to take its boot off of the neck of the minority is [a provocative and timely idea](, helping X-Men ’97 feel as vital as the animated series ever has. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Interview With the Vampire: [Puce-y Riot]( • The Valley: [Fish in the Sea]( • Dark Matter: [The Last 8 Hours]( • Under the Bridge: [Life After Death]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Best Names in Furiosa Are Also the Grossest The Fury Road prequel is packed with the nuttiest, most goofy-ass names George Miller could dream up.]( By Roxana Hadadi [Should Charlie Puth Be a Bigger Artist? We Asked Charlie Puth. He says yes (but he promises it’s not to inflate his ego).]( [Watch Hit Man on the Big Screen Now, Not on a Link Later This easy, breezy, crowd-please-y comedy oughta be a hit, man!]( By Rebecca Alter [The 8 Biggest Takeaways From Netflix’s Latest Ratings Dump No one watched your favorite prestige movie, but everyone ate up One Piece.]( By Josef Adalian and Eric Vilas-Boas [Romy Mars, Singing Coppola, Likes the Internet Putting Her in Her Place Being a Coppola comes with with an innate shrug toward attention.]( By Jason P. Frank [Someone Put Brad Pitt and George Clooney in a Get-Along Shirt They won’t stop bickering in the Wolfs trailer.]( By Zoe Guy [The First Shōgun Is So Back (on an Official Streaming Site) Seems like people might want to check it out.]( By Eric Vilas-Boas [Diddy’s Accusers Could Testify for a Federal Grand Jury Soon As even more allegations continue to emerge.]( By Justin Curto [Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos Are Already Back With Another One Kinds of Kindness won at Cannes and released a new trailer.]( By Zoe Guy [Surprise: There’s More-ana on the Way Moana tries to reconnect with her people in a new trailer.]( By Zoe Guy [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 6-Down, Five Letters: Emmy-winning Netflix docuseries Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name an Ang Lee movie with a 3+ word title? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images, Arturo Holmes/Getty Images, Samir Hussein/WireImage A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved