2021 Emmys will be bursting with nominations ... but not for the shows you love Glenn Whipp View Comments Maybe you've started watching Barry Jenkins' vivid, cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2016 slavery story, "The Underground Railroad," which dropped its 10 episodes on Amazon Prime last week. Or maybe you're obsessed with those twisty storylines in HBO's "Mare of Easttown" and are waiting, hoping that Kate Winslet encounters a running faucet before the limited series ends and, using that delicious Delaware County accent, bellows, "OK. Who left the wooder running?!?" Both of these fine programs might show up big at the Emmys this year. Or perhaps neither will. As the Television Academy has adapted to salute the copious amount of content produced these days, it has failed to notice where most of the interesting work is done. And that means, once again, Emmy voters will face impossible choices in the limited series categories while struggling to find enough worthy shows and performances to fill out the rest of their ballots.