“What are the Emmy voters thinking?”
asks Eric Kripke as he considers the five Emmy nominations his show received.
He has just one question at this point: “What are the Emmy voters thinking?”
It’s a solid question, but one with an easy answer.
Still, Kripke’s mind goes to the former.
“It hasn’t sunk in at all.
It’s just totally insane,” he says over Zoom.
“They voted for exploding whales and 10-foot penises and exploding heads.
Don’t get me wrong.
But what are the Emmy voters thinking?”
And, boy, did they ever.
Andie Green, an executive at Amazon, was the first to send a note.
This was followed by an “Ahhhhhh!”
from Amazon Studios' head of casting Donna Rosenstein.
Now, by Kripke’s estimates, he probably has “hundreds of emails” with similar sentiments.
“We don’t take it for granted.
It’s just really, really thrilling.”
If that means sticking a pipe bomb up a supe’s rear, so be it.
The success spawneda spin-off seriesabout aHunger Games-esque college for young supes.
I think it’s beyond superhero stuff.
They’re just exhausted and so brutalized," Kripke mentions.
“And so, this is a really great shot for everybody.”
