Television’s biggest night has finally arrived, and the Game of Thrones franchise has once again secured its place at the table with hopes of adding to the franchise’s Emmy collection!
Tonight, the cast of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will be joined by showrunner Ira Parker and Game of Thrones mastermind George R.R. Martin at the 78th Annual Primetime Emmys, where the show has a chance to make history for the franchise. While the show might not be competing in many of the night’s top honors, including the various acting and technical races, it will be facing off for one of the biggest awards of the night: Outstanding Drama Series. If the show pulls off a win and takes home the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, it will officially make franchise history.
While the Game of Thrones franchise has cleaned up quite nicely at the Emmys over the years, no series in the franchise has managed to immediately break through the crowd and secure the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy right out of the gate.
Game of Thrones took home four Outstanding Drama Series Emmys during its eight-season run, but it wasn’t until the show’s later seasons that the Emmy voters recognized the show with the top honor. In fact, it wasn’t until five seasons into its run that the show broke through with its first nomination and win in the Outstanding Drama Series race when the show took home the Emmy in 2015. That would be the first of four Outstanding Drama Series Emmy wins for Game of Thrones, which took home the Emmy in 2016, 2018, and 2019, despite its later seasons dividing audiences.
It might have taken Emmy voters years to finally recognize Game of Thrones with the night’s top honor for a drama series, but the same cannot be said for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The show’s first season was so well-received that it managed to secure a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series for its inaugural season, which alone is a feat that no other show in the franchise has achieved. In fact, House of the Dragon has yet to be nominated for Outstanding Drama Series.
Should A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms pull off the upset and take home the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series at the 78th Annual Primetime Emmys, it will make history as the first Game of Thrones series to win the honor in the first season and become the fastest show in the franchise to take home the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, which is truly wild when you think about it. Even if luck is not on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms side, the show has already made history with its nomination, and that feat alone deserves to be celebrated.
House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones were both immediate successes for HBO, yet somehow the Emmy voters did not take either show seriously right out of the gate. The fact that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms managed to come out and wow the voters in just six short episodes is a true testament to the show’s creative team and its amazing cast. Season 1 was one of the best seasons of a Game of Thrones show we’ve seen, and it would be incredible to see the show go out and take home the biggest Emmy for a drama series in its first season—especially after the Emmys failed to recognize the performances from the show’s leads, Dexter Sol Ansell and Peter Claffey.
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