Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Bethonie Butler.
The history-making moment also felt like a victory for another show: “Gilmore Girls,” Sherman-Palladino’s beloved series about a close mother-daughter duo, played by Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel.
Despite its intense fan following, “Gilmore Girls” failed to gain mainstream award recognition.
Over its seven seasons, the show won just one Emmy — in the non-prosthetic makeup category. Sherman-Palladino was nominated before for her writing on “Roseanne,” but never received a nomination for “Gilmore Girls,” something fans were quick to point out Monday night on social media.
She deserves this for Maisel and for all the years of Gilmore Girls where she didn’t get the credit she deserved for some of the best most intelligent complex dialogue in the game. #Emmys
— Sydney Calvert (@SydneyRae45) September 18, 2018
The awards landscape for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” already looks a lot different. In January, less than two months after it arrived on Amazon, the show won best TV comedy at the Golden Globes, where Rachel Brosnahan nabbed the award for best actress in a TV comedy.
Both the show and Brosnahan received those same accolades at the Emmys, and Alex Borstein won for best supporting actress. Sherman-Palladino also picked up a Creative Arts Emmy last weekend for outstanding music supervision, sharing the award with her husband, Daniel Palladino, an executive producer on the series, and music supervisor Robin Urdang. (Disclosure: Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post. The Lily is a publication of The Washington Post.)
Another “Gilmore Girls” alum, Bledel, was nominated in the supporting actress category for Hulu’s critically-acclaimed drama “The Handmaid’s Tale,” while her former co-star Milo Ventimiglia was nominated for best lead actor in NBC’s tear-jerker drama “This Is Us.”
