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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jul 13, 2017 5:12 PM UTC  Elisabeth Moss in the Handmaid's Tale, Sterling K. Brown in This Is Us, Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things. Elisabeth Moss in the Handmaid's Tale, Sterling K. Brown in This Is Us, Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things.George Kraychyk—Hulu; Ron Batzdorff/NBC; Curtis Baker/Netflix  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jul 13, 2017 5:12 PM UTC Thursday morning saw the [nominations for the Emmy Awards](http://time.com/4854403/emmy-nominations-2017/), the often behind-the-times but still authoritative prizes for the[ best of what’s on TV](http://time.com/4785118/best-tv-shows-2017-so-far/). The most notable new development in this year is big movement in the drama field, as [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/), the Emmys’ reigning Best Drama champ — and the [all-time-winningest prime-time series ](http://time.com/4498870/emmys-2016-game-of-thrones-most-wins/)— is out of contention due to its later-than-usual season this year. In the absence of _Thrones_, several new shows have the opportunity to grab the top prize, and, possibly win the first ever Best Drama gong for a streaming show. Here are the biggest developments from the nominations: ## **Fresh new dramas** The Emmys have the tendency to honor the same shows every year — it was big news, in 2016, when _The Americans_ broke into the Best Drama field in its fourth season. This year, though, thanks to shows either ineligible (_Thrones_, the now-concluded _Downton Abbey_) or falling out (sorry, _Americans_) no fewer than five of the seven Best Drama nominees were brand-new, with only _Better Call Saul_ and _House of Cards_ returning. And the new shows in the field come from across the spectrum of television. There are three streaming series (Netflix’s zeitgeist smash [_Stranger Things_ ](http://time.com/4662118/stranger-things-season-2-details/)and aesthetically ambitious _The Crown_ and Hulu’s much-discussed _Handmaid’s Tale_), one network show (NBC’s _This Is Us_, the first show from a broadcast channel to be nominated since _The Good Wife_ in 2011) and HBO (continuing a long streak of nominations with the sci-fi spectacle _Westworld_). It’s not hard to imagine that one of the three new streaming series — two of which helped fill the _Thrones_ vacuum by [generating endless chatter](http://time.com/4436008/stranger-things-netflix-references/) among [TV fans](http://time.com/4759957/handmaids-tale-book-vs-show-differences/), and the other of which is [expensively made and about an eminently awardable historical subject](http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-the-crown-most-expensive-tv-series-ever-2016-11) —could break a longstanding barrier for streaming TV. **MORE:**[ Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss on the Urgency of _The Handmaid’s Tale_](http://time.com/4734904/margaret-atwood-elisabeth-moss-handmaids-tale/) ## **_Transparent_** **out of Best Comedy** The rise of streaming seemed this year to largely apply to Netflix and, with _Handmaid’s_, an ascendant Hulu. Amazon saw its longtime awards stalwart _Transparent_ fall out of major categories in spite of (in my view) its third season being by far the series’s best. The series missed the Best Comedy trophy (the only one of last year’s nominees, including ABC’s long-in-the-tooth _Modern Family_, to do so). It also lost out in the comedy directing category, where creator Jill Soloway had won the past two years. With 17 nominations, HBO’s _Veep_ was, as ever, a powerhouse; unsurprising too was the bounty showered upon the one new Best Comedy nominee, FX’s critically-beloved _Atlanta_. The other big comedy surprise of the morning was Pamela Adlon’s acting nomination for FX’s _Better Things_, an underheralded show that generated some of last year’s heartiest laughs. ## **_This Is Us_** **shows surprising strength** _This Is Us_ landing a Best Drama nomination, even in an age where streaming dominates, wasn’t necessarily a shock — it’s got great support behind it as the last hope for broadcast TV drama, and is skillfully made (if manipulative). But the breadth of its support in acting categories was startling: In Best Actor, for instance, nominations went to not just past Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown but also Milo Ventimiglia. Supporting player Chrissy Metz as well as three guest actors (Denis O’Hare, Brian Tyree Henry, and Gerald McRaney) will be waiting to see if _This Is_ their golden moment, too. Still, _This Is Us_ was not the most nominated-drama; with strength across technical categories owing to the robots and interdimensional creatures they depict, _Westworld_ (22 nominations) and _Stranger Things_ (18) topped the leaderboard. (And in getting a supporting nomination for the supernaturally gifted Millie Bobby Brown and a guest nomination for “Barb” portrayer Shannon Purser, _Stranger Things_ has brought to the party two of the youngest nominees in recent memory.) Even if either or both loses the top prize (though an awards show that’s been more pop and populist of late suggests to me that one or the other will win), they may end up taking home the most trophies. ## **The power of** **_Saturday Night Live_** _Westworld_ shares its title as the most-nominated among all series with a much older series: NBC’s _Saturday Night Live_. Given that _SNL_ is the only program of its type with its rapid-fire prosthetic makeup and set construction, a high nomination count is hardly new; what _is_ new is the show’s wild dominance of acting categories. Fully half of the comedy supporting actress nominees are sketch comics who worked last year in 30 Rock: Vanessa Bayer (who’s since left the show), Leslie Jones and last year’s winner Kate McKinnon. Though not an official cast member, Alec Baldwin’s volume of appearances as Donald Trump on the series qualified him to enter the supporting actor field, where he looks like a frontrunner; five _SNL_ hosts, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dave Chappelle and Sean Spicer impersonator Melissa McCarthy, were nominated in the guest categories. This caps a year of renewed relevance for the late-night stalwart, which isn’t the only beneficiary of the present public engagement with newsy humor. TBS’s _Full Frontal With Samantha Bee_ and CBS’s _The Late Show With Stephen Colbert_, both of which came up empty for Outstanding Variety Talk Series nominations last year, are nominated this year. Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon’s _Tonight Show_, which has struggled to find its place in a newly political landscape on late night, was snubbed. (It’s the first time Fallon, as host of _Late Night_ or _Tonight_, has missed this nomination since 2010.) **MORE:** [Why _Saturday Night Live_ Is More Important Than Ever](http://time.com/4665207/saturday-night-live-alec-baldwin-donald-trump/) ## **A** **_Big Little Feud_** **brews** The story of the much-watched miniseries categories — a hotly-speculated-about field in the years since “limited series” have come into vogue — is a showdown between two hugely ambitious female-led projects. HBO’s domestic drama [_Big Little Lies_ ](http://time.com/4721757/nicole-kidman-big-little-lies-finale-celeste/)has the imprimatur of two major movie stars, a classy pedigree and above all shrewd insights about the ways in which society pits women against one another. So it’s a cruel irony that it’s, well, pitted against FX’s true-Hollywood-story _Feud: Bette and Joan_. With 18 nominations, the period-set, richly costumed and decorated _Feud_ has more nominations, but it’s hard to imagine _Lies_‘ breakout Nicole Kidman losing — even despite her stacked category. (Kidman’s competition includes, among others, costar Reese Witherspoon as well as _Feud_‘s Susan Sarandon and — Kidman’s toughest competition — Jessica Lange.) A category to watch to see where the wind is blowing may be Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, where _Lies_‘s Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley are up against _Feud_‘s Judy Davis and (in a pleasant surprise) Jackie Hoffman. _Lies_ was in many ways the TV story of the year — proving TV’s power to connect even the most well-established of stars with audiences in new ways and to tell stories of seemingly impossible complication in sensitive and powerful ways. And yet it becomes hard to imagine Emmys voters saying no to a story about how much every star loves the adulation of the crowd, and how hard it can be to keep up with Hollywood’s rapidly changing vogues. 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