"The Leftovers" Season 3 is filming its third and final season in Australia, and on Thursday, July 14, the world of television will be announcing its best of the best in the annual Emmy Awards nominations. There's a good chance "The Leftovers" will finally get a spot on the best drama category, if only regular and avid TV viewers are the ones who will cast the vote.
'The Leftovers' Best Drama Series Nomination?
At the Gold Derby site, fans declare "The Leftovers" as one of its top choices for the drama category and it is, in fact, the show with the most mentions. It has received the most votes over "Game of Thrones," with "The Americans" also emerging as another top drama show.
Vanity Fair notes that "The Leftovers" should be in the Emmy nominations this year, citing that the how is "quite unlike anything else on television."
Hidden Remote also makes a case for "The Leftovers," calling Season 2 "near perfectly executed." Hopefully, Emmy voters have indeed given the show a lot of consideration.
The Television Academy previously posted its Emmy nomination ballots on its website, where actor like Justin Theroux (as Kevin Garvey), Carrie Coon (as Nora Durst), Amy Brenneman (as Laurie Garvey), Christopher Eccleston (as Reverend Matt Jamison), Ann Dowd (as Patti Levin), Regina King (as Erika Murphy) and Liv Tyler (as Meg) were listed to be recognized. The results of the nominations will be officially announced in the morning of July 14.
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'The Leftovers' Cast News - Carrie Coon, Christopher Eccleston
Meanwhile, Carrie Coon of "The Leftovers" has recently been cast to lead the FX drama series "Fargo" for Season 3. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress is going to star in the anthology series as the chief of police and a single mother. The show will also feature Ewan McGregor in the lead role and will premiere in 2017.
In an interview with NPR, Christopher Eccleston revealed that working on "The Leftovers" has made him re-assess his beliefs in religion and faith, as the show delved on these themes a lot. "There is certainly a huge part of me that feels intense anger against organized religion," the actor said, who is a self-confessed agnostic. "But I do feel, at the moment, a little more spiritually open to what may be religious beliefs," he added.
"The Leftovers" returns for Season 3 in 2017. The show runs on HBO.
